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Title: Perhaps better in Icelandic...
Review: Even though I was intrigued by a review of this book in my local newspaper, and even though I often buy books, I checked this one out of the library. I'm glad I did. It may be "one of the funniest books ever written" in Icelandic, and I can only suppose that Susan Sontag, who reviewed it, reads this language fluently. How else to explain the discrepancy between the English translation, which is clumsy, full of archaic words, and often muddled, and the praise heaped upon the novel? Disappointing.
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