The safe bets of fiction | Culture

Last March that hackneyed phrase that reality surpasses fiction took on a new and unexpected meaning. The eyes of many readers strayed from the news tables and returned to some classics, the publishers toiled in a hasty change of plans and the fiction immediately before the uncertain pandemic period was floating. Has the time come in 2021 to reap some literary fruits? In the crop of fiction books that will arrive with the new year there are many safe bets: recovered classics and the expected return of authors who have triumphed …

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