Magical Realism -- you gotta love it to read it.

books:


	• Gods Go Begging Alfredo Vea Dutton Adult, 1999 - 320 pages average customer review:based on 30 reviews view larger image
	for more information click here

highly recommended

Definitely Intriguing

The style used to write the book is amazing. I love most how it continually jumps back and forth through different times and memories of the main character, Jesse Pasadoble. By doing this, it only lets the audience find out little portions of the story at a time. By the end of the novel, everything comes together and makes for a beautiful plot line. Alfredo Vea also forces you to fall in love with several of his characters by making them so charismatic. The reader, shortly through the book, begins loving to read every single line about any one of the amazingly created characters. If you read it, you will love it.

for more information click here

My Greatest Novel?

Not My meaning "mine," of course; just My meaning "My Choice for..."

...Hard to say...Was my favorite novel when I read it, but then so was It. I'm a bit removed from Vea's words now, though I can say its a damn shame that the last review of this book is from 2003...not enough folks breathing this air. This story is air, and air is essential, right?

Greatest or no, I will never forget the ultimate revelation of Gods Go Begging - the most beautiful experience I have ever had with literature. True love was never more pure, more real.

Even my memories breed tears.

for more information click here

Gods Go Begging

Alfrodo Vea shows the way that war realy efects people not only on the battle field but also the people that the soldiers leave behind when they die. The story is of two battles one fought in Vvietnam and another fought on the streets of San francisco. As the book progresses the reader finds out more and more about the story up until the shocking This is a great book chock full of Vea's twisted humor and many interestring facts and I would recomend it for anyone who enjoys a good truthful novel about the vietnam war.

Magical Realism -- you gotta love it to read it.

This novel was my first of Vea's to read. I enjoy the magical realism of Eco, Garcia, Robbins, etc. and thought that this story fit in very well with the genre. There are some graphic moments described in a Vietnam battle sequence that may put some readers off their oats momentarily and return to their thoughts after reading the book. The premise is very believable which makes the ultimate realization of the book's surrealistic theme believable.

for more information click here

reviews: page 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

The first novel to tackle the Vietnam War from a Latino soldier's perspective

"Luminous. This is a beautiful book."--Carolyn See, author of The Handyman

This acclaimed Mexican-American author's third novel draws upon his personal experience as a soldier in Vietnam for a passionate and profound meditation on war, race, history, and desire. Vea's fictional counterpart, Jesse Pasadoble, served his country with honor and courage--even though he and his fellow Chicano grunts, as well as their black comrades, experienced a different, less hospitable America than the one enjoyed by their white commanders. A lifetime later, the battle still rages in nightmares and memories as Jesse finds himself on the front lines of a new conflict: the present-day gang wars raging in urban America. Gods Go Begging is a novel that is both searing and suffused with poetry, and Vea tackles his ambitious subject with gritty authenticity and gutsy humor.

"Powerful . . . enchanting. From the very first sentence I was trapped and could not resist."--Isabel Allende (on La Maravilla)

for more information click here

hot