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…
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1. Two Serious Ladies
By: Jane Bowles
3.67
Format: 230 pages, Paperback
Eccentric, adventurous Christina Goering Meets the anxious but equally enterprising Mrs. Copperfiel… read more
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2. Magic for Beginners
By: Kelly Link , Shelley Jackson
3.44
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
The nine stories in Link's second collection are the spitting image of those in her acclaimed debut… read more
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3. Shyness and Dignity
By: Sverre Lyngstad , Dag Solstad
3.96
Format: 433 pages,
An Ibsen scholar falls desperately out of society--publication coinciding with Ibsen's 100th annive… read more
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4. Kappa
By: Ryūnosuke Akutagawa , Geoffrey Bownas
2.86
Format: 442 pages, Paperback
From the author of Rashomon comes a Swiftian satire of Japanese society thinly disguised as the fic… read more
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5. The Last Samurai
By: Helen DeWitt
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
Helen DeWitt's extraordinary debut, The Last Samurai, centers on the relationship between Sibylla, … read more
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6. 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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- novella
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- 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
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. The English Understand Wool
By: Helen DeWitt
4.10
Format: 69 pages, Hardcover
Maman was exigeante—there is no English word–and I had the benefit of her training. Others may not … read more
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9. A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East
By: László Krasznahorkai
3.89
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
The grandson of Prince Genji lives outside of space and time and wanders the grounds of an old mona… read more
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- 21st century
- fiction
"...végső soron az egyszerű bizalmat abban, hogy van hagyomány, hogy ez a hagyomány a megfigyelésre, az ismétlésre és a természet belső rendjének és a dolgok természetének a tiszteletére épül, s hogy …"-László Krasznahorkai, A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East
"...mert maguk voltak a létezés, miközben a létezésből mégis ki voltak zárva, vagyis oly közel estek a létezéshez, hogy azonossá váltak vele, és a létezés nem látszik soha, így hát ha itt voltak is, a…"-László Krasznahorkai, A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East
10. Saint Sebastian's Abyss
By: Mark Haber
3.71
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
“What I wanted more than anything was to be standing beside Schmidt, in concert with Schmidt, at th… read more
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"...Schmidt admitted in private that if were up to him he would've happily burned them, burned them with glee and without thinking twice and kept the ashes too, he'd said, in an urn that he'd place pr…"-Mark Haber, Saint Sebastian's Abyss
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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"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. The Road to the City
By: Natalia Ginzburg
3.73
Format: None pages, Paperback
Delia is one of five children, growing up in a poor Italian village. She is seventeen, and dreams o… read more
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13. Marigold and Rose
By: Louise Glück
3.65
Format: 55 pages, Hardcover
Marigold and Rose is a magical and incandescent fiction from Nobel Prize laureate Louise Glück. … read more
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- novella
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14. 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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"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
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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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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- magical realism
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- latin american
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- contemporary
- 21st century
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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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. Toño the Infallible
By: Evelio Rosero
3.51
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
An unforgettable yet humane novel that takes us into the heart of Colombia’s brutal society, by one… read more
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20. Anatomía sensible
By: Andrés Neuman
3.71
Format: 116 pages, Paperback
Desde un umbral donde confluyen los géneros, en este libro caben todos los cuerpos. Un recorrido, d… read more
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21. Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel
By: Yōko Tawada
3.76
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
A moving story about friendship, illness, and the poetry of Paul Celan, described as “bewitching” (… read more
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