The Grass
By: Claude Simon
3.87
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
A young woman talks to her lover about her dying aunt, recounts memories of her past, and shares he…
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1. Second Person Singular
By: Sayed Kashua , Mitch Ginsburg
3.97
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Acclaimed novelist Sayed Kashua, the creator of the groundbreaking Israeli sitcom, “Arab Labor,” ha… read more
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- literature
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2. The Opposing Shore
By: Julien Gracq
4.01
Format: 292 pages, Paperback
The great maritime state of Orsenna has long been lulled by settled peace and prosperity. It is thr… read more
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- roman
- literature
- france
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"[Original text in French] Giovanni n'avait pas menti. Sagra était une merveille baroque, une collision improbable et inquiétante de la nature et de l'art. [My translation to English] Giovanni hadn't …"-Julien Gracq, The Opposing Shore
3. The Recognitions
By: William H. Gass , William Gaddis
4.20
Format: 976 pages, Paperback
The book Jonathan Franzen dubbed the "ur-text of postwar fiction" and the "first great cultural cri… read more
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- literature
- novels
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"Women get desperate, but they don't understand despair."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"That fever had passed; but for the rest of his life it never left his eyes."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"Reading Proust isn't just reading a book, it's an experience and you can't reject an experience."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest." William Gaddis, The Recognitions."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
4. The Book of Disquiet
By: Fernando Pessoa , Richard Zenith
4.41
Format: 544 pages, Paperback
Fernando Pessoa was many writers in one. He attributed his prolific writings to a wide range of alt… read more
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- literature
- novels
- fiction
"My past is everything I failed to be."-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
"Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life."-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
"Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!"-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
"There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful."-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
5. 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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- literature
- novels
- france
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"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
6. Against Nature
By: Joris-Karl Huysmans , Patrick McGuinness , Robert Baldick , Patrick McGuiness
3.87
Format: 54 pages, Paperback
With a title translated either as Against Natureor as Against The Grain, this wildly original fin-d… read more
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- france
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7. Death in Venice
By: Thomas Mann , Michael Cunningham , Michael Henry Heim
3.74
Format: 142 pages, Paperback
The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann -- here in a new translation by Michael … read more
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"Nothing gladdens a writer more than a thought that can become pure feeling and a feeling that can become pure thought."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Denn der Mensch liebt und ehrt den Menschen , solange er ihn nicht zu beurteilen vermag, und die Sehnsucht ist ein Erzeunis mangelhafter Erkenntnis."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
8. Dancing Arabs
By: Sayed Kashua , Miriam Shlesinger
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
A story born out of the tensions between Jewish and Arab Israelis, the debut novel by twenty-eight-… read more
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9. Ways of Going Home
By: Alejandro Zambra , Megan McDowell
3.98
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Ways of Going Homebegins with an earthquake, seen through the eyes of an unnamed nine-year-old boy.… read more
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10. Count Julian
By: Juan Goytisolo
3.54
Format: None pages, Paperback
Exiled in Tangiers, cut off from home and country, the narrator of Count Julian rants against the h… read more
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- fiction
11. 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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12. Plata quemada
By: Ricardo Piglia
3.09
Format: None pages, Paperback
Esta novela cuenta un caso real. En el Buenos Aires de 1965, una banda asalta un banco. Varios poli… read more
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- fiction
13. El Llano en llamas
By: Juan Rulfo
4.47
Format: None pages,
'The Burning Plain and Other Stories consists of fifteen pieces ranging from brief anecdotes, casua… read more
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14. And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks
By: William S. Burroughs , Jack Kerouac
4.06
Format: None pages,
On August 14, 1944, Lucien Carr, a friend of William S. Burroughs from St. Louis, stabbed a man nam… read more
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15. A Horse Walks into a Bar
By: David Grossman , Jessica Cohen
3.52
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
The award-winning and internationally acclaimed author of the To the End of the Land now gives us a… read more
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- novels
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"What do people see in me on the first impression? ... Is there any imprint left from the love I knew? A rebirth mark?"-David Grossman, A Horse Walks into a Bar
"What do people see in me on the first impression? Can they still see what I was until not long ago? Is there any imprint left from the love I knew? A rebirth mark?"-David Grossman, A Horse Walks into a Bar
"En tunnistanut itseäni, kun olin hänen kanssaan. En tunnistanut innostunutta, eloisaa poikaa, joka minusta kuoriutui. En tunnistanut ohimoilleni nousevaa kuumotusta, vaikka se johtui ajatusten kiihko…"-David Grossman, A Horse Walks into a Bar
16. 2666
By: Roberto Bolaño
4.21
Format: 1128 pages, Paperback
A cuatro profesores de literatura, Pelletier, Morini, Espinoza y Norton, los une su fascinación por… read more
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"Nothing is ever behind us."-Roberto Bolaño, 2666
"Reading is never a waste of time."-Roberto Bolaño, 2666
"Every hundred feet the world changes"-Roberto Bolaño, 2666
"The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower."-Roberto Bolaño, 2666
17. Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
By: Marcel Proust , Simon Vance , Lydia Davis
4.15
Format: 710 pages, Mass Market Paperback
«Et tout d'un coup le souvenir m'est apparu. Ce goût, c'était celui du petit morceau de madeleine q… read more
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"Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"the comfort of reclusion, the poetry of hibernation"-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"Now are the woods all black, But still the sky is blue."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"Fall in love with a dog's bum, And thou'll think it pretty as a plum."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
18. Extinction
By: Thomas Bernhard , David McLintock
4.28
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Thomas Bernhard is one of the greatest twentieth-century writers in the German language. Extinction… read more
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19. The Cave
By: Margaret Jull Costa , José Saramago
3.95
Format: None pages, Paperback
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20. The Hearing Trumpet
By: Leonora Carrington , Pablo Weisz Carrington
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
Leonora Carrington, the distinguished British-born Surrealist painter is also a writer of extraordi… read more
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21. The Grass
By: Claude Simon
3.87
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
A young woman talks to her lover about her dying aunt, recounts memories of her past, and shares he… read more
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