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I suppose honorable mention to my old teacher's Pulitzer-winner, All the Light We Cannot See, too. Can I honestly give it more than three stars... I don't know, but I'm perfectly glad to have read it. "Bittersweet WWII romance with magical realist elements" seems like a cover blurb you'd find on several dozen novels, but I doubt there's a bittersweet WWII romance with magical realist elements I would have liked better. Strong echoes of Calvino's Invisible Cities (Tony introduced me to Calvino's work in college), but on the whole he's taking a light touch with the magical and leaning more heavily on the realism.
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