From my Goodreads review.
This book was just a smidge less enjoyable as the first book in the Latin American Trilogy by de Berniéres. It had all of the same pizazz and dark irony, all the same inventive creativity and the same pulling many disparate parts together into one culmination. I wrote elsewhere that if I wrote a book I'd like to emulate some parts of the style of The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts. I don't think I could emulate this one. It was a bit too sad. You could see the sadness coming; yet, it was still too shocking not to tear some of my heart up.
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