Adult Reading Round Table Booklists

WORLD REGIONAL FICTION

The following annotated list is a sampling of the world regional fiction that is available. All the books listed are set in various countries of the world during the 20^th century. The books included were selected because of their strong regional flavors. The books’ settings are so vividly drawn as to make you almost feel as if you are with the characters of the novel.

AFRICA

Bowles, Paul
The Sheltering Sky
The Echo Press, 1949. 318 p.
A movie version of this novel, set in North Africa is currently being filmed under the direction of Bernardo Bertolucci. Three young Americans drifters, a married couple and a male friend, travel to Tangier. The time is the early 1940s. The travelers, who are wealthy, idle, superficial and bored, attempt to avoid any trace of the war. At first, they seem untouched by the Arabian culture and the Moroccan landscape, if not slightly repelled. Gradually, their attitudes become voyeuristic. Finally, the power and mystery of the Saharan desert its relentless sky and unyielding people come to dominate every aspect of their lives. A strange and mesmerizing book recalling the existentialism of Camus The Stranger.

Cody, Liza
Rift
Scribner, 1988. 240p.
1947, Ethiopia, the beginning of the famine. A poor time for a single young female from London to drive through the Rift Valley alone. Gives excellent feeling of the desolation and hopelessness of the country as well as the peril of traveling alone in a foreign country.

Eprile, Tony
Temporary Sojourner
Simon & Schuster, 1989. 222 p.
Tony Eprile, a South African now living in New York, has written a series of beautiful and compassionate stories about his troubled homeland, about the people who suffer there and those who suffer there and those who suffer for having left it. Woven throughout and providing continuity, are stories of the Spiegelman family, expatriated German Jews who have left yet another homeland and now live in the United States. Other stories focus on jailers, students, outcast blacks, and other liberal whites. All reflect the diversity of South African reality—the pain, the joy, the despair and hope.

McClure, James
The Sunday Hangman
Harper & Row, 1977. 262 p.
Lt. Tromp Kramer of Trekkersburg Murder and Robbery Squad and his Zulu assistant Sergeant Micky Zondi start out to investigate what appears to be a suicide by hanging and find themselves uncovering a series of "executions" of criminals who could not be prosecuted by the state. As they pursue their investigation, Tromp provides vivid descriptions of the countryside and inhabitants of the Natal region of South Africa. Police procedures and civilian discussions point out the attitudes of whites toward blacks and the manner in which each views and treats the other. The genuine concern and affection Kramer feels for his "boy" must be kept between themselves, hidden from both races. This book offers a good picture of the South African landscape and its tragic political situation. 

Tyler, W. T.
The Ants of God
The Dial Press, 1981. 278p.
Heat, dust and the beauty of the African outback are the backdrop against which we meet McDermott, a mercenary pilot. Introspective and surprisingly charismatic, he affects both Emily, a widow working quietly at an isolated mission, and Penny Palmer, flower child stranded in Africa. Africa’s isolation, politically violent nature and indelible influence changes them all.

Wood, Barbara
Green City in the Sun
Random House, 1988. 699p.
This novel traces the development of British East Africa/Kenya from 1919 to the present. This history is told through the eyes of two families: one the Kikuyu family of Chef Mathenge and his medicine woman wife Wachera, the other British colonial family of Valentine Treverton and his physician sister Grace. The story includes the growing Kikuyu unrest leading to the Mau Mau uprisings of the 1950s independence for Kenya, and the election of Jomo Kenyata as the country’s first president.

Asia And The East

Came, Barry
Rice Wine
Weidenfeld, 1988. 255 p.
Paul Stenmark, an ambitious young bank executive, comes to the Philippines during the Marco regime to evaluate the proposed construction of one or more dams to be financed by his financial institution. During his visit he gains a thorough view of the countryside and insight into the people and their political ideas. He also finds himself caught amid the violence of opposing forces and the tensions of a country on the edge of civil war. In the end, he barely escapes with his life.

