Aetherial Worlds: Stories
By: Tatyana Tolstaya
3.93
Format: None pages, Audio CD
From one of modern Russia's finest writers, a spellbinding collection of eighteen stories, her firs…
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1. Lips Touch: Three Times
By: Laini Taylor , Jim Di Bartolo
3.89
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Three tales of supernatural love, each pivoting on a kiss that is no mere kiss, but an action with … read more
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- short stories
- fiction
"It was the only lullaby she would ever sing, and it was sung in Hell."-Laini Taylor, Lips Touch: Three Times
"Is that all souls are for? For when we die?" "No. They're for living, too."-Laini Taylor, Lips Touch: Three Times
"Like a magpie, I am a scavenger of shiny things: fairy tales, dead languages, weird folk beliefs, fascinating religions, and more."-Laini Taylor, Lips Touch: Three Times
"Will you take some refreshment?" His lip pulled into a snarl. Unable to contain himself, he added, "One last cup of tea before you burn, you old bitch?"-Laini Taylor, Lips Touch: Three Times
2. Justine (The Alexandria Quartet, #1)
By: Lawrence Durrell
3.85
Format: 253 pages, Paperback
The time is the eve of the World War II. The place is Alexandria, an Egyptian city that once housed… read more
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- literature
- literary fiction
- fiction
"Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off."-Lawrence Durrell, Justine (The Alexandria Quartet, #1)
"One always falls in love with the love-choice of the person one loves."-Lawrence Durrell, Justine (The Alexandria Quartet, #1)
"Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?"-Lawrence Durrell, Justine (The Alexandria Quartet, #1)
"Who invented the human heart, I wonder? Tell me, and then show me the place where he was hanged."-Lawrence Durrell, Justine (The Alexandria Quartet, #1)
3. How I Became a Nun
By: César Aira , Chris Andrews
3.69
Format: 117 pages, Paperback
A sinisterly funny modern-day Through the Looking Glass that begins with cyanide poisoning and ends… read more
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- literature
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"I was sole keeper and mistress of the impossible. I possessed the keys to pain."-César Aira, How I Became a Nun
"Each of us is the ultimate expert on the gentleness and understanding we deserve."-César Aira, How I Became a Nun
"Why is it that drama always starts late? Whereas comedy always seems to have started already."-César Aira, How I Became a Nun
"I had a real life completely separate from beliefs, from the common reality made up of shared beliefs..."-César Aira, How I Became a Nun
4. Moj muž
By: Румена Бужаровска , Rumena Bužarovska , Ivica Baković
3.54
Format: None pages, Paperback
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- contemporary
5. The Blade Artist
By: Irvine Welsh
3.72
Format: 134 pages, Hardcover
Jim Francis has finally found the perfect life - and is now unrecognisable, even to himself. A succ… read more
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6. The Largesse of the Sea Maiden: Stories
By: Denis Johnson
3.40
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
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7. Baba Yaga Laid an Egg
By: Mark Thompson , Dubravka Ugrešić , Celia Hawkesworth , Ellen Elias-Bursać
3.29
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"Baba Yaga is an old hag who lives in a house built on chicken legs and kidnaps small children. She… read more
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8. What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky
By: Lesley Nneka Arimah
4.46
Format: 170 pages, Hardcover
In Who Will Greet You at Homea woman desperate for a child weaves one out of hair, with unsettling … read more
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9. 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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10. On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts
By: Thomas de Quincey
3.86
Format: 368 pages,
'People begin to see that something more goes to the composition of a fine murder than two blockhea… read more
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11. L'analphabète: récit autobiographique
By: Ágota Kristóf
4.11
Format: 57 pages, Paperback
Onze chapitres pour onze moments de sa vie, de la petite enfance en Hongrie à l'apprentissage du fr… read more
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"You become a writer by writing with patience and obstinacy, without ever losing faith in what you write."-Ágota Kristóf, L'analphabète: récit autobiographique
"في الغالب أكتفي بالكتابة في ذهني . ذلك اسهل . داخل الراس تجري الامور كلها بيسر . لكن ما ان نشرع في الكتابة حتى تتغير الأفكار .تتشوه.تصير خاطئة"-Ágota Kristóf, L'analphabète: récit autobiographique
12. I Am Not Sidney Poitier
By: Percival Everett
4.10
Format: 338 pages,
An irresistible comic novel from the master storyteller Percival Everett, and an irreverent take on… read more
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13. In the Country of Last Things
By: Paul Auster
3.16
Format: 192 pages,
A dystopian epistolary novel. In the Country of Last Things takes the form of a letter from a young… read more
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14. Long Live the Post Horn!
