A Place Where the Sea Remembers

by Sandra Benítez

Book Overview

Winner, Discover Great New Writers Award. Winner, Minnesota Book Award for Fiction. "Profound.... a quietly stunning work that leaves soft tracks in the heart."--The Washington Post BookWorld "Merits placement beside some of the mesmerizing new literature with its roots in Latin America."--The New York Times Book Review

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 156689011X
• ISBN13: 9781566890113
• Release Date: September 1993
• Publisher: Coffee House Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 15 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 10 and higher

Customer Reviews

amazingly true

i really enjoyed this novel. Benitez uses great detail in her writings and i felt like I was there watching the town go through all it's tragedy and happiness.

An Amazing Novel to say the very least!

I read this book for a college lit course and loved it. It was an amazing tale that I had first thought was a collection of short stories. Benitez wove the stories together in the end for a thrilling ending. I was fortunate enough to meet and hear Benitez speak at my college. She had my attention for the entire hour that she spoke. I really loved this novel.

Gentle, too gentle...

I found that in reading Ms. Benitez' first novel that I was being lulled into a gentle portrait of the interconnectedness of the people of the village of Santiago and I enjoyed that, most of the time. At other times, I felt that the author, in the name of verisimilitude, strove to re-create the village life so much that it got in the way of the truth of the story. Remedios, the central character, was under-developed as a shamanness--that is, I wanted to see her power over the lives of the other characters WHEN THEIR STORIES WERE BEING TOLD. Instead, she was just an intercalary effect. But really, these are small criticisms. It was refreshing to read a novel where each character was treated with their own dignity.

Gracias Sandra Benitez!

Una fabulosa historia muy bien recomendada

This is a real good book. I love the plot of the story

This is a great book because the characters are skillfully put together, all the characters have a place and play a very important part of the novel there is no one in the novel who I felt was a extra or useless person in there. This are ordinary people that lived in a small community of the coast in Mexico, all their lives are tied together. The person who I liked best and I would suggest you pay extra attention to is Remedios she plays a key role in the story. I will highly recomend this book for readers who don't have a lot of experience reading like me.