Southeaster
By: Haroldo Conti
3.72
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Over the course of a season, Boga and the old man work side by side on the sandbanks of the Paraná …
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1. Hopscotch
By: Julio Cortázar , Gregory Rabassa
4.20
Format: 564 pages, Paperback
Horacio Oliveira is an Argentinian writer who lives in Paris with his mistress, La Maga, surrounded… read more
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- latin american literature
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"Pero el amor, esa palabra..."-Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch
"Explanation is a well-dressed error."-Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch
"Pobre amor el que de pensamiento se alimenta."-Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch
"Hay ausencias que representan un verdadero triunfo"-Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch
2. An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
By: César Aira , Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews
3.88
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter is the story of a moment in the life of the German ar… read more
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"Were the “pampas,"-César Aira, An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
"...the transformation would be accomplished not in the dimension of time but in that of meaning."-César Aira, An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
"A drove of mules the size of ants appeared in silhouette on a ridgetop path, moving at a star's pace. The mules were driven by human intelligence and commercial interests, expertise in breeding and b…"-César Aira, An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
"It was hard to believe that this was a route used virtually throughout the year by travelers, mule drivers and merchants. Anyone in their right mind would have regarded it as a means of suicide. Near…"-César Aira, An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
3. Las primas
By: Aurora Venturini
3.91
Format: None pages, pocket
Cuatro mujeres orbitando eternamente en el vacio. La premiadisima primera novela de la octogenaria … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
4. Los enamoramientos
By: Javier Marías
4.49
Format: None pages, Paperback
<> Asi comienza Los enamoramientos, la nueva novela de Javier Marias, consagrado como uno de los me… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
5. Things We Lost in the Fire
By: Mariana Enríquez , Megan McDowell
4.06
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
In these wildly imaginative, devilishly daring tales of the macabre, internationally bestselling au… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"El problema es que no nos creen."-Mariana Enríquez, Things We Lost in the Fire
"Hace años que Lala decidió ser mujer y brasileña, pero había nacido varón y uruguayo."-Mariana Enríquez, Things We Lost in the Fire
"Me acuerdo de la risa de mi madre, de lo joven que era esa tarde de verano, del olor a champú de limón de su pelo y de la carcajada de chicle de menta."-Mariana Enríquez, Things We Lost in the Fire
"Apagábamos las luces y jugábamos en la oscuridad con inciensos encendidos; parecían luciérnagas y a mí me hacían llorar, me hacían acordar a una casa de tejas con parque lejos de la ciudad, una casa …"-Mariana Enríquez, Things We Lost in the Fire
6. The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
By: Luis Sepúlveda
4.04
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
In a remote river town deep in the Ecuadoran jungle, Antonio Jose Bolivar seeks refuge in amorous n… read more
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- fiction
7. Trilogia della città di K.
By: Ágota Kristóf , Armando Marchi , Giovanni Bogliolo , Virginia Ripa di Meana
3.35
Format: 520 pages, Paperback
<>. Rosetta Loy Il grande quaderno La prova La terza menzogna read more
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8. Bartleby the Scrivener
By: Herman Melville
3.93
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Academics hail it as the beginning of modernism, but to readers around the world—even those daunted… read more
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"I would prefer not to."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"Bartleby in a singularly mild, firm voice, replied, “I would prefer not to."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,' was his mildly cadaverous reply."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
9. Min kamp 1 (Min kamp #1)
By: Karl Ove Knausgård
4.11
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Min kamp ar Karl Ove Knausgards maktiga sjalvbiografiska roman. Forsta delen inleds med en svepande… read more
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10. The Aleph and Other Stories
By: Jorge Luis Borges , Andrew Hurley
4.33
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
Full of philosophical puzzles and supernatural surprises, these stories contain some of Borges's mo… read more
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- 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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- fiction
12. Los pichiciegos
By: Rodolfo Enrique Fogwill
4.00
Format: 205 pages,
Escrita en medio del conflicto belico y terminada poco antes de que finalizara la guerra de Malvina… read more
