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At seventy-three, Herz finds himself bewildered by the modern world and unsure of how to spend the remaining years of his life. The letters he writes and the people he encounters remind him how out of touch he is from the present. Yet, he believes that he must do something significant, only he doesn't know what this next big thing should be.
First publish date: 2002
Genre: Psychological Fiction/Psychological Drama
Authors: Anita Brookner
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