Rivière d'automne
By: Yu Dafu
3.61
Format: 247 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Yu Dafu, né en 1896, fut assez vite réputé pour être un écrivain scandaleux. Mettant à bas les trad…
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1. Aurélien
By: Louis Aragon
4.30
Format: 816 pages, Paperback
Dans cette chronique parisienne de l'entre-deux guerres, Aragon décrit la toute nouvelle société su… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"Aurélien, cette nuit, s'approuve. Tout lui devient logique, signe de son amour."-Louis Aragon, Aurélien
"La première fois qu'Aurélien vit Bérénice, il la trouva franchement laide. Elle lui déplut, enfin. Il n'aima pas comment elle était habillée."-Louis Aragon, Aurélien
"Il avait plu le matin de bonne heure, mais Dieu merci il faisait presque beau depuis neuf heures, c'est-à-dire qu'il faisait ignoble mais qu'on ne pataugeait pas."-Louis Aragon, Aurélien
2. Terre des affranchis
By: Liliana Lazar
3.57
Format: 201 pages, Paperback
Sud de la Roumanie, 1955. La famille Luca vit recluse, à la lisière du village de Slobozia. Le fils… read more
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- fiction
3. The Buddha in the Attic
By: Julie Otsuka
3.70
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Julie Otsuka’s long-awaited follow-up to When the Emperor Was Divine is a tour de force of economy … read more
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- fiction
"„Niekas nelaimi karo.Visi pralaimi"-Julie Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic
"We lost weight and grew thin. We stopped bleeding. We stopped dreaming. We stopped wanting."-Julie Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic
"Or was their guilt written plainly, and for all the world to see, across their face? Was it their face, in fact, for which they were guilty?"-Julie Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic
"Soon we could barely recognize them. They were taller than we were, and heavier. They were loud beyond belief. I feel like a duck that's hatched goose's eggs."-Julie Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic
4. The Vagabond
By: Colette Gauthier-Villars , Judith Thurman , Enid McLeod
3.92
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Thirty-three years-old and recently divorced, Renée Néré has begun a new life on her own, supportin… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days."-Colette Gauthier-Villars, The Vagabond
"When are a 'lady on your own,' in other words the landlords' abomination, outcast and terror all rolled into one, you take what you find, lodge where you may, and put up with newly plastered walls."-Colette Gauthier-Villars, The Vagabond
"Rest assured that long patience and jealously concealed sorrows have shaped, refined, and hardened that woman who makes people exclaim: "She's made of steel!" She's simply "made of woman," and that's…"-Colette Gauthier-Villars, The Vagabond
"All this is still my kingdom, a small portion of the splendid riches which God distributes to passers-by, to wanderers and to solitaries. The earth belongs to anyone who stops for a moment, gazes and…"-Colette Gauthier-Villars, The Vagabond
5. The Earth
By: Émile Zola , Douglas Parmée
4.09
Format: 506 pages, Paperback
When Jean Macquart arrives in the peasant community of Beauce, where farmers have worked the same l… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"Élodie, who was rising fifteen, lifted her anaemic, puffy, virginal face with its wispy hair; she was so thin-blooded that good country air seemed only to make her more sickly."-Émile Zola, The Earth
"And then there was pain and blood and tears, all those things that cause suffering and revolt, the killing of Françoise, the killing of Fouan, vice triumphing, and the stinking, bloodthirsty peasants…"-Émile Zola, The Earth
6. Brothers
By: Yu Hua , Carlos Rojas , None , Eileen Chow
4.01
Format: 175 pages, Hardcover
A bestseller in China, recently short-listed for the Man Asian Literary Prize, and a winner of Fran… read more
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- asia
- fiction
7. Quicksand
By: Jun'ichirō Tanizaki , Howard Hibbett
3.33
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
From one of the greatest writers of twentieth-century Japan comes a silkily nuanced novel of erotic… read more
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- classics
- fiction
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9. The Dream (Les Rougon-Macquart, #16)
By: Émile Zola
3.66
Format: None pages,
Emile Zola's novel Le Reve(1888) is a love idyll concerning a poor embroideress, Angelique, and the… read more
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- classics
- fiction
10. The Girl Who Played Go
By: Shan Sa , Adriana Hunter
3.77
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
As the Japanese military invades 1930s Manchuria, a young girl approaches her own sexual coming of … read more
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- asia
- fiction
11. The Unknown Masterpiece
By: Arthur C. Danto , Honoré de Balzac , Richard Howard
3.64
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
One of Honore de Balzac's most celebrated tales, "The Unknown Masterpiece" is the story of a painte… read more
