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Books set where you're going
The city break upgrade: arrive already homesick for the place.
A guidebook tells you where to eat. A novel set there tells you what the place is like at 2am in November. Pack both; read this one.
A Year in Provence
Peter Mayle
The book that launched a thousand ruined farmhouses. Funnier than its imitators, still.
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My Brilliant Friend
Elena Ferrante
Naples, fury, and the greatest friendship in modern fiction. Book one of four; you'll want all four.
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Night Train to Lisbon
Pascal Mercier
A teacher abandons his life mid-lesson and boards a train. Lisbon as a state of mind.
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