Cellophane will delight fans of Gabriel Garcia Marquez or Louis de Bernières, but those new to the genre of magical realism will quickly fall in love with this story of a family and country stuck between the traditional the the modern, revolution and the past. Cellophane is also a novel that partners moments of tenderness or comedy with painful tragedy and violence. I found it to be a richly plotted book that managed to be both literary and a page turner. For a story that will pull you in and mesmerize you, it still manages to challenge the reader as well as entertain.