Desai, Anita
Fire on the Mountain
Harper & Row, 1977. 146 p.
Nanda Kaul is an old woman perfectly content in her quiet house on a ridge facing the Himalayas, in the Simla Hills of Northern India. Nothing suits her more than the peaceful stillness of living alone. Then, Raka, her great grandchild, comes to stay. Secretive Raka proves to be very much like Nanda Kaul. A spindly little ghost of a girl, Raka prefers spending hours alone exploring the forests and the hills and seeking out the beautiful and dangerous wildlife of the region—hoopoes, jackals, snakes and langurs. When an old friend of Nanda Kaul’s appears, the story takes a bizarre twist as hidden truths erupt with unexpected violence.

Hospital, Janette
The Ivory Swing
Dutton, 1983. 252 p.
Juliet decides to accompany her husband, David, on a research sabbatical to South India. Once there, he becomes engrossed in his work, leaving Juliet to care for their children and to direct household strangely dominated by the Indian servants and landlord. Others she encounters include Prem, a member of a radical group trying to expose the village to Marxist ideas, and Yashoda, a recently widowed woman who has been condemned by her elders for breaking the rules of mourning. Increasingly, Juliet’s life becomes unsettled by the problems of the Indian community around her, and before long she is questioning not only her marriage but the values she has lived by.

Johnson, Diane
Persian Nights
Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. 352 p.
Chloe Fowler traveling with her visiting-physician husband, finds herself instead alone in Iran, when her husband must return home to California. Pre-revolutionary Iran, with its secret police, women seemingly invisible and unacknowledged in their black chador, and the very rich alongside the very poor, forms the frame in which this richly evocative story is set. Chloe passes the months of her stay as if in a dream—which at times is a nightmare. Away from family and patterns of normal life, caught up in an exotic and foreign culture, Chloe is beseiged both by frustration at her inability to become acclimated and her growing fear that life in Iran is often not what it seems, and just as often not safe.

Lord, Bette Bao
Spring Moon
Harper & Row, 1981. 464 p.
This historical novel follows the fortunes and misfortunes of an aristocratic Chines family, the House of Chang. Set against the background of a crumbling Chinese Empire, the Boxer Rebellion and the Communist Revolution, the book spans the years from 1892 to 1927 and, in its epilogue, is updated to 1972. Through Spring Moon, whose life is chronicled in the novel we learn about Mandarin courtyard society and the traditional life of China’s upper class intelligentsia. Lord’s portrayal of the Chang family and how its members and their descendents were affected and changed by forces sweeping China in the twentieth-century is a engrossing and rings as true as Pearl Buck’s Chinese peasants in The Good Earth. "…This is a highly readable and fascinating account on an important period in Chinese history….."

Matsubra, Hisako
Cranes at Dusk
Dial, 1895. 253 p.
Japan, 1945---town of Kyoto. The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki has caused much fear throughout Japan. The war has brought many changes. Saya, ten -year old daughter of Shinto priest, must absorb and reconcile the changes brought about by the Americans. Violence and tenderness, hunger and death, all presented in a way that produces unexpected insights into Japanese feeling, mentality, adaptability, shrewdness and strength.

AUSTRALIA

Carey, Peter
Illywhacker
Harper & Row, 1985. 600p.
Herbert Badgery is a confidence man, a con man, in Australian slang, an Illywhacker. In 1919 he lands his crippled airplane in a field outside of Geelog, New South Wales; and Herbert Badgery, who longs only for a settled family life and to be a kind man, begins a life-long adventure that includes Socialists, poets, parrots, poisonous snakes and the Best Pet Shop in the World. In a story darkly humorous, Peter Carey portrays an Australia that is exotic, brash and yet insecure and groping for its own identity.

McCullough, Colleen
The Thorn Birds
Harper & Row, 1977. 530 p.
Best-selling family saga of the Irish Catholic Cleary clan from the sheep ranch Drogheda. The primary tale revolves around young Meggie Cleary and her haunting, doomed love for the aristocratic Catholic priest Ralp de Bricassart. The story moves from New Zealand to Australia to London and the Vatican .

Shute, Nevil
A Town Like Alice
Heinemann, 1981. 311 p.
When Englishwoman Jean Paget learns that a fellow prisoner of war, Australian Joe Harman, has also survived the horrors of captivity at the hands of the Japanese in Malaya, she travels to Australia to be with him. Their love flourishes, but new obstacles loom. Can an Englishwoman learn to cope with the isolation of the Australian outback ? Will her resourcefulness and her legacy—the fortune her great uncle made in the Australian gold fields—allow her to create an Oasis in this desolate country, a town like Alice Springs out of Willstown?

