Depending on your nerves, “The Anomaly” may not be the best book to read during your next ... Le Tellier dares us to wonder if we could stand meeting the figure in the mirror.

As you read “The Anomaly,” by the French author Hervé Le Tellier, you might find yourself wondering what sort of book it is, exactly. Is it science fiction dressed up as philosophy?

Even so, “The Anomaly” is an outlier. Published in the late summer of 2020, the novel has sold 1.1 million copies here, more than any book since Marguerite Duras’s “The Lover,” which ...

In Wonder, R.J. Palacio tells the ... a "craniofacial difference" caused by an anomaly in his DNA. Palacio tells NPR's Michele Norris that the book was inspired by a real-life encounter with ...

Since this is very “meta”, to use that now tarnished word, one of them has written a novel called The Anomaly. His other has no memory of having written the book. There is something akin to ...

When you’re a child and your face doesn’t look like everyone else’s, when a genetic anomaly leaves you ... The best-selling book “Wonder,” which tells the fictional tale of such a ...