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This book is really hard to describe or to review fairly. It won the 1985 Booker Prize. It uses nonstandard perspectives, an interspersing of Maori phrases and folk tales, and sometimes strange grammar. It's stories are nonlinear. I really liked this book. I really liked it even though the language was at times painfully horribly overwritten, and even though there was one part about 350 pages in that almost derailed the story. Broadly, the book tells the story of three characters, each a damaged
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I couldn't finish this. I didn't feel the book was a complete story. The chapters didn't have any connectivity.
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i dunno, the language is good, but the sheer quantity and level of child abuse sets this apart nowadays, it's hard or impossible to stomach, but it does set the scene honestly against which all those deported british children were abused by the monks and nuns there
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