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    "description": "From the Pulitzer Prize-winning and best-selling author: a captivating, brilliantly imaginative story of three extraordinary animals\u2013and a young boy\u2013whose lives intersect in Paris.\n\nParas, short for \u201cPerestroika,\u201d is a spirited racehorse at a racetrack west of Paris. One afternoon at dusk, she finds the door of her stall open and\u2013she\u2019s a curious filly\u2013wanders all the way to the City of Light. She\u2019s dazzled and often mystified by the sights, sounds, and smells around her, but she isn\u2019t afraid.\n\nSoon she meets an elegant dog, a German shorthaired pointer named Frida, who knows how to get by without attracting the attention of suspicious Parisians. Paras and Frida coexist for a time in the city\u2019s lush green spaces, nourished by Frida\u2019s strategic trips to the vegetable market. They keep company with two irrepressible ducks and an opinionated raven. But then Paras meets a human boy, Etienne, and discovers a new, otherworldly part of Paris: the ivy-walled house where the boy and his nearly-one-hundred-year-old great-grandmother live in seclusion.\n\nAs the cold weather and Christmas near, the unlikeliest of friendships bloom. But how long can a runaway horse stay undiscovered in Paris? How long can a boy keep her hidden and all to himself? Jane Smiley\u2019s beguiling new novel is itself an adventure that celebrates curiosity, ingenuity, and the desire of all creatures for true love and freedom.\n\n",
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