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  <title><![CDATA[Ten Sorry Tales]]></title>
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  <default_description>Featuring undertakers, dark forests, resurrected butterflies and a singularly mean-spirited horse, the stories are nevertheless rooted in the realistic and all too recognisable world of retirement, loneliness and childhood boredom. By turns funny, scary and heartbreaking, they are always illuminating, and further evidence of one of the most original and brilliant imaginations in contemporary fiction. 
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">2006</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Mick Jackson]]></name>
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  <date_added>Sat Sep 20 07:15:31 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Sep 20 07:24:39 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[چیزهای قدیمی تاریخ دارند<br/>چیزهای قدیمی هویت دارند]]></body>
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    <review id="39192853">
    <user id="5063">
    <name><![CDATA[Sasan M. K.]]></name>
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  <date_added>Wed Dec 03 08:38:12 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Dec 03 08:51:43 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[در ایران:<br/>تارک دنیا مورد نیاز است (ده داستان تٱسف‌بار)؛ ترجمه‌ي گلاهر اسدی آملی، ویرایش سام فرزانه؛ تهران، نشر چشمه،‌ چاپ اول 1386]]></body>
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    <review id="73192058">
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    <name><![CDATA[Kebrit]]></name>
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  <date_added>Fri Oct 02 06:56:09 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Oct 02 07:00:55 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[بعضی از مردم پول دار به دنیا می آیند.<br/>بعضی ها هم بعدا پول دار می شوند.<br/>بقیه هم به اندازه ی آن ها شانس نمی آورند.<br/>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73192058]]></url>
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    <review id="48797536">
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    <name><![CDATA[NazaN!N]]></name>
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <date_added>Tue Mar 10 08:15:49 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Mar 10 08:16:35 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[عالی ترین داستان، جراح پروانه ها بود،یک کتاب زیبا]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48797536]]></url>
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    <review id="74765193">
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    <name><![CDATA[Gaurdin]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Oct 16 15:45:59 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Oct 16 15:47:38 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[ترجمه روان و داستانهای بسیار قشنگی داره!]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74765193]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="60908188">
    <user id="1280382">
    <name><![CDATA[Baran]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Jul 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Jun 24 07:07:34 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Jul 07 03:35:21 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[به نظر من کتاب جالبی بود، از بعضی از داستان هاش واقعا لذت بردم.فضای جالب و ساده ای داره.خوندنش رو توصیه می‌کنم]]></body>
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    <review id="71203247">
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    <name><![CDATA[Zahra]]></name>
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  <date_added>Mon Sep 14 13:05:04 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Sep 14 13:06:10 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[ده داستان تاسف بار جالب]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71203247]]></url>
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    <review id="65759567">
    <user id="2581626">
    <name><![CDATA[Maedeh]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Sep 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Aug 01 08:57:05 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Aug 01 09:01:11 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[i enjoied  the storis were simple and light]]></body>
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    <review id="38794200">
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    <name><![CDATA[Paula]]></name>
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  <date_added>Fri Nov 28 04:42:58 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Nov 28 04:43:12 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Interesting and funny at times.]]></body>
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    <review id="58263888">
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    <name><![CDATA[Dava]]></name>
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  <date_added>Wed Jun 03 01:33:10 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[A wonderfully grim collection of woeful yarns.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58263888]]></url>
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    <review id="1176460">
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    <name><![CDATA[Garen]]></name>
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  <date_added>Sat May 12 12:00:53 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Apr 14 11:10:47 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Some people list this book as children's / teen fiction.  Maybe teens, but I would like to think that I would not be horrible enough of a parent to read these to a child.  They are macabre and disturbing. <br/><br/>That being said, they are FABULOUS!  Fabulously written, fabulously plotted, and ju...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1176460">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1176460]]></url>
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    <review id="32680351">
    <user id="1191515">
    <name><![CDATA[Diana]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Nov 21 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Sep 12 06:08:35 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Sep 12 06:54:30 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I know I shouldn't say this is the best book ever, because hardly anyone else who reads it will think that. But it was just so my sort of thing: dark, quirky, absurd, childish, wise, serious, humorous, ugly, beautiful. It's everything I love and everything I aspire to. It took me a week to read it, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32680351">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="36773097">
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    <name><![CDATA[Dave]]></name>
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  <date_added>Sun Nov 02 15:11:22 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Contains the short story The Pearce Sisters that Aardman animator Luis Cook adapted for his BAFTA-winning short film. Stories are sort of like Edward Gorey-ish with more depth. ]]></body>
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    <review id="21019415">
    <user id="172130">
    <name><![CDATA[Pooriya]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Sep 28 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon Nov 16 12:14:57 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[i just read this book and I found new things in my life! some of'em were comic and some... just read this book! short and full of new meanings!]]></body>
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    <review id="34290061">
    <user id="614778">
    <name><![CDATA[Ahmad]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[بعضی پولدار به دنیا می ایند و بعضی بعدا پولدار میشوند بقیه هم شانس نمی آورند]]></body>
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    <review id="10998498">
    <user id="28445">
    <name><![CDATA[Caleb]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ten quite delightful little dark, macabre tales told with admirable dark humour. I enjoyed them immensely.]]></body>
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    <review id="38631505">
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 14 22:24:54 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[seems to be great ! i just read 4 stories , it's great!i'll tell you my idea after i finish... ]]></body>
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    <review id="8579147">
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    <name><![CDATA[Helen]]></name>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Everyone.]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Fri Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[READ<br/><br/>THIS<br/><br/>BOOK<br/><br/>!!!<br/><br/>Short stories with wonderful illustrations. Very funny.]]></body>
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    <review id="37758934">
    <user id="1335892">
    <name><![CDATA[Mouse]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Nov 15 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA['Wonderfully macabre, crookedly comic...&quot; it says on the book cover.... and it was.]]></body>
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    <review id="9680107">
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