High as the Waters Rise
By: Anja Kampmann
3.18
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
German poet Anja Kampmann’s award-winning debut novel is the dazzling, heart-rending story of an oi…
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1. A Special Providence
By: Richard Yates
3.88
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Robert Prentice is 18. His mother, Alice Prentice, is 53. Both are damaged souls: Robert, by war; A… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- novels
2. Observatory Mansions
By: Edward Carey
4.17
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
Once the Orme family's magnificent ancestral estate, Observatory Mansions is now a crumbling apartm… read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
3. Canada
By: Richard Ford
3.31
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"First, I'll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then about the murders, which happened l… read more
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- literary fiction
- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
4. Soul
By: John Berger , Andrei Platonov , Robert Chandler , None
3.60
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
A New York Review Books Original The Soviet writer Andrey Platonov saw much of his work suppressed … read more
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6. Kralın Laneti
By: None , None
4.44
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Cok genc yasta resme baslayan ama Mondrian'in resimleriyle tanisinca asla onun kadar iyi bir ressam… read more
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7. Last Vanities
By: Tim Parks , Fleur Jaeggy
4.20
Format: 172 pages, Paperback
Jaeggy has come up with seven stories, each at some deep level in dark complicity with the others, … read more
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8. El olvido que seremos
By: Héctor Abad Faciolince
4.07
Format: None pages, Paperback
El medico Hector Abad Gomez dedico sus ultimos anos, hasta el mismo dia en que cayo asesinado en pl… read more
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9. Women Without Men: A Novel of Modern Iran
By: Shahrnush Parsipur , Kamran Talattof , Jocelyn Sharlet , None
3.67
Format: 208 pages,
Shortly after the 1989 publication of Women Without Menin her native Iran, Shahrnush Parsipur was a… read more
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10. Bad Girls
By: Camila Sosa Villada
4.43
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Gritty and unflinching, yet also tender, fantastical, and funny, a trans woman’s coming-of-age tale… read more
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- womens
- literary fiction
- fiction
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"Nosotras habíamos nacido ya expulsadas del armario,esclavas de nuestra apariencia."-Camila Sosa Villada, Bad Girls
"Cuando una puerta se cierra, se abre una ventana, pero hay que ser muy ágil para entrar o salir por la ventana"-Camila Sosa Villada, Bad Girls
"La infancia y las travestis son incompatibles. La imagen de una travesti con un niño en brazos es pecado para esa gentuza."-Camila Sosa Villada, Bad Girls
"A las travestis no nos nombra nadie, salvo nosotras. El resto de la gente ignora nuestros nombres, usa el miso para todas: putos."-Camila Sosa Villada, Bad Girls
11. Nie mówię żegnaj
By: Han Kang
3.77
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Zdobywczyni nagrody Man Booker Prize 2016, Han Kang, powraca po 5 latach z nową, pełnowymiarową pow… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- novels
12. Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme
By: Édouard Louis
4.13
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Pendant une grande partie de sa vie ma mère a vécu dans la pauvreté et la nécessité, à l'écart de t… read more
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- roman
- contemporary
"Why do I feel as though I'm writing a sad story, when my aim was to tell the story of a liberation?"-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme
"I'd gotten so used to seeing her unhappy at home that the joy on her face seemed scandalous to me, a deceit, a lie that had to be exposed as soon as possible."-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme
"I started this book wanting to tell the story of a woman, but I've realized that yours is the story of a human being who fought for the right to exist as a woman, as opposed to the nonexistence impos…"-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme
"A final memory. A few months ago, in the garden of a teahouse where I’d suggested we meet, she told me how she had once been called to the school by my teacher when I was six years old. The teacher w…"-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme
13. Merking
By: Fríða Ísberg
3.70
Format: 266 pages, Hardcover
Skáldsagan Merking er margradda verk sem fjallar um afstöðu og pólaríseringu, fordóma og samkennd. … read more
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- fiction
14. Malma station
By: Alex Schulman
3.64
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
Alex Schulmans nya roman utspelar sig på ett tåg. Fem personer är på resa genom Sverige: ett gift p… read more
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- roman
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- contemporary
- novels
15. The Book of Goose
By: Yiyun Li
3.71
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
A gripping, heartbreaking new novel about female friendship, art, and memory by the award-winning a… read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
"Time corrupts. And we pay a price for everything corruptible: food, roof beams, souls."-Yiyun Li, The Book of Goose
"Few of us would make a fool of ourselves in pressing the animals to give us serious answers about their lives, but we do that all the time to other people."-Yiyun Li, The Book of Goose
"Happiness, I would tell her, is to spend every day without craning one's neck to look forward to tomorrow, next month, next year, and without holding out one's hands to stop every day from becoming y…"-Yiyun Li, The Book of Goose
"Childhood companionship is forced upon the children (...) Childhood friendship, though it has to meet the same geographical and temporal prerequisites, is something rarer: a child does not seek to bo…"-Yiyun Li, The Book of Goose
16. Three O'Clock in the Morning
By: Gianrico Carofiglio
4.00
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A coming-of-age novel—a heady union of Before Sunrise and Beautiful Ruins—about a father and his te… read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
17. Fruit of the Drunken Tree
By: Ingrid Rojas Contreras
3.95
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In the vein of Isabel Allende and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, a mesmerizing debut set against the backd… read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
- fiction
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"What song could Pablo Escobar possibly sing in the shower?"-Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Fruit of the Drunken Tree
"As her photo burned, I thought: even oblivion is a kindness."-Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Fruit of the Drunken Tree
"Multiply me when necessary, make me disappear when peremptory. Transform me into light when there is shadow, into a star when in the desert."-Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Fruit of the Drunken Tree
"I thought again about Pablo Escobar cutting off people's tongues. It made sense to stop speaking, to say only what was necessary and nothing beyond. It was a way to survive."-Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Fruit of the Drunken Tree
18. Of Dogs and Walls
By: Yūko Tsushima
3.68
Format: 53 pages, Paperback
Two luminous, tender stories from one of Japan's greatest twentieth-century writers, showing how ch… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"Living right in the heart of Tokyo itself is quite like living in the mountains – in the midst of so many people, one hardly sees anyone."-Yūko Tsushima, Of Dogs and Walls
19. Ev, Kadınlar, Seks.
By: Margit Schreiner
3.60
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Yirmi yıllık evlilikten sonra Resi –Marie Thérèse olan daha şık çift adını kullanmakta ısrarcıdır a… read more
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20. High as the Waters Rise
By: Anja Kampmann
3.18
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
German poet Anja Kampmann’s award-winning debut novel is the dazzling, heart-rending story of an oi… read more
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- german literature
- literary fiction
- roman
- literature
- germany
- fiction
- contemporary
- climate change fiction
- womens
- novels
21. Yanımda Kal
By: Eylem Ata Güleç
4.28
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Yürüyüşe çıkmış gibi değil de belli bir yere ulaşmaya çalışır gibi hızla yürüdüğümü fark ediyorum. … read more
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