| Title | : | Al Otro Lado |
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| ISBN | : | 8432247855 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9788432247859 |
| Language | : | Spanish; Castilian |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 253 |
| Publication | : | First published January 1, 2001 |
On an island in the Caribbean (could it be Cuba?) live our daily evils. Fear, luxury, sins, confessions are on one side; lovers, prostitutes, homosexuals, victims, and the victimized are on the other. Inside the confessional, only a priest, a woman, and God know what goes on. Then loneliness, death, another country... This is a book in which eroticism reaches its highest level of expression, a book of inconfessable confessions that questions sin and draws a shaky line between good and evil, as a priest who is much too young listens to a woman who is much too scared. It is a book of orgies and seductions, where a woman explores, through the body, the labyrinths of the soul, and where prostitutes, crooks, murderers, transvestites, innocents, homosexuals, and lovers join in a sometimes frenzied, sometimes tender dance.
Al Otro Lado Reviews
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Una oda a la vida, a disfrutar de los placeres que nos conmueven, sin miramientos ni estereotipos por el qué dirán. Una obra existencialista que ahonda en el diálogo con uno mismo para conocer aquello que se esconde al otro lado. Sublime, poética y trascendental. Imprescindible.
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"Al otro lado" (On the Other Side) is a brutally honest and provocative novel which chronicles the self-discovery of a young woman living in (presumably) Communist Cuba. The reader accompanies the protagonist on her journey from the womb to adulthood as she grows, adapts, changes, and comes to grips not only with society and the people in her life, but more importantly with her own inner demons.
The book is vividly descriptive and replete with sexual overtones which the author uses when describing just about all of the protagonist's experiences. This, combined with the sacrilegious connotations throughout the novel, may be too intense for more conservative readers.
