panI read this book from hoopla because it was included on the tournament of books longlist. The blurb says it's about silence.
It's a bizarre combination of elements from previous/congruent Argentinian authors in the tournament -art museums, long confusing journeys (including a 3hour walk home every night?), and horses! Dead ones. Not only that but from the art perspective there are frequent insertions of long quotations from other sources.↘️
pickA slim thought-provoking novel. Once a successful interpreter Mara breaks with her former life to begin a year of detachment in a small provincial town. She gets a job as a museum guard and practices seven forms of silence outlined in a book. But her experiment is interrupted when she is promoted to assist a taxidermist tasked with repairing the museum's pair of famous horses To regain her detachment, Mara acts in drastic ways. This books 👇
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Once I understood why the MC was there, I was more interested in her, but for a long time, really not so much. And it's like the interesting parts are all in the past.... I think I should have bailed but it's pretty quick, and the indie press that published Saudade, which I grew into liking. So who knows!
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