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A man is put into a coma by a falling object. He goes on to receive an 8 million pound settlement and with his newfound wealth obsessively tries to recreate a scene that he may have once witnessed. This is the premise for Tom McCarthy's Remainder, possibly one of the most imaginative novels to come out of the UK in the last few years. It's also a mesmerizing story of one man's struggle to come to terms with reality and also his struggle to cope with a nearly fatal trauma. McCarthy's novel also dissects the way we think, act and perceive the world around us but does so with so much literary style that the work never devolves into an intellectual swamp.

No time…Must get back down to Harbourfront…IFOA in full swing…Here are some other literary events taking place this week….

If film buffs get the TIFF, art buffs get the Queen West Art Crawl, and hockey buffs get the NHL playoffs, then literary types get the IFOA. This year's fest packs in dozens of authors and into 10 days worth of readings, panel discussions, interviews and parties. Yes, once in a while literary types put down their books and drink.