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The style might put a couple of readers off, as different flashbacks and reminiscences are introduced to us with no introduction, but I enjoyed everything here. It never becomes too much to concentrate on the different colours of this story, as Brodeck weaves his autobiography into the very realistic sensibilities of this time and place, which are equally finely portrayed.
This builds in a lovely fashion to its conclusion, and makes for a great novel of strong artistry and enjoyable story. It is a lovely blend, and I can only declare it one of the best European novels I have come across in a long while. I can only hope the author gets a great success here – he wins prizes in his native France, but has a woeful [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Claudel Wikipedia page], so seems to be someone the English-speaking world has been ignoring for some time. I don't think this will be the case for long.
I must thank Quercus for the Bookbag's review copy. We also have a review of [[Monsieur Linh and His Child by Philippe Claudel and Euan Cameron]].
This deserves to be as big a hit as the very different, but also commendable, [[The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies]]. You might also appreciate [[Good People by Nir Baram]].
