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A fetus in the womb narrates the plot his mother and her lover, his uncle, are hatching to murder his father, Hamlet retold from before birth.
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Notes on a Scandal
A lonely schoolteacher becomes obsessed with a colleague's scandalous affair with a student, and her account of events may not be entirely reliable.
Murphy
Murphy, an Irishman in London who likes nothing better than to tie himself naked in a rocking chair, is pushed by Celia, the prostitute who loves him, into finding a job, and finds one in a mental hospital.
Betrayal
A seven-year affair between Emma and Jerry, her husband's best friend, told backwards, from its end in 1977 to its beginning.
The Penelopiad
Speaking from the underworld, Penelope gives her own account of waiting twenty years for Odysseus, and the chorus of twelve maids he hanged on his return has its say too.
Amsterdam
Two old friends, a composer and a newspaper editor, meet at the funeral of a woman they both loved and make a pact, which leads to a darkly comic disaster in Amsterdam.
Home Fire
Isma, a British Muslim woman, is free at last to study in America after raising her twin siblings, Aneeka and Parvaiz, but Parvaiz has gone to follow the jihadi father he never knew.
Milkman
In an unnamed city in the 1970s, an eighteen-year-old who reads nineteenth-century novels while she walks is pursued by a married paramilitary known as the milkman, and the whole community starts to talk.
The Finkler Question
Julian Treslove, a former BBC producer, is mugged on his way home from dinner with two old friends, both Jewish, and becomes convinced his attacker took him for a Jew.
High-Rise
The tenants of a brand-new forty-story London tower block gradually descend, floor by floor, into a tribal warfare that none of them wants to leave.
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Twenty-seven years later, a narrator reconstructs the hours before the murder of Santiago Nasar in a Caribbean town where everyone knew the killers' plan, and no one stopped them.
The End of the Affair
A man in wartime London is tormented by a love affair that he believes ended through divine intervention, and his obsessive retelling reveals a faith he can't accept.
The Pigeon
Jonathan Noel, a Parisian bank guard who has lived by strict routine for decades, finds a pigeon in the corridor outside his room, and his ordered existence begins to collapse.