![]() ![]() The action unfolds around the late 1980s and early 1990s-a period of dire unrest in the decades-long Colombian national conflict. The novel received the California Book Awards Silver Medal in First Fiction and was a New York Times Editor’s Choice. ![]() ![]() Rojas Contreras has expressed her intention to amplify the unheard voices of figures like Petrona, who are unwilling, coerced participants in violence. Other critics have described the work as “domestic fiction,” though the novel subverts expectations of this subgenre by deliberately eschewing moralization. The comparison is imperfect, however: Though Rojas Contreras alludes to the supernatural, the novel is far more realist than magical. ![]() Rojas Contreras’s rich prose and vivid detail have inspired critics to compare her work to that of Latin American magical realists like Isabel Allende and Gabriel García Márquez. The novel, a dual coming-of-age story, has been described as a Bildungsroman, a nineteenth-century term for works of literary fiction that chronicle the formation of a protagonist’s world view as he or she matures from childhood into young adulthood. ![]()
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