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The Manual of Detection: A Novel Business_Gift_Guide Read people in every situation—in"This debut novel weaves the kind of mannered fantasy that might result if Wes Anderson were to adapt Kafka." The New Yorker Reminiscent of imaginative fiction from Jorge Luis Borges to Jasper Fforde yet dazzlingly original, The Manual of Detection marks the debut of a prodigious young talent. Charles Unwin toils as a clerk at a huge, imperious detective agency located in an unnamed city always slick with rain. When Travis Sivart, the agency's most