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Breakfast in the ruins / Michael Moorcock

The novel centres on Karl Glogauer as he experiences a series of historical vignettes exploring the nature of inhumanity. His relationship with an unnamed man from Nigeria is interwoven with fantasies of the alternate lives he could have led throughout history.
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