The Spirit of Science Fiction
By: Roberto Bolaño
3.46
Format: 196 pages, Hardcover
A tale of bohemian youth on the make in Mexico City from a master of contemporary fiction, and a su…
Want to Read $ 4.99"What a lovely young man,"-Roberto Bolaño, The Spirit of Science Fiction
"There are no rare texts. Wretched ones, to be sure, and luminous ones, but none of them rare."-Roberto Bolaño, The Spirit of Science Fiction
"The only thing an intellectual can do is watch things blow up, from a safe distance, of course."-Roberto Bolaño, The Spirit of Science Fiction
"She sighed wickedly. “I wasn’t even saying good-bye to him, but to his penis. Ten inches. I measured it myself with my mother’s measuring tape."-Roberto Bolaño, The Spirit of Science Fiction
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1. Hopscotch
By: Julio Cortázar , Gregory Rabassa
4.20
Format: 564 pages, Paperback
Horacio Oliveira is an Argentinian writer who lives in Paris with his mistress, La Maga, surrounded… read more
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- literature
- latin american
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"Pero el amor, esa palabra..."-Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch
"Explanation is a well-dressed error."-Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch
"Pobre amor el que de pensamiento se alimenta."-Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch
"Hay ausencias que representan un verdadero triunfo"-Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch
2. The Literary Conference
By: César Aira , Katherine Silver
3.60
Format: 92 pages, Paperback
César is a playwright and translator who has fallen on very hard times due to the global economic d… read more
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- literature
- latin american
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- science fiction
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3. Mao II
By: Don DeLillo
4.31
Format: 110 pages, Paperback
"One of the most intelligent, grimly funny voices to comment on life in present-day America" (The N… read more
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- literature
- literary fiction
- fiction
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4. Austerlitz
By: Anthea Bell , W.G. Sebald
4.67
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with f… read more
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- literature
- novels
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5. Tristessa
By: Aram Saroyan , Jack Kerouac
4.33
Format: 308 pages,
Tristessa is the name with which Kerouac baptized Esperanza Villanueva, a Catholic Mexican young wo… read more
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- literature
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6. Ways of Going Home
By: Alejandro Zambra , Megan McDowell
3.98
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Ways of Going Homebegins with an earthquake, seen through the eyes of an unnamed nine-year-old boy.… read more
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- literature
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7. El Llano en llamas
By: Juan Rulfo
4.47
Format: None pages,
'The Burning Plain and Other Stories consists of fifteen pieces ranging from brief anecdotes, casua… read more
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- literature
- spanish literature
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8. Solenoid
By: Mircea Cărtărescu
3.59
Format: 83 pages, Paperback
,,Vreau sa scriu o dare de seama despre anomaliile mele. In viata mea obscura, in afara oricarei is… read more
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9. Compass
By: Mathias Énard , Charlotte Mandell
4.22
Format: None pages, Hardcover
As night falls over Vienna, Franz Ritter, an insomniac musicologist, takes to his sickbed with an u… read more
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10. The Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory
By: Jorge Luis Borges , Norman Thomas di Giovanni
3.53
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
'One of the most remarkable artists of our age' - Mario Vargas Llosa. The Book of Sandwas the last … read more
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11. Bonsai
By: Alejandro Zambra
3.49
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Winner of Chile's Literary Critics' Award for Best Novel" Now a Major Motion Picture Hailed as a g… read more
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12. Invisible Collection
By: Stefan Zweig
3.99
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
The first of these two Stefan Zweig tales, The Invisible Collection, is about a blind collector of … read more
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13. Vineland
By: Thomas Pynchon
2.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
A group of Americans in Northern California in 1984 are struggling with the consequences of their l… read more
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14. Multiple Choice
By: Alejandro Zambra , Megan McDowell
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Multiple Choiceis unlike anything I've ever encountered before. . . . Reading this book is a wonde… read more
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15. Literatura infantil
By: Alejandro Zambra
4.25
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
