A Santo in the Image of Cristobal Garcia

by Rick Collignon

Book Overview

A simple man living a simple life is immune to neither miracle nor disaster. When both happen-and Flavio Montoya is accused of arson-he cannot understand. Beautiful, funny, and even epic, this saga journeys through the life of the magical village of Guadalupe, showing how the past can echo the present-and how the present can hold more than we can dream.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0425193136
• ISBN13: 9780425193136
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Blue Hen Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

haunting, calming yet thought provoking

i liked this novel as it is in the same family as marquez and allende. it's beautifully written and casts a lovely slow dark shadow, if you are in this sort of mood. i love the inherent sadness but warmth between and for the characters. with aging parents, it seems revealing how older people review in a non-sequential matter, their relationships, choices, things that they thought mattered with didn't and other subjects. the ghostly spector of good and evil permeates many sections, and implies that human relations carry weighty and far-reaching consequences. while bad behaviour is a given within this community, by individuals who are family members and/or neighbors, going too far is tied up within the notions of greed, magic, forces beyond one's control, and to an extent, race. essentially, i really loved the spell this novel cast and am looking forward to reading the others in the trilogy.