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Sebold, AliceShakespeare,NicholasLovely BonesAlice Sebold’s haunting andheartbreaking debut novel unfolds fromheaven, following the brutal murderof schoolgirl Susie Salmon; where “lifeis a perpetual yesterday” and whereSusie narrates and keeps watch over hergrieving family and friends, as well asher brazen killer and the sad detectiveworking on her case.SnowlegA young Englishman visits Cold WarLeipzig with a group of students and,during his brief excursion behind the IronCurtain, falls for an East German girl whois only just beginning to wake up to theway her society is governed. He spendsthe next 19 years pretending to himselfthat he is not in love until one day, withGermany now united, he decides to goback and look for her. But who was she,how will his actions have affected herand how will he find her? All he knowsof her identity is the nickname he gave toher - Snowleg.72