Author: Lina Meruane
Pages: 176
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Released On: 03/08/17
SYNOPSIS:
Lina, a young Chilean academic living in New York, suddenly retreats from a house party, complaining of a sharp pain in her head, right behind the eyes. What she assumes is a simple headache turns out to be far worse: she is suffering a hemorrhage. Within minutes, blood floods her optic nerve, reducing her vision to sketched outlines and tones of grey, rendering her all but blind. As she begins to adjust to a very different life, those who love her begin to adjust to a very different woman – one who is angry, raw, funny, complicated, sexual and dizzyingly alive.
REVIEW:
I was very disappointed with this book.
The synopsis and the first look that I read made this seem a lot more exciting that it actually is. I’m not sure whether something has been lost in translation but I felt that there wasn’t really much of a story line. Although I came to realise about half way through that it was written as if it were a diary, I still felt that grammatically it was unfinished. The dialogue wasn’t written with punctuation or as dialogue itself. It was written as someone just saying he said she said the whole way through.
I was somewhat looking forward to reading this before I received my copy, but unfortunately It is not a book that I would be recommending to anyone.
Just One More Chapter 