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Vladimir Nabokov

"Transparent Things revolves around the four visits of the hero - sullen, gawky Hugh Person - to Switzerland... As a young publisher, Hugh is sent to interview R., falls in love with Armande on the way, wrests her, after multiple humiliations, from a grinning Scandinavian and returns to NY with his bride... Eight years later - following a murder, a period of madness and a brief imprisonment - Hugh makes a lone sentimental journey to wheedle out his past... The several strands of dream, memory, and time [are] set off against the literary theorizing of R. and, more centrally, against the world of observable objects."--Martin Amis.

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Wole Soyinka

Mandela's earth and other poems is a celebrated work by Wole Soyinka (Nobel Laureate), recognized for masterclass storytelling and lasting literary resonance.

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John Updike

The Afterlife is a celebrated work by John Updike (Double Pulitzer Prize Winner, National Book Award Winner), recognized for masterclass storytelling and lasting literary resonance.

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May Sarton

**From Goodreads:** Set in the academic world of Harvard and Cambridge, this novel dramatizes the plight of the embattled American liberal in the 1950s. Its central character is Edward Cavan, a brilliant English professor, who commits suicide. His death sets off a shock wave among Cavan's friends -- and changes things for some of them forever."It is impossible not to be interested in (Sarton's characters) and concerned with what concerns them". -- *The New Yorker*