Enkä ollut vanki
By: Hella Wuolijoki
3.19
Format: 190 pages, Mass Market Paperback
YKSI NAINEN MONTA TOTUUTTA Helsingin sotaoikeuden syyttäjä vaati 1943 kirjailija Hella Wuolijoel…
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1. Freshwater
By: Akwaeke Emezi
4.02
Format: 229 pages, Hardcover
An extraordinary debut novel, Freshwater explores the surreal experience of having a fractured self… read more
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"It wasn’t me,"-Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater
"The worst part of embodiment is being unseen."-Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater
"Sometimes, you recognize truth because it destroys you for a bit."-Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater
"The gods do not care. It is not them, after all, that will pay the cost."-Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater
2. The Origin of Others (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)
By: Ta-Nehisi Coates , Toni Morrison
4.20
Format: 126 pages, Hardcover
America’s foremost novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingly dominat… read more
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- nonfiction
"Harriet Beecher Stowe did not write Uncle Tom’s Cabin for Tom, Aunt Chloe, or any black people to read. Her contemporary readership was white people, those who needed, wanted, or could relish the rom…"-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Origin of Others (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)
"One purpose of scientific racism is to identify an outsider in order to define one’s self. Another possibility is to maintain (even enjoy) one’s own difference without contempt for the categorized di…"-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Origin of Others (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)
"It took some time for me to understand my unreasonable claims on that fisherwoman. To understand that I was longing for and missing some aspect of myself, and that there are no strangers. There are o…"-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Origin of Others (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)
"How hard they work to define the slave as inhuman, savage, when in fact the definition of the inhuman describes overwhelmingly the punisher. When they rest, exhausted, between bouts of lashing, the p…"-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Origin of Others (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)
3. Surun ja ilon kaupunki
By: Mika Waltari , Veikko Vienoja
3.55
Format: 172 pages, Hardcover
Kaleidoskooppimainen yhden paivan romaani (1936) avaa nopeina, draamallisina valahdyksina lapileikk… read more
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- finnish literature
4. The Unknown Soldier
By: Väinö Linna
3.83
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
The Unknown Soldieris a story about the Continuation War between Finland and Soviet Union, told fro… read more
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5. A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories
By: Lydia Davis , Lucia Berlin , None
3.90
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A MANUAL FOR CLEANING WOMEN compiles the best work of the legendary short-story writer Lucia Berlin… read more
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6. Ragnarok
By: A.S. Byatt
5.00
Format: 299 pages, Hardcover
Recently evacuated to the British countryside and with World War Two raging around her, one young g… read more
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7. Århundradets kärlekssaga
By: Märta Tikkanen , Henrik Tikkanen
4.24
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
Diktromanen Arhundradets karlekssagaar en av de mest uppmarksammade bocker som kommit ut i Sverige … read more
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8. Preludes & Nocturnes (The Sandman, #1)
By: Neil Gaiman , Mike Dringenberg , Malcolm Jones III , Sam Kieth , Todd Klein , None
4.25
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
New York Times best-selling author Neil Gaiman's transcendent series SANDMAN is often hailed as the… read more
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"I am hope."-Neil Gaiman, Preludes & Nocturnes (The Sandman, #1)
"You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime."-Neil Gaiman, Preludes & Nocturnes (The Sandman, #1)
"I think I’ll dismember the world and then I’ll dance in the wreckage."-Neil Gaiman, Preludes & Nocturnes (The Sandman, #1)
"Some things are too big to be seen; some emotions too huge to be felt."-Neil Gaiman, Preludes & Nocturnes (The Sandman, #1)
9. Gift
By: Tove Ditlevsen , Dy Plambeck
3.00
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
I sin tredje erindringsbog vender Tove Ditlevsen tilbage til sin ungdom og fortaeller om det kaerli… read more
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10. Happening
By: Annie Ernaux
4.32
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
In 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her like a plag… read more
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"There is no such thing as a lesser truth."-Annie Ernaux, Happening
"I was intoxicated, wrapped up in wordless intelligence."-Annie Ernaux, Happening
"People judged according to the law, they didn't judge the law."-Annie Ernaux, Happening
"love children are the most beautiful of all.' What a terrible statement."-Annie Ernaux, Happening
11. The Young Man
By: Annie Ernaux
3.61
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Annie Ernaux's most recent book, dazzling and breat… read more
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- biography
12. The Discomfort of Evening
By: Marieke Lucas Rijneveld
