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All the Lovers in the Night, by Mieko Kawakami
I’ve always had a weakness for misfits and loners in novels. Hence, no wonder, after a few pages of the book “All the Lovers in the Night” by Mieko Kawakami, I realized that I really liked the main character, Fuyoko Irie. She is a 34-year-old woman living alone in Tokyo, whose days are filled with
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The Fruit Thief, by Peter Handke
From my old car trips across America, I remember that when I was driving, for example, across Utah or Montana, there was a period, shortly before sunset, when the landscape was becoming indescribably beautiful. In the golden light, the mountains and the road were bathed in the softness. I felt the uniqueness of that moment:
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In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing, by Elena Ferrante
I noticed Elena Ferrante’s book In the Margins in a nearby bookstore at the same time when I was watching the HBO series My Brilliant Friend based on Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels. Beautiful cover, thin book, interesting author, supporting the local bookstore (the order of my motives is random), so soon I was walking down the