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  Document Outline

  Front Cover

  Title Page

  Copyright

  Contents

  The Cat’s Dream

  Fatigue

  The Refusal

  Untitled

  The Freezing Piano

  He Who Died in His Sleep

  The Man in the Audience

  The Hatter

  Driving Eastward

  Our Pet Dog

  The Wild Boar

  The Programmer

  The Neighbors in My Building

  The Doorbell Salesman

  The Soothsayer

  The Raven from the Traffic Island

  The Stone Shelter

  The Shepherd

  The Gray Balloon

  The Red Dog

  The Bank Robber

  The CEO of the Conglomerate

  A Tale That Might Have Been Told by Rumi

  Tower or Gate

  The Watchmaker

  Planning Ahead

  Everything Is Relative

  The Bureau of Housing

  The Bureau of Cartography

  The Bureau of Espionage

  The Bureau of Quiet

  The Shouts

  Allapua

  The Projectionist

  The Most Original Artist in the World

  The Hoopoe and the Dove

  The Reader

  The Pilgrims

  Five Minutes

  The Reined Horse

  The Burnt Village

  Dating

  The Minister’s Driver

  Bright Morning

  The Interviewer

  The Twins

  Travel Diary

  Entrepreneurship

  Silence Is Golden

  The Stranger

  The New Mother

  The Hunter

  The Patient

  The Countess’s Table

  The Ultimate Horror of Being

  The Mayor’s Dream

  Notoriety

  The Bridge Builder

  The Wheelbarrow Driver

  The Drunkard Father

  The Fawns

  Sand Burial

  Beauty Sleep

  The Prophet

  The Moth Under the Net

  The Second Book

  The Soldiers and the Dogs

  The Empty Aircraft Carrier

  The Feral Girl

  Ignition

  Cloudburst

  The Poet

  The Sculptress

  The Screech of the Crane

  The Tour Guide

  Further Up the Path

  Why You Shall Not See Me on the Road

  The Bureau of Animal Protection

  The Bureau of Transportation

  The Hermit

  The Priestess and the Witch

  The Exiled Empress

  The Tale of an Author

  The End of the Song

  The Blue Pear

  Hendibeh

  Acknowledgments

  About the Author / About the Translator

  Colophon