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    The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
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    A modern masterpiece of surreal storytelling. It’s a haunting, thought-provoking trip through the uncanny cracks in everyday life - best suited to readers willing to wander, wonder, and make peace with unanswered questions.

    When the phone rang I was in the kitchen, boiling a potful of spaghetti and whistling along with an FM broadcast of the overture to Rossini’s The Thieving Magpie, which has to be the perfect music for...

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    Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
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    A mesmerizing, genre-defying classic - best for readers who savor literary puzzles, lush prose, and the joy of getting lost in ideas rather than plot.

    Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities visited on his expeditions, but the emperor of the Tartars does continue listening to the young Venetia...

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