3.45
Format: 282 pages, Paperback
I thought about being too small for so much, but that no one told you when you were big enough ... … read more
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"In de nacht is iedereen leeftijdsloos."-Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, The Discomfort of Evening
"We can't simply swap God - he's the strongest Pokémon card we have."-Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, The Discomfort of Evening
"Onze dagen zullen verlengd worden, net zoals we boeken uit de bibliotheek verlengen om er langer in te kunnen verdwalen zonder kans te maken op een geldboete."-Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, The Discomfort of Evening
"En nu, doordat ik door mijn wimpers keek had ik ook het idee dat moeder en de veearts niet doorhadden dat ik meeluisterde, dat ik in gedachten de trekken rondom moeders mond en ogen uit kon gummen om…"-Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, The Discomfort of Evening
13. Felix Ever After
By: Kacen Callender
4.24
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From Stonewall and Lambda Award-winning author Kacen Callender comes a revelatory YA novel about a … read more
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"It's easier to accept hurt and pain, sometimes, than love and acceptance."-Kacen Callender, Felix Ever After
"It's easier, sometimes, to love when you know it's a love you can't have."-Kacen Callender, Felix Ever After
"For trans and nonbinary youth: You're beautiful. You're important. You're valid. You're perfect."-Kacen Callender, Felix Ever After
"Yeah. I don’t know, I always feel like I can’t figure out how to just stop watching and actually join."-Kacen Callender, Felix Ever After
14. Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme
By: Édouard Louis
4.13
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Pendant une grande partie de sa vie ma mère a vécu dans la pauvreté et la nécessité, à l'écart de t… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
"Why do I feel as though I'm writing a sad story, when my aim was to tell the story of a liberation?"-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme
"I'd gotten so used to seeing her unhappy at home that the joy on her face seemed scandalous to me, a deceit, a lie that had to be exposed as soon as possible."-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme
"I started this book wanting to tell the story of a woman, but I've realized that yours is the story of a human being who fought for the right to exist as a woman, as opposed to the nonexistence impos…"-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme
"A final memory. A few months ago, in the garden of a teahouse where I’d suggested we meet, she told me how she had once been called to the school by my teacher when I was six years old. The teacher w…"-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme
15. Hävitys : tapauskertomus
By: Iida Rauma
4.19
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Öisellä juoksulenkillä A näkee joutomaan laidalla tutun hahmon ja tajuaa, ettei mikään lopu, mikään… read more
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- finnish literature
"[E]ikä kukaan myöskään haluu myöntää että ahdistus ja masennus on niinku kolera, molemmista päästään ku ihmiset ei joudu elään keskel paskaa."-Iida Rauma, Hävitys : tapauskertomus
" Mä oon kuuden lapsen yksinhuoltaja , Anna-Maija toisti, ikään kuin he olisivat jotenkin osavastuussa Anna-Maijan panoksesta liikakansoitukseen, ja A:n vatsaa väänsi."-Iida Rauma, Hävitys : tapauskertomus
"Ihan tosissaan, A sanoi, ne eivät kyenneet pitämään heille asiallista seksivalistusta mutta kertoivat kyllä, millä menetelmällä Anna-Maijan ex-mies oli surmannut itsensä, sellaista se oli 1990-luvull…"-Iida Rauma, Hävitys : tapauskertomus
"Mä oon lukenu jotai satatuhat selfhelp-opasta ja jokases niist sanotaan et jos ihminen haluu päästä elämäs eteenpäin pitää kuunnella sydämen ääntä, pitää tehä niinku se sydän halajaa mut missään ei k…"-Iida Rauma, Hävitys : tapauskertomus
16. Earthlings
By: Sayaka Murata
3.60
Format: 247 pages, Hardcover
Natsuki isn't like the other girls. She has a wand and a transformation mirror. She might be a witc… read more
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"Sobreviver, haja o que houver."-Sayaka Murata, Earthlings
"O senso comum é uma doença contagiosa e é difícil manter a infecção sozinho."-Sayaka Murata, Earthlings
"I thought that when I grew up society would brainwash me, but it didn't work."-Sayaka Murata, Earthlings
"Até quando eu teria de sobreviver? Será que algum dia poderia apenas viver e não sobreviver?"-Sayaka Murata, Earthlings
17. Matrix
By: Lauren Groff
3.68
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
Lauren Groff returns with her exhilarating first new novel since the groundbreaking Fates and Furie… read more
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"All souls are limited in the circles of their own understanding."-Lauren Groff, Matrix
"Women in this world are vulnerable; only reputation can keep them from being crushed."-Lauren Groff, Matrix
"Foolish creature, old Marie would say to that child. Open your hands and let your life go. It has never been yours to do with what you will."-Lauren Groff, Matrix
"How slow the final flowering of good intentions can be, the poisonous full bloom taking place centuries beyond the scope of the original life."-Lauren Groff, Matrix
18. Women Talking
By: Miriam Toews
3.62
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
One evening, eight Mennonite women climb into a hay loft to conduct a secret meeting. For the past … read more
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"All we women have are our dreams – so of course we are dreamers."-Miriam Toews, Women Talking
