10 A novel in which corpses send racy love letters, dusty portraits suffer from verbosity, Neapolitan uncles who levitate if they utter subordinate clauses, cousins with a fury to fuck horns in original shapes, witches who become old maids who are oracular poets and speculate in abandoned convents, nuns who steal works of art, wives who abandon husbands to sleep with bishops because of beautiful calligraphy and the possibility that Adolf Hitler survived and hid in the sanctuary of Lluc for a while to escape from the Allied troops... adventures that take place in one of the most fascinating, fun and well-written novels I've read this season, a sensational Fellini-esque phantasmagoria.

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