This is a new #ToBshortlist fav. May even be my zombie. 🤔 It made me think about intimacies beyond romance, like new friendship and even how violence can be intimate. I‘m still wrestling with it days later. It is quiet and subtle yet insistent in its plot and prose.
An ICC interpreter tries to navigate a life in The Hague as she becomes involved with a lover and friends and obsesses over the violence of a mugging and a dictator on trial.
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