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  In what fictional location does the main action take place in The Dark Frontier, by Eric Ambler?

Eric Ambler 		see if you know the answer
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  Who is conversing in Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities? see if you know the answer
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  What do these books have in common?:
If On a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
Cherry by Mary Karr
Absalom Absalom by William Faulkner
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien 		see if you know the answer
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  Who is famous for having written a novel which does not contain the letter 'e'? see if you know the answer
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  The movie "The Postman" ("Il Postino") is based on ... see if you know the answer
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  Shahrazad famously spins her stories in A Thousand and One Nights in an interlinked manner, in such a way that each word and each story added serves to delay the ending and to extend time (and thus, to prolong her life); potentially, infinitely so. Often -- particularly when she tells stories within a story -- she actually even makes her listener/reader go all the way back to the point where (s)he started.

Which of the following modern books likewise contain examples of such circular or "life-extending" storytelling (or even a direct or indirect reference to "1001 Nights")? 		see if you know the answer
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