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The Boy's Marble (199) (Essential Prose Series)
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bookshelves: dnf, fiction, 2023-books-read-in, war, net-galley
Jan 04, 2023
bookshelves: dnf, fiction, 2023-books-read-in, war, net-galley
Read 2 times. Last read January 4, 2023.
I regret to say that I did not get on with this oddly written, impressionistic work. I found the prose vague and off-putting, and I struggled to make sense of it. Expecting a novel that would actually address the Siege Of Sarajevo, I was irritated by the endless fuzzy poetic rambling. The publisher misrepresented this book in the Net Galley description: “The Boy's Marble tells the story of experiencing a war through the eyes of a child.� As far as I got, there was no “story.� This appears to be an essentially plotless work, and I can’t imagine many completing it.
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