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The start of the year offers ample chance to dive into a good book. From lighthearted reads ... Paul Murray’s The Bee Sting is a tour de force of fiction. The Barnes, a once-well-off Irish ...

Only a portion of Ms. Han’s fiction is available in English, but what we have falls along a spectrum between allegory and extreme realism. On one pole is “The Vegetarian” (2007), about a ...