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End of Story by A. J. Finn (2024)

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The setting is San Francisco, the present day. Nicky Hunter is a 30-something crime historian and lecturer, well-established in her field. She had struck up a correspondence with the famous…

Norwegian Fiction

The Other Name (Septology 1-2)

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by Jon Fosse Volume 1 The first-person narrator, ASLE, gazes at a painting he just completed. It features two intersecting diagonal lines, one purple and one brown, with blended colors…

Japanese Fiction

Vanishing World by Sayaka Murata

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The novel opens with a short prologue in which Amane, age 20, is in bed with her boyfriend, who comments that they are the opposite of Adam and Eve. Adam…

Korean Fiction

We Do Not Part by Han Kang (2021)

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by Han Kang (2021) Kyung-ha, a troubled author who no longer has a job nor a family to look after, has sequestered herself in an apartment in Seoul, South Korea.…

Hebrew Fiction

Diana and David

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by Shira Carmi One night, Diana becomes convinced that David, a psychoanalyst and her husband of nineteen years, is having an affair. He receives a phone call on a Friday…

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Arendal by Karl Ove Knausgård (2024)

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Gone Before Goodbye by Harlan Coben and Reese Witherspoon (2025)

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Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pychon (2025)

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