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Kafka On The Shore
08 $The book tells the stories of the young Kafka Tamura, a bookish 15-year-old boy who runs away from his Oedipal curse, and Satoru Nakata, an old, disabled man with the uncanny ability to talk to cats. The book incorporates themes of music as a communicative conduit, metaphysics, dreams, fate, and the subconscious.
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Men in the Sun and Other Palestinian Stories
08 $About three Palestinian refugees (Abu Qais, Assad, Marwan) desperately trying to smuggle themselves from Iraq to Kuwait for work, only to die of heatstroke in a water tank, symbolizing the suffocating hopelessness and betrayal of the Palestinian cause.
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The Bell Jar
08 $A semi-autobiographical novel following Esther Greenwood, a talented young woman whose mental health deteriorates during a summer internship in New York City.
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The Fall
08 $A philosophical novel told through the dramatic monologues of Jean-Baptiste Clamence, a former Parisian lawyer, now living in Amsterdam and calling himself a “judge-penitent.”