Book Reviews of Cellophane

Cellophane will delight fans of Gabriel Garcia Marquez or Louis de Bernières, but those new to the genre of magical realism will quickly fall in love with this story of a family and country stuck between the traditional the the modern, revolution and the past. Cellophane is also a novel that partners moments of tenderness or comedy with painful tragedy and violence. I found it to be a richly plotted book that managed to be both literary and a page turner. For a story that will pull you in and mesmerize you, it still manages to challenge the reader as well as entertain.