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    "description": "<p>Mister N has checked himself into a hotel. Anyway, he&Otilde;s pretty sure it&Otilde;s a hotel. His rooms are simple, as are his needs. Meanwhile, on the streets below, there is only the grim pageant of modern-day Beirut: poverty, violence, and fear. Why has Mister N left his comfortable apartment to brave the world beyond? The embarrassing truth is that Mister N used to write novels&Ntilde;until the very act of writing began to disgust him. If he&Otilde;s ever going to overcome this aversion to his vocation, he&Otilde;ll need to be able to focus on his work, and perhaps this new venue will help eliminate distractions? But it seems Mister N is his own worst enemy: he can&Otilde;t get his thoughts in order, let alone tune out his new neighbors, who insist on tormenting him with their endless talk, their dinner invitations, their inconvenient suicides. Worst of all, Mister N has stumbled across one of his own fictional characters&Ntilde;a brutal militiaman and torturer&Ntilde;running a seemingly innocuous internet caf\u017d. So, at last, Mister N needs to make a decision: Should he arm himself? Or just seek psychiatric help?</p>",
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