Julian Cihi
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English
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A modern love story about two childhood friends, Sam, raised by an actress mother in LA's Koreatown, and Sadie, from the wealthy Jewish enclave of Beverly Hills, who reunite as adults to create video games, finding an intimacy in digital worlds that eludes them in their real lives.
In the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name....
2) The Emissary
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Pub. Date
2018
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English
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Winner of 2018 National Book Award in Translated Literature
Library Journal Best Books of 2018
Yoko Tawada's new novel is a breathtakingly light-hearted meditation on mortality and fully displays what Rivka Galchen has called her "brilliant, shimmering, magnificent strangeness"
Japan, after suffering from a massive irreparable disaster, cuts itself off from the world.
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