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I found the opening pages of Cormac McCarthy's Road too excruciatingly depressing, although I am a fan of the film version. John Irving isn't an author I'm familiar with. I'll check him out. Thanks for the suggestions. |
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Google for the "orange prize" and read the winners.
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Their winners are controversial to me as an American. But it is thoughtful controversary and seeing a different world view. 2009's (or2008?) was the story of a Hiroshima survivor who had a burning hatred for Americans. If I remember right, she falls In love with an American. Something along those lines.
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I'm just reading "C" by Tom McCarthy - also shortlisted for the Booker Prize. It's full of interesting literary devices and by no means a conventional narrative.
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Comedy in a Minor Key by Hans Keilson. Not new but newly translated into English. It is a Dutch novel about hiding Jews during WWII.
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