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Powell's Q&A, Q&A | December 13, 2009

Powell's Q&A: Norberto Fuentes

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Describe your latest project. Norton has just published The Autobiography of Fidel Castro, a novel that took seven years of my life to complete as I... Continue »

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   The Autobiography of Fidel Castro

   Norberto Fuentes

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nikki monacelli, February 10, 2009

For poetry in prose, this is the finest example. Her words shimmer with captavating wonder. Each sentence offers such jewels, and yet she wastes no words. It's like Mozart said in the film Amadeus: "I write only as many notes as there need to be; no more, no less!" Just so with Roy's words in this novel: each word is precisely where it needs to be, what it should be and she uses only as many as needed to tell this entertaining and moving story; no more, no less.

Also, her characters are at the same time interesting, entertaining, believable, and marvelous. Some are outrageous, some more one dimensional than others; but all contribute faceted elements to the story. Her main characters are well done, even though their actions, in the end, are still hard to justify. The reader expects one thing to happen, and yet another does, which leaves us to wonder long after the last chapter has been read and reread again.

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