Diario de paternidad, «carta al hijo» y ficción pura conviven en extraordinaria armonía a lo largo … read more
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- audiobook
"No recuerdo nuestro primer viaje solos, a mis tres o cuatro años, pero él lo ha contado tantas veces que su relato funciona casi como un recuerdo implantado."-Alejandro Zambra, Literatura infantil
"La biología nos asegura un lugar en sus vidas, pero igual ansiamos que nos elijan como padres. Que alguna vez digan esta frase tan maravillosamente rara: 'Mi padre fue mi verdadero padre'."-Alejandro Zambra, Literatura infantil
"Me enorgullece que la primera palabra pronunciada por mi hijo, hace cinco días, haya sido, contra toda tendencia estadística, la palabra papá. Ahora la dice a cada rato. Todavía le cuesta, eso sí, ar…"-Alejandro Zambra, Literatura infantil
"La lectura silenciosa es en cierto modo una conquista; quienes leemos en silencio y en soledad aprendemos, justamente, a estar solos, o mejor dicho reconquistamos una soledad menos agresiva, una sole…"-Alejandro Zambra, Literatura infantil
16. Poeta chileno
By: Alejandro Zambra
4.39
Format: 421 pages, Paperback
En Santiago de Chile, a principios de los años noventa del pasado siglo, dos quinceañeros, Gonzalo … read more
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- poetry
- literary fiction
- literature
- latin american
- spanish literature
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- novels
- audiobook
"fumar rabiosamente y aguantar las lágrimas, lo que no era fácil, porque fumar y llorar son actividades complementarias"-Alejandro Zambra, Poeta chileno
"Decir que eso la felicidad: nunca sentir que sería mejor estar en otra parte, nunca sentir que sería mejor ser alguien más. Otra persona. Alguien más joven, más viejo. Alguien mejor."-Alejandro Zambra, Poeta chileno
"El padre señala con sutileza y autoridad la forma correcta de patear la pelota, porque el padre sabe de esas cosas. El padre se deja ganar, porque para ser un buen padre hay que dejarse ganar. Ser pa…"-Alejandro Zambra, Poeta chileno
"It is better to write than not to write. Poetry is subversive because it exposes you, tears you apart. You dare to distrust yourself. You dare to disobey. That's the idea, to disobey everyone. Disobe…"-Alejandro Zambra, Poeta chileno
17. Gehen
By: Thomas Bernhard
3.94
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Auf regelmäßigen Spaziergängen berichtet Oehler, der früher mit Karrer ging, einem Dritten, warum K… read more
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- novels
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"We always look for everything in the immediate proximity, that is a mistake."-Thomas Bernhard, Gehen
"There is nothing more dreadful than having to go walking on one’s own on Monday."-Thomas Bernhard, Gehen
"The whole process of life is a process of deterioration in which everything—and this is the most cruel law—continually gets worse."-Thomas Bernhard, Gehen
18. The Spirit of Science Fiction
By: Roberto Bolaño
3.46
Format: 196 pages, Hardcover
A tale of bohemian youth on the make in Mexico City from a master of contemporary fiction, and a su… read more
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- literary fiction
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- spanish literature
- fiction
- 21st century
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- science fiction
"What a lovely young man,"-Roberto Bolaño, The Spirit of Science Fiction
"There are no rare texts. Wretched ones, to be sure, and luminous ones, but none of them rare."-Roberto Bolaño, The Spirit of Science Fiction
"The only thing an intellectual can do is watch things blow up, from a safe distance, of course."-Roberto Bolaño, The Spirit of Science Fiction
"She sighed wickedly. “I wasn’t even saying good-bye to him, but to his penis. Ten inches. I measured it myself with my mother’s measuring tape."-Roberto Bolaño, The Spirit of Science Fiction
19. Un cuento de Navidad
By: Alejandro Zambra
4.36
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Una historia sobre los vínculos entre la literatura y la vida —y sobre una compañía que se borra. … read more
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20. Summer (Seasons Quartet, #4)
By: Karl Ove Knausgård
3.93
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
The grand finale of Karl Ove Knausgaard's masterful and intensely-personal series about the four se… read more
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- audiobook
"A person who is everyone is no one, empty. A person who is someone can always become someone else."-Karl Ove Knausgård, Summer (Seasons Quartet, #4)
"Only by forgetting that one is writing can one write and give an external expression to the internal thought without it being marked or prevented by shame, as all other external expressions are."-Karl Ove Knausgård, Summer (Seasons Quartet, #4)
"few things are a more satisfying substitute for the presence of other people than writing, which at the same time provides an excuse for one's antisocial behaviour, for everyone knows that someone wh…"-Karl Ove Knausgård, Summer (Seasons Quartet, #4)
"I asked whether beauty was important to her. She said she had been trained to be suspicious of beauty, to be on guard against it. So am I, it is a tenet of our culture that beauty, at least the obvio…"-Karl Ove Knausgård, Summer (Seasons Quartet, #4)