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13. Kiss of the Spider Woman
By: Manuel Puig
4.01
Format: 281 pages, Paperback
Sometimes they talk all night long. In the still darkness of their cell, Molina re-weaves the glitt… read more
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- latin american literature
- fiction
"¿Qué pasa que a veces alguien dice algo y conquista para siempre a otra persona?"-Manuel Puig, Kiss of the Spider Woman
"--And the good thing about feeling happy, you know, Valentin? ...It's that you think it's forever, that one's never ever going to feel unhappy again."-Manuel Puig, Kiss of the Spider Woman
"– Io non ci credo alla faccenda del godi e non pensare al domani, Molina. Nessuno gode senza pensare al domani. Va bene solo per il paradiso terrestre."-Manuel Puig, Kiss of the Spider Woman
"—And what's so bad about being soft like a woman? Why is it men or whoever, some poor bastard, some queen, can't be sensitive, too, if he's got a mind to? —I don't know, but sometimes that kind of be…"-Manuel Puig, Kiss of the Spider Woman
14. El juguete rabioso
By: Roberto Arlt
3.95
Format: 253 pages, Paperback
El juguete rabioso es la primera novela del escritor Roberto Arlt -marcadamente autobiografica- pub… read more
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15. La hojarasca
By: Gabriel García Márquez
3.65
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
El primer libro de Gabriel García Márquez —de 1955— contiene el germen estilístico y de las ideas q… read more
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- latin american literature
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"As I hear him, I understand that he's not more moronic because of the brandy than he is because of his cowardice."-Gabriel García Márquez, La hojarasca
"When something moves you can tell that time has passed. Not till then. Until something moves time is eternal ... That's why time doesn't pass for the hanged man: because even if the child's hand move…"-Gabriel García Márquez, La hojarasca
"Mientras se abanica con el sombrero el rostro trastornado por la sofocación y el aguardiente, mirando hacia la soga, calculando su fuerza, él dice: `Es imposible que una soga tan delgada haya sosteni…"-Gabriel García Márquez, La hojarasca
"Hay un minuto en que se agota la siesta. Hasta la secreta, recóndita, minúscula actividad de los insectos cesa en ese instante preciso; el curso de la naturaleza se detiene; la creación tambalea al b…"-Gabriel García Márquez, La hojarasca
16. Água Viva
By: Clarice Lispector , Benjamin Moser , Stefan Tobler
4.29
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Lispector at her most philosophically radical. A meditation on the nature of life and time, Água Vi… read more
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- fiction
"I always give names to things"-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
"I'm not a synonym—I'm a proper noun."-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
"Suddenly I was crying. It was already love."-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
"To write you I first cover myself with perfume."-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
17. Baumgartner
By: Paul Auster
3.78
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A taut yet expansive novel of love, memory, and grief from Paul Auster, best-selling, award-winning… read more
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"Vivir es sentir dolor, y vivir con miedo al dolor es negarse a vivir"-Paul Auster, Baumgartner
"To live is to feel pain, he told himself, and to live in fear of pain is to refuse to live."-Paul Auster, Baumgartner
"at some point in the coming years, the two books should be combined and reconfigured into a large, one-volume collected poems—a monument of singing pages that will overwhelm the silence of Anna’s gra…"-Paul Auster, Baumgartner
"the story turns out to be so astounding and so powerful that your jaw drops open and you feel that it has changed or enhanced or deepened your understanding of the world, does it matter if the story …"-Paul Auster, Baumgartner
18. Eartheater
By: Dolores Reyes
3.61
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Electrifying and provocative, visceral and profound, a powerful literary debut novel about a young … read more
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- fiction
"Solo el dolor parece no morir nunca."-Dolores Reyes, Eartheater
"No solo el amor acelera el ritmo cardíaco, también la música"-Dolores Reyes, Eartheater
"No se extraña a un hijo, un hermano, una madre o un amigo igual que a otro"-Dolores Reyes, Eartheater
19. La naturaleza secreta de las cosas de este mundo
By: Patricio Pron
3.29
Format: 199 pages, Kindle Edition
Una hija y un padre; dos vidas, una desaparición y un accidente. Una novela deslumbrante sobre la h… read more
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20. Southeaster
By: Haroldo Conti
3.72
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Over the course of a season, Boga and the old man work side by side on the sandbanks of the Paraná … read more
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21. Dopo il diluvio
By: Leonardo Malaguti
4.18
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
Una storia grottesca e paradossale, in bilico tra narrazione epica e ambizione tragica, in realtà p… read more
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