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I got this book on a Goodreads Givaway a few months ago. At first I didn't tought that I would like it, it just didn't looked like the type of book that I would normally read but I have to admit that I got completly hooked in just a few pages.
The story is told by the point of view of a 16 years old teenager in the 70's that was accepted early into college. In the begining you can see that that is something different about this boy, that even though he lives like a man, inside he's actually a girl. This is not just a normal transgender case, she's not just a women in a mens body (that it self being a difficult situation) she's a girl that has to pretend to be a boy even though, in the end, something else, she's a hermaphrodite, she has one testicle and one ovary. That's the premisses of this wonderfull story about acceptance and love.
This is a wonderful book and is the type that you find yourself wanting to get inside the story so that you can just scream at some characters (the father!!!) and try to make people talk to each other for more that two seconds and really say what they meant. It's really a beautiful book that I recomend to everybody that want something just totally diferent and interesting.
Acabei esse livro com um peso no coração. Não me lembro de ter sentido tanto nojo e repulsa de um livro ou de um personagem como Baltazar e de tudo que ele fez em nome do amor e da educação da sua mulher. Um livro difícil de ler não apenas pela história mas também pela sua forma. Acredito que passarei muitas semanas ainda pensando sobre ele. Saramago estava certo, realmente esse livro é um tsunami literário. Cinco estrelas.
I don't think that you should pass violent behavior and lack of consent as romantic behavior.
The history is very interesting but, what the hell Roarke??? First: who doesn't have a last (or is it first?) name?? Who does he think that the is? Cher?
Two: How creepy is the fact that he keeps breaking and entering Eve's house? I don't know what is worst, she finding him inside her house after she just met him or he forcing her door after she decides not to see him. Soooooo creepy!!!
The ending was really good but, the beginning dragged for ever. This book, for me, could have been much shorter. Still, with that ending, I'll have to read the next one.
I won this book in a goodreads giveaway a few months ago and finally got the time to truly read it with the attention that it deserves. It's going too be interesting to read a book written by a brazilian, like me, that lives in Brussels and wrote this book in english.
I'm not much of a poetry reader even though I really liked to read the classic Brazilian and Portuguese poems for literature class in school I never really had that passion that some people have for poetry. This book has my first try to read poetry in English and I must say that even thought it wasn't easy for me it was a very nice experience. I would definetly love to read one of Ceasar Nascimento's poems in Portuguese.
“To write a poem
You neeed a blank page
A little solitude
Anda a restless mind”
The first book was really boring and this one is even worst, how can you write the exactly same book and say that is a sequel?
O still think this book is really bad, but, sometimes, I just want to read trashy fun books.