In the Heart of the Country
By: J.M. Coetzee
4.01
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
Stifled by the torpor of colonial South Africa, and trapped in a web of reciprocal oppression, a lo…
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1. The River Between
By: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
3.79
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
The River Between explores life on the Makuyu and Kameno ridges of Kenya in the early days of white… read more
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- classics
- literature
- fiction
- 20th century
- african literature
2. The Book of Chameleons
By: José Eduardo Agualusa , Daniel Hahn
3.83
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
This unusual novel about the landscape of memory and its inconsistencies follows Felix Ventura as h… read more
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- literature
- african literature
- fiction
"Era como se chovesse noite."-José Eduardo Agualusa, The Book of Chameleons
"A coragem não é contagiosa; o medo, sim."-José Eduardo Agualusa, The Book of Chameleons
"What life expects of us is that we celebrate."-José Eduardo Agualusa, The Book of Chameleons
"Na grande literatura são raros os amores felizes."-José Eduardo Agualusa, The Book of Chameleons
3. S. S. Proleterka
By: Alastair McEwen , Fleur Jaeggy
3.78
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
Our fifteen-year-old protagonist and her distant, financially ruined, yet somehow beloved father, J… read more
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- fiction
"Nothingness is the stuff of thought. Beings, autonomous voices, memories dredged up, following the lapping of the water. Nothingness is not empty."-Alastair McEwen, S. S. Proleterka
"Children lose interest in their parents when they are left. They are not sentimental. They are passionate and cold. [...] They learn to pretend. And pretense becomes the most active, the realest part…"-Alastair McEwen, S. S. Proleterka
4. The Left-Handed Woman (English and German Edition)
By: Peter Handke
3.21
Format: 87 pages, Paperback
Peter Handke tells the story of a woman determined to break with her husband and her past and to fo… read more
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- nobel prize
- classics
- literature
- 20th century
- fiction
5. Descending Figure
By: Louise Glück
4.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
(The American poetry series) read more
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- nobel prize
6. In the Heart of the Country
By: J.M. Coetzee
4.01
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
Stifled by the torpor of colonial South Africa, and trapped in a web of reciprocal oppression, a lo… read more
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- nobel prize
- classics
- south africa
- literature
- 20th century
- fiction
- african literature
7. Inland
By: Gerald Murnane
4.08
Format: 31 pages,
Is it possible to fall in love with a correspondent based entirely on a fascination with his or her… read more
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- literature
- fiction
- 20th century
8. Concrete
By: Thomas Bernhard , David McLintock
3.34
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Instead of the book he's meant to write, Rudolph, a Viennese musicologist, produces this tale of pr… read more
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- literature
- fiction
- 20th century
9. Tuareg
By: Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa
3.79
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
The Tuaregs are the true sons of the desert. They can survive in the harshest of conditions like no… read more
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- fiction
10. Pericles
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine
3.95
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Folger Shakespeare Library: the world's leading center for Shakespeare studies. Each edition includ… read more
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- literature
- classics
- fiction
11. Matigari
By: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
3.45
Format: 94 pages, Hardcover
Who is Matigari? Is he young or old; a man or fate; dead or living...or even a resurrection of Jesu… read more
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- literature
- african literature
- classics
- fiction
12. Aliss at the Fire
By: Jon Fosse , Damion Searls
3.99
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
In her old house by the fjord, Signe lies on a bench and sees a vision of herself as she was more t… read more
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- nobel prize
- fiction
13. The Plains
By: Gerald Murnane
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Fiction. Born in Melbourne, Austrailia, in 1939, Gerald Murnane recently retired as the senior lect… read more
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14. Moon Palace
By: Paul Auster
3.90
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Marco Stanley Fogg is an orphan, a child of the sixties, a quester tirelessly seeking the key to hi… read more
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15. The Circle (Commandant Martin Servaz, #2)
By: Alison Anderson , Bernard Minier
4.11
Format: 288 pages,
They find the boy by the swimming pool, dolls floating on its surface. Inside the house, his teache… read more
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16. Someone I Loved
By: Anna Gavalda , Catherine Evans
3.73
Format: None pages,
Anna Gavalda has been hailed as an author "graced with the Gallic virtues of dry wit and almost inv… read more
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17. The Music of Chance
By: Paul Auster
3.94
Format: 322 pages,
In a Pennsylvania meadow, a young fireman and an angry gambler are forced to build a wall of fiftee… read more
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18. Poftă de ciocolată
By: Care Santos , None
3.75
Format: 40 pages, Paperback
Sara, Aurora, Marianna - trei femei din trei secole, unite de pasiunea pentru ciocolata, carora des… read more
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19. Shame
By: Salman Rushdie
4.30
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
Librarian's Note: Alternate-cover edition for ISBN Omar Khayyam Shakil had three mothers who shar… read more
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20. The Invention of the Land of Israel: From Holy Land to Homeland
By: Shlomo Sand , None
3.88
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
What is a homeland, and when does it become a national territory? Why have so many people been will… read more
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21. Trilogía
By: Jon Fosse
3.90
Format: 162 pages, Paperback
Trilogía es un libro diferente. Es hipnótico. Para Jon Fosse escribir es como rezar y, para el lect… read more
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- nobel prize
- fiction
