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Elaine Castillo : How to Read Now

Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry

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The White Man Blues With a Goose Step Beat

The German title is de Kinese de Schmatz, which is basically means the suffering Chinese man. The French title and the Spanish title preserve it almost literally, literally translated. It centers essentially around this kind of middle class white classics teacher who essentially sees a person scratch swastika into a tree,. becomes enraged by this, kills the person, dumps their body. And then the rest of the book is kind of the fault because there's no judicial or he walks free.

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