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Dreamy accolade for 'Red Mansions'

By Mei Jia ( China Daily ) Updated: 2014-05-13 08:00:01

・ The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Haruki Murakami (1994)

This labyrinthine and hallucinogenic novel gets going when Toru Okada's cat disappears in suburban Tokyo. He consults a pair of psychic sisters who appear to him in dreams and reality. Although Murakami's plot meanders, it never loses its pace or humanity.

・ Spring Snow

Dreamy accolade for 'Red Mansions'

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Yukio Mishima (1969-71)

Before committing ritual suicide in November 1970, Mishima posted this tetralogy of novels to his publisher. It's a saga of 20th-century Japan, in which a law student imagines a school friend constantly reincarnated.

・ Midnight's Children

Salman Rushdie (1980)

Magic realism meets postcolonial India in the ambitious, colorful and clever novel that was awarded the "Booker of Bookers" Prize.

 
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