“I was 37 then, strapped in my seat as the huge 747 plunged through dense cloud cover on approach to Hamburg airport. Cold November rains drenched the earth, lending everything the gloomy air of a Flemish landscape: the ground crew in waterproofs, a flag atop a squat airport building, a BMW billboard. So – Germany again.”
‘Norwegian Wood’ by Haruki Murakami
Amazon

Try one of these 1st paras & discover a new author:-
‘Brighton Rock’ by Graham Greene
‘In Cold Blood’ by Truman Capote
‘The Sense of an Ending’ by Julian Barnes

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