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In Spanish: La Librería del Señor Livingstone (The Bookshop of Mr Livingstone)
Two stars for content, one star for format.
Let's start with the content. I was charmed by the first fifty pages. This is fine world-building: a kind of alternate London that is actually the fantasy London of a non-Briton. It is a little bit how I thought of England before I moved here many years ago. Gutiérrez who is Spanish stands in for all the continental Europeans (and perhaps others), and particularly for those whose mother tongue is not English, and who dream up a tourist destination of five o'clock teas, drizzly cobble stones and eccentric gentlemen who quote Lewis Carroll.
Then, after the first fifty pages, this world started to gall.
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Crossposted to Goodreads.
Two stars for content, one star for format.
Let's start with the content. I was charmed by the first fifty pages. This is fine world-building: a kind of alternate London that is actually the fantasy London of a non-Briton. It is a little bit how I thought of England before I moved here many years ago. Gutiérrez who is Spanish stands in for all the continental Europeans (and perhaps others), and particularly for those whose mother tongue is not English, and who dream up a tourist destination of five o'clock teas, drizzly cobble stones and eccentric gentlemen who quote Lewis Carroll.
Then, after the first fifty pages, this world started to gall.
( Read more... )
Crossposted to Goodreads.