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Kate
Jan 31, 2025 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
I loved this book! Right up my street - first person, introspective, transgressive, poetic. I was going to give it 4 stars as I didn’t love the ending but the translator’s afterword bumped it back up! I don’t know how the translator managed to translate such fantastic poetic prose, amazing.

What really struck me about this book (that I can’t find talked about much) was how similar it is to Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar. I happened to read both books at the same time and the similarities throughout
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Cheryl2u
Jan 17, 2025 marked it as to-read
Scruffy
Jan 19, 2025 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
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Jan 24, 2025 rated it really liked it
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Jan 23, 2025 marked it as 2025-reading-group-list  ·  review of another edition