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A CIA agent cursed by an Amazonian shaman to die if his feet touch the ground travels from Peru to a Vatican archive in search of a suppressed prophecy.
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Another Roadside Attraction
A countercultural couple runs a hot dog stand and a flea circus, until the mummified body of Christ shows up in their basement.
Villa Incognito
Three American soldiers listed as MIA in Vietnam have been living quietly in Laos for decades, until one of them is arrested in a Bangkok airport.
Trout Fishing in America
A series of short, odd pieces in which the phrase 'Trout Fishing in America' becomes a person, a hotel, a place and a way of life, Brautigan's gentle, sideways picture of the country in the 1960s.
Nights at the Circus
A winged cockney trapeze artist at the turn of the century is investigated by a sceptical American reporter who then joins her circus tour across Russia.
I Am Not Sidney Poitier
A young Black man named Not Sidney Poitier, raised with a fortune and Ted Turner as guardian, stumbles through a life that keeps replaying the plots of Sidney Poitier's films.
A Confederacy of Dunces
A slothful, brilliant, hot-dog-cart-pushing medievalist wages war against modern New Orleans in one of literature's great comic antiheroes.
Tom Jones
A foundling in eighteenth-century England careers through adventures, amorous encounters, and moral tests on his way to discovering his true parentage and winning the woman he loves.
Kornél Esti
Eighteen stories about Kornél Esti, the narrator's double, a Budapest dandy, traveller and trickster whose escapades and confessions light up the Europe between the wars.
Captain Pantoja and the Special Service
Captain Pantaleón Pantoja, a scrupulous army officer, is sent to the Peruvian Amazon with secret orders to organise a service of prostitutes for the soldiers garrisoned there.
Absurdistan
The 325-pound son of a Russian oligarch, barred from returning to his beloved New York, gets caught up in a civil war over oil in a tiny former Soviet republic.
Candide
Candide, a naive young man taught that all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds, is thrown out into a world of war, earthquake and cruelty that tests his optimism to destruction.
Colas Breugnon
A year in the life of Colas Breugnon, a fifty-year-old carpenter and wine-lover of Clamecy in Burgundy in the early 1600s, who tells his story through war, plague and family with unshakeable good humour.