"Doubt and uncertainty and questioning are inextricably bound together with faith"-Miriam Toews, Women Talking
"There must be satisfaction gained in accurately naming the thing that torments you."-Miriam Toews, Women Talking
"Perhaps all of us are crazy, Ona says. Of course we're all crazy, says Mejal. How can we not be?"-Miriam Toews, Women Talking
19. The Years
By: Annie Ernaux
4.17
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist’s defining work and a breakout bestseller when… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
"Sauver quelque chose du temps où l'on ne sera plus jamais."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
"La profusion des choses cachait la rareté des idées et l'usure des croyances."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
"The profusion of things concealed the scarcity of ideas and the erosion of beliefs."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
"Je ne suis nulle part dans le temps. Il est l'ange qui fait revivre le passé, rend éternel."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
20. Tytöille, jotka ajattelevat olevansa yksin
By: Ujuni Ahmed
4.12
Format: 226 pages, Hardcover
Henkilökohtainen puheenvuoro vapaudesta, omaksi itseksi tulemisesta ja odotusten ylittämisestä. … read more
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- finnish literature
21. Childhood (The Copenhagen Trilogy #1)
By: Tove Ditlevsen
4.10
Format: 99 pages, Paperback
The first volume in The Copenhagen Trilogy, the searing portrait of a woman's journey through love,… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
"Childhood is long and narrow like a coffin, and you can’t get out of it on your own."-Tove Ditlevsen, Childhood (The Copenhagen Trilogy #1)
"Eine Hure ist eine Dame, die es für Geld macht, was mir viel mehr einleuchtet, als es umsonst zu machen."-Tove Ditlevsen, Childhood (The Copenhagen Trilogy #1)
"Jokin ahdistaa rintaani kun kiipeän portaita ylös. Ihmiselämän nurja puoli ammottaa entistä avoimempana minua vasten, ja sitä on entistä vaikeampi kattaa niillä kirjoittamattomilla, vapisevilla sanoi…"-Tove Ditlevsen, Childhood (The Copenhagen Trilogy #1)
"Aikuisten lapsuus roikkuu repaleisena ja puhkottuna heidän sisimmässään kuin käytetty ja koinsyömä matto jota kukaan ei ajattele eikä tarvitse. Heistä ei näe että heillä on ollut lapsuus, eikä heiltä…"-Tove Ditlevsen, Childhood (The Copenhagen Trilogy #1)
22. There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job
By: Kikuko Tsumura
3.60
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Convenience Store Woman meets My Year of Rest and Relaxation in this strange, compelling, darkly fu… read more
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"Although I was also aware that in a workplace context, people could become bad sorts as and when the situation required, so maybe it was more accurate to say he wasn't always a bad sort."-Kikuko Tsumura, There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job
23. Youth
By: Tove Ditlevsen
4.22
Format: 132 pages, Paperback
The second volume in The Copenhagen Trilogy, the searing portrait of a woman's journey through love… read more
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- biography
"Being young is itself temporary, fragile, and ephemeral. You have to get through it - it has no other meaning."-Tove Ditlevsen, Youth
24. Virtahevot
By: Emmi-Liia Sjöholm
3.97
Format: 4 pages, Audiobook
Menestyskirjailijan uusi taidonnäyte on kirja eksyneistä ihmisistä kesäyössä. Touko ja Eevis ist… read more
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25. Pikkuporvarit
By: Anna Kontula
3.76
Format: 194 pages, Hardcover
Riittääkö hyvään elämään Vallilan verhot, vai pitääkö olla myös valkoinen sohva? Voiko kunnollisuus… read more
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- finnish literature
26. Pullopostia Seilin saarelta — Potilas numero 43
By: Susan Heikkinen
3.64
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
Pulloihin kätketyt kirjoitukset kertovat elämästä syrjäisellä Seilin saarella, jonne mieleltään jär… read more
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- biography
- finnish literature
27. It Would Be Night in Caracas
By: Karina Sainz Borgo
3.72
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Told with gripping intensity, It Would be Night in Caracas chronicles one woman’s desperate battle … read more
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"Mientras redactaba la inscripción para su tumba, entendí que la primera muerte ocurre en el lenguaje, en ese acto de arrancar a los sujetos del presente para plantarlos en el pasado. Convertirlos en …"-Karina Sainz Borgo, It Would Be Night in Caracas
28. The Red Book of Farewells (The Autobiographical Trilogy, #3)
By: Pirkko Saisio
3.95
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
One morning in 2002, on an island off the coast of Finland, the narrator Pirkko Saisio tells her ed… read more
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29. Vaiti
By: Laura Malmivaara
3.52
Format: 243 pages, Hardcover
Ravisuttavan omakohtainen romaani naisesta, joka yhden kesän aikana joutuu kohtaamaan kaiken, mikä … read more
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30. Enkä ollut vanki
By: Hella Wuolijoki
3.19
Format: 190 pages, Mass Market Paperback
YKSI NAINEN MONTA TOTUUTTA Helsingin sotaoikeuden syyttäjä vaati 1943 kirjailija Hella Wuolijoel… read more
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31. Vem dödade bambi?
By: Monika Fagerholm
3.16
Format: 219 pages, Hardcover
I centrum av Monika Fagerholms nya roman finns två unga kvinnor i tjugosjuårsåldern, väninnorna Sag… read more
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