Anabel
Couldn't be more fascinating - he really does cover nearly everything - starting right from pre-historic times. LOVE this book.
4.5 - brutal but sweet, magical realism employed almost to perfection - one of those books that sits with you afterward and becomes more meaningful upon reflection
“But that sort of film is only charming because they leave out so many details, and real life is all the details they leave out.” Page 55
“Actually we're all swimmers, we've all come from the ocean. Some of us are trying to find it again.” Page 72
“Facts do not find their way into the world in which our beliefs reside; they did not produce our beliefs, they do not destroy them; they may inflict on them the most constant refutations without weakening them, and an avalanche of afflictions or ailments succeeding one another without interruption in a family will not make it doubt the goodness of its God or the talent of its doctor.” p. 151
“And helped me better understand what a contradiction it is to search in reality for memory's pictures, which would never have the charm that comes to them from memory itself and from not being perceived by the senses.” p. 444
one of those rare reading experiences where you get so engrossed you forget where you are – the construction is brilliant and beautiful – so lyrical she took me to orbit with her and i loved every minute of it
