Juan Felipe Ramirez Felipe Ramirez من عند Çerenec i Sipërm, ألبانيا من عند Çerenec i Sipërm, ألبانيا

One of my all time favorite books. Kingsolver is a magician seamlessly weaving social awareness and environmental astuteness into an extremely worthwhile novel.

I enjoyed this but I can't really say why! I've read it through twice back to back. I was especially hooked on the line "...you can destroy a man but you cannot defeat him."; which I think in essence, may be all that this book has to say. Is the hero just a stubborn old man? A man who goes to unusual lengths to achieve his aim and achieves it but only partially and then at considerable cost? Well, maybe not, there is talk of faith in his last conversation with the boy before he leaves he sets to sea There's certainly the intimation of something more here than just irony, this relationship between Santiago and the boy for instance but...I didn't get it yet, it's opaque. So, It has left me ruminating as to what it all means...in the end... maybe nothing, maybe I need to read it again when I'm older... maybe it's just to Zen for my western head... or maybe I just don't get Hemmingway. Maybe I'll add to this review if and when the penny drops. then again maybe not!