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Reviewed on August 1, 2011
A mother's love propels this latest work from the award-winning author of Mister Pip. In Tunisia, a young woman who works as a hotel maid falls in love and has a baby, but the baby's father steals him, and the penniless mother makes a harrowing trip to Berlin to find her child. What's most original about this novel is the structure. More than half of it is narrated by individuals encountered by the main charac...Log In or Sign Up to Read More