Upfield, Arthur W.
The New Shoe
University of California, 1951.
Inspector Bony, passing himself off as the vacationing owner of a sheep ranch, is investigating the murder of a naked, unidentified man found in the locker at Split Point Lighthouse. Bony interests himself in the local people and the surrounding land to solve the mystery. Upfield has a remarkable gift of description, plus a thorough and intimate knowledge of his subject matter, with very accurate geographic descriptions. Though born in England, Australia became his home and the setting of his many books.

EUROPE

Beckwith, Lillian
A Proper Woman
St. Martin, 1986. 179p.
A sentimental love story that breathes the scents of the Hebridges: salt-spiced air, fresh, damp earth, mingled heather and bracken. When Anna’s brother sells the family croft, she is forced into a loveless marriage with Black Fergus the village outcast. His drunkenness repulses Anna, but her loneliness finds solace is caring for a gentle mare in foal. When Black Fergus abuses the horse, events are set in motion that will change Anna’s life forever.

Binchy, Maeve
Echoes
Viking, 1985. 477p.
Clare O’Brien, daughter of a poor shopkeeper in Castlebay, Ireland, wins a scholarship to a university in Dublin. There she falls in love with David Power, a boy from Castlebay’s upper class, who is studying to be a doctor. They both dream of escape but become trapped in the town once more and neglect the one thing that could save them—their love for each other. The town, the people, the culture all combine in an extraordinary story of love born against all odds and nearly thwarted.

Chatwin, Bruce
Utz
Viking, 1985. 477p.
Aging Kaspar Utz, the last remaining survivor of an old Czech family, is a collector of priceless Meissen porcelain. The repressive socialist authorities allow him to keep his vast collection in his tiny Prague apartment on the condition that he bequeath it to the state on his death. For Utz, these figurines are remnants of past days of glory and he spends years protecting them. How could he let the bleak state have his most precious possession?

Cornelisen, Ann
Any Four Women Could Rob the Bank of Italy
Holt, Rhinehart and Winston, 1983. 291 p.
It starts as a sort of a joke to pass the time. Then, as the four heroines become more exasperated than amused by the Italian macho notion that there are some things women won’t do, they emphatically decide to commit a crime—and the scheme they concoct involves robbing a train carrying a huge government payroll. Set in a Tuscan hill town, this spirited, elegant, extremely funny novel grows out of the social mores of present day Italy. The author, an American, has lived in Italy for over 30 years, and in 1974 she received a special award from the National Institute of Arts and Letters for her sharp, insightful writing about her adopted country.

Deighton, Len
Berlin Game
Knopf, 1983. 345 p.
In the early 1980s when there was still a Berlin Wall, Bernard Samson, working for the British secret service, is asked to help a double agent escape from east Berlin. Traveling to Germany, he recruits his boyhood friend to cross over the wall with him and seek out the spy. The mission becomes complicated when details are leaked to the Soviets and the traitor appears to be among Samson’s London colleagues. This book is the first of a trilogy, followed by Mexico Set and London Match, which provide settings in Mexico City in London.

Delacorta
Diva
Summit Books, 1979. 143 p.
A wild romp through the Paris streets of the seventies. Jules, a courier on motorbike, illegally records an opera star’s performance at the Theatre des Champs-Elysees. This tape is inadvertently switched with one indicating a drug pusher. Complicating the situation are a Japanese executive who is trying to steal the opera tape, a prostitute who is killed in a search for the drug tape and a pair of con artists who are involved for the fun of it-thirteen year old Alba and her forty year old roommate, Serge.

Demetz, Hanna
House on Prague Street
St. Martin’s Press, 1980. 152 p.
Pre-World War 11 Czechoslovkia. Half-Jew Richter leaves an idyllic childhood of summers at her grandfather’s house on Prague Street to endure the cold realities of war and the subtle annihilation of her family. Good portrayal of the rise of Nazism and its effect on a people. Gentle treatment of the subject of the Holocaust. Despite the horrors of war, love can blossom between Jew and Gentile. Sequel, Journey From Prague Street.

