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Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
ISBN: 9780857525857
Number of pages: 240
Weight: 310 g
Dimensions: 204 x 135 x 25 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
"Bringing to mind Mervyn Peake and Wes Anderson, with some of Nathanael West's deadpan grotesque, this is a beguiling, quirky entertainment." * Kirkus *
"Good fun - but you sense a more earnest point, too, as [the waiter] snatches rare downtime to scroll nervily through the jumble of disaster footage and cat videos flooding into his phone, making the faded grandeur of his 19th-century establishment a symbol of broader, post-internet worries over what we've lost." * Daily Mail *
"An elegantly made parody, embossed with an abundance of humor, sharp observations and piercing social criticism . . . truly remarkable." * Dagsavisen *
"Utterly wonderful . . . a novel you will have a hard time putting out of your mind . . . a gem." * Hamar Arbeiderblad *
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