Paradiso

Oscar Hijuelos To be blunt, this is a very hard book to get through because it is so literary. I attempted to read the Spanish very carefully. Lima was the kind of writer whom Spanish scholars study for his language and syntax. One of the descriptions he uses is “yawning grass”, which is really wonderful. He has constructions that are amazing. But what really spoke to me is one of the characters in his narrative, Jose Cemi. He is a very sick, tubercular child whom I could really relate to on a personal level, because I was sick as a child. There is also a hallucinogenic quality to the prose, which I think... (Source)