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I'm pretty sure you can figure out what I think of a book from the page number/time spent to read ratio. I've read so many five star reviews for this book and I've found them baffling. Sure, it's a cyclical narrative. Not that difficult to pull off when absolutely nothing happens. I got so sick of the repetition, which is apparently also a sign of brilliance. Does deciding you're going to be "a writer" really make you see the world any differently? I can understand being a pompous teenager in a new country, but a pompous adult who writes ridiculously overlong purple passages with a complete lack of humour or spark about the English countryside and expects that to form a novel. Nah.
If this is a genius meditation on life, death, and the immigrant experience, then I'm the Queen of Sheba. One of the worst yet.
If this is a genius meditation on life, death, and the immigrant experience, then I'm the Queen of Sheba. One of the worst yet.