Perla Correa grew up a privileged only child in Buenos Aires, with a cold, polished mother and a straitlaced naval officer father, whose profession she learned early on not to disclose in a country still reeling from the abuses perpetrated by the deposed military dictatorship. A coming-of-age story, based on a recent shocking chapter of Argentine history, about a young woman who makes a devastating discovery about her origins with the help of an enigmatic houseguest. This eBook edition includes a Reading Group Guide. But when Perla is startled by an uninvited visitor, she begins a journey that will force her to confront the unease she has suppressed all her life, and to make a wrenching decision about who she is, and who she will become. Perla understands that her parents were on the wrong side of the conflict, but her love for her pap is unconditional. The strength of this story is it's dream-like quality.A coming-of-age story, based on a recent shocking chapter of Argentine history, about a young woman who makes a devastating discovery about her origins with the help of an enigmatic houseguest. You couldn't play the disappeared man from the past who turns up in the living room without him looking like a zombie. If you made a film of this book, what would be the tag line be? With the impersonation it could have sounded like theatre - this was a less tangible story that took shape in my head in a very personal way. But after a while I didn't mind and the voice and style of reading actually went with the content book. It's true that all the characters sound the same, it's not read by an actor who impersonates the different people. It took me a while to get used to the reading. What aspect of Carolina De Robertis’s performance might you have changed? Poetic and visual, potently emotional without being trite. The past happens to be personified and not 'factual' and to me that's a bonus.Īs per above - the idea of the past returning as a missing person.
Whether you call it magical realism or whatever - this is a story about the past returning to the present and trying to make peace with it. Unlike the other reviewer I didn't mind at all that a dead man/ ghost turned up in a living room.
I was really moved by the way a political story about Argentinia's disappeared was told so beautifully and I loved the language. Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?Ībsolutely.
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