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The novel is like a melancholy form. It's about some kind of disillusionment with the way things are versus the idea of how they could be or how they used to be.
Elif Batuman
Elif Batuman
Born: 1977

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Melancholy, Way, Kind, Some, About, Could, Idea, Like, How, Versus, Form, Disillusionment, Used, Novel, Things

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