The Iliac Crest
By: Cristina Rivera Garza
3.65
Format: 200 pages, ebook
On a dark and stormy night, two mysterious women invade an unnamed narrator's house, where they pro…
Want to Read $ 8.99"An intimate and familiar deception was taking its usual place within me with the feeble movements of an elderly woman."-Cristina Rivera Garza, The Iliac Crest
"An intimate and familiar deception was taking its usual place within me with the feeble movements of an elderly woman."-Cristina Rivera Garza, The Iliac Crest
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1. The Ice Palace
By: Tarjei Vesaas , Elizabeth Rokkan
3.86
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Commonly seen as the legendary Norwegian writer's masterpiece, this story tells the tale of Siss an… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"The promise was a strong tie, hard, but I knew where I stood. If it's gone, I don't know where I am. When there's a strong scent in the spring twilight, I know least of all."-Tarjei Vesaas, The Ice Palace
"The darkness at the sides of the road. It possesses neither form nor name, but whoever passes here knows when it comes out and follows after and sends shudders like rippling streams down his back."-Tarjei Vesaas, The Ice Palace
"Lovnad i djupaste snøen frå Siss til Unn: Det lovar eg deg at eg ikkje vil tenke på noko anna enn deg. Tenke på alt eg veit om deg. Tenke på deg heime og på skolen, og på skolevegen. Tenke på deg hei…"-Tarjei Vesaas, The Ice Palace
"Four eyes full of gleams and radiance beneath their lashes, filling the looking-glass. Questions shooting out and then hiding again. I don't know: Gleams and radiance, gleaming from you to me, from m…"-Tarjei Vesaas, The Ice Palace
2. Icefields
By: Thomas Wharton
3.54
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Winner of: The Banff Grand National Prize for Literature The Writers Guild of Alberta Best First … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
3. Muerte en el bosque
By: Amparo Dávila
3.39
Format: 440 pages, Paperback
Amparo Davila nos lleva al mundo de estos seres y cosas marginales, esquivos, dados siempre a mover… read more
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- fiction
4. Nefando
By: Mónica Ojeda
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
Nefando, Viaje a las entranas de una habitacion, fue un videojuego en linea poco conocido y pronto … read more
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- horror
- fiction
- contemporary
5. A Book of Memories
By: Péter Nádas , Imre Goldstein , Ivan Sanders
3.87
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
First published in Hungary in 1986 after a five-year battle with censors, A Book of Memories is bot… read more
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6. Monstrilio
By: Gerardo Sámano Córdova
4.14
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A literary horror debut about a boy who transforms into a monster, a monster who tries to be a man,… read more
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- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- horror
- adult
- queer
"The world was scary. Worse, I was scary in it."-Gerardo Sámano Córdova, Monstrilio
"I wanted him to snap, to finally and absolutely lose it. To break. He was withering. To wither is not the same as to break; to break is to have pieces to put back together, and to wither is to dry up…"-Gerardo Sámano Córdova, Monstrilio
7. Paradise Rot
By: Jenny Hval
3.55
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A lyrical debut novel from a musician and artist renowned for her sharp sexual and political imager… read more
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- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- horror
- queer
"I took a bite of a Bloody Ploughman. Even the flesh was red. 'Bloody,' Carral said. 'Nice colour,' I answered. 'It looks sinful. I bet that was the apple Eve ate, you know, in the Bible, the forbidde…"-Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot
"I'll tell you the fairy tale of the apple. Eve ate the apple, and then Adam came and did so too. Afterwards the apple was forgotten, and it was assumed that it rolled away in the grass while Adam and…"-Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot
8. Minor Detail
By: Adania Shibli
4.20
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn a… read more
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- literary fiction
- novella
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
"Man, not the tank, shall prevail."-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Não há como descartar a probabilidade de uma conexão entre os dois fatos, ou alguma ligação oculta entre eles, por analogia às relações que os seres humanos encontram entre as plantas, por exemplo, q…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Desde que tive ciência da minha incapacidade consumada de me mover de acordo com os limites, resolvi, finalmente, permanecer dentro dos limites da minha casa, tanto quanto possível. Agora, uma vez qu…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Toch zijn er mensen die in die logica − dus dat je je concentreert op de meest futiele details zoals stof op een bureau of vliegenpoepjes op een schilderij − de enige manier zien om de waarheid te do…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
9. The Houseguest and Other Stories
By: Amparo Dávila
3.65
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
The first collection in English of an endlessly surprising, master storyteller Like those of Kafka,… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- horror
- adult
"The daily exercise of suffering gives one the gaze of an abandoned dog and the colour of a ghost. - Fragment of a Diary [July to August] "-Amparo Dávila, The Houseguest and Other Stories
