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Leeches (2006)

by David Albahari(Favorite Author)

3.48 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0151015023 (ISBN13: 9780151015023)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

review 1: Very absorbing book, though I thought he was going to do more with all the Kabbalism and numerology and so on, but in the end it devolved into a kind of very-pat "just say no to anti-Semitism" message. But it should be worth my checking out more of Albahari's stuff. I almost considered not mentioning that the entire book has not a single quotation mark or paragraph break, since that might deter many potential readers. But you get used to it.
review 2: Not for the faint of heart or brain, this book is one long stream-of-consciousness paragraph requiring significant effort on the part of the reader. However, that effort is rewarded by the pleasure derived from and mixed in with, the confusion that reading this entails. The plot revolves around the war in Serbi... morea and ethnic relations there. Themes include reality and dream, friendship and love, dislocation and loss. I make it sound like much more of a downer than it actually is - the narrator is full of life and the love of life, despite the difficulties he and his country face. less

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