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Astute, cunning, brilliant . . . Prepare for wonders . . . Blackly playful and serious, this is an earthy, philosophical tract drawing on history and human experience; the tiny hopes, the immense failures and, above all, the ambivalence. Ferrari pursues his story with the delicacy and skill of a musician reaching the final note (Eileen Battersby Irish Times)
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'Extraordinarily compelling' Daily Mail. (Daily Mail)
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A wise and sprightly epic of ruin and renewal in rural Corsica - winner of the Prix Goncourt.
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