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An extract from Bar Balto by Faïza Guène

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Joël, the unpopular proprietor of local hangout Bar Balto, has been found brutally murdered in the suburban nowhere town of Making-Ends-Meet. Yeznig is a thirteen-year-old mentally-handicapped boy with no sense of past or future – but what, if anything, does he know about Joel's death?
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