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Spare, grave, contemporary and character-led.
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- character-ledplot-driven
- rawmeticulous
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About the book
- Author
- Jacqueline Harpman
- First published
- 1996
- Pages
- 224
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House, B. Grasset, Seven Stories Press
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- French, English
- ISBN
- 9781529950854
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First sentence
“THE OPENING SCENE takes place in Paris, opposite the Gare du Nord, in the cafe ambitiously named Brasserie de l'Europe.”
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