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    <body><![CDATA[I'm personally not a fan of the picaresque novel, even ones that use their episodic qualities to build into more character driven conclusions. That said, this was a pretty masterful picaresque novel about love and war and peasants and mules; it just wasn't my cup of tea.]]></body>
    
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