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If all you know of Audrey Niffenegger is her achingly romantic novel The Time Traveler's Wife, then you're in for a surprise with her latest. Her Fearful Symmetry, Niffenegger's follow-up to her time-hopping best seller, is a Victorian ghost story set in the present that...
Discretion and innovation in the world of toilets are probably not a surprise to anyone who has ever used a bathroom in Japan, where Toto - the Japanese company that manufactures johns that can do everything but your taxes - is omnipresent and the "sound princess," a fake flushing noise to disguise...
That's just one of the reasons the Nobel Committee's decision to award this year's Peace Prize to Barack Obama is such a stunning surprise. Obama has the world's most powerful platform: the White House. And you don't need a megaphone when you're the U.S...
She is a surprising choice to Americans too - only a few of Müller's books have been translated into English - but in a way it would have been a surprise if the choice had not been a surprise. In the past decade, about half of the Nobel laureates...
Reviews of Müller's fiction in America have been largely positive, though there has been some reluctance to embrace her almost relentlessly bleak totalitarian cityscapes. Müller herself has dismissed suggestions that she focuses too narrowly on a single subject. "The most overwhelming experience for me was...