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Blood of the Dawn
Blood of the Dawn | Claudia Salazar Jimenez
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Blood of the Dawn follows three women whose lives intertwine and are ripped apart during what's known as "the time of fear" in Peruvian history when the Shining Path militant insurgency was at its peak. The novel rewrites the conflict through the voice of women, activating memory through a mixture of politics, desire, and pain in a lucid and brutal prose.Claudia Salazar Jimenez (b. 1975, Lima, Peru), critic, scholar, and author, founded PERUFEST, the first Peruvian film festival in New York, where she lives, and won the 2014 Americas Narrative Prize for her debut novel, Blood of the Dawn."
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Lcsmcat
Blood of the Dawn | Claudia Salazar Jimenez
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I‘m marking this a pick because it‘s a powerful evocation of war, and particularly the effect of war on women, and the weak. But it‘s so hard to read! The (intentional) lack of punctuation and other grammatical rules, the shifting POV without clues, and the confusing time shifts made it hard to follow. It was more of a sensory than intellectual experience. #litsypassport #Peru @maximoffs

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Brooke_H
Blood of the Dawn | Claudia Salazar Jimenez
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I could not finish this short novel. The writing style is a highly stylized poetry, but the switching of character POVs (three women, but also randomly some other people thrown in) and narratives (3rd person, 1st person, 2nd person) really confused me. Some sections are even written without punctuation. After about 25 pages of confusion I broke down and read the cover copy (something I never do bc spoilers) and that helped a little but not enough.

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Lcsmcat
Blood of the Dawn | Claudia Salazar Jimenez
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New week, new book. #passportlitsy #Peru

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Cydster61
Blood of the Dawn | Claudia Salazar Jimenez
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My #bookresolutions feels a little heretical but I REALLY have to stop buying books and read what I've got. This picture is of a small number of the three hip-high stacks next to my bed. I'll still patronize my library and make sure I buy book gifts, but....seriously....

I also want to read more Latin American authors and novels by and about people with disabilities. @RealLifeReading

Cydster61 I should say it's the not buying books that feels heretical. Not the reading books by Latin American authors and people with disabilities. 6y
DivineDiana I get it! My goal as well! Too many owned book that I haven‘t read... yet! 😉 6y
RealLifeReading Those are great goals! 6y
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balletbookworm
Blood of the Dawn | Claudia Salazar Jimenez
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Final #readathon check-in - Six books, 1056 pages read, 9:35 hours read. A little under my usual, but this is probably the “best” stack of books I‘ve ever read during a ‘thon. ❤️❤️and😽😽to @deweysreadathon organizers and @estellasrevenge and @capriciousreader and all volunteers. I joined the Readathon participating ranks about a year after Dewey passed. I only knew her through other bloggers but I think she‘d be proud and quite chuffed. 💖💖💖

Leelee08 I can't wait to read Eloisa James's new book!! 6y
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balletbookworm
Blood of the Dawn | Claudia Salazar Jimenez
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An absolutely heartbreaking and stunning novel set during the time of the Shining Path insurgency told through the voices of three women: a revolutionary true-believer, a Quechua villager, and an upper-class reporter/photographer. Brutal, pain-soaked, and surreal.

TW for rape, which is an unavoidable event during this period in Peru.

balletbookworm And this is my last book for #readathon - I usually read a few more hours on Sunday to make up for working, etc, during official Readathon hours. A stunning book to finish with. 6y
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