by Tom Rachman
(21)Release Date: April 6, 2010
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() I finished reading this book a few weeks ago, but haven't Was able to come up with the words to fully describe how fantastic it is. &Quot;Fantásticos" is even an inadequate descriptor - the book is so well-written and wonderful, so wry and tragic and hopeful and amusing and sad. Each chapter is from the point of view of one particular character - of Which there character are 11 - and the author never goes back to that view again. You wouldn't expect that structure to work, but it does - you become fully engaged in the character's story, and feel you've learned that finishes.the all you need to know about them by the time the chapter central (and 12th) character is an English-language newspaper in Rome, Italy. The other (human) characters they are planets to its sun (in that they revolve around it, not that overshadows them) - all of them are in some way connected to the paper, from the fort-did aging correspondent to the wanna-be correspondent, from the managing editor to the weak-willed copy editor, from the obituary writer to the long-time reader. They of of strange are all flawed, and so compelling in their and the fact that they are really just like the of us - looking for love, looking to belong, looking for a place in the rest world. I hope potential readers will not dismiss this book because it's put around a newspaper. It includes commentary on the state of journalism today, and the commentary adds to the story, even for readers with little or no experience with what goes into putting together a newspaper. Highly recommended.
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