“Both of these books take place in the recent past and glide along the exospheric edge of a recognizable reality, rearranging time slightly enough to set the world onto a new axis. And both Helen DeWitt and Haruki Murakami boil the novel down to one of its basic precepts: Here’s my brain: nifty, right?”
Michelle Orange judges Helen DeWitt & Haruki Murakami in today’s Tournament of Books. (I am compelled to point out Orange’s This Is Running for Your Life will be pubilshed by us this fall.)
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