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Victoria by Knut Hamsun
3.5
dark emotional reflective

 I loved the prose, but disliked the ending.
"She danced herself to death"
is a very victorian weak-woman trope that I dislike. Additionally, there were some racial bits that made me uncomfortable such as the "chocolate-coloured slave girls" and the life of a blonde daughter being prized over brunette daughters.