Family and Borghesia
By: Natalia Ginzburg
3.89
Format: 118 pages, Kindle Edition
Two novellas about domestic life, isolation, and the passing of time by one of the finest Italian w…
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1. Ex-wife
By: Ursula Parrott
3.96
Format: None pages, Paperback
1929. The book begins: My husband left me four years ago. Why-I don't precisely understand, and nev… read more
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2. The Bridegroom Was a Dog
By: Yōko Tawada , Margaret Mitsutani
4.33
Format: 268 pages, Paperback
In these three narratives, an ingenious story-teller has created a new kind of fantasy, playful yet… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
3. La bella estate
By: Cesare Pavese
4.06
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
"A quei tempi era sempre festa. Bastava uscire di casa e attraversare la strada, per diventare come… read more
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4. 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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5. Mamut
By: Eva Baltasar
3.58
Format: 148 pages, Paperback
La protagonista de Mamut és una dona arcaica atrapada en la vida moderna. El seu medi és la ciutat,… read more
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- novella
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6. Vladivostok Circus
By: Elisa Shua Dusapin
3.49
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
A Vladivostok, dans l'enceinte désertée d'un cirque entre deux saisons, un trio s'entraîne à la bar… read more
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7. Cose che non si raccontano
By: Antonella Lattanzi
4.22
Format: 205 pages, Kindle Edition
Ci sono cose che non si raccontano perché le parole sono scogli nel mare. Ci sono cose che non si r… read more
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8. 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
9. Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen
By: Suzanne Scanlon
4.22
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
A raw and masterful memoir about becoming a woman and going mad—and doing both at once. When Su… read more
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"Only in retrospect might I say I loved it there. I didn't love it. It became familiar. I got used to it. I became dependent upon it. This is not love."-Suzanne Scanlon, Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen
"I became a writer because I believe in that part of me who is not limited by age or gender or time or disability - yet still I am afraid to say it. Yes, I was ill."-Suzanne Scanlon, Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen
"I myself have internalized the self-loathing that at times can make me feel ashamed to be writing this book. But I also believe that, as my heroes have shown me, this is where a writer must go."-Suzanne Scanlon, Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen
"What if, instead of being diagnosed—being called mentally ill—what if I had been able to receive care for its own sake. To be in distress, to ask for care, to receive it. What if there were space in …"-Suzanne Scanlon, Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen
10. August Blue
By: Deborah Levy
3.68
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A new novel from the Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy, the celebrated author of The Man Who Saw E… read more
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"We agreed that whatever happened next in the world, we would still rub conditioner into our hair after we washed it and comb it through to the ends, we would soften our lips with rose-, strawberry-, …"-Deborah Levy, August Blue
11. Forbidden Notebook
By: Alba de Céspedes
4.19
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
With a foreword by Jhumpa Lahiri, Quaderno Proibito is a classic domestic novel by the Italian-Cu… read more
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- italy
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- classics
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- italian literature
- novels
12. Her Side of the Story
By: Alba de Céspedes
4.07
Format: 500 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Forbidden Notebook, Alba de Céspedes, a richly told novel she called “the story … read more
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13. Headshot
By: Rita Bullwinkel
3.63
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An electrifying debut novel from an “unusually gifted writer” (Lorrie Moore) about the radical inti… read more
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"The desire to please people is the desire to not be singular."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"Tanya Maw's sister is two years older, the perfect age gap for wisdom transmission."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"It can be intoxicating to play a sport that requires one to look in their opponent's eyes."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"It's a warmth that she'll feel again very few times in her life. It's almost like love, but it has a surer, less desperate edge to it."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
14. 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
15. Orbital
By: Samantha Harvey
3.73
Format: 207 pages, Hardcover
A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more
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- literary fiction
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"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
16. My Work
By: Olga Ravn
4.01
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
In this radical, funny, and mercilessly honest novel about motherhood, Anna is utterly lost after g… read more
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17. 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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18. 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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- short stories
- fiction
19. Practice
By: Rosalind Brown
3.71
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing first novel about a day in the life of a young student who experiences her thoughts,… read more
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20. Intermezzo
By: Sally Rooney
4.34
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.… read more
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21. Cheri
By: Jo Ann Beard
4.23
Format: 52 pages, Kindle Edition
A masterpiece of fiction and memory, Cheri is a heart-breaking but glorious celebration of all the … read more
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22. La trilogía de París
By: Colombe Schneck
3.86
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
LA REVELACIÓN LITERARIA LLEGA DE FRANCIA La premiada Colombe Schneck «retrata la búsqueda de una… read more
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23. Family and Borghesia
By: Natalia Ginzburg
3.89
Format: 118 pages, Kindle Edition
Two novellas about domestic life, isolation, and the passing of time by one of the finest Italian w… read more
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- italy
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- classics
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- italian literature
- 20th century
- family
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24. 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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25. Scaffolding
By: Lauren Elkin
3.86
Format: 388 pages, Kindle Edition
The story of two couples who live in the same apartment in north-east Paris almost fifty years apar… read more
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26. Belly Up: Stories
By: Rita Bullwinkel
3.85
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Belly Up is a story collection that contains ghosts, mediums, a lover obsessed with the sound of ha… read more
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27. Fratelli
By: Carmelo Samonà
3.66
Format: 108 pages, Paperback
Un uomo vive con un fratello malato in un vecchio appartamento nel cuore della città. Per intratten… read more
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28. El uso de la foto
By: Annie Ernaux
3.82
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
«A menudo, desde el principio de nuestra relación, me había quedado fascinada descubriendo al despe… read more
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30. Motion Sickness (Masks)
By: Lynne Tillman
3.39
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
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"…the tongue, for instance, is privileged with information indifferent to words."-Lynne Tillman, Motion Sickness (Masks)
"The rain persists, an amniotic fluid, the perfect environment for reading in a room, a womb of one’s own."-Lynne Tillman, Motion Sickness (Masks)
"…but place is unimportant to a traveler, if that’s what I can be called. If it were important, people couldn’t bear to move on."-Lynne Tillman, Motion Sickness (Masks)
"... I want things plain. Or direct. When I read a book I’m suspicious of description. Too much embellishment or an excess of adjectives bothers me, as if the speaker or writer were attempting to over…"-Lynne Tillman, Motion Sickness (Masks)
31. The Proposal
By: Bae Myung-hoon
3.50
Format: 150 pages, Paperback
In The Proposal, a space opera romance set against the backdrop of a looming colossal war between E… read more
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