Margaret Mascarenhas's Reviews
Reviews of Margaret’s Work
Mar.25.2013
Published by Morningcable.com
Poetic and lyrical, the novel aspires to create an impressive array of metaphor, mysticism, and reality within the juxtaposition of 8 protagonists, each portraying their own...
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Jun.11.2009
Published by Genre Go Round
This is a fascinating but extremely difficult tale to read as the narration switches nine times making the novel feel more like a series of short vignettes though there some...
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Jun.16.2012
Published by Last Bus to Vasco
If you want to know about Venezuela, read this book by Margaret Mascarenhas. Right now Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan President, is known for his resistance to the US regime and...
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Dec.01.2010
Published by The Asian Age
While some writers paint with words, some can make them sing and some others can even make them breathe, but very few can make them tell a story.
Mascarenhas has the unique...
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Dec.01.2010
Published by The Asian Age
While some writers paint with words, some can make them sing and some others can even make them breathe, but very few can make them tell a story.
Mascarenhas has the unique...
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Dec.01.2010
Published by Time Out Delhi
The Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi identified a fundamental confusion when he related a dream in which he was a butterfly. On awakening, he wondered if he was Zhuangzi who had...
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Dec.01.2010
Published by Time Out Delhi
The Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi identified a fundamental confusion when he related a dream in which he was a butterfly. On awakening, he wondered if he was Zhuangzi who had...
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Jul.01.2009
Published by Bookpage
In The Disappearance of Irene Dos Santos, Margaret Mascarenhas’ American debut, the feminine mystique is juxtaposed with revolutionary chaos in the remote rural villages of...
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Apr.01.2010
Published by Powerful Latinas
A stunning debut in which pregnant Lily, confined to bed rest, is surrounded by loved ones who each tell a story to coax the baby out.
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Sep.01.2009
Published by Barnes and Noble online
Full of the magic, mystery, and full-bodied characters readers have come to expect of the best South American fiction, The Disappearance of Irene Dos Santos is as luscious and...
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Dec.15.2009
Published by internet/Linus's Blanket
The descriptions of the family life and and their relationships with each other along with the explorations into the personal lives of the family and seemingly unrelated...
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Jan.02.2010
Published by Red Room
Margaret Mascarenha's novel The Disappearance of Irene Dos Santos is a fascinating tale about two girls and thirty years of recent Venezuelan history. In the first chapter Lily...
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Jul.09.2010
Published by Serendipitous Readings
Flush with the vivid reenactments of each character as each tells their own personal memories of what happened when they were in a certain place and time and how they all came...
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Published by Bermudaonion's weblog
Since The Disappearance of Irene Dos Santos by Margaret Mascarenhas is full of characters and is told in a non-linear fashion from different points of view, I had some trouble...
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Published by The Review Broads
Poetic and lyrical, the novel aspires to create an impressive array of metaphor, mysticism, and reality within the juxtaposition of 8 protagonists, each depicting their own...
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Mascarenhas uses a 15-year-old girl's disappearance to spin a multilayered history of a Venezuelan family, incorporating folklore, political intrigue and magical realism...Other recurring themes tying together disparate plot strands: an underground political struggle, the legend of unofficial saint Maria Lionza, telenovela screenwriting and the act of storytelling (a Martinez family obsession). At times overwhelming in its breathless explosions of information, this family epic is immersive; no character or event is left unexplored from multiple perspectives. Indeed, the conclusion is like the final piece of an intricate puzzle. ”
—Publishers Weekly
About Margaret
Margaret Mascarenhas is a consulting editor, curator and novelist, the author of the Diasporic novel, Skin, Penguin India 2001 (published in French translation by Mercure de France in 2002, and in Portuguese translation by Editora Replicacao in 2006), and of...
Connections
Causes Margaret Mascarenhas Supports
Goa Bachao Abhiyan
PEN USA
Margaret’s Favorite Books
Love in the Time of Cholera, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, The Implacable Order of Things, Canto General, Anthills of the Savannah, Sula, ...and others