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The Royal Physician's Visit

Per Olov Enquist,

Tiina Nunnally (Translator)

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Oct 13, 2014 Sera rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorites, own, kindle, historical-fiction

I had never heard of this book before (thank you Bookish!), and after briefly reading the description, I thought that it would be something that was aligned with my interests. Boy, was I right, and what a tremendous find!

The book is based upon the rule of Christian VII in Denmark and how the people around him used him to further their own political agendas. The author also did a great job of depicting the mood of what is known as the period of Enlightenment and how Denmark ended up becoming a hu ...more

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Mar 29, 2020 Gaijinmama rated it really liked it

Shelves: fiction, historical-fiction

This is the story of an important series of events in European history that I had never heard of (Yeah, thanks a lot American public school system!)
Wow. The poetic, dreamlike writing style covers a whole bunch of not-always-pretty stuff.
You know, history. Not pretty.
I agree with some reviewers that the language is sometimes repetitive, but it hit me that repetition of key words is often used in poetry. Maybe that's why I liked it.

There's a country of horribly oppressed peasants, a mentally ill ...more

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