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Bodies in Trouble

Posted on October 14, 2016 by banff1972 under Uncategorized

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In this month’s Open Letters Monthly I review Steve Sem-Sandberg’s latest lurid novel of Nazi-era Europe, The Chosen Ones, and consider what novels might do that works of history don’t.

 

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