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Type: fiction

Status: finished

Author: Stephen Leacock

2008-10-12

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Type: fiction

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Author: George Orwell

2008-07-20

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Type: fiction

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Author: Haruki Murakami

Description: "Sputnik Sweetheart finds Haruki Murakami in his minimalist mode. Shorter than the sweeping"Sputnik Sweetheart finds Haruki Murakami in his minimalist mode. Shorter than the sweeping Wind-up Bird Chronicle, less playfully bizarre than A Wild Sheep Chase, the author's seventh novel distills his signature themes into a powerful story about the loneliness of the human condition. "There was nothing solid we could depend on," the reader is told. "We were nearly boundless zeros, just pitiful little beings swept from one kind of oblivion to another."...

2008-06-13

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Type: fiction

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Author: Haruki Murakami

Description: "In South of the Border, West of the Sun, the arc of an average man's life from childhood"In South of the Border, West of the Sun, the arc of an average man's life from childhood to middle age, with its attendant rhythms of success and disappointment, becomes the kind of exquisite literary conundrum that is Haruki Murakami's trademark. The plot is simple: Hajime meets and falls in love with a girl in elementary school, but he loses touch with her when his family moves to another town. He drifts through high school, college, and his 20s, before marrying and settling into a career as a successful bar owner. Then his childhood sweetheart returns, weighed down with secrets:

When I went back into the bar, a glass and ashtray remained where she had been. A couple of lightly crushed cigarette butts were lined up in the ashtray, a faint trace of lipstick on each. I sat down and closed my eyes. Echoes of music faded away, leaving me alone. In that gentle darkness, the rain continued to fall without a sound."...

2008-04-20

  & 11 users

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Type: fiction

Status: —

Author: Tom Robbins

2008-04-11