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The White Octopus Hotel by Alexandra Bell
The White Octopus Hotel follows Eve Shaw, a solitary art appraiser living in London in 2015, whose life is upended when she meets Max Everly, a silver haired visitor who shares the name of her favourite long dead composer. Their strange connection leads Eve into the mysterious White Octopus Hotel in the Swiss Alps, a grand belle époque building that exists in 1935 yet seems to bend time itself. Within its shifting corridors she encounters a younger Max, and the…
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The Eleventh Hour By Salman Rushdie
The Eleventh Hour is a collection of five stories that all circle around the idea of approaching the end of life and the reckoning that comes with it. Rushdie sets his characters in places such as India, Britain and the United States, and each story explores how people confront the truths they have avoided as time grows short. Some tales slip into the fantastical, others stay grounded in academic or urban settings, but all examine how mortality sharpens perspective and…
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