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This lost manuscript by Jules Verne--his second book--was written in 1863 but published for the first time in 1994. In it, he imagines a 20th-century Paris in which art and culture have declined in the face of increasingly oppressive feats of engineering and overwhelming economic concerns. Among Verne's accurate depictions of 20th-century technology are machines such as electronic calculators, automobiles, subway systems, and fax machines--not to mention many other complicated devices that have not yet been invented.
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Xuela, a childless Dominican woman in her 70s whose own mother died while giving birth to her, tells the story of a life filled with tragedy and small triumphs: Sent at birth to live in the home of her father's washerwoman, she moves back to her father's house after seven years and must fend off the murderous rage of her jealous stepmother. The neglect and cruelty she suffers as a child sets the pattern for her life, as Xuela treats herself and others with calculated and often cruel disregard.
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Set in Sarajevo and Chicago, the linked stories and novella in this debut collection describe characters trying to rebuild their lives, either in the war-ruined city they grew up in, or in Chicago where they live as refugees. The story Islands from this collection was included in BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 1999. A New York Times Notable Book for the year 2000.
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