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Spare, classical in form, contemporary and grave.
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- Peter Høeg
- First published
- 1997
- Pages
- 288
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux, The Harvill Press, Harvill P.
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780374272548
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First sentence
“ON MARCH 13, 1929, a young Dane, David Rehn, was in attendance when the railway line from Cabinda, near the mouth of the Congo, to Katanga in Central Africa was dedicated to integrity.”
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