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Alexis
May 16, 2016 rated it it was amazing
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This is my first Javier Marías book and I very much enjoyed it. Once you get into the cyclical rhythms of his writing and his love of extraordinarily long sentences, the writing is rather beautiful. The opening of the book is a flat out shock, but the plot lines eventually comes full circle.
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