Demille, Nelson
The Charm School
Warner Books, 1988. 630 p.
A desperate phone call to the U.S. Embassy in Moscow by an American tourist recently arrived in his Trans Am from Smolensk engages three members of the Embassy staff in a failed rescue of the tourist, Greg Fisher. His phone revelations concerning an encounter with an escaped American pilot in a forest near Borodin set off a life a life threatening chain of events for his would-be rescuers that culminate in a dramatic rescue which foils the efforts of both the KGB and the CIA to prevent it. DeMille is an engaging story-teller who quickly pulls the reader into the plot by convincing you that his premise is sound. The personal relationship between the three main characters- Lisa Rhodes, Sam Hollis and Seth Alvey-are not gratuitous but integral to the story. You won’t to put it down—until you reach the violent conclusion which seems to have gotten away from the author. On balance, it is an exciting read with universal appeal. Chilling food for thought in the midst of the warming atmosphere between the USSR and the U.S. as a result of glasnost.

Fowles, John
The Magus
Little, Brown & Company, 1976. 668 p.
Suffused with golden sunlight and the craggy coasts of Greece, this is the long and Labyrinthine tale of Nicholas Urfe, a young Englishman, who has come to the isle of Phraxos to teach and to escape an unfortunate love affair. Nicholas finds himself, along with a beautiful woman, under the spell of Maurice Conchis, a sinister and mystical recluse who weaves illusions with reality in the enthralling Godgame. By turns, weird, brutal, erotic, mysterious and theatrical.

Francis, Dick
Slayride
Ballentine,1973. 219 p.
David Cleveland, official investigator for the English Jockey Club, has been sent to Norway to work with his friend Arne Kristiansen, official investigator for the Norwegian Jockey Club. Arne is investigating the disappearance of Bob Sherman, British steeplechase jockey, from the Ourevoll track with the day’s take. The investigation begins on water, on a fjord an hour out of Oslo. David and Arne are thrown into the icy water when a speedboat rams their dinghy. David doesn’t drown—but life in Norway continues to be shockingly dangerous as the investigation continues.

Frison-Roche, Riger
The Raid
Harper & Row, 1962. 244p.
Centering around a revenge raid of Simon Sokki’s reindeer herd by rival Lapps and covering only a few months, The Raid reveals the lives and customs of the fiercely proud and independent Lapps. Soklki’s daughter Kristina, sent to school in the nearest town against her will, escapes the confines of the town when she hears of the raid and travels across the hostile winter tundra to return to her herd. There she finds, in trapper Paavi, another who shares her desire to continue in the old ways, to live as a Lapp as long as the reindeer and lichen survive.

Gunn, Neil M.
The Silver Bough
Walker and Company, 1985. 328p.
During the 1940s in the wild and remote highlands of Scotland, Simon Grant excavates a cairn. As he works with the local people, he comes to appreciate their quiet, primitive spirit. Then when skeletons of a mother and child as well as an ancient crock of gold are uncovered, the townspeople react in a way that leads Grant to a spiritual renewal. 

Laric, Paul    
Maribor Remembered  
Todd & Honeywell, Inc. 1989. 131 p.
In 1940 Pete Kovar was a happy-go-lucky teenager in Yugoslavia. However, when Nazi agitation increased and occupation seemed certain, Pete’s      father moved the family to the U.S. Forty –five years later, Pete, now a journalist and an American citizen, decides to revisit his homeland. A warm reception from old friends heightens the beauty of the Slovenia region for Pete and his wife. The mountains are exhilarating; the contrast between the modern and medieval of the village is stunning. As Pete proudly shows his wife around, he colorfully describes Yugoslavian history and culture. However, a sinister event from the past mars their visit---the death of an old chum by a German firing squad .Unsettling questions surround the incident, which becomes a puzzle to be solved. 

Le Carre, John                                           
A Small Town in Germany
Coward-McCann, 1968.  366 p.
It is post-war Germany, the cold war is raging and the British Embassy in Bonn is under psychological siege. Leo Harting, a middle-level functionary assigned  to the embassy has disappeared, as have important, sensitive files. Alan Turner arrives from the Home Office to discover where Harting has gone and if why in this carefully crafted story of spies and dignitaries, loyalty and betrayal. It will appeal to readers who appreciate a well-thought out look at the after-effects of World War II. .Bonn is central to the action, wonderfully described and vividly evoked in sensory-rich passages.

