Alice's Adventures in Wonderland vs Juan de la Rosa: Which Should You Read?

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll · 1865 ★★★★☆ 4.0 181 pages · ≈ 3 h 21 m · Challenging

“Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do.”

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 English children's novel by Lewis Carroll. A young girl named Alice falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world of anthropomorphic…

Juan de la Rosa Nataniel Aguirre · 1943 ★★★★☆ 3.6 371 pages · ≈ 6 h 52 m · Challenging

“Rosita, the beautiful lacemaker whose memory is still preserved* by some of the old men and women in the Villa de Oropesa** who admired her unusual beauty, the kindness of her character, and the exquisite lacery that her hands produced, was the guardian angel of my blessed childhood.”

Long considered a classic in Bolivia, Juan de la Rosa tells the story of a young boy's coming of age during the violent and tumultuous years of Bolivia's struggle for independence. Indeed, in this novel, Juan's search…