Only okay, which is a shame because he has written a couple of truly great novels – Aunt Julia and War of the End of the World. That said, his description of Andean life is uniformly excellent. Magic Realism can be a very annoying style but somehow it always works when the novel is set in South America.
Only okay, which is a shame because he has written a couple of truly great novels – Aunt Julia and War of the End of the World. That said, his description of Andean life is uniformly excellent. Magic Realism can be a very annoying style but somehow it always works when the novel is set in South America.