Friday, September 10, 2010

Estrella Distante by Roberto Bolaño

It looks like this Chile Relleno blog is going to be books rather than cooking!
This is our first book on CD in Spanish from the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh (we had listened to a couple many years ago from the Stark Listening Center at Pitt). Maybe the blog name is appropriate since the author is Chilean. It's a short book (only 5 discs, 5.25 hours) and rather confusing at the beginning without a clear plot. The last chapter, where they introduce Detective Romero becomes much more interesting, particularly for the dialog. The reader, Walter Krochmal, was very good at Romero's Chilean accent (the ones without the esses).

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