A modo nostro
By: Chen He
3.34
Format: 345 pages, Kindle Edition
Un uomo lavora come autista in una società di trasporti nella città di Wenzhou, nel sud della Cina,…
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1. Of Love and Shadows
By: Isabel Allende , Margaret Sayers Peden
3.99
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Beautiful and headstrong, Irene Beltrán works as a magazine journalist—a profession that belies her… read more
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"Compartieron una alegre relación y no la llamaron amor."-Isabel Allende, Of Love and Shadows
"Lo puedo leer en tus ojos, vienes de una noche de amor."-Isabel Allende, Of Love and Shadows
"...era apenas la suma de dos soledades y de muchas ausencias."-Isabel Allende, Of Love and Shadows
"La nostalgia desgasta y aniquila, es el vicio de los desterrados."-Isabel Allende, Of Love and Shadows
2. La Ciociara
By: Alberto Moravia
4.07
Format: 314 pages, Paperback
La ciociara è la storia delle avventure di una madre e una figlia, costrette dal caso a passare un … read more
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3. La porta proibita
By: Tiziano Terzani
4.20
Format: 270 pages, Paperback
Milano, Tea, 2004, 16mo brossura con copertina illustrata a colori, pp. 270 (Saggistica). read more
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"Il passato è un'indispensabile guida per chi vuol visitare il presente o immaginarsi il futuro. In tutti i miei viaggi mi porto sempre dietro i libri di qualcuno che ha percorso quella strada prima d…"-Tiziano Terzani, La porta proibita
4. Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
By: Jung Chang
3.90
Format: 436 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Notable Book Empress Dowager Cixi (1835–1908) is the most important woman in Chin… read more
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"She was a giant, but no saint."-Jung Chang, Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
"For all her faults, she was no despot."-Jung Chang, Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
"Empress Dowager Cixi’s legacy was manifold and towering."-Jung Chang, Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
"For Cixi, what the Viceroy as done was best left unsaid."-Jung Chang, Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
5. Death with Interruptions
By: Margaret Jull Costa , José Saramago
4.00
Format: 238 pages, Hardcover
Nobel Prize-winner Jose Saramago's brilliant new novel poses the question what happens when the gri… read more
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"Al día siguiente no murió nadie."-Margaret Jull Costa, Death with Interruptions
"Eu sunt moartea,restul nu e nimic."-Margaret Jull Costa, Death with Interruptions
"La muerte está enfadada. Es el momento de sacarle la lengua."-Margaret Jull Costa, Death with Interruptions
"Sin muerte no hay resurrección, y sin resurrección no hay iglesia"-Margaret Jull Costa, Death with Interruptions
6. The Sorrows of Young Werther
By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Burton Pike
3.73
Format: None pages, Paperback
Visiting an idyllic German village, Werther, a sensitive and romantic young man, meets and falls in… read more
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7. The Dark Road
By: Ma Jian , Flora Drew
4.00
Format: 158 pages, Hardcover
Meili, a young peasant woman born in the remote heart of China, is married to Kongzi, a village sch… read more
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8. Three Sisters
By: Howard Goldblatt , Sylvia Li-Chun Lin , Bi Feiyu
4.82
Format: 174 pages, Hardcover
In a small village in China, the Wang family has produced seven sisters in its quest to have a boy;… read more
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9. The Age of Innocence
By: Edith Wharton , Maureen Howard
2.64
Format: 110 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocenceis Edith Wharton's masterful portrait of des… read more
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10. Red Sorghum
By: Mo Yan , Howard Goldblatt
3.63
Format: None pages,
Spanning three generations, this novel of family and myth is told through a series of flashbacks th… read more
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11. The Painted Veil
By: W. Somerset Maugham
3.44
Format: 336 pages,
Set in England and Hong Kong in the 1920s, The Painted Veilis the story of the beautiful, but love-… read more
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12. Death of a Red Heroine (Inspector Chen Cao #1)
By: Qiu Xiaolong
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
Qiu Xiaolong's Anthony Award-winning debut introduces Inspector Chen of the Shanghai Police. A youn… read more
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13. The Wangs vs. the World
By: Jade Chang
2.62
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A hilarious debut novel about a wealthy but fractured Chinese immigrant family that had it all, onl… read more
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14. Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
By: Peter Cameron
3.99
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
It's time for eighteen-year-old James Sveck to begin his freshman year at Brown. Instead, he's surf… read more
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15. I maestri di tuina
By: Monica Morzenti , Bi Feiyu , Maria Gottardo
3.93
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
<>, tuina. E il nome di un massaggio basato sulla medicina cinese tradizionale, di norma effettuato… read more
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16. The Lost Daughter
By: Elena Ferrante
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Elena Ferrante will blow you away."-Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones From the author of Th… read more
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17. Il fu Mattia Pascal
By: Luigi Pirandello
4.01
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Pubblicato nel 1904, Il fu Mattia Pascal, il più famoso dei romanzi di Pirandello, riveste un'impor… read more
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"Ma i libri [...] pesano tanto: eppure, chi se ne ciba e se li mette in corpo, vive tra le nuvole."-Luigi Pirandello, Il fu Mattia Pascal
