A blurb on the back of this novel praising Rodrigo Rey Rosa's "surprising sobriety and economy of words" closed the deal. The Guatemalan author situates a love story in the context of a love of books: The woman of the title is a book thief; the man is the owner of a bookshop. The story, a quick 86 pages, is carried off with precision, polish, and an agreeable dash of ambiguousness.
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