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The End of Romance (Maria Takolander, Text)

Tuesday, 12 May 2026    Books+Publishing
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In her debut novel, The End of Romance, Maria Takolander presents a dystopian world in which all boys are conscripted to the army at 16, sent on a mission from which they never return. In this imagined future, vast areas of Earth have become sterile, and a persistent fog hangs...

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