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Cargando... Fruit of the Drunken Tree (2018)por Ingrid Rojas Contreras
   Litsy Awards 2018 (102) » 5 más Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro.  streamsong | Feb 13, 2024 |   There were mathematical principles to becoming an American: you had to know one hundred historical facts, and you had to spend five uninterrupted years on North American soil. We memorized the facts, we stayed in place—but when I elevated my feet at night and my head found its pillow I wondered: of what country was I during those hours when my feet were in the air? This wasn’t my most enjoyable read since it deals with a lot of heavy topics and I prefer books as source of escapism, but it was very well written. From the mind of what are essentially children/young teens, it has an almost innocent feel to it. The huge contrast between this and the violent, grown up world creates a jarring contrast. I can’t deny the author’s talent and the book’s emotional impact. (  ) MYvos | Feb 26, 2023 |  ) ninagl | Jan 7, 2023 | The juxtaposition of both families is most interesting. Chula's mom has Indian blood and herself comes from an invasión. She is looked down to in their gated community, while Petrona's family is allegedly of "pure" and even dignified Spanish ancestry and her little sister even has blond hair. Nevertheless, due to their status and wealth, Chula's mom can take Chula and her sister Cassandra out to the US when their dad gets kidnapped, while Petrona doesn't really have where to turn to except her guerrilla boyfriend. Chula's mom tells Petrona's mom at the end: "When there's a tempest, it comes down on all sides equally." It kind of does and it kind of doesn't. The Kite Runner of Colombia - if you liked The Kite Runner, you will like Fruit of the Drunken Tree. I see many parallels, though Fruit of the Drunken Tree is written from the female perspective and gets more stars from me. (  ) dacejav | Dec 30, 2022 | The young girl finds herself working for the family and befriends their young daughter. The family is trying to survive as the world around them falls into warfare with young men who are guerrillas in Escobar’s world. The young girl has her own life to lead as well as she has lost her brothers to guerrillas and lives deep within that world. Her family is always on the brink of being invaded and taken over in their literal shack. The issue is the young girl begins to fall for a guerrilla. Will she bring her reality into the rich family’s world? Great storytelling with snippets of the families’ lives as they inch closer and closer together. There is always tension as you begin to guess what the young girl will do. (  ) Nerdyrev1 | Nov 23, 2022 |
 It’s vividly specific details like these that made me wince in recognition while reading Ingrid Rojas Contreras’s “Fruit of the Drunken Tree,” a beautifully rendered novel of an Escobar-era Colombian childhood. Although this debut novel is inspired by the author’s personal experiences (as noted in an afterword), you don’t need to have grown up in Bogotá to be taken in by Contreras’s simple but memorable prose and absorbing story line......Contreras’s depiction of growing up amid such constant violence provides some of the most arresting passages in the book. ...I’m writing this a few days after Colombia’s recent presidential election, and I can’t help wondering what novels about Colombia 25 years from now will have to say about this current period. I can only hope they’ll be as sensitive and thoughtful as this one. PremiosListas de sobresalientes
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HTML: Un debut fascinante situado en Colombia durante la violencia devastadora de los aos 90 sobre una joven protegida y una empleada domstica adolescente, quienes inician una improbable amistad que amenaza con deshacerlas a ambas. La familia Santiago vive en una comunidad cerrada en Bogot, a salvo de la inestabilidad poltica que aterroriza al pas. Chula de siete aos y su hermana mayor, Cassandra, disfrutan de una vida carente de preocupaciones, gracias a la burbuja protectora de su madre y su hogar. Sin embargo, la amenaza de secuestros, coches bomba y asesinatos se ciernen justo afuera de las fronteras lmites de su vecindario, donde el divino dios de la droga, Pablo Escobar, sigue eludiendo a las autoridades y captando la atencin de la nacin. Cuando su madre contrata a Petrona, una empleada domstica proveniente de un pobre barrio ocupado por la guerrilla, Chula hace de su misin el entender los misterios que rodean a Petrona. Pero el comportamiento inusual dePetrona revela mucho ms que su timidez. Es una mujer joven que se derrumba bajo la carga de mantener a su familia, mientras que la fuerte oleada de su primer amor amenaza con arrastrarla en direccin opuesta. Mientras las familias de ambas chicas luchan por mantener la estabilidad en medio del conflicto que se intensifica, Petrona y Chula caen en una complicada red de secretos que las obligar a elegir entre el sacrificio y la traicin. Inspirado en la propia vida de la autora y contado a travs de las perspectivas alternas de la voluntariosa Chula y la dolorosamente esperanzada Petrona, La fruta del borrachero contrasta dos historias muy diferentes pero inextricables. En una prosa exuberante, Rojas Contreras arroja luz sobre las decisiones casi imposibles que enfrentan a menudo las mujeres frente a la violencia, y las conexiones inesperadas que pueden surgir a raz de la desesperacin. .No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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The first and younger of the two is Chula. She lives in a relatively safe area of Bogota while her father works for an oil company. Although her home and family seem safe, the stories surrounding her such as a girl ripped apart by a bomb, or a candidate shot down by the opposition bullets in front of herself and her mother belie the safety of their bubble.
When Chula’s mother decides to hire a maid from the lines of people standing on the street seeking work, she picks Petrona, five years older than Chula. She rejoices how cheaply she can hire someone – giving them the equivalent of daily rice and vegetables. Little does she know that Petrona’s family is almost entirely dependent on Petrona’s meager daily wage for support.
Petrona had lived on a moderately prosperous farm with her family, until it was raided by guerillas, her father and oldest brothers killed or kidnapped. Now Petrona and her family live in a shack constructed of what they can find and surrounded by people who support Pablo Escobar and the guerillas in their quest to find more justice for the working poor.
The two opposing economic and political views lead to impossible choices forced on Petrona when Chula’s family becomes their target.
While the girls’ lives have a short time of intersection, ultimately it is their class and circumstances which separate them and determine their fates.
Some of the incidents in the novel reflect Ms. Contreras's childhood experiences in Bogota. I'm sure that contributed to the immediacy and intensity of the novel. (