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Avg. Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0
A pity the train wasn't cancelled Ideal for people who need to get out more, or enjoy looking up their own backsides. A complete waste of trees.
when a book's already sold 2M surely you can afford a decent translator? If Pascal Mercier ever had to read his book in 'English' HE'D be giving Atlantic a piece of his formidable mind. Ugly words like 'gotten' may be the norm in the USA but don't belong in a work like this, and like the other reviewers I feel that this poor translation does not do the book justice. And just when you're getting excited by one of the brilliantly thought-provoking passages, along comes another teeth-gnashing typo to take the edge off.
Having got that off my chest, I have to say that this... more info
Terrific but for the translation blues Gaia is absolutely right. I'm pretty sure this is a terrific book, and my impression is that it is quite poetically written. The translation, though, is lumpy and seems to rob the prose of the lyricism I'm sure is there. The typos and proof reading errors are just unforgivable, and again make the reading hard and annoying going (a simple spell check test would have picked up some of the many words which run together). If it weren't for the intriguing nature of the story, I'd say don't buy this at all until... more info
shabby product # ISBN-10: 1843547120
# ISBN-13: 978-1843547129 The high-flown literary seriousness, or pretentiousness, of this book accords ill with the semi-literate ill-proofed American-English translation. There are several pages missing from my copy and several others bound in twice.
