However, I would make attempts to do the other equally developed and elaborated love stories the space they deserve. In the writing of this review, I would naturally focus on the predominant love triangle: Joaquin Andieta – Eliza Sommers – Tao Chien. It spans decades of existence, and like all Allende novels, weaves stories within stories, multiple life narratives simultaneously being portrayed, giving each character (no matter how small and peripheral their roles are) a three-dimensional, lifelike, yet tenuous substance. Epic-like in proportion, very vast in magnitude. It’s just way too thick – 399 pages worth of words. Not that it isn’t an interesting read, no Allende novel is ever boring. I read this book around several months back, and it took me more than a month to plod through it. Asian Festival of Children’s Content (AFCC). Literary Voyage Around The World Reading Challenge 2018.#WomenReadWomen2019 (A Year Of Women Reading Women) Reading Progress.
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