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Book Review of Troubles (New York Review Books Classics)

Troubles (New York Review Books Classics)
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Both hilarious and in parts, heartbreaking, this book is by a master in storytelling. It is 1919, and a Irish Major goes home to his once wealty fincee. The family hotel, like the British Empire is crumbling. What follow is almost a satire on the fall of the British Empire.