A Postcard for Annie
By: Ida Jessen
3.70
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
A young woman witnesses a terrible accident with unexpected consequences, a mother sits with her un…
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1. The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
By: Marcel Proust , None , Terence Kilmartin , D.J. Enright
4.39
Format: 957 pages, Paperback
The Modern Library’s fifth volume of In Search of Lost Time contains both The Captive (1923) and Th… read more
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- fiction
"...every social class has its own pathology..."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"Love is space and time made perceptible to the heart."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"There are optical errors in time as there are in space."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
2. Visitation
By: Susan Bernofsky , Jenny Erpenbeck
3.93
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A house on the forested bank of a Brandenburg lake outside Berlin (once belonging to Erpenbeck's gr… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
3. Desarticulaciones
By: Sylvia Molloy
4.73
Format: None pages, Paperback
Como pelando una cebolla, capa a capa, el mal de Alzheimer avanza sobre ML., desalojando de su ment… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
4. The Death of Virgil
By: Hermann Broch , Jean Starr Untermeyer
3.65
Format: 36 pages, Paperback
It is the reign of the Emperor Augustus, and Publius Vergilius Maro, the poet of the Aeneid and Cae… read more
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- fiction
5. 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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6. Billy Budd and Other Stories
By: Herman Melville , Frederick Busch
3.74
Format: 646 pages, Paperback
Tales of compelling power by one of America's greatest writers Stung by the critical reception and … read more
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7. Boulder
By: Eva Baltasar
3.89
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
La protagonista d'aquesta novel·la és una dona atreta per la solitud com per un imant. Es guanya la… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"Los niños pequeños tienen ese poder, imponen su alegría al malestar ordinario de los adultos."-Eva Baltasar, Boulder
"Y sin embargo he descubierto que no se puede columpiar a un hijo sin sonreír. Lo he intentado y es imposible. Los niños pequeños tienen ese poder, imponen su alegría al malestar ordinario de los adul…"-Eva Baltasar, Boulder
"I listen with all five senses, I listen to her with my entire body, with everything but my heart, which feels like it wants to thrash the hell out of me. This wasn't part of our plan. The truth is we…"-Eva Baltasar, Boulder
"But all this tunneling has opened rifts through which the captive parts of me have started to emerge. I realize that I am smoke, that the things that define me rise as they would up a chimney, probin…"-Eva Baltasar, Boulder
8. Shubeik Lubeik
By: Deena Mohamed
4.50
Format: 528 pages, ebook
A brilliant and imaginative debut graphic novel that brings to life a fantastical Cairo where wishe… read more
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- fiction
9. 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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- fiction
- contemporary
"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
10. The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
By: Olga Ravn
3.67
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
A workplace novel of the 22nd century The near-distant future. Millions of kilometres from Earth… read more
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- fiction
- danish
"This is not a human, but a coworker."-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
"Cada ação encerra em si um elemento de caos."-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
"Tudo precisa atravessar enormes distâncias para se tornar o que é."-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
"Eu também tenho em mim palavras apagadas que deveria ter dito e já não sei mais o que significam."-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
11. A Shining
By: Jon Fosse
3.49
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
A man starts driving without knowing where he is going. He alternates between turning right and lef… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
"but you can’t just touch a whiteness like that. because if you did you’d probably get it dirty. and imagine getting something so white dirty"-Jon Fosse, A Shining
"Es ist auch nicht zu begreifen, es ist etwas anderes, vielleicht etwas, das man nur erlebt und das nicht wirklich geschieht. Aber geht es an, dass man so etwas einfach erlebt. Alles, was man erlebt, …"-Jon Fosse, A Shining
12. Eastbound
By: Maylis de Kerangal
3.97
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
From Wellcome Prize winner Maylis de Kerangal comes a fast-paced story of two fugitives set on the … read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
13. A Little Luck
By: Claudia Piñeiro
4.29
Format: 211 pages, Paperback
After twenty years, a woman returns to the suburban Argentina she had fled to escape a dreadful acc… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"Para escribir un diario hay que tener una seguridad del valor que tiene contar la vida propia que yo no tengo."-Claudia Piñeiro, A Little Luck
14. The Details
By: Ia Genberg
3.90
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
An acclaimed Swedish author makes her English language debut with this intoxicating novel in the ve… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"La fiducia resta lettera morta, se non la si sente nelle ossa."-Ia Genberg, The Details
"L'io , o meglio, il cosidetto "io", non è altro che questo: ciò che resta delle persone a cui ci siamo stretti."-Ia Genberg, The Details
"La vita mi ha regalato la mia buona dose di magia, e il più delle volte è successo all'incontro con gli altri. Lì c'è qualcosa. Lì, soltanto lì."-Ia Genberg, The Details
"Per i morti la successione del tempo non ha importanza, l'unica cosa che conta sono i dettagli, la densità, il come e il cosa e tutto ciò che riguarda il chi."-Ia Genberg, The Details
15. No es un río
By: Selva Almada
3.95
Format: 104 pages, Kindle Edition
Enero y el Negro llevan de pesca a Tilo, hijo adolescente de Eusebio, el amigo muerto. Mientras beb… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
16. The Hive and the Honey: Stories
By: Paul Yoon
3.75
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times , Time , and Literary Hub most-anticipated book of the fall. From the beloved a… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
"We have this life, and then we become something else. Wouldn't you agree? You have had this life but soon, tomorrow, you will become someone else, with someone else. You mustn't be afraid of change l…"-Paul Yoon, The Hive and the Honey: Stories
