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last updated Jul 28, 2025 12:55AM
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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 ...more
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 ...more
Jan 17, 2025
Cheryl2u
marked it as to-read
