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Escape from Amsterdam by Barrie Sherwood (view source)
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|author=Barrie Sherwood
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|pages=208
|publisher=Granta Books
|date=July 2007
|isbn=978-1862079588
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Japanese University student Aozora is used to interruptions to his studies - his father telling him how lucky and prestigious he is to be in the course he is, his dreams of the bribes he can pocket when working in the Ministry for Construction, his wishes he'd get back with his ex and his scoring of every other female in comparison, and so on, but not interruptions like these.
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|name=Sarah Passingham
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|comment= Don't always judge a name by its roots - Barrie Sherwood is a Canadian who has stamped the globe as frequently and as far as his missionary parents, and not British, even though he was living in Norwich, UK at the time of writing. Did you catch the Max Sebald references with the embedded illustrations, no captions and often no obvious reference? This is a cleverer book than you might suppose.
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