Nice queeste with a serious undertone

D is, after meeting an English girl from Somaliland - which I had to look up - a wonderful journey with an assignment, encounters, hardships, friendship. Plenty of fantasy ideas. And without fights or very scary things, when it is exciting from time to time it doesn't take long before the conditions are nicer or even warm again. The plot is a way of 'D eus ex-machina', but that didn't bother. I like the fact that on the way back all the creatures and places of the outward journey are revisited: as a reader you can also slowly say goodbye to the story. Underlying this fantasy story is an example/ complaint of what a dictator can do to a society, with strange laws that citizens obey out of fear . Title: Shows what the missing of one single letter can accomplish and the importance of language.

'What can we do now? How many words are left with Ds in it? Not many, I bet. Probably al the best ones have already been ruined.' ..
.. 'And if I ever find my dad, what will he be? Just a sound. A sound without any meaning.'
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