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A Dead Hand

novel by Theroux

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In Paul Theroux: Later works
A Dead Hand (2009) is a crime novel set in India. The Lower River (2012) chronicles an elderly man’s return to the Malawian village where he had served as a Peace Corps volunteer in his youth. Some of Theroux’s short fiction was collected in Mr.…
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