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___ NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR ___

A haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of The Housekeeper and the Professor.

On an unnamed island off an unnamed coast, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses until things become much more serious. Most of the ...