kab reviewed The English Understand Wool by Helen Dewitt (Storybook ND)
Raised in Marrakech by a French mother and English father, a 17-year-old girl has learned …
The English Understand Wool
4 stars
Can't help but try my hand at adding to the collection of maltranslations.
As much as I would like to convey small-town life to you across two hundred pages, I wouldn't have the barbarity to make you suffer through the garrulousness and sly barbs of provincial conversation. Me, 2024