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Life: A User's Manual
Tr. David Bellos
Picked by Alasdair
A Parisian apartment building at a single moment in time. Every room, every resident, every object catalogued with obsessive precision. Perec was an Oulipo writer — he worked under constraints — but the result is not cold. It is, unexpectedly, about loss.
£14.99
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