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Parrot and Olivier in America
By Peter Carey
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Olivier is a French aristocrat, the traumatized child of survivors of the Revolution. Parrot is the son of an itinerant printer who always wanted to be an artist but has ended up a servant. When Olivier sets sail for the New World, to save his neck from one more revolution - Parrot is sent with him, as spy, protector, foe and foil.
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Room
By Emma Donoghue
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It's Jack's birthday, and he's excited about turning five. Jack lives with his Ma in Room, which has a locked door and a skylight, and measures 11 feet by 11 feet. He loves watching TV, and the cartoon characters he calls friends, but he knows that nothing he sees on screen is truly real - only him, Ma and the things in Room.
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In a Strange Room
By Damon Galgut
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A novel of longing and thwarted desire, rage and compassion, this title is the beautiful evocation of one man's search for love, and a place to call home.
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Finkler Question
By Howard Jacobson
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"Finkler Question".
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Long Song
By Andrea Levy
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Praise for Andrea Levy: 'There is great skill in the way she presents characters and dialogue; she has powers of observation and an ear for language that make her books a pleasure to read' Times Literary Supplement
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By Tom McCarthy
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Born to the sound of one of the very earliest experimental wireless stations, Serge finds himself steeped in a weird world of transmissions, whose very air seems filled with cryptic and poetic signals of all kinds. When personal loss strikes him in his adolescence, this world takes on a darker and more morbid aspect.
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