/lit/ - Literature

>>18798388

Have you ever fallen in love with a character in a book? I mean, really fallen in love? The "I'd spend the rest of my life with you if I could" kind?

For me, it was Kolya from a City of Thieves by Benioff. I swear to god, I fell so hard.

He closed the door softly with a single smooth movement and set off down the road at a brisk but consistently steady pace. It was a mild night and wisps of grey cloud began to perturb the face of the moon, dulling the sparkles of it's light that were reflected on the wet cobblestones below. Muffled music could be heard emanating from the open door of a crowded pub alive with voices, the light from within exposing a pool of vomit quickly accumulating under a girl leaning against the wall outside, while the shopkeeper across the road looked on with narrowed eyes. The young man with a red beard who, as we have said, was walking at a brisk but consistent pace, neither seen nor heard any of this. He was in fact preoccupied with thoughts he deemed to be of a lofty nature, rendering him insensible to his external surroundings. He marched stoically on, compulsively rotating a pen between his fingers in his coat pocket, uninterested in the street and its denizens. As he turned a corner his train of thought was briefly interrupted by a clear and cheerful voice singing in fluent French. He responded to this burst of song with a shadow of a frown before promptly submerging himself again in his machinations, which must have been very important indeed. It seemed no length of time at all before he was blinking uncomfortably in the fluorescent light over the shop counter where the attendant was, for the second time, telling him the price of the chicken fillet roll he held - a student delicacy par excellance that provided energy enough to fuel hours of industrious procrastination - all for a meagre three euros, which he clumsily counted out and handed to the attendant.

I'm a sucker for the 'fish out of water' trope and am looking for a book that features a person/entity from a different dimension/world who arrives on modern day earth, can you guys suggest any? Something along the lines of 'The Wonderful Visit' by H.G. Wells