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Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step.
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Earnest, classical in form, effortless and resolved.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- effortlessdemanding
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- First published
- 2009
- Pages
- 479
- Publisher
- Berkley, btb Verlag, Fig Tree
- Editions
- 73
- Language
- Dutch, Chinese, dan, Swedish
- ISBN
- 9780241956540
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