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Recollections of Things to Come
by Elena Garro, translated by Ruth L.C. Simms, illustrated by Alberto Beltrán
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“I think it’s one of the most beautiful novels ever written. It’s a love story and also the story of Mexico, and a very specific moment in the life of the country. It is a metaphor of desolation and despair, where each element is imbued with a very subtle magic, made of voices and memories, above all women’s…It’s a work of magical realism, and was published four years ahead of Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude“ Read more...
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