Very disorientating. When people said it's backwards, I expected something like Memento, not backwards backwards. I wish I hadn't known anything about it; the Nazi war criminal stuff would have been a shocking twist. In a way it seems essentially gimmicky; it is too short to tell the life story it tells in any depth, so the only thing that gives it any power is that it's backwards, an so very novel. And the subject matter, of course. Anyway it's a good book. I just feel I've missed out on a six-hundred-page Dickens-style epic told backwards in amazing detail.
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