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This masterpiece is the sort of book that will make you fall eternally in love with books if read at a young age, and will remind you of how you fell in love with books if read at a not so young age.

This crushing X- ray of dictatorship with the dictator having little airtime shows the effects of the toxic combination of human deprivation and power (I tend to think the second will inevitably lead to the first) through the lives of those around and under him. The colorful cast features in an intense patchwork �� or rather spiderweb �� of individual lives painted like vignettes of oppression, during the dictatorship of the Guatemalan Cabrera. The heartbreaking love story delicately woven in exacerbates the pain of individual vulnerability in the face of tyranny. But the most impressive feat of this worthy Nobel winner is the language, oh the language! This is poetry at its highest, cruelest, gentlest.

Not to be missed.