Books like So You Don't Get Lost in the Neighborhood
Jean Daragane, an ageing writer living alone in Paris, gets a call from a stranger who has found his lost address book, and is drawn back towards a childhood he has forgotten.
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Missing Person
Guy Roland, a Paris private detective who lost his memory ten years ago, takes over his retiring boss's office and uses it to search for the man he used to be.
In the Café of Lost Youth
Four narrators circle the mystery of a young woman who vanished from a Paris café.
The Sea
An ageing Irishman reflects on a childhood summer by the sea and the drowning that ended it, unable to separate memory from invention.
The First Man
Jacques Cormery, forty, visits the grave in France of the father he never knew, killed in the First World War, and goes back to the poor Algiers neighbourhood where he grew up.
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
A man haunted by the unexplained abandonment of four close friends makes a pilgrimage to understand what broke them apart.
The Sense of an Ending
Tony Webster, retired and settled, receives a solicitor's letter about a small bequest from the mother of his university girlfriend, and it forces him to revisit his friendship with Adrian, the brilliant schoolfriend whose story he thought he understood.
Out Stealing Horses
A sixty-seven-year-old widower moves to a remote cabin in eastern Norway and meets a neighbour who pulls him back to the summer of 1948, when he lost his best friend and his father.
Tirra Lirra by the River
Nora Porteous, in her seventies, comes home to the Brisbane house where she grew up after decades in Sydney and London, and remembers her life.
Ru
In short, luminous fragments, a woman remembers her childhood in Saigon, her flight from Vietnam by boat, a refugee camp in Malaysia and her new life in Quebec.
Clear Light of Day
Bim, who has stayed in the family's crumbling house in Old Delhi to look after her disabled brother, is visited by her sister Tara, and they remember the summer of Partition.
First Person Singular
Eight first-person stories in which an ageing narrator looks back on youth and chance encounters, from a talking monkey who scrubs his back at a hot-spring inn to a jazz record that should not exist.
Ambiguous Adventure
Samba Diallo, a boy of the Diallobé nobility raised in a strict Quranic school, is sent to the French school and then to Paris, and finds himself caught between two worlds.