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Originally Posted by xiaowei
My recommendation is: The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger. The genre is difficult to place, but I'll put it as romantic fiction. Wait wait. Don't be put off. It's actually wonderfully touching and well written, else I wouldn't be recommending it here. The basic premise is that there is a couple composed of Henry DeTamble and Clare Abshire, which fulfills the romance part. However, Henry has a problem. He randomly jumps forward and backward into time, without any control. He may be walking to the library where he works, and suddenly disappears for minutes or hours. Then he reappears just as suddenly. The sad thing is that Claire cannot follow. She must always wait for him, never knowing what will happen. This novel charts from Clarie's youth when she first meets Henry and beyond. It goes into how they both deal with this wayward love and the sudden vanishing of Harry. It's quite touching. A chick flick of a book, but many times better. Give it a looksie.
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Ah, interesting to see that someone recommended that. I saw it awhile back at my local Barnes & Noble and considered getting it. It sounded interesting from the little blurb on the back of the book.
Also, kudos goes to Kat for suggesting my favorite author, Haruki Murakami!
Let me just throw a link in here, for anyone interested, to one of his earlier works:
Pinball 1973.
It's very good, and gives a little insight as to what his full length novels are like.
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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