Necropolis

I must admit, this book was a challenge. I must have read the book flap at least a dozen times to remind myself what this book was about.
The writing is superb, the story or I really should say stories in this book are all over the map. Yes the book, as the book flap says is about an author attending a conference and one of the speakers at the conference-after speaking commits suicide. But the story is about so much more. Is is about human behavior in all its honorable as well as depraved forms.
This is the second book by this author that I have read, and I really like his work. I only wish I read and spoke Spanish to really enjoy is writing instead of reading a translation.

I must admit, this book was a challenge. I must have read the book flap at least a dozen times to remind myself what this book was about.
The writing is superb, the story or I really should say stories in this book are all over the map. Yes the book, as the book flap says is about an author attending a conference and one of the speakers at the conference-after speaking commits suicide. But the story is about so much more. Is is about human behavior in all its honorable as well as depraved forms.
This is the second book by this author that I have read, and I really like his work. I only wish I read and spoke Spanish to really enjoy is writing instead of reading a translation.

I'm not even sure what I think of it. It's a relatively long & meandering book with stylistic touches reminiscent of both The Decameron & The Canterbury Tales. Some of the tales & digressions are more interesting than others. There are various tales but, ultimately, there is an overall story arc that is completed. And, there are many, many literary references & tips of the hat woven throughout the book. Reading some other reviews of this book made me realize that it is part of a newer Latin American literary genre classified as McOndo (a riff on Macondo, the fictional town in GGM's One Hundred Years of Solitude), a style of writing by Latin American writers who are wanting to escape the overall prevalence & expectation that magical show more realism be an integral part of the story.

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Is a pretty good book I like it a lot, but the end... Was not as good as I expected, could be better Actuallly I did not like the end at all.. But the rest was great... Love it!

Muy buena historia. Envolvente, conmovedor, con un hilo conductor increíble. Crudo.

Literary and fast moving story. Wonderfully done. I will read this one again.

Este libro es interesante, ya que Santiago Gamboa, sabe meterse en los personajes. Como cuenta la historia en diferentes puntos de vista de la vida de los personasjes es incrible, te mete en el cuento y no quieres parar de leer.