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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,…

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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 that I…

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