We say: *****
Again, having read it in its native Spanish, not quite sure how the translation into English will treat this fantastic story.
From its humble beginnings as a overgrown letter to a dying grandfather to the bestseller it became, this is the first of Isabel Allende's stories and it hits you like a tones of bricks.
All the characters are so strong and colorful that you want to be adopted into this slightly chaotic south American fold.
Fast paced and with a bittersweet plot, it transports the reader to a fantastical world of eccentric uncles, spiced cooking, dusty travel and unrestful ghosts.
It stretches the imagination and delights your mind's eye with a rainbow of writing colourfulness that you will see for a few more books from Allende yet. But tread carefully.
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