Books by Jean-Philippe Toussaint
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review 1: Seemingly pointless lengthy short story. The narrator gives, without discernible emotion, an account of a couple weeks of a summer adventure - a trip to Shanghai, meeting with a Chinese man, Zhang Xiangzhi, on behalf of his Parisienne girlfriend Marie, his apparently mutual attr...
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review 1: I fell asleep twice. Highly recommended if you want to fall asleep. We all have those days when we're like 'gahh, I wish I could fall asleep right now but I'm just sitting awake in bed'. You should buy this book and keep it on your bedside table for such occasions.Just because it...
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review 1: begins:"it was at about the same time in my life, a calm life in which ordinarily nothing happened, that two events coincided, events that, taken separately, were of hardly any interest, and that, considered together, were unfortunately not connected in any way." i think the stor...