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Algot, Anna Stina and the Water of Life by Jonas Jonasson is an absurd, charming and whimsical tale of simple, yet eccentric, characters in the mid-1800s Sweden. My rating for Algot, Anna Stina and the Water of Life— 4BuyAlgot, Anna Stina and the […]
Stockholm by Noa Yedlin is a dark comedy about an older group of friends (late 60s, early 70s) attempting to keep secret the death of a friend
The Dance Tree by Kiran Millwood Hargrave has a lot going for it, however, I felt that the plot never got going and the ending was anticlimactic.
The Ghetto Within by Santiago H. Amigorena also deals with issues of identity, as many immigrants do. Are they Argentina? Polish? Polish-Argentinian? Jewish?
Jonas Jonasson seems to, once again, take pleasure in writing farces, comedy of errors that happen to somehow work out. Kevin
