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Spare, contemporary, classical in form and grave.
- sparerichly built
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- Jostein Gaarder
- First published
- 1998
- Pages
- 147
- Publisher
- Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), Seuil, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- French, German, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9783423127110
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First sentence
“WHEN I VISITED the book fair in Buenos Aires in the spring of 1995 I was urged to set aside a morning for the renowned flea market in San Telmo.”
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