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Suffocatingly tense, full of dread and despair, but most of all truthful and compassionate. A novel about standing up to mounting losses and being crushed under the wheels of history. A relentless masterpiece.
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August 31, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Suffocatingly tense, full of dread and despair, but most of all truthful and compassionate. A novel about standing up to mounting losses and being crushed under the wheels of history. A relentless masterpiece.
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This one is probably never getting translated into English, but whatever. A collection of short horror stories about living in a repressive state, whose violence is so familiar and normalised that it feels like a part of nature. Laser-focused and poignant. Book of the year so far.
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July 18, 2025 at 8:32 AM
This one is probably never getting translated into English, but whatever. A collection of short horror stories about living in a repressive state, whose violence is so familiar and normalised that it feels like a part of nature. Laser-focused and poignant. Book of the year so far.
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The latest Kazuki Tomokawa is great. I still don't understand a word of Japanese, but faced with a voice like this one doesn't have to.
July 13, 2025 at 4:30 PM
The latest Kazuki Tomokawa is great. I still don't understand a word of Japanese, but faced with a voice like this one doesn't have to.
A celebration of forgotten and spent lives, told from the uniquely immigrant perspective of trying to reconstruct the sense of belonging from haphasard symbols and interactions. Troves of poetic and absurd descriptions of the mundane, as expected from Vuong. A melancholic delight.
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July 6, 2025 at 2:30 PM
A celebration of forgotten and spent lives, told from the uniquely immigrant perspective of trying to reconstruct the sense of belonging from haphasard symbols and interactions. Troves of poetic and absurd descriptions of the mundane, as expected from Vuong. A melancholic delight.
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A religious book, but in a sense very Anglican at that. Blazing through the ages, it puts forth that the source of holiness is not God, but the sum total of continuous and interlinked and transient human existence. Highly recommended.
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May 2, 2025 at 2:12 PM
A religious book, but in a sense very Anglican at that. Blazing through the ages, it puts forth that the source of holiness is not God, but the sum total of continuous and interlinked and transient human existence. Highly recommended.
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I had very high expectations after This Is How You Lose the Time War, and was not disappointed. Delicious, ecstatic, masterful prose from the first to the last page. Page adornments surprisingly add to it all. Can't wait for the short story collection!
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March 16, 2025 at 9:36 AM
I had very high expectations after This Is How You Lose the Time War, and was not disappointed. Delicious, ecstatic, masterful prose from the first to the last page. Page adornments surprisingly add to it all. Can't wait for the short story collection!
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An excellent memoir about growing up in 80-90s Albania. Fundamentally humanising, full of hope and disillusionment, a still life of a society in flux.
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February 28, 2025 at 11:33 PM
An excellent memoir about growing up in 80-90s Albania. Fundamentally humanising, full of hope and disillusionment, a still life of a society in flux.
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The summary makes it sound too sterile, I'm afraid
January 13, 2025 at 10:49 PM
The summary makes it sound too sterile, I'm afraid
Adding this to my lexicon
December 16, 2024 at 6:32 PM
Adding this to my lexicon
Context aside, I wouldn't be surprised to see this in some queer photography exhibition
December 13, 2024 at 12:53 AM
Context aside, I wouldn't be surprised to see this in some queer photography exhibition
Saramago's semi stream of consciousness, semi fourth wall breaking narrative gazes straight into the soul of his characters, and turns a simple story about moving an elephant from Lisbon to Vienna into a parable about living a life while life happens at you. What a delightful little book.
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October 20, 2024 at 10:21 AM
Saramago's semi stream of consciousness, semi fourth wall breaking narrative gazes straight into the soul of his characters, and turns a simple story about moving an elephant from Lisbon to Vienna into a parable about living a life while life happens at you. What a delightful little book.
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