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Honestly 3.5 stars but it gets bumped up for the great writing in the final chapter
Brutal. Well written and provocative, but for my money, gratuitous. I want to read more Ōe
Feel like I lived in France, I can see why a bunch of stuffy yet maybe sensitive literary critics awarded this the Pulitzer
Dense language throughout doesn't stop this from being very entertaining. I am a sucker for dreams and multiple plot lines across time so this stuck all the right compositional chords. I can see how it offended folks. I pity Rushdie as he doesn't come across as a friend of God, but I respect him for writing in terror at even a peaceful, foreseen death (feels almost confessional).
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