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Nov 24, 2014Persnickety77 rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
wow. this book is pretty marvelous. i picked it up because i loved Mitchell's Cloud Atlas so much, but i was skeptical because i have no interest in the Dutch East Indies Trading Company or samurai-era Japan or the beginning of the 19th century. but it is a very absorbing book. well written, informative, interesting, and bittersweet. pretty much everything you'd want in a book!