![]() ![]() partway in, starts delivering characters' speeches in quasi-German syntax, as if they were all speaking English with a German accent, instead of giving us a normal-sounding English equivalent of their German utterances-but not even from the beginning only starting well along in the story, invents coy little linguistic devices such as referring to a height in "shoes" instead of in feet, switches POV from one character to another in the middle of a paragraph, without cuing the switch, so that suddenly the character is seeing himself in the third person, drops suddenly and without warning from a third-person omniscient narrative into a first-person POV ("Tom once told me") and then drops back out of it again, with no explanation, misspells one of his own fictitious place names (which is also the title of the book), ![]()
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