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"Oh boy! This is going to take months as my French is so rusty. But with the help of a dictionary, google translate and my French-speaking son I may get through it. It is only my fondness for Arnaldur that inspires me to rattle a few brain cells and tackle my first novel in French for over 40 years!" — Jul 18, 2013 03:37AM
"Oh boy! This is going to take months as my French is so rusty. But with the help of a dictionary, google translate and my French-speaking son I may get through it. It is only my fondness for Arnaldur that inspires me to rattle a few brain cells and tackle my first novel in French for over 40 years!" — Jul 18, 2013 03:37AM
“All great wealth was inconsistent with common sense.
(from 'The Fish can Sing”
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(from 'The Fish can Sing”
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“Somewhere, out in the infinite distance, lay the spring, at least in God's mind, like babies that are not yet conceived in the mother's womb.
(from "The Fish can Sing")”
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(from "The Fish can Sing")”
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“A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and it will come- may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief system.”
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“The light of the world had more or less taken leave of this man, for he was almost blind.
(from 'The Fish can Sing')”
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(from 'The Fish can Sing')”
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“This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.”
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