12 Top fiction books like Desnudo En El Tejado by Antonio Skármeta

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Desnudo En El Tejado

By: Antonio Skármeta

3.27

Format: 144 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Cuando Desnudo en el tejado obtuvo el Premio Casa de las AmÁricas al mejor libro de cuentos, el nom…

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1. Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera

By: Anne Carson

4.18

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

"One of the most interesting gatherings of material that any poet has published within living memor… read more

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"Everything is a naked thought that strikes."

-Anne Carson, Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera

"I don't want to be a person. I want to be unbearable."

-Anne Carson, Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera

"Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go."

-Anne Carson, Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera

"What is a quote? A quote (cognate with quota) is a cut, a section, a slice of someone's orange. You suck the slice, toss the rind, skate away."

-Anne Carson, Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera

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2. Marvels

By: Kurt Busiek , Alex Ross

4.28

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Welcome to New York. Here, burning figures roam the streets, men in brightly colored costumes scale… read more

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"I had to wonder: Were the mutants the price we paid for the Marvels? The negatives without which the pictures we wanted couldn't exist?"

-Kurt Busiek, Marvels

"They were evil! The mutants---they wanted to kill us all! Everybody knew that! Nick Cosgrove and Arthur Lindstrom, out there with their with their guns--They were friends of ours. We played bridge wi…"

-Kurt Busiek, Marvels

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3. Twelfth Night

By: William Shakespeare , Folger Shakespeare Library

3.95

Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Named for the twelfth night after Christmas, the end of the Christmas season, Twelfth Night plays w… read more

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"a raven's heart within a dove."

-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

"I pity you That's a degree to love"

-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

"Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit."

-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

"Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage."

-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

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4. Sostiene Pereira

By: Antonio Tabucchi

4.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

Lisboa, 1938. En una Europa recorrida por el fantasma de los totalitarismos, Pereira, un periodista… read more

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5. My Documents

By: Alejandro Zambra , Megan McDowell

4.36

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Archived in a folder on award-winning author Alejandro Zambra's desktop are 11 stories of liars and… read more

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6. Tengo Miedo Torero

By: Pedro Lemebel

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

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7. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

3.34

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Today, F. Scott Fitzgerald is known for his novels, but in his lifetime, his fame stemmed from his … read more

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Cover of If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho by Sappho, Anne Carson

8. If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

By: Sappho , Anne Carson

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

From poet and classicist Anne Carson comes this translation of the work of Sappho, together with th… read more

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9. The Death of Ivan Ilych

By: Leo Tolstoy , Aylmer Maude

4.13

Format: 86 pages, Paperback

Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, The Death of I… read more

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"If you look for the working classes in fiction, and especially English fiction, all you find is a hole."

-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych

"And the further he departed from childhood and the nearer he came to the present the more worthless and doubtful were the joys."

-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych

"In the depths of his heart he knew that he was dying but, so far from growing used to the idea, he simply did not and could not grasp it."

-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych

"It can't be that life is so senseless and horrible. But if it really has been so horrible and senseless, why must I die and die in agony? There is something wrong!"

-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych

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10. Prometheus Bound

By: Aeschylus , None , James Scully , C. John Herington

3.13

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Featuring an insightful introduction, comprehensive commentary on plot, characters, structure, and … read more

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11. Tropic of Capricorn

By: Henry Miller

4.00

Format: 16 pages,

Banned in America for almost 30 years because of its explicit sexual content, this companion volume… read more

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12. La vida es sueño

By: Pedro Calderón de la Barca , None

4.33

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

He aqui la creacion mas lograda y de caracter mas universal de Calderon. La vida es suenoes, en sin… read more

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13. Ficciones

By: Jorge Luis Borges , Anthony Bonner , Anthony Kerrigan

3.53

Format: 320 pages,

The seventeen pieces in Ficcionesdemonstrate the whirlwind of Borges's genius and mirror the precis… read more

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14. La ciudad y los perros

By: Mario Vargas Llosa

4.07

Format: 112 pages, Mass Market Paperback

En 1962, La ciudad y los perros recibia el Premio Biblioteca Breve. Asi comenzaba la andadura liter… read more

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15. Strange Weather in Tokyo

By: Hiromi Kawakami

4.29

Format: None pages, Paperback

Tsukiko is drinking alone in her local sake bar when by chance she meets one of her old high school… read more

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16. Los jefes y Los cachorros

By: Mario Vargas Llosa

4.24

Format: 185 pages, Paperback

Los Jefes y Los cachorros sirvieron como antecedente, para la construccion de las obras de Vargas L… read more

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17. The Waiting

By: Keum Suk Gendry-Kim

4.43

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

The story begins with a mother's confession... sisters permanently separated by a border during the… read more

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18. Huaco retrato

By: Gabriela Wiener

3.89

Format: 170 pages, Paperback

La muerte de su padre y los fantasmas de su herencia marcan el retorno de Wiener con esta exploraci… read more

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19. Desnudo En El Tejado

By: Antonio Skármeta

3.27

Format: 144 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Cuando Desnudo en el tejado obtuvo el Premio Casa de las AmÁricas al mejor libro de cuentos, el nom… read more

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20. La balanza de los Balek

By: Heinrich Böll

3.93

Format: 30 pages, Paperback

En un pequeño pueblo campesino alemán, durante los primeros años del siglo XX, el orden social siem… read more

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21. A Sunny Place for Shady People

By: Mariana Enríquez

3.81

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A diabolical collection of stories featuring achingly human characters whose lives intertwine with … read more

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12 best-selling fiction books like Marvels by Kurt Busiek, Alex Ross

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Dennis O'Neil , Frank Miller , David Mazzucchelli , Richmond Lewis

4.24

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Tim Sale , Alan Moore , Brian Bolland

4.37

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