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          <body><![CDATA[Just finished it....somehow makes the impossible, manageable...I mean the Holocaust is given a human face, somehow, enjoining it to the rest of Western History. Here's the thing: it does it as a comical romp through the shenanigans of a polygamist who cannot decide with whom of his three wives to se...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/Just%20finished%20it....somehow%20makes%20the%20impossible,%20manageable...I%20mean%20the%20Holocaust%20is%20given%20a%20human%20face,%20somehow,%20enjoining%20it%20to%20the%20rest%20of%20Western%20History.%20Here's%20the%20thing:%20it%20does%20it%20as%20a%20comical%20romp%20through%20the%20shenanigans%20of%20a%20polygamist%20who%20cannot%20decide%20with%20whom%20of%20his%20three%20wives%20to%20settle%20with%20.%20%22He%20was%20not%20a%20victim%20of%20Hitler.%20He%20had%20been%20a%20victim%20long%20before%20Hitler's%20day%22%20is%20Singer's%20take%20on%20the%20Herman%20Broder,%20the%20protagonist%20in%20this%20novel.%20Yes,%20it's%20got%20a%20touch%20of%20the%20allegorical:%20Herr+Mann+Bruder%20is%20suspiciously%20similar%20to%20this%20novel's%20anti-hero's%20nam,%20Herman%20Broder.%20%0D%0A%0D%0AThis%20is%20Singer's%20first%20novel%20set%20in%20the%20United%20States.%20">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:30:58 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <updated_at>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:58:44 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Si! algo parecido al &quot;General en su Laberincto&quot; de Marquez. <br/><br/>Si, yo leere esto proximo porque quisiera conocer mas sobre Sandino, otra gran Americano. <br/><br/>Somos tanto, Lilly...pero nos come el monstruo. Perdoname pero le tengo mucho resentimiento a mi pais de nacimiento. <br/><br/>Asi me refiero a ella: &quot;el pais de mi nacimiento&quot;.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:07:14 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[yo tampoco lo puedo conseguir, creo que se coje en la red solamente...]]></body>
        
    
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