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It accompanies the three lovers from their first night onward; it is an ideal observer, present at all points of the story — at a magnificently described cockfight in Brazil, in New York on Sept. Presenting his novel in an intriguing structure, Pletzinger introduces two distinct narrators who spin their inner and outer stories almost like a dance between them. His preoccupations constantly fluctuate between what he has left unresolved in Hamburg and his need to "get behind" the character of Svensson. Born in 1975, Thomas Pletzinger has won several awards for his writing, including fellowships and teaching positions at the University of Iowa, New York University, and Grinnell College. The former lover, Tuuli, and Svensson's life-long friend, Felix, who died two years ago, were once a conjugal threesome -- while volunteers in a Brazilian ghetto, in New York City at the time of the 9/11 attack, and in a remote city in Finland.The performances are good, all the technical work is too, song choices, beautiful camera work of the Italian lakes where the bulk of the present day story takes place - but once the conclusion was reached, my overwhelming thought was that at half the length it would have been twice the show. It may take some time and trust in Pletzinger's authorial skill to get into the groove of the book - and maybe a glass or two of wine - but in the end, your efforts will be worthwhile. Set against the gorgeous backdrop of Rome, Tom Rachman’s wry, vibrant debut follows the topsy-turvy private lives of the reporters, editors, and executives of an international English language newspaper as they struggle to keep it—and themselves—afloat.

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