False verità
by:
Matt Ruff (author)
Lisa Maldera (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9788834720394 (8834720393)
Publish date: November 29th 2012
Publisher: Fanucci
Pages no: 512
Edition language: Italian
Ruff’s first novel Fool on the Hill is one of my favourite all-time books while his Bad Monkeysis an acid trip of a read. (In a good way.) But I wasn’t sure how The Mirage would land. Well, he did a brilliant job. I love books featuring alternate histories or even just alternate cities. Ruff took th...
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This novel was...bizarre. I thought the premise sounded extremely interesting which is why I checked it out from the library, but the execution fell flat. It's not that the writing was bad (I thought it was actually quite good, actually, which is why I kept reading even after I realized I wasn't int...
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