… was one of the two twists that worked really well for me, making the short novel a fun, reasonably deep and unexpectedly surprising read.

What works less well are its (especially in the age of LLMs) outdated ideas of language as more or less mechanical devices whose understanding can be automated in very old-fashioned ways (why add this, when the language-as-meme model is already present and works so much better?), its portrayal of women as objects of desire, keepers of domestic order and bearers of emotional grievances – and again an unnecessarily dated-sounding German translation.

An entertaining read nonetheless.

@wowo101 Is that "Die Übersetzung" in German? Where translation is in the focus of this crime story?

@wowo101 I loved the wordplay a lot: as translation and literally, as crossing a certain river. I know I read like 5 books altogether by Pablo de Santis and they were all extremely good.