A bookseller recommended the novel to me. For me, the booksellers are the truffle pigs of the literary business. They track down those works that have a hard time being discovered because they are not on bestseller lists and are not at the top of the store. Like this one: It only took a few pages for Martin Kordić's "Years with Martha" and I was blown away. A love story between a boy and a much older woman. I tune in to heart and pain.

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