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Murakami's Stories Are Difficult To Describe And One Should, I Think, Resist Attempts To Overanalyze Them. Their Beauty Lies In Their Ephemeral And Incantatory Qualities And In His Uncanny Ability To Tap Into A Sort Of Collective Unconscious. In Addition, A Part Of Murakami's Genius Is That He Uses Images As Plot Points, Going From Image To Image, Like In The Marvelous Story Airplane, Where, While Making Love, The Narrator Imagines Strings Hanging From The Ceiling And How Each One Might Open Up A Different Possibility-good And Bad. It Is Clear That Murakami Is Well Acquainted With The Teachings Of Buddhism, Western Philosophies, Jungian Theory; He Has A Deep Knowledge Of Music And, Also, I Have Been Told, Is A Dedicated, Strong Swimmer. In His Stories, He Roams Freely And Convincingly Through All These Elements (and No Doubt Many More) Without Differentiating To Create A World Where Cats Talk And Elephants Disappear. 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Some are charmingly written, as when Calliope's aunt Zoë sits so meekly in church that \"the round gray hat she wore looked like the head of a screw fastening her to her pew.\" Others have the force of poetry, as when Calliope says of the freckled, red-haired schoolmate whom she secretly adores, \"It was like autumn, looking at her. It was like driving up north to see the colors.\" \u003cbr\u003e When Eugenides deals not in metaphor but in historical detail, he imbues facts with the same piquancy as his imagination. The 1967 Detroit riots that destroy Lefty's cozy, dumpy little restaurant, The Zebra Room, resonate with the Stephanideses' recollection of Smyrna in flames. 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But through a series of exhilarating tales Ram explains to his lawyer how episodes in his life gave him the answer to each question.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRam takes us on an amazing review of his own history -- from the day he was found as a baby in the clothes donation box of a Delhi church to his employment by a faded Bollywood star to his adventure with a security-crazed Australian army colonel to his career as an overly creative tour guide at the Taj Mahal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSwarup's \u003ci\u003eQ \u0026amp; A\u003c\/i\u003e is a beguiling blend of high comedy, drama, and romance that reveals how we know what we know -- not just about trivia, but about life itself. Cutting across humanity in all its squalor and glory, Vikas Swarup presents a kaleidoscopic vision of the struggle between good and evil -- and what happens when one boy has no other choice in life but to survive.\u003c\/p\u003e\nPublishers Weekly\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter enduring a childhood of poverty, violence and exploitation, Ram Muhammad Thomas wins a game show prize of one billion rupees. But the producers believe he has cheated and send him to the police to coerce a confession. Now, Thomas must defend his achievement and explain how a nobody without formal education won against impossible odds. Christopher Simpson's performance is both compelling and questionable; he conveys emotion powerfully but his mimicry of an Indian accent might make some listeners uncomfortable and sap the authority of the first-person narrative. 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