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I liked this book enormously -- let me make just two points --

1.) the one sentence is something of a gimmick, since the clauses introduce natural pauses -- and the model is the late Céline with the three-dots (which Céline himself said was just a gimmick) simply omitted. Céline, of course, is one of the authors that Énard openly discusses.

2.) The second point should have cost the book a half-a-star (if I hadn't liked it so...). And that is that
(view spoiler)[Énard's prodigious grasp of historical detail is often second-hand. I caught him cribbing Wikipedia a couple of times, and the passage about the Croatian oysters comes straight out of Malaparte's Kaputt! (hide spoiler)] A minor complaint, though it bothered me.