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Dilara
Iphigenia | Teresa de la Parra
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Just finished Iphigenia, & I'm a tiny bit upset, due to spoilery reasons 😂 All I can say is my inner romantic is unhappy, but the ending makes sense & I would have rolled my eyes had it been any different.
There is a definite 1920s/30s flavour to the novel (think Mitford, Cold Comfort Farm, etc.)

Warning for offhand racist, classist, colorist and antisemitic remarks, mainly from the mouths of foolish characters

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Dilara Picture is a Hugo Boettinger painting, Public Domain via Wikimedia 2w
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Iphigenia | Teresa de la Parra
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Happy #WorldBookDay (or 1 of them) / #SantJordi / #DayofBooksandRoses / #SaintGeorgesDay everyone! It is celebrated on this day because it is the anniversary of the death of Cervantes, Shakespeare and Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, but as it happens, the author I am reading right now - Teresa de la Parra - also died on April, 23rd.

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Iphigenia | Teresa de la Parra
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I find Maria Eugenia (the Iphigenia of the title) deeply irritating but also lovable. I can't think of many early 20th-c. novels that show the mind of a teenage girl in such detail. She is bright but naive, superficial but thoughtful, bold but shy. And v. volatile. It's clear she is/will be used as a pawn by her family, at the v. least to maintain their status, but v. probably for money too. Impending doom 😬

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Dilara picture of a street in the historic center of Caracas, #Venezuela, exactly as described in the book, by Carlos Santos Colorado, via Wikimedia Commons (edited) 2w
Texreader This is great! I‘m hoping to find this book to read this month 2w
Catsandbooks 👏🏼🇻🇪 2w
Dilara @Texreader Excellent! I look forward to reading your posts on it 😁 2w
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Written by a #Venezuelan author who was an economic minister there, his first fiction book has an extraordinary air of accuracy—even if the love stories feel less than realistic. The book covers the defeat of President Perez by Hugo Chávez, and his rein of socialism that destroyed the vibrant country. He cozied up to Fidel Castro, and Cuba and the USA‘s spies are busy at work there. So much is going on, it‘s a slow read but very interesting. ⬇️

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