"Top 10 novels that interrupt time"

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"Top 10 novels that interrupt time" Sept 7, 2022 16:38:17 GMT

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Post by Carl LaFong on Sept 7, 2022 16:38:17 GMT

Most stories adhere to linear plots, but a select few – by authors from Martin Amis to Muriel Spark and Toni Morrison – respin the cogs to unforgettable effect

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"Top 10 novels that interrupt time" Sept 7, 2022 17:20:26 GMT Carl LaFong likes this

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Post by Jep Gambardella on Sept 7, 2022 17:20:26 GMT

2. Flights by Olga Tokarczuk
A wonderful, sprawling essay-adventure novel. Flights skips merrily between centuries, continents, storylines, registers, points of view – sometimes serious, sometimes daft, always entertaining. It’s like reading a festival. (Not, I should add, a literary festival.)

This is the only one that I've read (or indeed even heard about), but I would never call it a novel. To me it's a collection of short stories!

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"Top 10 novels that interrupt time"

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Post by Jep Gambardella on Sept 7, 2022 17:20:26 GMT