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Erma Odrach
Sep 21, 2009 rated it really liked it
When large, frothing rats start appearing in the port city of Oran, Algeria, the citizens reluctantly start accepting the fact that they are in the midst of an epidemic, one that is way beyond their control. They are quarantined for weeks with no way out, and people start dying left and right. The main question to arise from all this: What is the meaining of life? The literary existentialism aside, I found the prose on the dry side and the characters a bit wooden. This is a re-read from my stude ...more
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