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Publishers Weekly
"A book of incredible depth, breadth, richness, vitality, intelligence, humor, wisdom, subtlety Like all great fiction, it contains endless layers of experience and meaning, and a first reading can only give hints of its
richness____It has the odor of the jungle and the ocean,
the insouciance of a prostitute, the astonishments of a magician, the sad yet hopeful wisdom of an old man,"
The Miami Herald
"A stunning portrait of a monstrous Caribbean tyrant. He is a bird woman's bastard, conceived in a storm of bluebottle flies, born in a convent doorway, gifted at birth with huge, deformed feet and an enlarged testicle thé size of a fig, which whistles a tune of pain to him every moment of his impossibly long
life----Mystical, surrealistic. Rabelaisian in its excesses,
its distortions, and its exotic language."
The New York Times
"We seldom see a novel as fine as this one."
The Chicago Tribune
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Fülszöveg
HYPNOTIC AND BRILLIANT
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Publishers Weekly
"A book of incredible depth, breadth, richness, vitality, intelligence, humor, wisdom, subtlety Like all great fiction, it contains endless layers of experience and meaning, and a first reading can only give hints of its
richness____It has the odor of the jungle and the ocean,
the insouciance of a prostitute, the astonishments of a magician, the sad yet hopeful wisdom of an old man,"
The Miami Herald
"A stunning portrait of a monstrous Caribbean tyrant. He is a bird woman's bastard, conceived in a storm of bluebottle flies, born in a convent doorway, gifted at birth with huge, deformed feet and an enlarged testicle thé size of a fig, which whistles a tune of pain to him every moment of his impossibly long
life----Mystical, surrealistic. Rabelaisian in its excesses,
its distortions, and its exotic language."
The New York Times
"We seldom see a novel as fine as this one."
The Chicago Tribune
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