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Strange Heart Beating shine littafi na farko na Eli Goldstone, wanda Granta Books ta buga a shekarar 2017. Taken littafin ya fito ne daga W.B. Yeats' 1923 sonnet "Leda da Swan". Mai gabatarwa na littafin, Seb, ya yi tafiya zuwa Latvia don ƙarin koyo game da matarsa, Leda, wanda ya mutu kwanan nan a wani mummunan hatsari da ya shafi swan. Wahayi zuwa ga marubucin yayin da take neman digiri na masters na rubuce-rubuce lokacin da ta yi tafiya zuwa Latvia, inda tare da makwabciyar Lithuania tana da alaƙa da kakanninmu. Goldstone ta bayyana rubuce-rubucen littafin a matsayin hanyar da take magance mummunar damuwa game da mutuwa.

A cikin bita ga The Financial Times, Catherine Taylor ta ce littafin "tare da mummunan ra'ayi amma yana ta'aziyya a ƙarƙashin ruwa na swan a matsayin alama ta sake haihuwar rai, bincike ne mai zurfi na asarar".[1] John Harding ya kira labarin a cikin The Daily Mail don kasancewa "bambanci na wani makirci mai kyau" wanda "ya kara zama masu banƙyama" amma ya kammala cewa "tafiye ne mai ban sha'awa, mai ban dariya da kuma motsawa".[2] A cikin Herald, mai bita Alastair Mabbott ya sami sautin "mai haske" na littafin "sau da yawa yana da wuya a jimre da shi".[3] An nuna shi a cikin jerin sunayen 150 na The Guardian "Ba kyautar Booker 2017 ba", amma bai sanya jerin sunayen labaran 5 ba. [4][5]

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