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This book was awesome, had some sublime moments both in Moscow and Jerusalem. Pilate was one of my favourite characters of any book I've ever read. Cannot rate this highly enough. The prose were translated into English so there's not a lot that can be accurately said about the prose but it flowed well and wasn't clunky.
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