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Title: Terrific first novel
Review: Ten Thousand Lovers was recommended to me by a person at Monroe Bookstore in Victoria, B.C. as a good example of recent Canadian fiction. The truth is this first novel is completely based and focused on Israel. The love story is touching. I share the view that the politics are simplistic. Still, they have a ring of truth and as a person who is strongly pro-Israel I felt it was important for me to read this book. I don't think the erratic movement from present to past was particularly effective. At times I felt I was reading a romance novel. That being said, I read it in its entirety in almost one sitting because I found it absorbing. I certainly would recommend it to others. I look forward to reading more of Ravel's fiction in the future.
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