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Yair Ben-Zvi
Dec 01, 2012 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
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I very much enjoyed this novel for, among other things, its relentlessly bleak and darkly comic (by way of the grotesque) tone. This is a story that just. doesn't. give. a. damn. about your feelings concerning the events described or the characters partaking in said events....it simply presents them (adroitly if also matched by concomitant bitterness) as they are and leaves you to judge them, in a sense, purely. No consideration is given to modulation or amelioration of darkness, it's a dark lit ...more
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