Woman Running in the Mountains
By: Yūko Tsushima
3.86
Format: 275 pages, Hardcover
Pregnant and unmarried, Takiko, who lives at home with her violent, alcoholic father and her hard-w…
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1. Self Portraits: Tales from the Life of Japan's Great Decadent Romantic
By: Osamu Dazai
3.70
Format: 24 pages, Hardcover
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2. Kairos
By: Jenny Erpenbeck
3.46
Format: 379 pages, Hardcover
Die neunzehnjährige Katharina und Hans, ein verheirateter Mann Mitte fünfzig, begegnen sich Ende de… read more
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"She would like a shallow life, swift and shallow, till some day she can start again. Get through her time fast until then. And when will that be? Then."-Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos
3. 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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4. Ik kom hier nog op terug
By: Rob van Essen
3.78
Format: 398 pages, Paperback
Wanneer hij de mogelijkheid krijgt een fout uit het verleden te herstellen grijpt Rob Hollander dit… read more
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"Was het grote falen van mijn leven eigenlijk niet dat ik zo weinig had gefaald, omdat ik zo weinig had gedaan, omdat ik me zo weinig had verbonden, aan mensen, aan dingen? Ik had mezelf geen kans geg…"-Rob van Essen, Ik kom hier nog op terug
5. Parade
By: Rachel Cusk
3.70
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more
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"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
6. The Premonition
By: Banana Yoshimoto
3.43
Format: 133 pages, Hardcover
The internationally beloved author of Kitchen and Dead-End Memories returns with a beautiful and he… read more
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"I'd never known a love before that could blot out the world around like this."-Banana Yoshimoto, The Premonition
"Later, for the first time in a very long time, I heard my aunt play the piano. Its tone was soft, and just like I remembered it. At the kitchen window one overcast afternoon, I watched its beautiful …"-Banana Yoshimoto, The Premonition
7. My Death
By: Lisa Tuttle
3.98
Format: 93 pages, Paperback
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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8. Lies and Sorcery
By: Elsa Morante
4.16
Format: 800 pages, Paperback
Elsa Morante is one of the great writers of the twentieth century—Natalia Ginzburg said she was the… read more
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9. What I'd Rather Not Think About
By: Jente Posthuma
3.77
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
What if one half of a pair of twins no longer wants to live? What if the other can’t live without t… read more
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"Cracks in the ground aren't always visible to the naked eye. Every movement has the potential to take you down."-Jente Posthuma, What I'd Rather Not Think About
"This was shocking to me, because if the oldest person I knew understood even less about the world than I did, then how was it possible that other adults had all the answers? And what was the point of…"-Jente Posthuma, What I'd Rather Not Think About
"To be a natural presence, you shouldn't take up too much space, which I always found easy at the beginning of a friendship. It felt nice to reshape myself into precisely the right format until the mo…"-Jente Posthuma, What I'd Rather Not Think About
10. Oersoep
By: Bregje Hofstede
3.77
Format: 214 pages, Paperback
Iets wendde zich in mij, zoals je sommige pennen draait om de punt naar buiten te laten komen – en … read more
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11. Mild Vertigo
By: Mieko Kanai
3.55
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Housewife Natsumi leads a small, unremarkable life in a modern Tokyo apartment with her husband and… read more
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12. Asa: The Girl Who Turned into a Pair of Chopsticks
By: Natsuko Imamura
3.47
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The startling first collection of dark, surreal, and unsettling stories from the international priz… read more
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13. The Silentiary
By: Antonio di Benedetto
3.86
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
The Silentiary takes place in a nameless Latin American city during the early 1950s. A young man em… read more
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14. Hit Parade of Tears
By: Izumi Suzuki
3.43
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A new collection of stories from the cult author of Terminal Boredom. Izumi Suzuki had ideas abo… read more
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"Love isn't like a house you can just kick back and live in once its completed. No, it gets more worn and tattered day by day, unless you keep on making it up."-Izumi Suzuki, Hit Parade of Tears
15. Woman Running in the Mountains
By: Yūko Tsushima
3.86
Format: 275 pages, Hardcover
Pregnant and unmarried, Takiko, who lives at home with her violent, alcoholic father and her hard-w… read more
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16. Mina's Matchbox
By: Yōko Ogawa
3.85
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning, psychologically astute author of The Memory Police, here is a hypnotic, int… read more
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"Quant à l'endroit où se trouvait mon père, le jour de ses funérailles, ma mère me l'avait indiqué. C'est un peu loin, mais un jour ou l'autre nous irons le rejoindre, il n'y a pas à craindre de s'éga…"-Yōko Ogawa, Mina's Matchbox
17. Gold (New York Review Books Classics)
By: Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
4.38
Format: 87 pages, Paperback
A vibrant selection of poems by the great Persian mystic with groundbreaking translations by an Ame… read more
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18. The Little Sparrow Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #6)
By: Seishi Yokomizo
4.01
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
An old friend of Kosuke Kindaichi's invites the scruffy detective to visit the remote mountain vill… read more
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19. The Last Sane Woman
By: Hannah Regel
3.67
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
A beguiling debut novel about friendship and failure, written with unusual craft and spryness by an… read more
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20. People Who Talk to Stuffed Animals Are Nice: Stories
By: Ao Omae
3.22
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A fresh, thoughtful, and always surprising short story collection from a rising young star in the w… read more
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21. The Third Love
By: Hiromi Kawakami
3.36
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Having married her childhood sweetheart, Riko now finds herself trapped in a relationship that has … read more
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