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Book · 2002
Cansado ya del sol
Mayra revisits her family’s past and her father’s role as an informer during Chile’s dictatorship. Her effort to tell her own story pits affection and inherited loyalty against painful discoveries.
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Written in a simple and direct language, Cansado ya del sol is an effortless read, almost as if a storyteller were whispering the tale directly into the reader's ear.
Cristián Arévalo on El Metropolitano Mayra's confessional discourse disdains the accumulation of plot twists to concentrate on gestures, seemingly superficial details, sudden illuminations of chance, suggestions dropped in passing. The text delivers clues that allow us to glimpse the destiny of events. Our perceptiveness, however, is not prompted by any weak construction of the narrative.
José Promis on El Mercurio An interesting novel that seeks from an oblique perspective to recover a common past, the past of a generation broken by betrayals, crimes and ruptures, whether from republican tradition or from the small histories of families who lost track of their close relatives.
Rodrigo Pinto on Caras
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