Reviews for In Search of Bernabe

The average rating for In Search of Bernabe based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-12-09 00:00:00 Frederic Beaulieu Graciela Limón’s In Search of Bernabé provides an intrepid mare-scape of El Salvador’s civil war during the 1980s and its attendant atrocities through the strivings and failures of a family cursed by both incest and the times. Its minimalist structure is never obscurant. This can be seen as both a note of praise and critique, for little is left open-ended. But then neither is the sum violence of the war. Its repercussions on the individuals engaged in it, with intent or as civilians, are patently horrific. We can guess from page one how the search for Bernabé will end, and this adds to both the hope his mother stands for and the already tragic nature of her quest. We can also assume that if evil takes a formative lifetime to come to fruition, a last minute peripeteia will not alter its continued proliferations.

Review # 2 was written on 2017-09-07 00:00:00 David White While this is an important book for understanding the displaced, it didn't impress on me the way that some other similar books have. I'm not sure why. I would still, however, recommend reading it to anyone who seeks to understand the violence that so many people go through in many different places (it all bears a similar theme), people that seek asylum, who are running, who have been separated from loved ones, and people who are just searching for home and identity and peace. Understanding breeds compassion.