"Si reconocemos que equivocarse es propio del hombre, ¿no es una crueldad sobrehumana la justicia?"-Luigi Pirandello, Il fu Mattia Pascal
"come se parimenti dalle proprie sofferenze vi fosse abilitato. E se gli altri non gli fanno il bene quasi per dovere, egli li accusa, e di tutto il male ch’egli fa quasi per diritto, facilmente si sc…"-Luigi Pirandello, Il fu Mattia Pascal
"¿Me ha parecido una suerte que me tuvieran por muerto? Pues bien: estoy muerto de verdad. ¿Muerto? Peor que muerto me lo ha recordado don Anselmo: los muertos ya no tienen que morirse, y yo sí, yo es…"-Luigi Pirandello, Il fu Mattia Pascal
18. Tuya
By: Claudia Piñeiro
3.76
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Un corazón dibujado con rouge, cruzado por un “te quiero” y firmado “Tuya”, le revela a Inés que su… read more
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"Yo sé bastante de mecánica, pero él no sabe que sé, porque ocuparse de los autos es una tarea de los hombres, y como decía mi mamá, el día que cambiás un cuerito, sonaste, porque ya creen que sos plo…"-Claudia Piñeiro, Tuya
19. Beijing Coma
By: Ma Jian , Flora Drew
3.53
Format: None pages,
At once a powerful allegory of a rising China, racked by contradictions, and a seminal examination … read more
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20. The Elegance of the Hedgehog
By: Muriel Barbery , Alison Anderson
2.80
Format: None pages, Paperback
A moving, funny, triumphant novel that exalts the quiet victories of the inconspicuous among us. We… read more
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21. Stoner
By: John Williams , John McGahern
4.34
Format: 292 pages, Paperback
William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming famil… read more
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"Annesi, hayatını sabırla kabullenmişti, katlanmak zorunda olduğu uzun bir anmışçasına."-John Williams, Stoner
"Within a month he knew that his marriage was a failure; within a year he stopped hoping that it would improve."-John Williams, Stoner
"But the required survey of English literature troubled and disquieted him in a way nothing had ever done before."-John Williams, Stoner
"While they talked they remembered the years of their youth, and each thought of the other as he had been at another time."-John Williams, Stoner
22. Novecento. Un monologo
By: Alessandro Baricco
3.37
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
Il Virginianera un piroscafo. Negli anni tra le due guerre faceva la spola tra Europa e America, co… read more
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23. 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
24. The Florios of Sicily
By: Stefania Auci
3.96
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A grand, sweeping international bestseller that captures the many lives of Italy's most notorious f… read more
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25. La portalettere
By: Francesca Giannone
4.14
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Salento, giugno 1934. A Lizzanello, un paesino di poche migliaia di anime, una corriera si ferma ne… read more
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"Si diresse in cucina, aspettandosi che Anna la seguisse per aiutarla. Invece vide che scostava la sedia e si accomodava. Roba da matti, pensò allora, scuotendo il capo. Se c'era un'altra donna tra i …"-Francesca Giannone, La portalettere
26. A Little Luck
By: Claudia Piñeiro
4.29
Format: 211 pages, Paperback
After twenty years, a woman returns to the suburban Argentina she had fled to escape a dreadful acc… read more
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"Para escribir un diario hay que tener una seguridad del valor que tiene contar la vida propia que yo no tengo."-Claudia Piñeiro, A Little Luck
27. Life for Sale
By: Yukio Mishima
3.72
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
'Life for sale. Use me as you wish. I am a twenty-seven-year-old male. Discretion guaranteed. Will … read more
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"It's only the desire to live as long as possible that makes everything seem complicated and mysterious."-Yukio Mishima, Life for Sale
"Když si rozsvítíš v malém pokoji modrou lampu, taky ti všechno zmodrá, ale tím se z toho pokoje ještě moře nestane."-Yukio Mishima, Life for Sale
"A dead body reminds me a bit of a bottle of whisky. If you drop the bottle and it cracks, what’s inside pours out. It’s only natural."-Yukio Mishima, Life for Sale
"To say human life had no meaning was the easy part. But Hanio was struck all over again by the huge amount of energy required to live a life filled with so much meaninglessness."-Yukio Mishima, Life for Sale
28. Love and Murder in the Time of Covid (Inspector Chen Cao #13)
By: Qiu Xiaolong
3.80
Format: 233 pages, Kindle Edition
Former chief inspector Chen faces a tricky serial murderer case at the height of the Covid pandemic… read more
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29. The Happy Couple
By: Naoise Dolan
3.38
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
An intimate, sharply funny novel about a couple heading toward their wedding, and the three friends… read more
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"She'd learned by that point that she couldn't fix people. All she needed to know, really, in any human transaction, was wether it was right for her; wether it fit. That was why she'd dumped Luke when…"-Naoise Dolan, The Happy Couple
"Celine believed things for exactly as long as she wanted to. Being smart, being logical, didn't help her. It just enabled her baroque self-deceit. Phoebe took the simpler route of putting no consider…"-Naoise Dolan, The Happy Couple
30. Shanghai Suite
By: Bao Tianxiao
3.62
Format: 178 pages, Paperback
I primi decenni del XX secolo costituiscono un momento straordinariamente felice per la produzione … read more
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31. A modo nostro
By: Chen He
3.34
Format: 345 pages, Kindle Edition
Un uomo lavora come autista in una società di trasporti nella città di Wenzhou, nel sud della Cina,… read more
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