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Nina ( picturetalk321 )
I have no words for the phenomenalism of this book. Mariana Leky is the queen of the sardonic sentence, the terse scene, the repetition of phrases, the unsaidness of feelings, the weirdness of life, the richness of the banal, and the deep, deep, deep emotions that swell underneath it all and make reading this novel a trance-like ride on the edge of reality.

I want to live in Leky's brain. I want to breathe Leky's prose.

Format: German hardback with the fab line drawing of an okapi. Smooth nice pa
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