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He received a guggenheim fellowship in 2002, and in 2005 he won the bard ficton prize. A stunning, imaginative novel about the great architect of paris baron georgeseugene haussmann, who demolished and rebu. The artist of the missing farrar, straus and giroux, 1999. Lafarges stunning novel of love, betrayal, and exploitation is based on themes involving the life of the great city planner georgeseugene haussmann.

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