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meridia buy europe A favorite book of 2013 was Andrea Barrett's "Archangel." When I'm explaining Ms. Barrett's work to people, I'll say that a lot of it uses the history of science, but this barely approaches what she does in fiction or why I love it. This collection of five stories is very much about how ideas work their way into lives. We're used to seeing politics and religion as beliefs we act on, but Ms. Barrett has plots about shifts in scientific thought. The outside world (rich in strangeness, often violent) casts its shadow into these subtle, complicated stories. Another book that impressed me greatly was Paul Yoon's "Snow Hunters." It's a spare novel, set in an unexpected bypath of history. Yohan, a young North Korean soldier, takes the chance to defect after the Korean War and is sent to the coast of Brazil, of all places. At a certain point, I realized this wasn't going to be a regular novel???where we watch who does what to whom???but a book about solitude, the hardest thing to frame fiction around. The transplanted Yohan is a great observer of the physical world, but he can only reflect so far; other people are mysteries to him. Who would think you could make a story out of this? Mystery in the wider sense is what this novel evokes.