MacInnes, Helen                  
Decision at Delphi
Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1960. 434 p.
When a national travel magazine sent New York architect Ken Strang to Greece to sketch Greek  ruins, little did Ken know of the intrigue to follow. The photographer he was to meet, Steve Kladas, disappeared, leaving behind an attaché case of film and mysterious papers. Cecilia Hilliard is sent to take Steve’s place and becomes involved with Ken as they search for the truth about Steve’s family’s activities in World War II. Breathtaking Greek scenes include a proposal on the Acropolis, a midnight chase through Athens, and the novel’s finale at the magnificent ruins of Delphi.   

Mortimer, John           
Summer’s Lease
Viking, 1988.  288 p.
The Parageter family arranges to lease a villa in a central Italian town for their summer vacation, but the quirky nature of the advertisement and the strange occurrences on and around the property sow seeds of doubt about the family that owns the villa. An entertaining novel with good character development and just enough mystery to hold the plot together. Since the action revolves around visits to the sites of art collections scattered throughout central Italy, wonderful descriptions of Italian villages and countryside abound.

Olcott, Anthony
Murder at the Red October
Academy Chicago,  1981.  226 p.
A thriller that reeks with the feel of Moscow. When a dead American guest is found in a seedy hotel, its head of security is called--Duvakin. Higher authorities soon take over the case, but not before Duvakin has taken a small doll from the dead man’s room.  Accidently he discovers heroin in the drug organization.  But do the sophisticated intelligence agents consider him a comrade-in-arms or a mere pawn? 

Orum, Poul              
Scapegoat
Patheon  Books, 1975. 256 p.
Detective Inspector Jonas Morck investigates the murder of a young nurse found strangled in a seaside resort in Copenhagen, Denmark. At first glance the culprit seems to be a local peeping Tom, Otto Bahnsen, especially when he is charged and confesses.  However, back at the main office, Morck, who always cares as much about the psychology of the criminal as any other aspect of  the case, continues to think about the case...it doesn’t feel right…and pursues the truth through some fascinating twists and turns.   

Pilcher, Rosamunde
The Shell Seekers
St. Martins, 1987. 530 p.
Penelope Keeling, an independent, off-beat British woman of 64, is recuperating from a mild heart attack. The unkind reminder of her mortality, combined with the art community’s renewed interest in the works of her deceased father, painter Lawrence Stern, triggers a flood of  reminiscences. Through flashbacks to the World War II era and the recent past, Penelope’s childhood, her hasty marriage, and the unexpected deaths of her mother and her true love will be illuminated. When two of Penelope’s children discover that Stern’s paintings are so valuable, they conspire to persuade Penelope to sell some of the paintings. Penelope must make the final decision; what will it be?  

Sjowall, Maj
Roseanna
Pantheon, 1957. 212 p.
The first book in a series of ten set in modern day Sweden, featuring Martin Beck of the National Homicide Squad. In these tales , social commentary, Beck’s troublesome life, and murder are blended well. In Roseanna, a naked woman is dredged from Lake Battern. Clues to her identification are nil. After several frustrating weeks, a small clue surfaces leading all the way to Nebraska. To trap the disturbed murderer unorthodox means are used. 

Stewart, Mary
Thunder on the Right
Morrow, 1957. 284 p.
Lovely English girl Jennifer Silver travels to the French convent of Our Lady of the Storms high in the French Pyrenees to find her widowed cousin Gillian Lamartine and to convince her not to join the convent .The convent’s Bursar, a cold manipulative Spaniard, tells Jennifer that her cousin has died and is buried in the convent’s small cemetery. But Jennifer is not convinced, and with the help of Stephen Masefield, she searches for the truth of her cousin’s disappearance. A romantic suspense novel told with style and suspense by a master of the genre.   

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny
Ardabiola
St. Martin’s Press, 1984. 123 p.
On a cobbled street in Moscow, a young woman disembarks from a tram and hops into the van of an arresting  man for no reason that she can understand. He tells her that he is the most needed man in the world today. He is Ardabiev, a genetic engineer, who believes that he has created a miraculous cure for cancer by combining the chromosomes of an African insect and the fedyunnik plant which grows in Siberia. A series of mishaps befall him before he can test his discovery in this fantasy by one of Russia’s greatest living poets.  

