Pensamientos sobre "Cenizas"

This week I finished reading the book Cenizas de Izalco, a multifaceted novel set in El Salvador. The momento cumbre and origin of the books title comes from the 1932 peasant massacre in Izalco, El Salvador, where an uprising of starving peasants was put down violently with military force. An interesting aspect of the book is its narrative style; it is told partly in the first person by Carmen Rojas, a Salvaducha returning home for her mothers funeral. When she does, she reads the diary of Frank Wolf, a freind of her family, which is also narrarated through the novel. While sometimes causing some confusion, this narrative style is unique to any novels I have ever read.