An Inventory of Losses
By: Judith Schalansky
3.36
Format: 253 pages, Hardcover
Each disparate object described in this book—a Caspar David Friedrich painting, a species of tiger,…
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1. Novels in Three Lines
By: None , Félix Fénéon
3.88
Format: 171 pages, Paperback
A NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS ORIGINALNovels in Three Lines collects more than a thousand items that appe… read more
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- literature
- nonfiction
- short stories
- history
"Jules Marty, commesso di merceria, 56 anni, e sua moglie, 38, si sono asfissiati a Saint-Ouen. La miseria."-None, Novels in Three Lines
"Aubervilliers. Dopo aver ferito a morte la signora Brécourt, Louis Tiratoivsky si è tolto la vita. L'amore."-None, Novels in Three Lines
"Strahlend: >>Es hätte auch mehr werden können!<< rief der Möder Lebret, in Rouen zu lebenslänglicher Zwangsarbeit verurteilt."-None, Novels in Three Lines
"La sera Blandine Guérin, di Vauncé si è svestita nelle scale. Poi, nuda come la parete di un'aula scolastica, si è annegata in un pozzo"-None, Novels in Three Lines
2. 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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- literature
- contemporary
3. The Lost Daughter
By: Elena Ferrante
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Elena Ferrante will blow you away."-Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones From the author of Th… read more
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4. Quintana de Bolso - Rua dos Cataventos & outros poemas
By: Mario Quintana , Sérgio Faraco
4.17
Format: 510 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Sua estreia na poesia data de 1940, com a publicacao de "A rua dos cataventos". O livro obtem otima… read more
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5. The Apple in the Dark
By: Clarice Lispector
4.23
Format: 187 pages, Paperback
Martin is convinced that he has murdered his wife. In a delirium of guilt and grief, he wanders thr… read more
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6. Wild Houses
By: Colin Barrett
3.78
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A darkly funny and deeply moving debut novel about crimes of desperation, dreams abandoned, and sma… read more
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- contemporary
"What you are in, Dev, is a holding pattern, only you're not holding out for anything."-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
"All boys, all children, are capable of cruelty at the right juncture of opportunity and circumstance, but only a few become committed prodigies of sadism..."-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
"In the dream, exactly as he had in real life, he sensed the slow, inexorable approach of the shapeless, prospectless days to come, days when there would be no need to get out of bed or brush his teet…"-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
"He looked around the empty kitchen. A part of him wanted this of course. A part of him had always wanted this, to be alone, away from even the prospect of any demand upon him to talk, to interact, to…"-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
7. 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
8. Simpatía
By: Rodrigo Blanco Calderón
3.49
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Rodrigo Blanco se ha consolidado como una de las grandes voces de la literatura latinoamericana y s… read more
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- literature
- contemporary
9. 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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- contemporary
10. O que é Meu
By: José Henrique Bortoluci
4.20
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Neste ensaio biográfico de rara sensibilidade, que já teve os direitos vendidos para dez editoras e… read more
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- memoir
- contemporary
11. Early Light
By: Osamu Dazai
3.71
Format: 72 pages, Hardcover
Early Light offers three very different aspects of Osamu Dazai's genius: the title story relates hi… read more
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- short stories
- contemporary
"A farmhouse was blazing away right before us. It took an incredibly long time to burn to the ground. One could almost see the history of that house going up in flames along with its roof and pillars."-Osamu Dazai, Early Light
12. Way Far Away
By: Evelio Rosero
3.68
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
A short, unforgettable masterwork by one of Colombia’s most influential living novelists. Way Far A… read more
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- literature
13. In the Act
By: Rachel Ingalls
3.72
Format: 64 pages, Hardcover
From Rachel Ingalls, the author of Mrs. Caliban , another delicious, highly improbable, and hilario… read more
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- short stories
"A woman, she thought, can get the eyes and everything else right without any trouble: her creative power is inherent. Men can never create; they only copy. That's why they're always so jealous."-Rachel Ingalls, In the Act
14. Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other
By: Danielle Dutton
4.05
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
From the "strikingly smart and daringly feminist" (Jenny Offill) author of Margaret the First and S… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
- contemporary
15. An Inventory of Losses
By: Judith Schalansky
3.36
Format: 253 pages, Hardcover
Each disparate object described in this book—a Caspar David Friedrich painting, a species of tiger,… read more
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- german literature
- history
- memoir
- literature
- germany
- collections
- short stories
- nonfiction
- essays
- contemporary
16. The Famous Magician
By: César Aira
3.61
Format: 60 pages, Hardcover
A certain writer (“past sixty, enjoying ‘a certain renown’”) strolls through the old book market in… read more
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- contemporary
17. Spadework for a Palace
By: László Krasznahorkai
3.92
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
Spadework for a Palace bears the subtitle “Entering the Madness of Others” and offers an epigraph: … read more
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- short stories
- contemporary
18. 3 Streets
By: Yōko Tawada
3.23
Format: 80 pages, Hardcover
The always astonishing Yoko Tawada here takes a walk on the supernatural side of the street. In “Ko… read more
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19. The Anthropologists
By: Aysegül Savas
4.05
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Asya and Manu are looking at apartments, envisioning their future in a foreign city. What should th… read more
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20. Banal Nightmare
By: Halle Butler
3.64
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A ferocious novel by one of the boldest voices in American fiction and the author of The New Me, th… read more
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21. Flunker
By: Dennis Cooper
3.94
Format: 124 pages, Hardcover
When Dennis Cooper decides to publish a new collection of short stories with Amphetamine Sulphate, … read more
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