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  2. Middlesex (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Based on this origin story, the hermaphrodite's lot is miserable, associated with disempowerment, the theft of identity and an unhappy dual existence. In addition, the term "hermaphrodite" may be deemed problematic because it alludes to an impossible state of being: no-one can be equally male and female and the preferred term "intersex ...

  3. Minor Detail (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Minor Detail (Arabic: تفصيل ثانوي, romanized: Tafṣīl Thānawī) is a 2017 novel by the Palestinian author Adania Shibli.It was translated into English by Elisabeth Jaquette in 2020.

  4. Austerlitz (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Austerlitz tells his story to the narrator between 1967 and 1997. They first meet in Antwerp, and then in a few other places in Belgium (they take a ferry together back to England from Zeebrugge ). Between 1967 and 1975, they meet regularly in Bloomsbury , London, where Austerlitz works as an art historian and teacher; the narrator studies in ...

  5. The Guns of Navarone (novel) - Wikipedia

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    The Guns of Navarone is a 1957 novel about the Second World War by Scottish writer Alistair MacLean that was made into the film The Guns of Navarone in 1961. The story concerns the efforts of an Allied commando team to destroy a seemingly impregnable German fortress that threatens Allied naval ships in the Aegean Sea and prevents over 1,200 isolated British Army soldiers from being rescued.

  6. The Tenth Man (novel) - Wikipedia

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    The story comprises four parts. In Part I, set in prison, the occupying German guards issue a decimation order to the thirty inmates. One of the three chosen by drawing lots is a rich lawyer named Chavel. Chavel becomes hysterical and desperately offers his entire wealth to any man willing to die in his place.

  7. Is 'The Regime' Based on a True Story? - AOL

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    Is The Regime based on a real politician? When Succession first began airing, the premise couldn't have any more clearly been rooted in reality; it was King Lear meets the Murdoch family.

  8. The Chamber (novel) - Wikipedia

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    The sentence is carried out, Sam having ordered Adam to walk away and not watch him die. With Sam and Dogan dead, no one knows that Roland, the third man who prepared and set off the bomb, is still free and living nearby under a false identity and observing the progress of the case—having graduated from Klan member to a full-fledged "proud ...

  9. Sense and Sensibility - Wikipedia

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    It tells the story of the Dashwood sisters, Elinor (age 19) and Marianne (age 16½) as they come of age. They have an older half-brother, John, and a younger sister, Margaret (age 13). The novel follows the three Dashwood sisters and their widowed mother as they are forced to leave the family estate at Norland Park and move to Barton Cottage, a ...