An intergenerational soap opera on the surface, it's really about the stages of grief, memory as an unreliable narrator, and coping.


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A one-liner cannot do justice to this long work of a lifetime, but it's damned fine reading and the most nuanced, character-focused epic you've ever read.


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A Russian trickster sets out to pull off a uniquely Russian scam, but unfortunately the novel never went anywhere.


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The book that invented cyberpunk.


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The book that turned millions into vegetarians was meant to turn them into socialists.


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The most unsalacious adultery novel ever to scandalize vindictive bureaucrats.


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Before Batman, before Zorro, there was... the Count of Monte Cristo.


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George Eliot's "study of provincial life" is a complex, believable, immersive novel about a small town and the people who live in it.


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