This took some getting in to. An omniscient narrator several
steps back from the action, withholding judgement or emotional involvement, coolly
observing a large cast of characters navigating their often mundane, sometimes
funny and occasionally tragic lives. The book builds a portrait of a community
in fragments, frustratingly slowly at first but gathering power until it
becomes a hypnotic accretion of detail. Nice to find a novel that doesn’t make
it easy for you, doesn’t seem needy, doesn’t seem to care whether you like it
or not. It just gets on with its work, like the weather.
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Enjoyed it. Thanks.
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