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Shockingly enough, the very last book I finished, if you don't count audiobooks, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet. It was an absolutely gorgeous book. Ravishing, even. The title character is a Dutch clerk in 1799 Japan when the book opens and meets a Japanese midwife with a scarred face. It is even better than it sounds and the writer really did his homework, as far as I can tell. There are a lot of "you are there" details in this book.
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