Books by Pierre Szalowski
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review 1: This book was slow to start but by the middle I was really enjoying it. The premise is that people in a Montreal street are living their various lives, all burdened with some problem or another and a freak ice storm brings them all together. The bit where the failed policeman get...
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review 1: This book was actually in the 'damaged' bin at my favourite bookshop and the owner drew my attention to it as something he thought I might like. He was right!An interesting, thought provoking translation of a series of wonderful (and typically French) points of view of a series o...
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review 1: 2.5 en realidad.No se verdaderamente si decir que es un libro infantil debido a que habla temas que quizás son algo elaborados. Sin embargo noto un fallo en la escritura, con razonamientos de un niño de 12 años (si bien lo justificaba diciendo que el protagonista tenía esa edad, ...
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review 1: Me decidí a leer este libro porque el título me llamó la atención.No es un libro extraordinario, ni maravilloso. Su prosa es algo infantil (aunque es normal ya que el protagonista y narrador de la historia es un niño de 11 años), por lo que creo que es más un cuento que una novel...
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review 1: I understand this book has a lot of fans. I'm not one of them, for two reasons. First, this book takes a serious real life event, adds people in difficult personal circumstances, and removes all depth. The intriguing idea and rich subject matter are flat, almost cartoonish. The c...