Helen Dewitt's The Last Samurai was just re-policed I just ordered it on Amazon. There are many many many more books which are in this you know a gray zone where if you really dig if you really look you could still pluck them out but because there's so much new work being published it's very difficult for it to rise out of that noise. It had gotten a great deal of potential when it first came out and then through odd series of coincidences sort of fell from view.

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