Reviews

Terra Nostra by Carlos Fuentes

kingkong's review

5.0

Everyone in this book is insane and is trying to fuck, kill or mutilate someone, and its also about history repeating itself like all his other books

zah2102's review

5.0

The post-script says it all: "Terra Nostra is an immense dream in which history is performed by endlessly reincarnated characters who say to us: it is always us, we are the same who go on playing the game of history." You have to be very ambitious, persistent and patient to take on this book-- fragmented in time and space, and purposefully relentless in its repetition, it seeks to orient the mind around character constructs, and demonstrate how endless elaboration of these character constructs over time created the trajectory of Latin American history and politics.

garseta's review

Extraordinary in its scope. The book that sold me on Fuentes.

sarah16's review

adventurous challenging mysterious

• Strong character development? Yes

brynhammond's review

5.0

Fantabulous. Of huge imagination. I'll have revisit this.