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"So much has been written about this book that it is really difficult to add anything. Overall, I found it rather boring in the first part, but more interesting in the second one. There is some humor and that helps, but the parts supposedly written..."
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The lives of fifty-four-year-old concierge Rene Michel and extremely bright, suicidal twelve-year-old Paloma Josse are transformed by the arrival of a new tenant, Kakuro Ozu.
"Teratology is the study of monsters and this book does an excellent job of describing how this study evolved through time. Monster is what is essentially "other" and that can apply to gender, to colonial subjects, to deformed or sick people, to ge..."
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