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- classics
- fiction
12. So Long a Letter
By: Mariama Bâ , Modupé Bodé-Thomas
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
This novel is in the form of a letter, written by the widowed Ramatoulaye and describing her strugg… read more
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- classics
- fiction
13. The Masterpiece (Les Rougon-Macquart, #14)
By: Émile Zola , Roger Pearson
3.70
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
The Masterpieceis the tragic story of Claude Lantier, an ambitious and talented young artist who ha… read more
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- classics
- fiction
14. Les Nourritures terrestres: suivi de Les nouvelles nourritures
By: André Gide
3.68
Format: 248 pages, Pocket Book
« Nathanaël, je t'enseignerai la ferveur. Une existence pathétique, Nathanaël, plutôt que la tranq… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"ای کاش «اهمیت» در نگاه تو باشد نه در چیزی که به آن مینگری."-André Gide, Les Nourritures terrestres: suivi de Les nouvelles nourritures
"Commandements de Dieu, vous avez rendu malade mon âme, / Vous avez entouré de murs les seuls eaux pour me désaltérer."-André Gide, Les Nourritures terrestres: suivi de Les nouvelles nourritures
"My happiness is made of fervour. Through the medium of all things without distinction, I have passionately worshipped"-André Gide, Les Nourritures terrestres: suivi de Les nouvelles nourritures
"Que toute émotion sache te devenir une ivresse. Si ce que tu manges ne te grise pas, c'est que tu n'avais pas assez faim."-André Gide, Les Nourritures terrestres: suivi de Les nouvelles nourritures
15. أولاد حارتنا
By: Naguib Mahfouz , نجيب محفوظ
4.09
Format: 600 pages, Paperback
رواية يجلس الجبلاوي في بيته الكبير المحاط بالحدائق واﻷسوار العالية ومن حوله أحفاده الذين يتنازعو… read more
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- fiction
"لكن آفة حارتنا النسيان."-Naguib Mahfouz, أولاد حارتنا
"الناس يعبدون القوة، حتى ضحاياها!"-Naguib Mahfouz, أولاد حارتنا
"انه ينكر الحياة و لكنه لا يستحق الموت"-Naguib Mahfouz, أولاد حارتنا
"الخوف لا يمنع من الموت و لكنه يمنع من الحياة."-Naguib Mahfouz, أولاد حارتنا
16. Elle et lui
By: George Sand
4.34
Format: 413 pages, Paperback
A sa publication, en 1859, ce roman de George Sand fit grand bruit, suscitant de vives protestation… read more
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18. Anima
By: Wajdi Mouawad
4.02
Format: 360 pages,
Lorsqu'il decouvre le meurtre de sa femme, Wahhch Debch est tetanise : il doit a tout prix savoir q… read more
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19. Vers la beauté
By: David Foenkinos
4.16
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Antoine Duris est professeur aux Beaux-Arts de Lyon. Du jour au lendemain, il décide de tout quitte… read more
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- fiction
20. Triste tigre
By: Neige Sinno
4.23
Format: 283 pages, Paperback
J'ai voulu y croire, j'ai voulu rêver que le royaume de la littérature m'accueillerait comme n'impo… read more
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"C'est vrai qu'aucun [...] n'avait vu ce que nous pouvions voir nous, les enfants et ma mère, au sein du foyer, où il se comportait comme un tyran. Et c'est quand même ça qui ressort avant tout de cet…"-Neige Sinno, Triste tigre
21. All the Lovers in the Night
By: Mieko Kawakami
3.72
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Fuyuko Irie is a freelance copy editor in her mid-thirties. Working and living alone in a city wher… read more
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- asia
- fiction
"It only took me a couple of hours to realise that she was a woman of talents beyond anything I could imagine - even though I was a stranger to such talents myself."-Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night
"The light at night is special because the overwhelming light of day has left us, and the remaining half draws on everything it has to keep the world around us bright."-Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night
"When I felt sleepy I slept, and when I opened my eyes I got up, letting hunger dictate when to head to the fridge or kitchen cabinet to eat some of the things that I'd stocked up on. When supplies ra…"-Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night
"When I felt sleepy I slept, and when I opened my eyes I got up, letting hunger dictate when to head to the fridge or kitchen cabinet to eat some of the things that I'd stocked up on. When supplies ra…"-Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night
22. 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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- fiction
"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
23. If I Had Your Face
By: Frances Cha
3.75
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
If I Had Your Face plunges us into the mesmerising world of contemporary Seoul - a place where extr… read more
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- fiction
" For my mother, who taught me how to hold on to a dream "-Frances Cha, If I Had Your Face
