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soon parlaying her wealth of knowledge of the legal system into a

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confront old secrets

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Bartleby & Co. YA_Gift_Guide and perhaps an escape fromA marvelous novel by one of Spain's most important contemporary authors, in which a clerk in a Barcelona office takes us on a romping tour of world literature. In Bartleby & Co., an enormously enjoyable novel, Enrique Vila Matas tackles the theme of silence in literature: the writers and non writers who, like the scrivener Bartleby of the Herman Melville story, in answer to any question or demand, replies: "I would prefer not to." Addressing such