This book was pleasant enough. The story of an Eastern European immigrant who comes to London to make a better living for his daughter and mother back in their home country. The story is pretty predictable. There's a lot of nobility going on but it's not so bad. Glowing reviews all over the jacket and inside make me wonder if maybe they're referring to a hardcover version that somehow was mysteriously better than the paperback version I ended up with. It wasn't awful, it just wasn't the "at once timeless and bitingly contemporary" "gem of a novel" that makes "us hear English anew" I was expecting.
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