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The Pond: Puerto Rico's 19th-Century Masterpiece

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The single most depressing book I've ever read in my life. It's amazing because the book inspires you to get out and help others who are stuck in a hapless situation.

I'll quote the last paragraph in the book to give you an idea, if you're not interested then look no further.

"Only the river remained, murmuring, ever moving, ever restless, ever sounding, as though it dragged in its current the prolonged lament of an inconsolable grief, as though it carried dissolved in its waters the tears of a misfortune that no one wipes dry, that no one comforts...that no one knows about!"

Phenomenal book.

I'm not going to sit here and tell you what the book is about. You should read it! It is that good! I will tell you some of its themes. Haves vs Have nots, incest, rape, murder, poverty, love, romance, all throwned into a presssure cooker titled "La charca" to create one of the most touching, poigant stories you will ever read. It has a lot of twist and turns which in the end left me completely blown away.