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New zealands anna smaill has penned the chimes, set in a future london where music has replaced written words and memory is forbidden. The chimes anna smaill sceptre books book buff this inventive debut is set in a world where music is the only form of communication and memory only lasts for a day. I picked up this book since it seemed to be the more intriguing of the lot, and a good candidate to start this years booker list with. Music is supposed to be one of the most beautiful creations of mankind. Smaill writes her work in longhand before typing it up. Its inventive, beautifully written, and completely absorbing. For all the poetry and lyricism, the chimes is a solid suspenseful adventure story at heart npr books a mind. Set in an unfamiliar london, new zealander poet anna smaills debut novel the chimes is dystopian fiction but not quite as we know it. Every now and again, as a reader, you come across a book that makes you sit up and pay attention anna smaills the chimes is one.
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