Member Reviews
Candace Siegle, G, Reviewer
I really tried with "Berta Islas." I thought it might be the first Javier Marias book I made it through, but I did not.
He spends so much time on every detail, every bit of minutiae that the story takes forever to move ahead, creating a hard slog through a literary landscape where everyone's voices sound the same. Is it like that in Spanish? Margaret Jull Costa is usually a terrific translator, but I recall having the same issue with his other books.
Very self-important.
Did not finish.
