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For a good part of the book I was rating this much higher, thinking that Ishiguro was doing something daring with an unreliable narrator. Underscoring that sense were a couple of improbable coincidences that, to my mind at least, would later reveal or explain themselves as Detective Christopher Banks' fragile and carefully constructed world came under more and more stress. Wrong. Banks is reliable, Banks is boring, Banks is something of a prig, and as a result the entire story, and most of its c
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31/2
Slow pace but well written
Slow pace but well written
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