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la historia de un angel exterminadorReview Date: 2005-07-25
FinalmenteReview Date: 2003-02-08
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The trial of Jemmy Button - - and moreReview Date: 2008-08-08
On this return voyage scientist and naturalist Charles Darwin comes along as companion to Captain FitzRoy - a religious assertive and gentleman of unstable mein (who almost dismisses Darwin because of the shape of his nose). The issue between these two (who are not named) is more than just personalities, and is related pretty well.
The last quarter of the book is the trial of Jemmy Button for murder of helpless men in November of 1859. A lone witness, Alfred Cole, the cook, gives star testimony - and Parker Snow, captain of an expedition to convert natives before his ship is assigned to another man, sounds a long deserved castigation of the Rev. G.P. Despard, who has only good intentions but lacks a sensible outlook. From official transcripts we hear the sorry excuses men use to justify folly. Deswpard, by the way, adopted an orphan, Thomas Bridges, whose son, Lucas, wrote the best book on T. Del Fuego ever - UTTERMOST PART of EARTH.
why only 5 stars ?Review Date: 2001-02-17
REVIEW QUOTESReview Date: 2001-09-04
"This brilliant and beautifully wrought work deserves to become a classic." --The Texas Observer
"TIERRA DEL FUEGO has won two major Latin American awards, and justifiably so: Iparraguirre has crafted an entrancing novel from the skeleton of facts we know about this ghastly episode in English colonial history." --The Bloomsbury Review
"This tale is brilliantly told..." --National Hispanic News
"Iparraguirre has constructed a well-documented novel, with strong humanistic feeling, where personal traits and the twists and turns of the plot are skillfully woven through the genre of a novel blended with a historical chronicle. It is a fresh look at those barbarous ancestors who were destroyed by civilization."
--World Press Review
Magnificent tale from the end of the worldReview Date: 2000-09-27
Button was later returned to Tierra del Fuego by FitzRoy (this time on the voyage of the Beagle that included a young naturalist named Charles Darwin). The Yamanas were left in Tierra del Fuego with materials to construct an English house, as well as utensils and other items of European domestic life; and with the expectation that these properly instructed savages would serve as a vanguard for the expansion of British civilization in their remote land.
Instead, the house-building materials quickly fell to ruin, and the "civilized" Yamanas eventually became involved in an armed conflict with English missionaries. The resulting trial of Button in the Falkland Islands serves as the focus of this story, which is told through the eyes of a fictional Argentine, John William Guevara - a man who carries the name of his criolla mother, rather than his English father.
The distinguished Argentine writer Sylvia Iparraguirre has done far more than weave an interesting historical novel - she has constructed a moving story of the ambiguities of a son's love for his father, of a second-generation immigrant's doomed attraction to the plains of Patagonia, and of the inevitable and irreconcilable conflict between cultures, not merely between those of the Yamana and the British, but also between those cultures and the Argentine.
I highly recommend this book. I read it in the original Spanish. If you want to read the English translation, you should be very careful to order that version. Those who are interested in the topic may also wish to read Chapter 10 of Darwin's "Voyage of the Beagle," and Bruce Chatwin's "In Patagonia," as well as "Savage: the Life and Times of Jemmy Button," by Nick Hazelwood.
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De como Gabriel se hizo inmortal .....Review Date: 2000-09-14
En los cinco primeros veremos a un Gabriel desconocido -sin una dirección aparente-, misterioso, onírico, fantaseando con la vida y la muerte. Empleando, además, un lenguaje intrincado que obstaculiza una lectura fluida debiendo el lector detenerse, y a veces hasta retroceder, para descubrir si el personaje que está en escena es el vivo, el muerto, o quizás el muerto que pensaba estar vivo -así de escabroso resulta en sus inicios. Sin embargo, recien en "Ojos de Perro Azul" -publicado en 1950 y el cual con justicia le confiere el título al libro- es donde GGM se encuentra con el escritor que luchaba por nacer .... y nació. Deja de lado los monólogos y logra establecer diálogos, omitiendo frases truculentas y reemplazándolas más bien por otras sencillas y de fácil comprensión.
A diferencia del resto de sus obras -que se publicarían posterior a "Ojos de Perro Azul"- ésta no constituye una hebra de lo que en su conjunto se llamaría "Cien Años de Soledad". Por lo contrario -y es allí donde radica su exquisita rareza- nos muestra mundos y personajes distintos a través de los cuales aún no se vislumbra a Macondo ni mucho menos a un Aureliano Buendía.
Esta obra es, pues, una joya "histórica" invalorable para aquellos que admiramos a Gabo, y nos recuerda que, alguna vez, él también fue humano antes de convertirse en ese ser mágico e inmortal que ahora conocemos como .... Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
es muy buenoReview Date: 2003-09-08
Eyes of the Blue Dog,is one of my favorites.Review Date: 1999-05-10
UN CUENTO PERECTOReview Date: 2001-01-16
Impresionante, Apasionante y lleno de dolorReview Date: 1999-05-04


Excellent Book about BuddhaReview Date: 2008-05-18
Enseñanzas del Buda desde el punto de vista occidental Review Date: 2008-03-12
Un acercamiento a las lecciones del BudaReview Date: 2008-02-29
Un libro imparcial y objetivoReview Date: 2008-02-15
El buda siglo XXIReview Date: 2007-12-11
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Trata sobre la vida en Colombia. El narrador odia a todo el mundo y su compañero es un asesino que elimina a todos los que de una manera u otra "molestan" en la sociedad. Hay relatos violentos y de homesexualidad en practicamente toda la novela. Narra las contradicciones sociales, critica los políticos y la pobreza de los barrios y los "triunfos" de la mafia colombiana. Todo esto envuelto en una gran devoción religiosa, pues los protagonistas se mueven de una parroquia a otra para buscar el silencio y consuelo por los pecados.