Almost Never
by Daniel Sada
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Critic Rating
67%
Critic Reviews: 10
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88%
Reader Ratings: 5
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Synopsis
“Of my generation I most admire Daniel Sada, whose writing project seems to me the most daring.” —Roberto BolañoThis Rabelaisian tale of lust and longing in the drier precincts of postwar Mexico introduces one of Latin America’s most admired writers to the English-speaking world. Demetrio Sordo is an agronomist who passes his days in a dull but remunerative job at a ranch near Oaxaca. It is 1945, World War II has just ended, but those bloody events have had... more
About Daniel Sada
- All Critics: 10
- Positive: 7
- Negative: 3
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The Washington Post | 10 May 2012
In “Almost Never,” in other words, we see a writer in full maturity, a master in control of his craft.
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The New York Times | 20 Apr 2012
Still it’s impossible not to be swept along by Sada’s manic language, his Cervantean plot twists and his affection for the hero who shares his initials.
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Full Stop | 7 May 2012
Almost Never is like a comedy of manners cut with a pulpy erotic novel, a social satire impelled by a dripping lecherousness.
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Kirkus Reviews | 1 Mar 2012
Sada writes lustily and with comic brio about Demetrio’s dilemma—but this is definitely not a book for the kiddies.
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The Rumpus | 14 May 2012
If this was not even his best, according to the Spanish-speaking world, we have much to look forward to.
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Seeing the World Through Books | 9 Apr 2012
Daniel Sada ... should become a major “new” Mexican author, receiving the praise he deserves here for works of which we have been ignorant until now.
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Dallas News | 20 Apr 2012
Some will lose patience with the absurdly interminable literary buildup to the more-than-figurative climax in the book’s concluding words: “Sheer relief.”
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Publishers Weekly | 13 Feb 2012
Sada creates a fascinatingly eccentric cast of characters and manipulates them with skill.
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Portland Book Review | 17 Apr 2012
Ultimately, this sometimes humorous, sometimes frustrating plot, combined with Sada’s free-indirect discourse narration, is a candid portrayal of the machismo stereotype.
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The Boston Phoenix | 26 Apr 2012
Almost Never perpetually failed to engage me to the point that I was forced, finally, after two hard-fought weeks, to abandon its scrambling jokes and brutalities.
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