It put our reviewer, Roddy Doyle, in mind of Charles Dickens: I was thinking of Hard Times as I read, and A Tale of Two Cities, other great yarns dropped into the middle of big history, Doyle writes. Translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori. In Earthlings, being an alien is a simple proxy for being alienated, Lydia Millet writes in her review. McGuire keeps his 19th-century cat-and-mouse tale of a police constable and an Irish rebel at an electric pace, whisking readers from Manchester, England, to rural Pennsylvania. The narrator of this mesmerizing Japanese novel moves with her husband to the countryside and finds herself in a landscape rich with life and mystery.
transな qualifier of soft cities is graced by stories of big historical drama.
( z0 grant :ARG0 ( z1 story :mod ( z2 drama :mod ( z3 history ) :mod ( z4 big ) ) ) :ARG1 ( z5 thing :ARG2-of ( z6 qualify :ARG1 ( z7 city :ARG1-of ( z8 soft ) ) ) :mod ( z9 basic ) ) )
(z0 / grant-01
    :ARG0 (z1 / story
              :mod (z2 / drama
                       :mod (z3 / history)
                       :mod (z4 / big)))
    :ARG1 (z5 / thing
              :ARG2-of (z6 / qualify-01
                           :ARG1 (z7 / city
                                     :ARG1-of (z8 / soft-02)))
              :mod (z9 / basic)))
transな qualifier of soft cities is graced by stories of big historical drama .
z5 :mod z9
z5 :ARG2-of z6
z7 :ARG1-of z8
z6 :ARG1 z7
z0 :ARG1 z5
z0 :ARG0 z1
z2 :mod z3
z2 :mod z4
z1 :mod z2