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100 Must-Reads

DW book expert David Levitz on 'Animal Triste' by Monika Maron 

The aging narrator of Monika Maron's novel "Animal Triste" falls in love under the brachiosaurus at Berlin's natural history museum. Can that be a good omen?

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