Instruct: Classify an Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: Emotionally difficult read; well-developed main character

This book can be a difficult read, making you examine your own family issues. It is very well-written, and has one of literature's best-developed main characters: the "Swede" Levov. At the beginning, he is a one-dimensional hero to the narrator. As the book continues, the layers of the Swede's complex life are stripped away, and the narrator sees him as a man, and so do we. It's heart-wrenching and realistic.