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A review by hanntastic
Three Trapped Tigers by G. Cabrera Infante
3.0
Global Read Challenge 84: Cuba
This was a wild read. Totally unique. Infante plays around with words in a cool and interesting way and is excellent at capturing a variety of voices. I'm really fascinated by how this was able to be translated. I loved the first third, and then the word play was less novel and it became a slower read. There were still individual chapters and stories within the book I loved, but I felt it was much too long. If every description of women's breasts was cut, it could easily be 100 pages shorter. But anyone who likes experimental literature should pick it up.
This was a wild read. Totally unique. Infante plays around with words in a cool and interesting way and is excellent at capturing a variety of voices. I'm really fascinated by how this was able to be translated. I loved the first third, and then the word play was less novel and it became a slower read. There were still individual chapters and stories within the book I loved, but I felt it was much too long. If every description of women's breasts was cut, it could easily be 100 pages shorter. But anyone who likes experimental literature should pick it up.