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Synopsis
Of Forgotten Times is at once about romance, about mothers and daughters, and about a dictatorship. Set in a fictional Caribbean island, it begins at the time of the conquistadors and ends in relatively modern times. The novel focuses on the stories of the women of two different families whose only point in common is the dictator who rules their island nation. One set of women, the Parduz family, is descendant of green-eyed slaves who practice voodoo-like rituals even through modern times in a village so distant from the major cities that ancient practices continue to have relevance in the present. The other set of women, the Valverde family, is a mother and daughter who seek to find a way out of the endemic conditions of poverty. Of Forgotten Times describes life in a country ruled by a ruthless, power-hungry, machista tyrant who is married to Herminia Parduz and whose lover, among others, is Mercedes Valverde.
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About the Author
Writer and filmmaker Marisela Rizik was born in Santa Domingo and has lived in Eugene, Oregon since 1981. Her stories, articles, and essays have appeared in various North American journals. Of Forgotten Times is her first novel, originally published in Spanish in Santa Domingo in 1996.
Translator Isabel Z. Brown is an associate professor of Spanish at The University of South Alabama in Mobile. Born in Paris, she has resided in various countries, including the Dominican Republic. She lives in Mobile, Alabama with her husband and their three children.
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Writer and filmmaker Rizik's first novel is a tragic story of love, abuse, folk medicine, magic, and dictatorship on a Caribbean island. Women are the novel's connecting thread as they expose male dominance, lost hope, and dutiful submission that is, in most cases, carried on from generation to generation. Though dictatorship is a well-depicted theme, repression of other kinds seems to be the real focus. Although Rizik's women are emotionally real, her men are somewhat stereotypical, yet she does produce clear and realistic distinctions among the lives of members of different social classes, and within those portrayals offers some hard truths and sad messages. More than anything else, however, her tale is one of romance, albeit heartrending and somewhat unsatisfactory in its resolution. Janet St. John
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