- The Narrator - Sometimes Death is narrating. Death reminds me of the Terry Pratchett character of the same name - "For some reason, dying men always ask questions they know the answer to. Perhaps it's so they can die being right." (p.476). Sometimes s/he's reporting what s/he subsequently read - "I didn't discover any of that until I came back a few months later and read something called 'The Book Thief'". That book has 10 sections, and ends with "I have hated the words/and I have loved them and I/hope I have made them right" (p.532). But there's other material too, whose provenence is uncertain. Death doesn't seem to be ubiquitous, and yet ...
- The Insertions - There are multipage facsimile insertions, and also many smaller ones that are asides, comments, definitions of German words, etc.
- The Style - There's lots of foreshadowing and reminding. I struggle with metaphors like "The tears grappled with her face" (p.539)
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