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He won the Edogawa Rampo Prize, which is awarded annually to the finest mystery work, in 1985 for the novel Hōkago (After School) at age 27. Keigo Higashino(東野 圭吾) is one of the most popular and biggest selling fiction authors in Japan-as well known as James Patterson, Dean Koontz or Tom Clancy are in the USA.īorn in Osaka, he started writing novels while still working as an engineer at Nippon Denso Co.(presently DENSO). ![]() ![]() ![]() Landline is the fourth novel by American author, Rainbow Rowell. Or would Georgie and Neal be better off if their marriage never happened? It's not time travel, not exactly, but she feels like she's been given an opportunity to fix her marriage before it starts. ![]() That night, Georgie discovers a way to communicate with Neal in the past. When her husband and the kids leave for the airport, Georgie wonders if she's finally done it. 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"Both stories are early, critical entries in a narrative series I'm doing about a family of settlers in twentieth-century New York, the Glasses.I love working on these Glass stories, I've been waiting for them most of my life. The author writes: FRANNY came out in The New Yorker in 1955, and was swiftly followed, in 1957 by ZOOEY. I still treasure it and I don't think I've read anything since that has affected me and inspired me as much, both as a reader and a writer." " Franny and Zooey is one of the few books that I've returned to every year.I love it for its comedy-Salinger's dialogue is wonderful-for its mocking fondness, and as a portrait of a troubled, loving family. Salinger's stories will decidedly continue to widen the range of contemporary reading." 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