Margarita García Robayo
Autore di Fish Soup
Sull'Autore
Fonte dell'immagine: Margarita García Robayo, foto de Alejandra Lopez
Opere di Margarita García Robayo
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- García Robayo, Margarita
- Data di nascita
- 1980
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- Colombia
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Recensioni
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 12
- Utenti
- 110
- Popolarità
- #176,729
- Voto
- 3.4
- Recensioni
- 3
- ISBN
- 24
- Lingue
- 2
Fish Soup is made up of two novellas and an award-winning collection of short stories by Colombian author Margarita García Robayo, translated from Spanish.
The novella Waiting for a Hurricane is about a girl who dreams of escaping the poverty of her life in Colombia by any means possible. The people in her life are merely steps on her ladder to freedom.
The novella Sex Education is about a girl who struggles to reconcile her Catholic school’s teaching of abstinence with the morals and behaviour of everyone around her.
Worse Things is a collection of short stories mostly about people struggling with life and family.
The book is well-written, with a degree of cynicism, some keen observations on human nature and poetic descriptions. It is gritty, earthy, and touches on the dark side of life with allusions to rape and child sex abuse. I enjoyed Robayo’s style, my only complaint being the usual one for me with short stories: that they end too quickly, just as I am getting involved in the story. I would love to read a full length novel by this author.… (altro)