Helpful Score: 3
Very original novel - reads like a bunch of short stories about people who work at a Rome-based English-language newspaper, but all the stories are connected and are easy to follow.
You get a good sense of all of the characters' personalities - some of funny, some are poignant - some are just plain nuts. One particular chapter about a young college grad who thinks he wants to be a reporter (but gets taken advantage of by an older, ego-driven correspondent) was so entertaining and funny that it made me laugh out loud.
At first I wasn't sure about this book but the more I read, the more I loved it.
You get a good sense of all of the characters' personalities - some of funny, some are poignant - some are just plain nuts. One particular chapter about a young college grad who thinks he wants to be a reporter (but gets taken advantage of by an older, ego-driven correspondent) was so entertaining and funny that it made me laugh out loud.
At first I wasn't sure about this book but the more I read, the more I loved it.
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