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I almost gave up on this a quarter of the way in. I'm glad I didn't. I thought it would be full of political things I didn't understand or it would have drunk horses in it. It turns out to be a simple, intense, and powerful story about a man telling the story of going to the funeral of his parent. Told from the perspective of someone who had known him then. The comedy bit was old from the get go but once he starts getting into his story I was hooked. What an interesting way to tell a story. It m
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Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2017, at 198 pages this is a very short but brilliant novel.
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I was struggling a bit with this book, and I think it's because I should have read it in one go. I lost the 'flow'. This was not a feel-good book, for sure. But enjoyable and interesting nevertheless.
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