![]() ![]() “A sweeping mural of sensory delights and stimulating ideas about art, government, identity and history…Readers will feel the sting of connection between then and now.” - Seattle Times “.True and riveting.Barbara Kingsolver has invented a wondrous filling here, sweeter and thicker than pan dulce, spicy as the hottest Mexican chiles, paranoid as the American government hunting Communists ” - Philadelphia Inquirer “ playful pastiche brings to vivid life the culture wars of an earlier era.” - Vogue “Shepherd’s story in Kingsolver’s accomplished literary hands is so seductive, the prose so elegant, the architecture of the novel so imaginative, it becomes hard to peel away from the book” - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ![]() ![]() Much research underlies this complex weaving.but the work is lofted by lyric prose.” - Denver Post “Compelling…Kingsolver’s descriptions of life in Mexico City burst with sensory detail-thick sweet breads, vividly painted walls, the lovely white feet of an unattainable love.” - The New Yorker ![]() “Masterful…a reader receives the great gift of entering not one but several worlds…The final pages haunt me still.” - San Francisco Chronicle Book Review “Rich…impassioned…engrossing…Politics and art dominate the novel, and their overt, unapologetic connection is refreshing.” - Chicago Tribune ![]()
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