Published : 2021 || Format : print || Location : Colombia ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ What was it about the country that kept everyone hostage to its fantasy? The previous month, on its own soil, an American man went to his job at a plant and gunned down fourteen coworkers, and last spring alone there were four different school shootings. A nation at war with itself, yet people still spoke of it as some kind of paradise.. Thoughts : Infinite Country follows two characters - young Talia, who at the beginning of this book, escapes a girl’s reform school in North Colombia so that she can make her previously booked flight to the US. Before she can do that, she needs to travel many miles to reach her father and get her ticket to the rest of her family. As we follow Talia’s treacherous journey south, we learn about how she ended up in the reform school in the first place and why half her family resides in the US. Infinite Country tells the story of her family through the other protagonist, El
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this meme asks you what great books did you hear about/discover this
past week?I didn't really have many finds this week, so I took the time to look back into my TBR. Two of them particularly caught my eye. I had debated posting them last week, so instead I put them up now.
The Stoning of Soraya M.: A True Stor by Freidoune Sahebjam
Can you imagine a woman being stoned to death after her husband, bored of her, deliberately and wrongfully accuses her of infidelity?
Soraya M.'s husband Ghorban-Ali, was a shiftless, ambitious man, prone to rages and dreams of wealth. He wanted to get out of his marriage. When Soraya began cooking for the widowed husband of a friend, he found his excuse. Abetted by village authorities and aided by Islamic law, he accused his wife of adultery.Soraya M. - rendered mute by the injustice of the accusations, exhausted by her husband's constant abuse and her grinding daily routine - said nothing in her defense, and her silence was taken as guilt. Perhaps, too, she knew that her protests would not be heard. She was taken away, buried up to her shoulders and neck in the ground, and then stoned to death. Day by day, hour by hour, the author re-creates Soraya's unbearable ordeal, providing the reader with an eyewitness account of a terrible miscarriage of justice. The book - already an international best-seller - also eloquently reveals the ever-growing disparity between the fundamental rights of men and women in Muslim society today.
The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
Can you even resist that cover? It is something I would love to use as a wallpaper in my laptop.
Arthur Gopal is languishing as an obituary writer until a death in his own life enables his advancement by erasing his humanity.
Hardy Benjamin is a business writer, savvy and knowledgeable about corporate finance but utterly hapless in romance.
What they have in common is a never-named paper, whose history is doled out in brief chapters beginning in 1953. But, while the newspaper is its unifying factor, the narrative's heart beats with the people who work there. Rachman's ability to create a diverse group of fully formed individuals is remarkable. Characters range from a kid just out of college who learns the hard way that he doesn't want to be a reporter, to an Italian diplomat's widow. Some are instantly sympathetic, others hard to like. Each is vivid and compelling in his or her own way. The individual stories work well independently, even better as the author skillfully weaves them together. Cameo appearances become significant when informed by everything the reader already knows about a character who flits in and out of another's story.
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I actually already have The Imperfectionists requested from my local library and I have been thinking about watching The Stoning of Soraya M, but I was worried about being able to handle the subject matter. I have now requested a copy of the book as I think I can handle reading about such heinous matters much better than watching them reenacted.
As for The Arrival, it sounds very interesting, yet another for my TBR pile.
Hope your paper is going well. I am luxuriating in my summer break as I will be taking three classes in the fall.
Roseann
My finds for this week are here.
Happy weekend friend :)