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Irma Voth

“Irma Voth” by Miriam Toews

13 June 2011 · Reading · Comments { 0 }

I enjoyed this tale of a young Mennonite girl marooned on a claustrophobic family compound in rural Mexico. At 19 she has already been through a lot, marrying a non-Mennonite Mexican guy called Jorge and getting ostracised by her family as a result, then being abandoned by Jorge. That’s before the novel even begins. As [...]

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“The Savage Detectives” by Roberto Bolano

21 March 2009 · Reading · Comments { 2 }

If I describe the plot of this book, it will sound incredibly boring. Even a brief summary is boring, unless of course you happen to be interested in the visceral realist poetry movement in Mexico City in the 1970s, apparently a satire of the real life infrarealistas of which Bolano himself was a member. Fortunately, [...]

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