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</html><description>I discovered Tavares late last year with his fantastic riffs collected in The Neighborhood (my review here). Over the past few years, though, Dalkey Archive has been publishing the pieces to another of his projects, the four-book Kingdom series. The first book of that series has yet to be translated (apparently they are loosely connected, ... Read more</description><thumbnail_url>http://mookseandgripes.com/reviews/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Joseph-Walsers-Machine.jpg</thumbnail_url></oembed>

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