stephanie smee

The Rome Zoo

Book Review: The Rome Zoo showcases all the fun of the fair, but you might need a map

While reading The Rome Zoo by Pascal Janovjak, translated by Stephanie Smee, I was often struck by the sense that I didn’t really know what was going on; but that I was having a lovely time. The novel is a slightly meandering account of the various iterations of the Rome Zoo (now known as the Bioparco…

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