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vision of Elena Silves has, unfortunately, also aged, A reader today, unaware of the revolutionary movements of South America, will not necessarily understand all the allusions to the Shining Path nor the exact context in which the novel unfolds.
The author does not explain what seems obvious at the time he wrote the text in, but today a young reader will not have the keys to understanding the plot.
The fantasy of the beautiful and the guerrilla thus gives way to a love story that seems less exotic today if it is not bland in its course.

In an Amazonian city, three old men sit remembering their youth, One day a woman hurries past their bench whom they all have reason to remember, Elena Colina Silves, the girl who saw a vision and was incarcerated by the church authorities,

Magic realism from an Englishman who has lived a lot in Peru, so it is gives us an idea of Peruvian food ceviche, music "Ojos azules," one of my favorites, and drink masato, a yuccabased drink rather than the Andean chicha.
Since it was written before the capture of Presidente Gonzalo Presidente Ezequiel in the novel it perhaps lacks the perspective provided by the later The Dancer Upstairs by the same author.
There is a little too much magic realism, and politics is reduced to sex, which would make Freud happy but does not entirely please me.
It's interesting to view the Sendero Luminoso movement through the Amazonian rubberbaron region rather than the Andes, A quick read, full of sex and violence and religion, I had this book laying around the house for ages, For some reason I never got around to reading it, I finally started reading last week and was pleasantly surprised, Other reviews here mention that it's difficult to read and hard to follow at times, I don't share that opinion at all, Agreed, the time line jumps from here to there but only in a way that adds to the power of the storytelling.
And there are a lot of references to LatinAmerican history and culture but never to such an extent that it interfered with the story itself.


I only gave it three, though, because I never got excited about the story, The pace is too slow for my taste and just when things were starting to get interesting, the book was over.
This is one of those books that I found you may need to read some of the chapters twice to get the story of it.
The author surrounds you with much imagery and unless you are familiar with Brazilian culture and language you may find some of the chapters hard to follow.
Nevertheless it is a rewarding novel but one in which you may need your wits about you to follow, I hate this book. It took me years, a whole five years in fact if I'm not mistaken, to finish reading it, Not because the pages are too long nor the story is simply boring, I just found it very difficult to absorb almost every paragraph and along the way my interest just faded away.
Luckily, I'm a type of person who is obsessed to finish whatever she has started no matter how long it will take and reading this book is an extreme example of how persistent I can be.


The problem lies in Nicholas Shakespeare's stubborness in not shedding any light of many things he wrote in this novel, he helps his unworldly readers such as me almost absolutely nothing to comprehend the latin american culture he presents in this book.
Critics say that he's at the same league with Salman Rushdie but I oppose this, Though Rushdie also introduces readers to a different if not new culture to english speaking readers Indian culture in his case and here and there his novels mention unfamiliar things without much ado or explanation, several pages or chapters later readers will notice that he actually makes efforts with surprising details adding a joy to reading his books to help his readers comprehend what he's saying and they love him for that.
Shakespeare, on the contrary, is busy proving to himself that The Vision of Elena Silves is a work of art, his masterpiece, each paragraph are poemlike and full of exotic unknown words, ignoring one of the most important facts that novels are made for readers.
Nicholas William Richmond Shakespeare is a British novelist and biographer, Born to a diplomat, Nicholas Shakespeare grew up in the Far East and in South America, He was educated at the Dragon School preparatory school in Oxford, then at Winchester College and at Magdalene College, Cambridge.
He worked as a journalist for BBC television and then on The Times as assistant arts and literary editor, Fromtohe was literary editor of The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph, Since, Shakespeare has been Patron of the Anita Goulden Trust, helping children in the Peruvian city of Piura, The UK based charity was set up following an article that Shakespeare wrote for the Daily Telegraph magazine, which raised than,.
He i Nicholas William Richmond Shakespeare is a British novelist and biographer, Born to a diplomat, Nicholas Shakespeare grew up in the Far East and in South America, He was educated at the Dragon School preparatory school in Oxford, then at Winchester College and at Magdalene College, Cambridge.
He worked as a journalist for BBC television and then on The Times as assistant arts and literary editor, Fromtohe was literary editor of The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph, Since, Shakespeare has been Patron of the Anita Goulden Trust, helping children in the Peruvian city of Piura, The UK based charity was set up following an article that Shakespeare wrote for the Daily Telegraph magazine, which raised than,.
He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, He is married

with two small boys and currently lives in Oxford, sitelink.