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Book Review: When Fate Totters — Pascal Garnier’s Bleak Romans Noirs

Pascal Garnier’s characters slip through cracks, cross borders, pass through the thin mirrors of the self, and commit irreparable acts.

The success of this short novel set in Japan lies in the empathy it creates for a pair of ordinary and lonely characters.

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