{"id":320,"date":"2019-06-08T14:08:05","date_gmt":"2019-06-08T14:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acampbell.uk\/wp\/?p=320"},"modified":"2019-06-15T15:58:30","modified_gmt":"2019-06-15T15:58:30","slug":"book-review-riverita-by-armando-palacio-valdes-in-spanish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acampbell.uk\/wp\/2019\/06\/08\/book-review-riverita-by-armando-palacio-valdes-in-spanish\/","title":{"rendered":"Book review: Riverita, by Armando Palacio Valdes [in Spanish]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a coming-of-age novel, a <em>bildungsroman<\/em>. Its hero, Miguel Rivera, is a slightly-built young man of wit and charm who receives the nickname Riverita (a diminutive). We first meet him when, as a young boy, he is notified by his uncle that his widowed father is about to remarry. His new stepmother is a beautiful woman from Seville who takes an instant dislike to him and soon manages to have him packed off to boarding school. 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