Oscar and Lucinda, by Peter Carey. Two gamblers stake a wager on the insane attempt to manufacture, transport, and build a glass church in the Australian wilderness. Endlessly inventive, though sometimes at the price of verisimilitude or moving the plot. This won the Booker in 1988 or so.
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