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THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BOOK IN THE WORLD by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
TTHE MOST BEAUTIFUL BOOK IN THE WORLD is a collection of eight modern fairy tales. In each of the novellas, a sense of the fantastic intertwines with the mundane, sometimes enchantingly, sometimes crudely but still beguilingly.
The title story, for instance, transports the reader into the midst of a women’s gulag during Soviet rule where the inmates suspiciously eye the newcomer, Olga. She might, after all, be an informer. But the talk of the day is about her hair which is either “horrible” or “magnificent” depending upon the prisoner opining.
November 2, 2009
Tags: Fairy Tales, Short Stories Posted in: Allegory, France, Short Stories, Translated 
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