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Grave, prestige, open-ended and bleak.
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- resolvedopen-ended
- warmbleak
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Shehan Karunatilaka
- First published
- 2022
- Pages
- 400
- Publisher
- Sort of Books, Sort Of Books, W. W. Norton & Company
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780143459675
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First sentence
“You wake up with the answers to the question that everyone asks. The answer is Yes, and the answer is Just Like Here But Worse. That's all the insight you'll ever get. So you might as well go back to sleep.”
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