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    "description": "Is it possible to fall in love with a correspondent based entirely on a fascination with his or her handwriting, with a map of the country they live in, with the syllables of their name? What about, then, a fictional character, in a book about a country one has never, and will never, visit?\n\nInland is a compact story\u2014or group of stories, each nested within another\u2014nonetheless opening onto a seemingly endless fractal geography, where the interior of Australia, the Midwestern prairie, and the Hungarian Alf\u00f6ld merge, imitate, and enfold one another in the mind of a man sitting alone in a room full of books. Perhaps the greatest novel by Gerald Murnane, Australia\u2019s reply to Proust and Calvino, and a Nobel favorite for several years running, Inland shows that one can as easily be an exile in one\u2019s own interior as out in the wide world, and as easily feel the loss of people one has only imagined as those who have shared our lives in the flesh.\n",
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