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A review by kelic
The Mulatta And Mister Fly by Miguel Ángel Asturias
4.0
This book was mad; utterly, insanely, barking at the moon mad. I'm not sure what I have just read but it was a non-stop ride. It made me look up Guatemala and I learned that its history is rather tumultuous and mad. A civil war that lasted 30 years. Thirty years of fighting a dictatorship that was backed by the US. Atrocities occurred that should have made the world outraged were ignored for 3 decades. It only ended in 1996! So this book could be about so much more than I know.
I will be reading a non-fiction about Guatemala now.
Fascinating funny and strange. I recommend this to anyone who can deal with absurdity.
I will leave my favourite sentence below:
"Because of that foot business she was, without any doubt, the one who had made him unhappy with her public belly, a stranger's child, the child of a devil, putting horns on him, and reducing him to the state of a dwarf, minimal and horrifying, just like a fœtus with a moustache"
I will be reading a non-fiction about Guatemala now.
Fascinating funny and strange. I recommend this to anyone who can deal with absurdity.
I will leave my favourite sentence below:
"Because of that foot business she was, without any doubt, the one who had made him unhappy with her public belly, a stranger's child, the child of a devil, putting horns on him, and reducing him to the state of a dwarf, minimal and horrifying, just like a fœtus with a moustache"