By: Vigdis Hjorth
3.67
Format: 240 pages, ebook
Ellinor, a 35-year-old media consultant, has not been feeling herself; she's not been feeling much … read more
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- literary fiction
- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- 21st century
"A letter is practically a gift."-Vigdis Hjorth, Long Live the Post Horn!
"What do we do with our despair if our lives are too small to contain it?"-Vigdis Hjorth, Long Live the Post Horn!
"What do we do with our despair if our lives are too small to contain it?’ . . . .accept that there’s so much we’ll never understand intellectually and try to live with things which don’t add up, that…"-Vigdis Hjorth, Long Live the Post Horn!
15. Intimacies
By: Lucy Caldwell
3.90
Format: 158 pages, Paperback
Intimacies exquisitely charts the steps and missteps of young women trying to find their place in t… read more
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- contemporary
16. In Memory of Memory
By: Maria Stepanova
3.84
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
With the death of her aunt, the narrator is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photogr… read more
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- russia
- russian literature
- short stories
- essays
- fiction
- 21st century
- contemporary
"You know, my love, I never imagined that the suffering and grief of another could give me so much happiness. Now I understand your desire to see my tears, and I forgive you for all the suffering you …"-Maria Stepanova, In Memory of Memory
"My china boy seemed to embody the way no story reaches us without having its heels chipped off or its face scratched away. And how lacunae and gaps are the constant companions of survival, its hidden…"-Maria Stepanova, In Memory of Memory
17. Huaco retrato
By: Gabriela Wiener
3.89
Format: 170 pages, Paperback
La muerte de su padre y los fantasmas de su herencia marcan el retorno de Wiener con esta exploraci… read more
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18. Split Tooth
By: Tanya Tagaq
3.91
Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition
From the internationally acclaimed Inuit throat singer who has dazzled and enthralled the world wit… read more
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"...whoever said only humans can have the universe living in them?"-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth
"I've always loved girls, and our insufferable town sees this love as deviance."-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth
"the air is so clean you can smell the difference between smooth rock and jagged."-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth
"The partiers will just demand that I echo their toxicity. Nothing bores me more."-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth
19. Frying Plantain
By: Zalika Reid-Benta
3.82
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Kara Davis is a girl caught in the middle — of her Canadian nationality and her desire to be a “tru… read more
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20. Aetherial Worlds: Stories
By: Tatyana Tolstaya
3.93
Format: None pages, Audio CD
From one of modern Russia's finest writers, a spellbinding collection of eighteen stories, her firs… read more
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- russia
- russian literature
- literature
- short stories
- essays
- fiction
- 21st century
- contemporary
- audiobook
21. Sight
By: Jessie Greengrass
3.39
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
The extraordinary first novel from the author of the prizewinning An Account of the Decline of the … read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"I read not with any particular object in mind, nor really with the intention of retaining any information about the subjects that I chose, but rather because the act of reading was a habit, and becau…"-Jessie Greengrass, Sight
"Lying by Johannes in the darkness, envying him the unquestioned habit of sleep, the way he could remove himself, I wished that I might pause, take stock; that is a thought that comes back to me now: …"-Jessie Greengrass, Sight
"John’s adolescence was marked by loss. When he was thirteen his father died, swiftly followed by his two sisters. Shortly after he turned seventeen his eldest brother, James, whose progress through h…"-Jessie Greengrass, Sight
