Sandra Benitez
Auteur van A Place Where the Sea Remembers
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- Gangbare naam
- Benitez, Sandra
- Geboortedatum
- 1941-03-26
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- USA (birth)
- Woonplaatsen
- Washington, D.C., USA (birth)
Mexico
El Salvador
Unionville, Missouri, USA
Edina, Minnesota, USA - Agent
- Ellen Levine (The Ellen Levine Literary Agency)
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A Place Where the Sea Remembers door Sandra Benítez
A series of interconnected stories, with the final chapter closing the loop from the opening chapter. Since we spend so little time with any one character, I didn't feel especially invested in the story's final tragedy. But one chapter moved me to tears, as the man and his son were able to reach one another past the barriers of grief and guilt.
This is a sweeping historical epic covering three generations of two families: the Tabors, who are aristocratic land-owners; and the Prieto clan, the servants/peasants employed by the Tabors. Through these families the reader learns something of the history of El Salvador from about 1932 to 1975, including the role of the Church, the military, and the influence of the United States on the politics of this nation. But the main story line of the novel remained focused on these two families and their interaction over several generations.
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I really enjoyed the way Benítez showed these two classes interacting. As much as they felt they were different and as much as they were kept apart (or at least the upper class tried to separate themselves from the lower class), they were inextricably linked and their lives held many parallels. Mothers and daughters disagreed; husbands betrayed their wives; children refused to listen; secrets were kept; and everyone was addicted to the radio soap opera, Los Dos (and yet never recognized how that story line also paralleled their real-life stories).
This won the American Book Award in 1998.… (meer)
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I really enjoyed the way Benítez showed these two classes interacting. As much as they felt they were different and as much as they were kept apart (or at least the upper class tried to separate themselves from the lower class), they were inextricably linked and their lives held many parallels. Mothers and daughters disagreed; husbands betrayed their wives; children refused to listen; secrets were kept; and everyone was addicted to the radio soap opera, Los Dos (and yet never recognized how that story line also paralleled their real-life stories).
This won the American Book Award in 1998.… (meer)
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