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A Novel in Nine Episodes
by Daniel Kehlmann
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by Jennifer Egan
Published Mar 2011
Read ReviewsA Visit from the Goon Squad is a book about the interplay of time and music, about survival, about the stirrings and transformations set inexorably in motion by even the most passing conjunction of our fates. Sly, startling, exhilarating work from one of our boldest writers.
by Paul Auster
Published Jun 2010
Read ReviewsOne of Americas greatest novelists dazzlingly reinvents the coming-of-age story in his most passionate and surprising book to date.
by Jonathan Safran Foer
Published Mar 2003
Read ReviewsLit by passion, fear, guilt, memory, and hope, the characters in Everything Is Illuminated mine the black holes of history in this exuberant and wise, hysterically funny and deeply moving debut.
by David Mitchell
Published Oct 2001
Read ReviewsDavid Mitchell spins genres, cultures, and ideas like gossamer threads around and through these nine linked stories.
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