Title: I should have taken the reviews more seriously
Product review: I wanted to know more about the culture so, I thought that a Nobel prize winner for literature would be a good place to start. I should have taken the other reviews more seriously. This translation was not the one the Nobel prize judges read, I'm sure.I would not know where to start with the numerous frustrating issues of the translation. Written in the second person, part of the time and slipping back to first person or a combination of first and third person at other times for the sake of dialog. I tried to read it but it was just too confusing. I kept trying not to be distracted by the poor choice of words and the ambiguous sentence structure but it is all too tedious. Please Harper Collins, you could do better! Perhaps it is banned in China because of this translation.
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