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A fiercely beautiful novel about one woman's struggle to reclaim a life shattered by betrayal from the 2018 winner of the PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature.

One night, in the dead of winter, a mysterious stranger arrives in the small Irish town of Cloonoila. Broodingly handsome, worldly, and…

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1 author picked The Little Red Chairs as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I am interested in how characters can recreate themselves in another environment. Because he is outside of his own turf and the Irish villagers do not know his background, Dr. Dragan becomes the embodiment of their fantasies.

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