Awake
By: Harald Voetmann
3.64
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
In a shuttered bedroom in ancient Italy, the sleepless Pliny the Elder lies in bed obsessively dict…
Want to Read $ 9.99"I certainly do not believe that life is so valuable it must be prolonged at all costs. You who are of the opposite opinion will die nonetheless, even if your life has been prolonged by perverse acts and abominations. Therefore, let each take the following to be the soul's greatest remedy: Among all the gifts which nature has bestowed on man none surpass a timely death, and the best thing is that anyone can procure it for himself."-Harald Voetmann, Awake
"I certainly do not believe that life is so valuable it must be prolonged at all costs. You who are of the opposite opinion will die nonetheless, even if your life has been prolonged by perverse acts and abominations. Therefore, let each take the following to be the soul's greatest remedy: Among all the gifts which nature has bestowed on man none surpass a timely death, and the best thing is that anyone can procure it for himself."-Harald Voetmann, Awake
"Sex can be either play or labor, depending on the participant's role and reasons for taking part, but as we have eliminated the category of play, there is only one option left. Sexual activity can only be defined as a kind of labor, and all participants would do well to strive for the superior work ethic of the slaves who know they must endure it. You won't hear them cursing and fuming and acting out whole other are trying to nap—trouble springs from the perceived masters of the situation, who trust that their ejaculation, under the right circumstances, is for pleasure, and never realize that their urge is but earthly slavery imposed on them."-Harald Voetmann, Awake
"Sex can be either play or labor, depending on the participant's role and reasons for taking part, but as we have eliminated the category of play, there is only one option left. Sexual activity can only be defined as a kind of labor, and all participants would do well to strive for the superior work ethic of the slaves who know they must endure it. You won't hear them cursing and fuming and acting out whole other are trying to nap—trouble springs from the perceived masters of the situation, who trust that their ejaculation, under the right circumstances, is for pleasure, and never realize that their urge is but earthly slavery imposed on them."-Harald Voetmann, Awake
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1. Transit
By: Anna Seghers
3.70
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
Marseille im Sommer 1940: Am Rande Europas versammeln sich die von den Nazis Verfolgten und Bedroht… read more
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"Such lies were a lot better, less hurtful than the truth would have been."-Anna Seghers, Transit
"For the first time back then, I thought about everything seriously. The past and the future, both equally unknowable, and also this ongoing situation that the consulates call "transitory" but that we…"-Anna Seghers, Transit
"What can I expect here? You know the fairy tale about the man who died, don’t you? He was waiting in Eternity to find out what the Lord had decided to do with him. He waited and waited, for one year,…"-Anna Seghers, Transit
"Then I walked down the Cours Belsunce. The nets were stretched out to dry. A couple of women mending them looked quite lost in the huge square. I had never seen them doing this before. I'm sure that …"-Anna Seghers, Transit
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3. The Venice Train
By: Georges Simenon , Alastair Hamilton
4.05
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Au retour des vacances, Justin Calmar prend seul le train de Venise a Paris ; sa femme et ses enfan… read more
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4. The Melancholy of Resistance
By: George Szirtes , László Krasznahorkai
2.50
Format: 62 pages, Paperback
The Melancholy of Resistance, Laszlo Krasznahorkai's magisterial, surreal novel, depicts a chain of… read more
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5. Concrete
By: Thomas Bernhard , David McLintock
3.34
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Instead of the book he's meant to write, Rudolph, a Viennese musicologist, produces this tale of pr… read more
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6. Under Milk Wood
By: Dylan Thomas
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
A moving and hilarious account of a spring day in a small Welsh coastal town, Under Milk Woodis "ly… read more
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7. Frontier
By: Can Xue , Karen Gernant , Porochista Khakpour , None
3.81
Format: None pages, Paperback
"One of the most raved-about works of translated fiction this year"--Jonathan Sturgeon, Flavorwire … read more
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8. Michael Kohlhaas
By: Heinrich von Kleist
3.54
Format: 133 pages, Paperback
Based on historical events, this thrilling saga of violence and retribution bridges the gap between… read more
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"Because dearest Lisbeth, I will not abide in a country in which my rights are not protected. If I am to be trampled underfoot, I would rather be a dog than a man. I am certain that, on this point, my…"-Heinrich von Kleist, Michael Kohlhaas
9. Kappa
By: Ryūnosuke Akutagawa , Geoffrey Bownas
2.86
Format: 442 pages, Paperback
From the author of Rashomon comes a Swiftian satire of Japanese society thinly disguised as the fic… read more
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10. Narrow Rooms
By: James Purdy
3.66
Format: None pages, Paperback
A powerful story of love turned round, of passion and fierce discovery, of lives illuminated by fli… read more
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12. The Palace of Dreams
By: Ismail Kadare
4.00
Format: 131 pages, Paperback
A sinister totalitarian ministry called the Palace of Dreams recruits Mark-Alem to sort, classify, … read more
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13. The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild
By: Mathias Énard
3.59
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
To research his thesis on contemporary agrarian life, anthropology student David Mazon moves from P… read more
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14. The Maniac
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.34
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more
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"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac
15. Literatura infantil
By: Alejandro Zambra
4.25
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
Diario de paternidad, «carta al hijo» y ficción pura conviven en extraordinaria armonía a lo largo … read more
