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Stylistically, much of The Inheritance focuses on verisimilitude of time and place. The dialogue, the diction, the details of everyday existence all contribute to a composite picture of life in the sixteenth century. Von Canon is particularly adept at describing life in the various countries of the novel. The portrait of the de Roxas kitchen illustrates her skill: "The sun-filled kitchen with its familiar, garlic-dominated smells, gave him [Miguel] for a few moments the illusion that nothing whatever had happened since he had watched Paca making her town-famous chorizos during his last vacation. The copper pans hung from the blackened rafters; the majolica plates stood on their shelves. When he was a child, the kitchen had been his delight, with its huge fireplace, its sink, whose bluegreen tiles echoed those on the outer house wall, and its beams festooned with garlands of peppers, onions, and garlic...
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