John Irving explores fate and memory in his new novel, Avenue of Mysteries, which follows an old man on a journey to the Philippines and back into the dreams of his childhood. “It’s impossible to imagine the literary landscape without John Irving,” wrote Time magazine. “He is as close as one gets to a contemporary Dickens.”

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