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One of the best books of the year, Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon, contained this line: “Yet who can presume to say what the war wants, so vast and aloof it is . . . so absentee.” The story of a search for a Nazi rocket in the closing days of World War II was a Tribune critics’ choice during this month.