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After an accident he can't remember leaves him with eight and a half million pounds in compensation, a young Londoner spends it restaging, with hired actors and in exact detail, fleeting moments in which he once felt real.
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Enduring Love
A man witnesses a balloon accident that kills a stranger, and the encounter triggers a stalker's obsessive love that he cannot prove or escape.
Cosmos
Two young men renting rooms in a Polish country house find a hanged sparrow in the woods and become obsessed with a web of signs that may or may not mean anything.
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.
War and War
György Korin, an archivist in a provincial Hungarian town, finds an ancient manuscript and travels to New York to put it on the internet before he takes his own life.
The Unnamable
A voice, placeless and without a body it can be sure of, talks on and on, trying to say who it is and to stop talking.
Mysteries
Johan Nagel, a stranger in a yellow suit, steps off a steamer into a small Norwegian coastal town one summer and unsettles everyone with his lies, gifts and provocations.
Nausea
A philosopher in 1930s France discovers that the sheer existence of objects fills him with revulsion, and his diary charts the horror of a world without meaning.
One, No One and One Hundred Thousand
When his wife remarks that his nose tilts to the right, Vitangelo Moscarda realises that everyone sees a different man, and sets out to destroy every one of the Moscardas others believe in.
The Broom of the System
A Cleveland switchboard operator searches for her great-grandmother, who has vanished from a nursing home with several other residents, while her boss courts her and her cockatiel starts preaching.
The Infatuations
María Dolz, an editor at a Madrid publishing house, has watched a happy couple at her café every morning, until she reads that the husband has been stabbed to death in the street, and she befriends his widow.
The Sea, the Sea
Charles Arrowby, a celebrated theatre director, retires to a house on the rocks by the sea to write his memoirs, and there meets Hartley, the girl he loved as a boy, now an unremarkable married woman in the village.
Study for Obedience
A young Jewish woman moves to a remote northern European country to keep house for her brother and senses, in the village, a rising anger that keeps finding her.