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Review title: How did I manage to get through this?
Product review: I began this novel because a friend sent it to me when we were studying Primo Levi together. What begins as a fascinating premise deteriorates into tedium within a hundred pages. Would that he had stopped there! I agree with the reviewers who describe the characters as uninvolving, worse, self-pitying and boring, even the great writers who are invoked. Primo Levi, Jean Amery and the other golems would be embarrassed by the quality of the writing. I can't believe Elie Wiesel would approve, either. I am note tempted to read the author's other books, sorry to say.
