I did like this book - it stayed with me for a while and I do still think about it from time to time, but I don't think I be reading it again. I think it was a little bit to depressing for me, not because the characters were particularly unhappy. I was just so uncomfortable for me, as the reader. Maybe because I can't conceive happiness in those conditions. The book revolves around a reality that can only be fully understood if you live it, but I must admit the writer can make me grasp some aspects of the situation that I would never deduce myself.