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The Buddha's Return by Gaito Gazdanov Bookshop Chronicles in Stone is aA millionaire is killed. A golden statuette of a Buddha goes missing. A penniless student, who is afflicted by dream like fits, is arrested and accused of murder. Slipping between the menacing dream world of the student's fevered imagination, and the dark back alleys of the Paris underworld, The Buddha's Return is part detective novel, part philosophical thriller, and part love story. In typically crisp, unfussy prose, Gazdanov's delicately balanced