10. Frankenstein in Baghdad
By: Ahmed Saadawi
3.58
Format: 281 pages, Paperback
From the rubble-strewn streets of U.S.-occupied Baghdad, Hadi--a scavenger and an oddball fixture a… read more
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- contemporary
- literary fiction
- fiction
- horror
"Death stalked the city like the plague."-Ahmed Saadawi, Frankenstein in Baghdad
"Each of us has a measure of criminality."-Ahmed Saadawi, Frankenstein in Baghdad
"None of us should think only of ourselves."-Ahmed Saadawi, Frankenstein in Baghdad
"Your wonderful stories saved you, my friend."-Ahmed Saadawi, Frankenstein in Baghdad
11. The Dark Interval: Letters on Loss, Grief, and Transformation (Modern Library Classics)
By: Rainer Maria Rilke
4.18
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Letters to a Young Poet, one of the greatest letter collections of all time, com… read more
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"Time itself does not “console,"-Rainer Maria Rilke, The Dark Interval: Letters on Loss, Grief, and Transformation (Modern Library Classics)
"I hope that somewhere in the thicket of your sprawling pain you may come upon the small spring that has already cried all the tears before, and, indeed, for you in advance."-Rainer Maria Rilke, The Dark Interval: Letters on Loss, Grief, and Transformation (Modern Library Classics)
"All of our true relationships, all of our enduring experiences touch upon and pass through everything, Sidie, through life and death. We must live in both, be intimately at home in both."-Rainer Maria Rilke, The Dark Interval: Letters on Loss, Grief, and Transformation (Modern Library Classics)
"Continue to believe that with your feeling and with your work you take part in what is greatest. The more strongly you cultivate this belief inside of you, the more it will give rise to reality and w…"-Rainer Maria Rilke, The Dark Interval: Letters on Loss, Grief, and Transformation (Modern Library Classics)
12. Transporte a la infancia
By: Frida Cartas
4.18
Format: 133 pages, Kindle Edition
¿Cómo se accede a un pasado lleno de violencias? ¿A quién se acude en el recuerdo cuando lo que hub… read more
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13. The Rooftop
By: Fernanda Trías
3.77
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
‘The world is this house’, says Clara while she is trying to protect her beloved ones from the worl… read more
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- literary fiction
- novella
- fiction
- contemporary
- horror
14. The Iliac Crest
By: Cristina Rivera Garza
3.65
Format: 200 pages, ebook
On a dark and stormy night, two mysterious women invade an unnamed narrator's house, where they pro… read more
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- gothic
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- novella
- feminism
- fiction
- horror
- contemporary
- adult
- queer
"An intimate and familiar deception was taking its usual place within me with the feeble movements of an elderly woman."-Cristina Rivera Garza, The Iliac Crest
15. The Naked Woman
By: Armonía Somers
3.80
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
When The Naked Woman was originally published in 1950, critics doubted a woman writer could be resp… read more
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- feminism
- literary fiction
- fiction
- horror
"—No lo sé exactamente —respondió ella—. Ven, toca, estoy desnuda. Tomé mi libertad y salí. He dejado los códigos atrás, las zarzas me arañaron por eso. El bosque me lanzó el aliento a la cara, la ser…"-Armonía Somers, The Naked Woman
16. Untold Night and Day
By: Bae Suah
3.49
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
A seductive, disorienting novel that manipulates the fragile line between dreams and reality, by So… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"In life there are wounds that like leprosy slowly eat away at the soul in solitude."-Bae Suah, Untold Night and Day
"The door swung back so suddenly it severed them from their shadows, which were left behind like dark ghosts."-Bae Suah, Untold Night and Day
"Whatever the intention or aim of the photographer, every photograph is a unique proof of identify, firmly declaring that human beings are ghosts."-Bae Suah, Untold Night and Day
"Whatever the intention or aim of the photographer, Wolfi thought, every photograph is a unique proof of identity, firmly declaring that human beings are ghosts."-Bae Suah, Untold Night and Day
17. Even If This Love Disappears Tonight
By: Misaki Ichijo
4.09
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
When Toru Kamiya is pushed into falsely confessing his love to Maori Hino, she tells him she’ll dat… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"No wound vanishes completely, because wounds are also memories. But the pain won’t last forever."-Misaki Ichijo, Even If This Love Disappears Tonight
18. In Concrete
By: Anne Garréta
3.31
Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition
Garreta’s first new novel in a decade follows two young sisters who are dragged into one adventure … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
19. Medea
By: Chantal Maillard
4.44
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Como fragmentos de un largo monólogo, los poemas nos indican, con la acotación justa, el devenir dr… read more
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20. Cúbit
By: Vicente Luis Mora
4.09
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
No hay muchas novelas sobre minerales. En los relatos científicos, literarios y periodísticos actua… read more
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