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A Manhattan driver, the hero of this novel, seeks the island's best parking spaces and occupies them, sitting and reading while the meter runs; his offhand concentration makes him a kind of Zen saint and leads to a struggle with a mayor whose rage for order suggests Rudolph W. Giuliani.

Simón spends much of this novel seeking, and not finding, glimmers of humor and irony in this new world.

Where Dirt Music ended optimistically with a sharing of oxygen, a 'kiss of life', the characters in this novel seek to assert control over their physical selves by withholding breath.

This accomplished novel seeks out the positive and redemptive: we see a succession of characters cope with the challenges life throws at them – and move on.

This muted first novel seeks to find and articulate what life really felt like to a family of Japanese-Americans relocated during World War II, and to convey the mood of our country under stress from the viewpoint of some genuinely oppressed people.

Funder's novel seeks to control the uncontrollable, as all novels do.

But his new novel seeks to propel those characters forward into new and treacherous times.

The narrator of Krusoe's unsettling novel seeks a way for the living to get through to the dead.

Against that official narrative, Johnson's novel seeks to tell the singular story of Jun Do, a boy raised in an orphanage called Long Tomorrows.

A fascinating and ambitious nonfiction book helps answer the how, and a clever Chinese dystopian novel seeks to answer the why.

All lovers of this slim novel seek to unlock the secret door leading from their own room to the Room on the Rue Montmartre.