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Old 07-24-2013, 10:48 AM   #55
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And I must admit that I find it increasingly funny (I never expected it). I don't know if this comes across with the English translation but the original contains a lot of subtil humour and irony.
Yes, the book is growing on me now. I like the dialect of Tony's husband and am at the point that things aren't going that smoothly, that neat, any more. The political and economic context is developing as well.

It says something about the quality of a writer that one can't be indifferent when reading his/her books.

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