Rodríguez's books are compelling and beautifully written.
Rodríguez's books are compelling and beautifully written.
Rodríguez's books are compelling and beautifully written.
About ATACAMA:
"The fiction intermingles beautifully with the historical aspect of the novel, flowing so excellently together that I was left wondering what was real and what was not. While the historical events in the novel happened over 100 years ago, the depictions of tyranny, resilience, and crusading for the rights of the underrepresented still ring true today."
Tamanna T. - The Peak
Rodríguez's books are compelling and beautifully written.
Rodríguez's books are compelling and beautifully written.
"A story is like a house waiting to be inhabited. When readers enter and furnish it with their own possessions, the house comes to life. Thus, the story will acquire as many lives as there are readers – each reader infusing it with his or her unique experiences, feelings, world view...
A book club creates a space where readers can present
"A story is like a house waiting to be inhabited. When readers enter and furnish it with their own possessions, the house comes to life. Thus, the story will acquire as many lives as there are readers – each reader infusing it with his or her unique experiences, feelings, world view...
A book club creates a space where readers can present their furnished houses – their particular "reading" of the story – to the other participants, compare and discuss their perceptions and insights, and make meaning together."
Carmen Rodríguez
You will fall in love with her characters
Rodríguez's books are compelling and beautifully written.
Characters don't inhabit an abstract, undefined place or time
They're deeply human and you'll see glimpses of yourself and people you know in the way they feel, think and act. They'll make you laugh, cry, sigh and smile. And, they'll make you want to keep turning the page.
Characters don't inhabit an abstract, undefined place or time
Characters don't inhabit an abstract, undefined place or time
Characters don't inhabit an abstract, undefined place or time
They live in constant dialogue with very concrete socio-historical circumstances. This means that as you immerse yourself in their lives, you will also be learning about what's happening around them.
Rodríguez's books are universal in scope and appeal
Characters don't inhabit an abstract, undefined place or time
Rodríguez's books are universal in scope and appeal
Who wouldn't relate to stories about resilience, survival, exile, trauma, social justice, and individual and collective memory, not to mention family and love?
Rodríguez is a bilingual, bicultural writer
Characters don't inhabit an abstract, undefined place or time
Rodríguez's books are universal in scope and appeal
She straddles her Chilean roots and upbringing and her fifty years of adult life in Canada with ease and sensibility. This dual view of the world translates into a unique brand of writing; writing that is informed by two languages and two literary traditions; writing that brings to life the actual and cultural terrain of dual geographie