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Paul, a feted designer, wanders the echoing corridors of a server farm in Norway – before, in a sudden blackout, he seems to vanish. In another time and space, a wounded stranger wakes in a forest, watched over by a young girl who helps him flee to an icebound settlement where perhaps he will find safety.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eInventive, enigmatic and chromatically resonant, \u003cem\u003eAir\u003c\/em\u003e is the seductively disorienting new novel from one of the most significant European writers working today. Heir to the ingenious fictions of Ursula K. 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