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Contemporary, grave, earnest and overwhelming.
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- cooloverwhelming
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Omar El Akkad
- First published
- 2021
- Pages
- 256
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Knopf, Random House Large Print
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781984899248
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