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Am I Cold, by Martin Kongstad (Serpent’s Tail, £12.99)
IT’S 2008, just before the world suffers the lash of another capitalist convulsion.
In the rootless but savvy domain of Denmark’s new bourgeoisie — artists, restauranteurs and drug-frazzled rock stars — washed-up ex-food critic Mikkel Vallin attempts to inject meaning into his life after his marriage collapses and his job is taken away from him.
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