Book description
In the tradition of Isabel Allende's career-launching debut, The House of the Spirits, a multigenerational, Latin American saga of love and revolution in which a young man abandons his family for the cause-and receives a late-life chance at redemption: "a tour de force" from "the new master" (Luis Alberto Urrea,…
- Coming soon!
Why read it?
1 author picked Freedom is a Feast as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Big novels, wherein we learn lots of backstory for a feature-film’s cast of characters, both major and minor, are in vogue, and this is a sweeping, big story—the story of modern Venezuela and of its struggles to create a just and egalitarian society. But Freedom Is a Feast moves quickly—not because it’s some sort of action-packed adventure story (though it is full of incident and there are nail-biting moments), but because of the pace of the prose. From the very start, the story drives compellingly forward.
It's such a good read!
And I learned a lot without realizing…
If you love Freedom is a Feast...
These Blue Mountains
A moving story of love, betrayal, and the enduring power of hope in the face of darkness.
German pianist Hedda Schlagel's world collapsed when her fiancé, Fritz, vanished after being sent to an enemy alien camp in the United States during the Great War. Fifteen years later, in 1932, Hedda…
Want books like Freedom is a Feast?
Our community of 13,000+ authors has personally recommended 2 books like Freedom is a Feast.
📚 If you like Freedom is a Feast, you might also like...
Need to Know
The authoritative but accessible history of the birth of modern American intelligence in World War II that treats not just one but all of the various disciplines: spies, codebreakers, saboteurs.
Told in a relatable style that focuses on actual people, it was a New Yorker "Best of 2022" selection and…
Tsunami
On the morning of December 26, 2004, an undersea earthquake struck off the coast of Sumatra in the Indian Ocean. The resulting tsunami killed an estimated 230,000 people across fourteen countries, from Indonesia to Sri Lanka to Thailand to the Maldives to India and all the way to East Africa.…