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I just read "Major Pettigrew's Last Stand", by Helen Simonson. It's a wonderful, gentle British comedy of manors about a retired major and a Pakistani woman.

The one before that was Nick Harkaway's "The Gone Away World". I LOVED it. How many books can put together the Apocalpse, ninjas, mimes and have a love story? The best way to describe it is Catch-22 meets Kurt Vonegut. It's very bizarre, but well written, and it has an ending that you don't expect, but it fits perfectly with the rest of the book.
Thanks for the suggestions. I just ordered both--the former for me and the latter for DH for his birthday. I also ordered a relatively new book by Dave Eggers about Hurricane Katrina. Now, I have no business buying more books right now; I have an addiction.