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The story is heartwrenching. After getting about halfway through, negative events began to happen, and I had to put the book down for a while. There was such a palpable sense of dread hanging over the characters, and knowing the ending didn't help either.
A great deal of the power this book had over me was in evoking other, better-wrought works, such as those written by Diaz, Allende, and Garcia Marquez. I don't think it would have had quite the same effect on me if I hadn't read those books before, because much of the writing was simple and formulaic and the sisters as characters were broadly painted with romantic strokes.
A great deal of the power this book had over me was in evoking other, better-wrought works, such as those written by Diaz, Allende, and Garcia Marquez. I don't think it would have had quite the same effect on me if I hadn't read those books before, because much of the writing was simple and formulaic and the sisters as characters were broadly painted with romantic strokes.
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