Cosas vivas
By: Munir Hachemi
3.81
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Cuatro jóvenes españoles (uno de ellos, el narrador, de origen argelino) viajan un verano hasta el …
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1. The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild
By: Mathias Énard
3.59
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
To research his thesis on contemporary agrarian life, anthropology student David Mazon moves from P… read more
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2. 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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3. 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
4. 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
5. 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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"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
6. 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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7. Praiseworthy
By: Alexis Wright
3.91
Format: 736 pages, Paperback
Praiseworthy is an epic set in the north of Australia, told with the richness of language and scale… read more
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8. It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
By: Anne de Marcken
3.82
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, this incredible life-after-death novel asks us to consider how m… read more
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"Fasting makes sense of the hunger. The constant internal grasping. The only sensible answer to this is to always withdraw the thing after which I grasp. To subvert. To thwart. To deny. It closes the …"-Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
9. Intervals
By: Marianne Brooker
4.38
Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition
What makes a good death? A good daughter? In 2009, with her forties and a harsh wave of austerity o… read more
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10. Tell
By: Jonathan Buckley
3.17
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, Tell is an exuberant, intensely fluid, and probing examination o… read more
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11. 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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"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
12. The Book of All Loves
By: Agustín Fernández Mallo
3.51
Format: 178 pages, Kindle Edition
In the wake of the Great Blackout, faced with the near-extinction of humanity, a pair of lovers spe… read more
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13. The Observable Universe: An Investigation
By: Heather McCalden
3.96
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A moving memoir of a young woman's reckoning with her parents' absence, the virus that took them, a… read more
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14. The Son of Man
By: Jean-Baptiste Del Amo
3.71
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the “extraordinary” Animalia ( Sunday Times ), winner of the Republic of Conscio… read more
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15. Mina's Matchbox
By: Yōko Ogawa
3.85
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning, psychologically astute author of The Memory Police, here is a hypnotic, int… read more
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"Quant à l'endroit où se trouvait mon père, le jour de ses funérailles, ma mère me l'avait indiqué. C'est un peu loin, mais un jour ou l'autre nous irons le rejoindre, il n'y a pas à craindre de s'éga…"-Yōko Ogawa, Mina's Matchbox
16. The Third Love
By: Hiromi Kawakami
3.36
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Having married her childhood sweetheart, Riko now finds herself trapped in a relationship that has … read more
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17. The Singularity
By: Balsam Karam
3.81
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Lyrical and devastating, The Singularity is a breathtaking study of grief, migration, and motherhoo… read more
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18. The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story
By: Olga Tokarczuk
4.05
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The Nobelist's latest masterwork, set in a sanitarium on the eve of World War I, probes the horrors… read more
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"mitologię, jako zbiór pouczających opowieści, które pomagają żyć"-Olga Tokarczuk, The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story
"Ojciec często powtarzał mu (...) że kobiety są z natury swojej zdradliwe i chwiejne. Rozmazane."-Olga Tokarczuk, The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story
"To proste - myślał Mieczyś Wojnicz, łykając łzy, które mieszały się z krwią zwierzęcia w jego wątłym ciele - być mężczyzną to nauczyć się ignorować to, co sprawia kłopot. Oto cała tajemnica."-Olga Tokarczuk, The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story
"Wojnicz już zauważył, że każda dyskusja, czy szło o demokrację, czy o piąty wymiar, czy o rolę religii socjalizm, Europę, wreszcie sztukę nowoczesną, wszystko w końcu sprowadzało się do kobiet"-Olga Tokarczuk, The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story
19. Living Things
By: Munir Hachemi
3.82
Format: 116 pages, Kindle Edition
Living Things follows four recent graduates – Munir, G, Ernesto and Álex – who travel from Madrid t… read more
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20. Festival & Game of the Worlds
By: César Aira
4.03
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Oddly twinned masterpieces by one of the greatest fabulists of any age: past, present, or 40,000 ye… read more
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21. Rosarita
By: Anita Desai
3.29
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
'Anita Desai is a magnificent writer' - Salman RushdieFrom three times Booker-shortlisted author An… read more
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