onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Book_Club_Recommendations_from_the_Union_Square_Reading_Group/The_Good_Soldier');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/019283620X'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">The Good Soldier

by Ford Madox Ford

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First published in 1915, "The Good Soldier" begins, famously and ominously, "This is the saddest story I have ever heard." The book then proceeds to confute this pronouncement at every turn, exposing a world less sad than pathetic, and more shot through with hypocrisy and deceit than its incredulous narrator, John Dowell, cares to imagine.

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by Michael Frayn

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With its sumptuous surfaces and alluring sense of gravitas, classic Dutch painting has fascinated writers for centuries. It's easy to see why. Giant religious representations and gaudy classical scenes already have the weight of literature behind them. But an enigmatic portrait or dimly lit interior seems like a virtual incubator for narrative, and now Michael Frayn joins the Netherlandish fray in "Headlong," which features a Bruegel canvas in the starring role.

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by Nicole Krauss

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"The History of Love" spans of period of over 60 years and takes readers from Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe to Brooklyn's present day Brighton Beach. At the center of each main character's psyche is the issue of loneliness, and the need to fill a void left empty by lost love.

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by Kenzaburo Oe

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The New York Times described "A Personal Matter" as "close to a perfect novel.

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by Haruki Murakami

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Bad things come in threes for Toru Okada. He loses his job, his cat disappears, and then his wife fails to return from work. His search for his wife (and his cat) introduces him to a bizarre collection of characters, including two psychic sisters, a possibly unbalanced teenager, an old soldier who witnessed the massacres on the Chinese mainland at the beginning of the Second World War, and a very shady politician.