Valentino and Sagittarius: Two Novellas
By: Natalia Ginzburg
3.99
Format: 134 pages, Hardcover
One of Italy's modern writers explores the theme of the break-up of families, with the subsequent d…
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1. The Vet's Daughter
By: Kathryn Davis , Barbara Comyns
3.90
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
The Vet’s Daughter combines shocking realism with a visionary edge. The vet lives with his bedridde… read more
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"Her face worked in an odd way, like knitting coming undone."-Kathryn Davis, The Vet's Daughter
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"It was Sunday morning, and old people passed me like sad grey waves on their way to church."-Kathryn Davis, The Vet's Daughter
"Now I lay down on this tree and felt a lonely sadness coming over me in waves. Slow tears ran from my eyes and trickled into my ears. I thought, 'I even cry in a humble, common way, with tears flowin…"-Kathryn Davis, The Vet's Daughter
2. Alien Hearts
By: Guy de Maupassant , Richard Howard
5.00
Format: 362 pages, Paperback
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3. Mating
By: Norman Rush
3.50
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4. Hardboiled & Hard Luck
By: Banana Yoshimoto , Michael Emmerich
3.66
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
Banana Yoshimoto's warm, witty, and heartfelt depictions of the lives of young Japanese have earned… read more
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5. Cassandra at the Wedding
By: Deborah Eisenberg , Dorothy Baker
3.54
Format: None pages, Paperback
Cassandra Edwards is a graduate student at Berkeley: gay, brilliant, nerve-wracked, miserable. At t… read more
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6. Eva Trout
By: Elizabeth Bowen
3.92
Format: 292 pages, Paperback
Eva Trout, Elizabeth Bowen's last novel, epitomizes her bold exploration of the territory between t… read more
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7. The Hotel
By: Elizabeth Bowen
3.47
Format: None pages, Paperback
These were the balmy days of the 1920s. The Hotel was a comfortable hotel on the Italian Riviera, r… read more
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8. Good Behaviour
By: Molly Keane , Marian Keyes
4.25
Format: 127 pages, Paperback
Behind the gates of Temple Alice, the aristocratic Anglo-Irish St Charles family sinks into a state… read more
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9. Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters
By: Annie Dillard
4.33
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
Here, in this compelling assembly of writings, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard explores… read more
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10. Quartet in Autumn
By: Barbara Pym
3.90
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
This is the story of four people in late middle-age - Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia - whose chief… read more
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11. Paradise
By: Toni Morrison
3.48
Format: None pages, Paperback
"They shoot the white girl first. With the rest they can take their time." So begins this visionary… read more
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12. Sweet Days of Discipline
By: Tim Parks , Fleur Jaeggy
4.50
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Set in postwar Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggy's eerily beautiful novel begins simply and innocently enou… read more
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13. The Door
By: Magda Szabó , Len Rix
4.00
Format: 98 pages, Hardcover
A busy young writer struggling to cope with domestic chores, hires a housekeeper recommended by a f… read more
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14. These Possible Lives
By: Fleur Jaeggy , None
4.25
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15. The Last September
By: Elizabeth Bowen
4.45
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16. The House in Paris
By: Elizabeth Bowen
4.45
Format: 864 pages, Paperback
One of Elizabeth Bowen's most artful and psychologically acute novels, The House in Parisis a timel… read more
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17. Mamut
By: Eva Baltasar
3.58
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La protagonista de Mamut és una dona arcaica atrapada en la vida moderna. El seu medi és la ciutat,… read more
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18. An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
By: Clarice Lispector
4.27
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
What to make of a writer who follows the metaphysical heights of her great Passion According to GH … read more
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"Ah "persona", como não te usar e ser!"-Clarice Lispector, An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
"Oh God! Having just one life was so little."-Clarice Lispector, An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
"Meu mistério é simples: eu não sei como estar viva."-Clarice Lispector, An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
"E digo: eu está apaixonada pelo teu eu. Então nós é."-Clarice Lispector, An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
19. The Fawn
By: Magda Szabó
4.18
Format: 215 pages, Hardcover
Eszter Encsy, a now accomplished actress, finds herself thinking about her impoverished and frustra… read more
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20. Elena Knows
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4.08
Format: 143 pages, Paperback
A unique tale that interweaves crime fiction with intimate tales of morality and search for individ… read more
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"¿Seguirá siendo madre ahora que no tiene hija?"-Claudia Piñeiro, Elena Knows
21. Enter Ghost
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4.09
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A bold, evocative new novel from the Sue Kaufman, Betty Trask and Plimpton Prize Award winner Isabe… read more
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22. Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
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4.10
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"It's very easy to stand L.A., which is why it's almost inevitable that all sorts of ideas get entertained."-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
23. Second Place
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3.68
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"Some people write simply because they don’t know how to live in the moment and have to reconstruct it and live in it afterwards."-Rachel Cusk, Second Place
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"Joskus minun vain täytyy saada puhua jotta tuntisin itseni todelliseksi, ja toivoisin että sinäkin puhuisit minulle." Hän makasi vaiti pimeässä ja tuijotti kattoon. Sitten hän sanoi: "Minusta tuntuu …"-Rachel Cusk, Second Place
"It struck me how the human capacity for receptivity is a kind of birthright, an asset given to us in the moment of our creation by which we are intended to regulate the currency of our souls. Unless …"-Rachel Cusk, Second Place
24. My Death
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3.98
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A widowed writer begins to work on a biography of a novelist and artist—and soon uncovers bizarre p… read more
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25. Lies and Sorcery
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4.16
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Elsa Morante is one of the great writers of the twentieth century—Natalia Ginzburg said she was the… read more
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26. The Birthday Party
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3.75
Format: 454 pages, Paperback
A painter contends with the ghosts of the French countryside in a psychological literary thriller b… read more
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27. Valentino and Sagittarius: Two Novellas
By: Natalia Ginzburg
3.99
Format: 134 pages, Hardcover
One of Italy's modern writers explores the theme of the break-up of families, with the subsequent d… read more
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- 20th century
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- fiction
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- modern classics
28. Fervor
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3.64
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A chilling and unforgettable story of a close-knit Jewish family in London pushed to the brink when… read more
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29. Rombo
By: Esther Kinsky
3.58
Format: 270 pages, Hardcover
Im Mai und im September 1976 erschüttern zwei schwere Erdbeben eine Landschaft und ihre Bevölkerung… read more
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30. Lord Jim at Home (McNally Editions)
By: Dinah Brooke
3.77
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
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31. Lost Cat
By: Mary Gaitskill
4.09
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‘Last year I lost my cat Gattino. He was very young, at seven months barely an adolescent. He is pr… read more
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"Who decides which… deaths are tragic and which are not? Who decides what is big and what is little? Is it a matter of numbers or physical mass or intelligence? If you are a little creature or a littl…"-Mary Gaitskill, Lost Cat
