Plot Summary
The novel is divided into eight parts. Its epigraph is Vengeance is mine, I will repay, from Romans 12:19, which in turn is quoting from Deuteronomy 32:35.
The novel begins with one of its most quoted lines:
| “ | Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. | ” |
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