Stella thought she’d made up a lie on the spot, asking her childhood friend if he remembered the strange public broadcast TV show with the unsettling host she and all the neighborhood kids appeared on years ago. But he does remember. And so does...
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A feverish classic from one of the modern masters of French prose.
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A master of the travel narrative weaves three intertwined novellas of Westerners transformed by their sojourns in India.
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