The overall effect was like [VICTORIAN CHILDREN’S BOOK] meets [ZANY SEVENTIES T.V. SERIES] on [ILLEGAL SUBSTANCE], or listening to [ACTION FILM DIRECTOR] talk about [B-LIST DADAIST] with [GAME-SHOW HOST]. In a word: [YIDDISH EXCLAMATION]!

[ADJECTIVE] and yet [ADJECTIVE DIAMETRICALLY OPPOSED TO PREVIOUS ADJECTIVE], this novel, against all odds (given that the author was [S&M TERM] in a [HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCE] for [NUMBER] years) combines a [FRENCH AUTHOR]ian sense of [RARE MAMMAL] power with a remarkably [GERMAN ADJECTIVE] lesson about what happens to the fate of emerging [POLITICAL UNITS], when the predominant [FINELY GRADED SOCIOECONOMIC CLASS] forgets the true meaning of [UNTRANSLATED GREEK WORD].