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Title: Totally engaging and thought-provoking!
Review: Very briefly, the unfortunate souls who have given this work a poor rating are undoubtably those who would flunk Umberto Eco's "reader's test". Saramago, with his unique use of punctuation and line-division, is clearly separating the sheep from the goats. The result, should you accept the challenge he has posed, is a work which is engaging, moving, delicately erotic in the truest sense, and which sustains its momentum to the last page.
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