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A professor of Hitler studies, an airborne toxic event and the fear of death; DeLillo's comedy.

Leone's four-hour Jewish gangster epic across fifty years of New York.

Cain and Abel in the Salinas Valley across two generations; Steinbeck's own favourite.

A tennis academy, a halfway house and a film so entertaining it kills; 1,079 pages and 388 endnotes.

Six nested stories from 1849 to a post-apocalyptic Hawaii; Mitchell's puzzle box.

Four families and a mother's search for a husband for Lata in 1950s India; 1,349 pages.

Three generations of a Cairo family from 1917 to 1944; Mahfouz's Nobel work.

Five parts, a missing German novelist and the murdered women of Santa Teresa; Bolano's unfinished monument.