On the night table: Madeleine Thien
Author, The Book of Records
I recently read a novel in verse by Linnea Axelsson, a Sami writer from Sweden, called Ædnan — it's an amazing epic. When I borrowed it from the library, I didn't know that it was a novel in verse. It's an experimental, groundbreaking, moving, epic, astonishing, astonishing book.
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