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Saturday, 30 December 2006 |
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Not every author can imbue archetypal characters with a life, grace and soul occasionally lacking even in first-person narrator protagonists. Sandra Benitez defies convention and titles each chapter with an archetype (the healer, the salad-maker, the fisherman, the birdman, the chambermaid). Then she makes the few short pages readers spend seeing the world through the eyes of various inhabitants of the small Mexican fishing community of Santiago (bordering Manzanillo) carry the weight of a lifetime of intimacy. |
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