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A janitor, a waitress, and an immortal perfumer chase the essence of life itself across centuries and continents.
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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.
Orlando
A young Elizabethan nobleman lives for four centuries, waking one morning as a woman, and witnesses English history from Elizabeth I to 1928, in Woolf's most playful and liberating novel.
Chimera
Three linked novellas that retell old stories: Scheherazade's younger sister Dunyazade, Perseus in middle age, and Bellerophon trying to be a hero.
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.
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.
Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
Dona Flor, who runs a cookery school in Salvador da Bahia, marries a respectable pharmacist after her wild first husband drops dead dancing at Carnival, and then the first husband comes back as a ghost.
At Swim-Two-Birds
A lazy Dublin student lies in bed writing a novel about Dermot Trellis, a novelist who makes his characters live with him in a hotel, where they plot against him while figures from Irish legend and cowboy westerns wander in.
Here Goes Nothing
A murdered man watches from a chaotic afterlife as his killer moves in with his pregnant widow, while a pandemic sweeps the world he left behind.
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.
The Baron in the Trees
At twelve, Cosimo, son of a baron, climbs a tree after a quarrel over a plate of snails and vows never to come down, and he keeps his word, living his whole life in the canopy as the Enlightenment unfolds below.
The Flounder
A talking flounder, first caught by a fisherman in the Stone Age, is put on trial by a feminist tribunal in 1970s Berlin for the advice he has given men through history, while the narrator tells of the cooks he has loved down the ages.