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A truly engaging and beautifully crafted read. The author picks up the characters well & inserts them into the correct frame to bring alive some of the living andamp; working conditions of the 1700's. The story line is not one i have ever come acr... Read More
Jean-baptiste baratte is ordered to exhume the vast and ancient cemetery known as les innocents. The process of emptying the space and eliminating and ancient church is mostly this is what happens. However, it's full of ominous hints of trouble the gr... Read More
It perfectly evokes the paris of the late 1700s - there's revolution in the air and everyone, including those in charge, is looking towards modernity. Reminiscent of john fowles' *the french lieutenant's woman*, this novel evokes a long-ago time and p... Read More
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Quality
Would definitely recommend it for anyone looking for a fairly quick read with the french revolution brewing in the background
Read this unusual story you will enjoy it immensely
As the reader gets deeper into the story a relationship with the main character jeanbaptiste baratte develops
The writing is excellent but for me the effect of millers style is to make the reader into an onlooker so i found that i didnt ... Read More
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Jeanbaptiste baratte is a modern man wellversed in voltaire and ready to leave his peasant upbringing behind
Packaging/appearance
Baratte’s task requires negotiations and deliberations and through his interactions we get glimpses of the old guard and the se... Read More
It is tangible in the very air of paris and gradually seeps out of the pages too
Competitiveness
” a calfs head tastes as though “pickled in its own tears
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novel, historical, french, great and pure. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
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- This product had a total of 565 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jul 31 2022.
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If i had read these i would not have bought the book
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The story is one of those that is at first bizarre
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Wish it could last another 500 pages
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I finished it in one day while on vacation and was lost in the world described so vividly
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Set in interesting times in a very small area of paris
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The lack of education of many of the protagonists did not diminish in any way their ability to get their stories out there the author was able to give them all a voice
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The people in the surrounding area cant live with it but they cant live without it take ziguette who becomes histrionic at the thought of the loss of this black place
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A magical captivating disturbing story
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