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Title: What a disappointment/Qué decepcion
Review: I had read a lot of reviews on this book, at first very positive ones and then very bad ones. The theme of this book is very weak or it is not fully exploited. I was expecting so much more of this book. I wanted to finish reading it soon not because it was good, but because it was SO BAD that I wanted to get my hands on a good book. Restrepo didn't focus on anything, she jumped from the situation of an affluent family in Colombia linked to drug trafficking, to a murder in a gym, to the life of the daughter who goes crazy, etc. The whole book presents a picture of life in Colombia to some extent but it only scratches the surface, and the result is a boring, confusing book. Furthermore, Laura Restrepo writes the same way as the master Saramago, but with so much less continuity that I think she should not try to write this way again. In four words: Don't buy this book!
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