"I will build myself up so high in such a short time that when he leaves me, I will become a lightning storm, a nuclear apocalypse. I will not come out of this with nothing."-Frances Cha, If I Had Your Face
"Sometimes, when he is holding me and I feel like I am liquid in his arms, I wonder if anything else in my life will seem real after this. It is as if I traveled beyond the earth and reached and touch…"-Frances Cha, If I Had Your Face
"Sometimes, when he is holding me and I feel like I am liquid in his arms, I wonder if anything else in my life will seem real after this. It is as if I traveled beyond the earth and reached out and t…"-Frances Cha, If I Had Your Face
24. Breasts and Eggs
By: Mieko Kawakami
3.86
Format: 430 pages, Hardcover
Challenging every preconception about storytelling and prose style, mixing wry humor and riveting e… read more
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- fiction
"Then there are the real bastards, like my ex,"-Mieko Kawakami, Breasts and Eggs
"Mi sentivo come un essere privato della carne e della pelle e ridotto a sole ossa. Un carapace enorme completamente cavo."-Mieko Kawakami, Breasts and Eggs
"We could worry about tomorrow when it came. What mattered most right now is how we would spend the remainder of today, even if it was half over."-Mieko Kawakami, Breasts and Eggs
"I could see people all around me, but I almost felt like nobody could see me. I heard a train go by, rumbling down the tracks, drawing a thick line between the world and my experience. I was getting …"-Mieko Kawakami, Breasts and Eggs
25. Moi les hommes, je les déteste
By: Pauline Harmange
3.82
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
" Je vois dans la misandrie une porte de sortie. Une manière d'exister en dehors du passage clouté,… read more
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"Les modèles qu’on inculque sont nocifs dans les deux cas : ni la violence qu’on encourage chez les garçons ni la passivité qu’on impose aux filles ne sont des réponses appropriées, pour soi comme pou…"-Pauline Harmange, Moi les hommes, je les déteste
"Ce n'est pas pour cracher dans la soupe, mais il faut être honnête: non, mon amoureux n'est pas parfait. Il ne me viole pas et ne me frappe pas, il fait la vaisselle, passe l'aspirateur et me traite …"-Pauline Harmange, Moi les hommes, je les déteste
26. Winter in Sokcho
By: Elisa Shua Dusapin
3.56
Format: 154 pages, Paperback
As if Marguerite Duras wrote Convenience Store Woman - a beautiful, unexpected novel from a debut F… read more
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- fiction
"The rain hammered down, the sea rising beneath it in spikes like the spines of a sea urchin."-Elisa Shua Dusapin, Winter in Sokcho
"How do you know when a story is done?" "My character reaches a point when I know he has a life of his own. I can let him go."-Elisa Shua Dusapin, Winter in Sokcho
"How do you know when a story is done?’ ‘My character reaches a point when I know he has a life of his own. I can let him go."-Elisa Shua Dusapin, Winter in Sokcho
27. Medjnoun et Leila
By: Jami
4.07
Format: 175 pages, Paperback
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- fiction
"Lorsque au lever de l'aurore le zéphyr vivifiant comme le souffle de l'amour commença à frémir dans le feuillage, chargé du parfum le plus pur des fleurs, et que de la conque azurée du firmament une …"-Jami, Medjnoun et Leila
28. Rivière d'automne
By: Yu Dafu
3.61
Format: 247 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Yu Dafu, né en 1896, fut assez vite réputé pour être un écrivain scandaleux. Mettant à bas les trad… read more
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- asia
- classics
- fiction
29. Le cheval blanc
By: Elsa Triolet
4.09
Format: None pages, Pocket Book
"C'était plein de monde dans la rue, un quadrille qui se déroulait entre le Dôme, la Rotonde, la Co… read more
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- classics
- fiction
30. Le Livre du large et du long (French Edition)
By: Laura Vazquez
4.23
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Une épopée versifiée, imaginée comme une exploration du monde par les actions, les gestes, les aven… read more
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31. Amour dans une vallée enchantée
By: Wang Anyi
3.31
Format: 147 pages, Paperback
Une jeune femme, lasse de son mariage, rencontre lors d'un colloque à Lushan un écrivain célèbre. U… read more
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- fiction
"Les gens d'ici appellent « chats sauvages » ceux qui vivent sur leur bateau. Ils les plaignent sincèrement de n'avoir ni foyer ni racines et d'errer sur l'eau à longueur d'année. Toutes pinces dehors…"-Wang Anyi, Amour dans une vallée enchantée
"Jour après jour, la puanteur disparaît des rues, remplacée par le suave parfum des fleurs de sophoras. Arrive l'été, avec une chaleur normale, un franc soleil baigne toutes les plantes qui croissent,…"-Wang Anyi, Amour dans une vallée enchantée
"Elle a l'impression d'être debout au bord d'une falaise, de voir les nuages blancs qui flottent à ses pieds, elle sait qu'au-dessous s'étend une gorge insondable. Elle se débat vraiment, mais lui a p…"-Wang Anyi, Amour dans une vallée enchantée
