… but the author doesn’t understand people or societies or economies in the least. Seems to have no real idea about the way communism has actually worked out for the average person. Almost seems as though it were a computer-generated work – so removed from actual human group dynamics.
Towards the end, I felt that I would scream if I heard the word “regarded” one. more. time.
The main female narrator, while having a beautiful voice and accent, badly mispronounced many words and had a strange, idiosyncratic rhythm for many sentences.
A real chore to get through this.