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What can I say. Reading Gabo is like coming home after a long trip. You don't feel like each story really ends at its ending, or that each story is a seperate entity. Gabo's short stories are his best, and they are much like life, everything is connected in a mysterious way, and the unfamiliar sometimes hits home more than we expect.
I was very touched by many of the characters and the stories that I think recounting them would be a spoiler. But i gotta say, I wondered who Big Mamma was. I felt like she is the Motherland, whichever yours is. The nation that lives long and no one realizes that she is soon to die. Corrupt but fair, mean but merciful, beautiful but untouchable, loved but unfamiliar, and revered but forgotten in a day. Also, is it just me or does she also sound like Eva Peron?
I was very touched by many of the characters and the stories that I think recounting them would be a spoiler. But i gotta say, I wondered who Big Mamma was. I felt like she is the Motherland, whichever yours is. The nation that lives long and no one realizes that she is soon to die. Corrupt but fair, mean but merciful, beautiful but untouchable, loved but unfamiliar, and revered but forgotten in a day. Also, is it just me or does she also sound like Eva Peron?