NORTH AMERICA

Atwood, Margaret
Cat’s Eye
Doubleday, 1989. 446 p.
The nature of female relationships is central to the story of  Elaine Riseley, a fiftyish painter who returns to her native Toronto for a retrospective exhibition of her art work. Readers who appreciate coming of age novel will enjoy this stunning, heartfelt study of the world of little girls growing up in a provincial town during the forties and fifties. The love-hate feelings the artist has for a childhood friend she anticipates/dreads meeting are symbolic of her feelings for Toronto itself, in her youth a dowdy backwater town, now an emerging sophisticated city.

Doerr, Harriet
Stones for Ibarra
Viking, 1984. 214 p.
Richard and Sara Everton, just over and just under forty, move from San Francisco to a remote, primitive village in Mexico where they hope to reopen and work a copper mine owned by Richard’s grandfather. The Evertons, separated by social and cultural differences from the villagers who respect but misunderstand them, envision living out their lives in this remote place with time for each other. Sooner than anticipated, they face the inevitability of devastating personal loss and a future that is not to be. From the villagers, initially enigmas to the Evertons, they then come to learn much about life and fate. It is a custom in this region that people by the site of an accident leave a stone. Just as these cairns are built stone by stone as a reminder of what happened there, each chapter in this book is a “stone” in a memorial to the Evertons, to the villagers and to Ibarra. “Doerr is a marvelous writer…” “Something of a miracle as novels go...” “ A novel of genuine power and intelligence…” 

SOUTH AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN

Eckert, Allan
Savage Journey
Little, Brown & Co., 1979. 360 p.
Thirteen-year-old Sarah Francis must fend for herself in the Amazon jungle following the death of her archaeologist father.  Warring jungle tribes and rain forest flora and fauna threaten Sara during the months she must rely on her courage and common sense as she faces trials of stamina and bravery. 

Garcia Marquez, Gabriel
Love in the Time of Cholera
Knopf, 1988. 348 p.
In a decaying Caribbean city on the coast of Columbia, telegraph clerk Florentino Ariza catches a glimpse of Fermina Daza and is tortured for 51 years, 9 months, and 4 days by his unrequited love for her.  Fermina Daza marries the respectable, civic-minded Dr. Juvenal Urbino.  Although it is not a marriage of love, the two “create” love in the course of their fifty-year marriage. When he dies, there is a chance that Fermina Daza may find love again. This is a novel of lush detail that explores love in all its manifestations, love that can hold and affect the lover so that he manifests the signs of another “sickness,” cholera, but would avoid all cure. 

Myers, Mary Ruth
A Journey to Cuzco
Coward, McCann and Geoghegan, Inc. 1979. 228 p.
After receiving a note from her estranged archaeologist father, Libby Krier flies to Machu Picchu in Peru to find that he has been murdered. Professor Chandler and his son are rivals for the archaeological evidence her father uncovered on the eve of his murder. Which one should Libby trust with the entire message sent by her father? Easy reading with both romance and intrigue.  

Naipaul, V.S.
A House for Mr. Biswas 
Alfred A. Knopf, 1961.  481 p.
The absurdities of life follow poor Mr. Biwas, whom we meet at birth (six-fingered and born backwards), until he finally acquires his dream, a house of his own. Episodic and evocative tale told against the households and domestic lives of the West Indian community in Trinidad.    

Puig, Manuel
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Alfred A. Knopf, 1979. 281 p.
Two very different men share a cell in an Argentine prison. One is a homosexual window dresser, the other a Marxist student. The former entertains himself by telling his cellmate--in elegant detail--the plots of his favorite romantic Hollywood movies. A guarded friendship grows between the two, which slowly transfigures them--then is threatened as moving novel about love and victimization, distinguished by the dazzling original style of the author. 

Vargas Llosa, Mario
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter  
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1982. 374 p.
Two stories unfold in a contrapuntal manner in this comic masterpiece by one of Latin America’s (Peru) most celebrated writers. One concerns a young romantically involved with his divorced, thirty-two-year-old aunt. Interwoven with this scandalous love affair is the disturbing tale of the hero’s friend, a scriptwriter of outlandish radio soap operas who becomes so absorbed in his convoluted plots that he begins to dress like his characters. This novel is in itself an account of storytelling--its pleasures and danger--and can be enjoyed on numerous levels.    

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