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"No recuerdo nuestro primer viaje solos, a mis tres o cuatro años, pero él lo ha contado tantas veces que su relato funciona casi como un recuerdo implantado."-Alejandro Zambra, Literatura infantil
"La biología nos asegura un lugar en sus vidas, pero igual ansiamos que nos elijan como padres. Que alguna vez digan esta frase tan maravillosamente rara: 'Mi padre fue mi verdadero padre'."-Alejandro Zambra, Literatura infantil
"Me enorgullece que la primera palabra pronunciada por mi hijo, hace cinco días, haya sido, contra toda tendencia estadística, la palabra papá. Ahora la dice a cada rato. Todavía le cuesta, eso sí, ar…"-Alejandro Zambra, Literatura infantil
"La lectura silenciosa es en cierto modo una conquista; quienes leemos en silencio y en soledad aprendemos, justamente, a estar solos, o mejor dicho reconquistamos una soledad menos agresiva, una sole…"-Alejandro Zambra, Literatura infantil
16. Blackouts
By: Justin Torres
3.77
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of We the Animals, Blackouts mines lost histories--personal and collect… read more
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17. His Name was Death
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4.10
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A bitter drunk forsakes civilization and takes to the Mexican jungle, trapping animals, selling the… read more
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18. Our Strangers: Stories
By: Lydia Davis
3.92
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
Only available at independent bookstores and libraries, by request of the author. From one of the m… read more
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19. My Death
By: Lisa Tuttle
3.98
Format: 93 pages, Paperback
A widowed writer begins to work on a biography of a novelist and artist—and soon uncovers bizarre p… read more
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20. Same Bed Different Dreams
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3.77
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
A wild, sweeping novel that imagines an alternate secret history of Korea and the traces it leaves … read more
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21. A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East
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3.89
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The grandson of Prince Genji lives outside of space and time and wanders the grounds of an old mona… read more
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"...végső soron az egyszerű bizalmat abban, hogy van hagyomány, hogy ez a hagyomány a megfigyelésre, az ismétlésre és a természet belső rendjének és a dolgok természetének a tiszteletére épül, s hogy …"-László Krasznahorkai, A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East
"...mert maguk voltak a létezés, miközben a létezésből mégis ki voltak zárva, vagyis oly közel estek a létezéshez, hogy azonossá váltak vele, és a létezés nem látszik soha, így hát ha itt voltak is, a…"-László Krasznahorkai, A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East
22. You Dreamed of Empires
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3.85
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From a visionary Mexican author, a hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story that reimagine… read more
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23. My Work
By: Olga Ravn
4.01
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
In this radical, funny, and mercilessly honest novel about motherhood, Anna is utterly lost after g… read more
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24. Chasing Homer
By: László Krasznahorkai
3.72
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In this thrilling chase narrative, a hunted man escapes certain death at breakneck speed—carooming … read more
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25. Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other
By: Danielle Dutton
4.05
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From the "strikingly smart and daringly feminist" (Jenny Offill) author of Margaret the First and S… read more
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26. Of Cattle and Men
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3.97
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Animals go mad and men die (accidentally and not) at a slaughterhouse in an impoverished, isolated … read more
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"Senhor Milo knows cattlemen, he's cut from the same cloth. No one goes unpunished. They're men of cattle and blood."-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men
"Two enclosures, one for cattle and one for men, standing side by side. Sometimes the smell is familiar. Only the voices on one side and the mooing on the other distinguish the men from the ruminants."-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men
"Edgar picks up the mallet. The steer comes up close to him. Edgar looks into the animal's eyes and caresses its forehead. The cow stomps one hoof, wags its tail and snorts. Edgar shushes the animal a…"-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men
"For a few moments, Edgar Wilson yields to the late afternoon sun that has not yet fully set, but that is rushing headlong into a moonless, starless night. He knows how to listen in silence, even when…"-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men
27. Spadework for a Palace
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Spadework for a Palace bears the subtitle “Entering the Madness of Others” and offers an epigraph: … read more
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28. The Things We've Seen
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In The Things We’ve Seen, his most ambitious and accomplished novel to date, Agustín Fernández Mall… read more
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30. So Beautiful and Elastic
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"Gary J. Shipley's So Beautiful and Elastic entwines elegant prose, blistering suspense, and art cr… read more
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31. Awake
By: Harald Voetmann
3.64
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
In a shuttered bedroom in ancient Italy, the sleepless Pliny the Elder lies in bed obsessively dict… read more
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"I certainly do not believe that life is so valuable it must be prolonged at all costs. You who are of the opposite opinion will die nonetheless, even if your life has been prolonged by perverse acts …"-Harald Voetmann, Awake
"Sex can be either play or labor, depending on the participant's role and reasons for taking part, but as we have eliminated the category of play, there is only one option left. Sexual activity can on…"-Harald Voetmann, Awake
