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Gabo’s New Novel
The Guardian has more info on what’s likely to be a new novel from Gabriel Garcia Marquez:
García Márquez’s next book will be a love story, though his friend
and fellow writer Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza said that the author was
struggling to come up with a version that he was happy with.
"He has four versions of it," Apuleyo said. "He told me that he was now trying to get the best from each of them." . . .
The Carmen Balcells literary agency, which represents him, said
yesterday the author had not yet set a publication date for any new
novel. "There is nothing, for the moment," a spokeswoman said.
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Recommended Books DeLillo's major work before White Noise is probably his most underrated novel. Its all right here--the politics of paranoia, terrorism, the unnamable--set in an evocative, timeless Greece.
The most bizarre Abe novel I've yet read, which is indeed saying something. About a subclass of Japanese men who go around wearing boxes from the waist up (and then use them as domiciles in the evening), the book is also an experiment in perspective shifts, a highly unstable, metafictional first-person narrative, and an exploration of voyeurism, consumerism, and aberrant sexuality.
Charting the path to three gunshots--the one that killed filmmaker Theo Van Gogh, the one that disabled his Islamic extremist assassin, Mohammed Bouyeri, and the one that led to Vincent Van Gogh’s one hundred years earlier--Olsen tells three separate stories that resonate with one another on numerous levels: the logic of extremism, the role of the dissident in Dutch society, the limits of tolerance, the purpose of the artist, the feeling of the most important five minutes of your life. Read my interview with the author.
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The Weather Fifteen Years Ago by Wolf Haas (2006, English 2009)
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