17. The Long Form
By: Kate Briggs
4.09
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Helen and her young baby, Rose, are awake. It is first thing on a new morning. They move, they rest… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"For what if it were easier to love a pattern when you were a pattern yourself? When social life required that you fall into its established patterns, starting with the basic division of day and night…"-Kate Briggs, The Long Form
"The novel, by working with the interplay of durations, and inviting the reader to interact with them, has the capacity to pay a double, triple, multiple allegiance to the weird workings of time, to o…"-Kate Briggs, The Long Form
"The world is surprising. It had undiscovered stores. It is not yet wholly given. There will be new gestures, new questions, new forms of life. The capacity to welcome them, to make room for them (to …"-Kate Briggs, The Long Form
"I know time. I know time differently now. I know it because I am unlearning it. I know it because the baby is teaching me that the rhythms of the clock and the calendar, and even the most elemental d…"-Kate Briggs, The Long Form
18. Nails and Eyes
By: Kaori Fujino
3.43
Format: 138 pages, Paperback
Tense, subtly disturbing Japanese literary horror perfect for fans of The Memory Police, Tender is … read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
"As a woman, Shoko is extremely petite, but as a heart, she is wondrously large."-Kaori Fujino, Nails and Eyes
"Maybe she suddenly had a deathwish, the way some people fall in love at first sight."-Kaori Fujino, Nails and Eyes
"There were always going to be people who loved you and people who hated you, no matter what you did, so why let anything trouble you?"-Kaori Fujino, Nails and Eyes
"You felt that your life would always be this way. Not as one day going by, and then another, but life as an ever-expanding single day. And yet, time did go by."-Kaori Fujino, Nails and Eyes
19. The Forgery
By: Ave Barrera
3.91
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
A failing artist turned forger, an architectural masterpiece hidden behind high walls, an impish va… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"Me pasé días enteros abstraído, machacando tierras y mezclando los ingredientes. Los vapores de la trementina me sumían en un sopor lúcido del que salía únicamente para cambiar de disco o ir al baño.…"-Ave Barrera, The Forgery
"Habían pasado tantos años desde que trabajaba con mi maestro, que me había olvidado de la sensación de estar frente a frente con una obra tan antigua, sin luces de museo, sin una línea que me impidie…"-Ave Barrera, The Forgery
20. My Phantoms
By: Gwendoline Riley
3.83
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Bridget's mother is dying. An extrovert with few friends who has sought intimacy in the wrong place… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
21. Whale
By: Cheon Myeong-Kwan
3.96
Format: 420 pages, Paperback
While "Whale" begins with Chunhee, a mysterious young brickmaker of imposing physicality who cannot… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
22. A New Name: Septology VI-VII
By: Jon Fosse
4.49
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
Asle is an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway. His only fr… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"God is so far away that no one can say anything about him and that’s why all ideas about God are wrong, and at the same time he is so close that we almost can’t notice him, because he is the foundati…"-Jon Fosse, A New Name: Septology VI-VII
23. Ti amo
By: Hanne Ørstavik
3.86
Format: 92 pages, Hardcover
"Jeg elsker deg. Vi sier det til hverandre hele tiden. Vi sier det, i stedet for å si noe annet. Hv… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
24. Kibogo
By: Scholastique Mukasonga
3.81
Format: 4 pages, Audio CD
In four beautifully woven parts, Mukasonga spins a marvelous recounting of the clash between ancien… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
25. Of Cattle and Men
By: Ana Paula Maia
3.97
Format: 99 pages, Paperback
Animals go mad and men die (accidentally and not) at a slaughterhouse in an impoverished, isolated … read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"Senhor Milo knows cattlemen, he's cut from the same cloth. No one goes unpunished. They're men of cattle and blood."-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men
"Two enclosures, one for cattle and one for men, standing side by side. Sometimes the smell is familiar. Only the voices on one side and the mooing on the other distinguish the men from the ruminants."-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men
"Edgar picks up the mallet. The steer comes up close to him. Edgar looks into the animal's eyes and caresses its forehead. The cow stomps one hoof, wags its tail and snorts. Edgar shushes the animal a…"-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men
"For a few moments, Edgar Wilson yields to the late afternoon sun that has not yet fully set, but that is rushing headlong into a moonless, starless night. He knows how to listen in silence, even when…"-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men
26. A Postcard for Annie
By: Ida Jessen
3.70
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
A young woman witnesses a terrible accident with unexpected consequences, a mother sits with her un… read more
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- fiction
- short stories
- danish
- contemporary
27. Ungeenheden
By: Fine Gråbøl
3.68
Format: 169 pages, Paperback
Ungeenheden er Fine Gråbøls debut. En omsorgsfuld og kritisk roman om en gruppe unge i psykiatrien … read more
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- danish
- contemporary
"Our daily routines are our best illusions of new beginnings, a new cycle."-Fine Gråbøl, Ungeenheden
28. Fish Soup
By: Margarita García Robayo
3.77
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
From internationally acclaimed author Margarita García Robayo comes Fish Soup, a unique collection … read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
29. La tournée d'automne
By: Jacques Poulin
3.87
Format: 191 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Comme chaque année en été, un chauffeur de bibliobus entreprend sa tournée des petits villages de l… read more
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- contemporary
30. Through the Night Like a Snake: Latin American Horror Stories
By: Sarah Coolidge
4.01
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
A boy explores the abandoned house of a dead fascist… A leaked sex tape pushes a woman to the brin… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
31. The Dog of Tithwal: Stories
By: Saadat Hasan Manto
4.02
Format: 418 pages, Paperback
“[Manto’s] empathy and narrative economy invite comparisons with Chekhov. These readable, idiomatic… read more
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- fiction
