Review: ¿ERES TU? by Frank Tainter (Chile)
¿Eres tú?: A History of Lonquimay Frank Tainter (Chile 1964–66) Go to Publish December 2019 328 pages $17.80 (paperback), $2.99 (Kindle) Reviewed by David Mather (Chile 1968-70) There are several reasons why I was eager to read “?Eres Tu?.” The author and I were both forestry volunteers (different groups) in the mid to late ’60s in Chile. According to the jacket of the book, his time there, like mine, was “the most significant experience of his life.” We both ended up writing “novels” about ‘our’ Chile and both books have a young American fall in love with a campesina who was taller than most, had long black hair, and, of course, beautiful eyes. Even the consummations of the two love affairs are similar in that his takes place in a canelo(tree) grove whereas mine was in an alerce grove. Finally, both of us used the love stories as the vehicle to demonstrate our . . .
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Thanks for the review David Mather, I probably would not have read this book if not for your highly informative…