Un serpente di giugno
By: Shin'ya Tsukamoto
3.40
Format: 124 pages, Paperback
In una metropoli del Giappone investita dai monsoni, Rinko, la timida consulente di una hot line de…
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1. I Want to Kick You in the Back
By: Risa Wataya , Julianne Neville
3.23
Format: 199 pages, Hardcover
A winner of Japan's prestigious Aktugawa Prize for rising literary talent, I Want to Kick You in th… read more
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2. A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
By: David Foster Wallace
4.15
Format: 353 pages, Paperback
In this exuberantly praised book — a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television… read more
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"What I know about auto racing could be inscribed with a dry Magic Marker on the lip of a Coke bottle."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
"If Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see it."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
"Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
"American human beings are a slippery and protean bunch in real life, hard as hell to get any kind of universal handle on."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
3. The Sunset Limited
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.91
Format: None pages, Paperback
A startling encounter on a New York subway platform leads two strangers to a run-down tenement wher… read more
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4. The Silent Dead (Reiko Himekawa, #1)
By: Giles Murray , Tetsuya Honda
3.16
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
When a body wrapped in a blue plastic tarp and tied up with twine is discovered near the bushes nea… read more
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5. McGlue
By: Ottessa Moshfegh
3.67
Format: None pages,
Selected for the inaugural Fence Modern Prize in Prose by Rivka Galchen. Salem, Massachusetts, 1851… read more
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6. The Late Monsieur Gallet (Maigret, #3)
By: Georges Simenon , Anthea Bell
3.32
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
A devastating tale of misfortune, betrayal, and the weakness of family ties, newly translated for t… read more
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7. L'anulare
By: Yōko Ogawa , Cristiana Ceci
3.47
Format: 103 pages, Paperback
Quando viene assunta dall’impeccabile signor Deshimaru, la giovane protagonista di questo libro eni… read more
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8. Come le mosche d'autunno
By: Irène Némirovsky , Graziella Cillario
3.91
Format: 2 pages, Paperback
E lei, Tat'jana Ivanovna, la vecchia nutrice, a preparare i bagagli di Jurij e di Kirill, i ragazzi… read more
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9. Shanghai Baby
By: Wei Hui , Bruce Humes
4.42
Format: 288 pages, Mass Market Paperback
A story of love, sex and self-discovery - banned in China. Publicly burned in China for its sensual… read more
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10. The Breast
By: Philip Roth
4.46
Format: 170 pages,
Like a latter-day Gregor Samsa, Professor David Kepesh wakes up one morning to find that he has bee… read more
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11. Almost Transparent Blue
By: Ryū Murakami , Nancy Andrew
3.75
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Almost Transparent Blue is a brutal tale of lost youth in a Japanese port town close to an American… read more
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12. Piercing
By: Ryū Murakami , Ralph McCarthy
3.75
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A pulsating psycho-thriller from Ryu Murakami, author of In the Miso Soup A renaissance man for the… read more
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13. The Daydreamer
By: Ian McEwan , Anthony Browne
4.67
Format: 127 pages, Paperback
Peter Fortune is a daydreamer. He's a quiet ten year old who can't help himself from dropping out o… read more
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14. 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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15. Água Viva
By: Clarice Lispector , Benjamin Moser , Stefan Tobler
4.29
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Lispector at her most philosophically radical. A meditation on the nature of life and time, Água Vi… read more
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"I always give names to things"-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
"I'm not a synonym—I'm a proper noun."-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
"Suddenly I was crying. It was already love."-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
"To write you I first cover myself with perfume."-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
16. Audition
By: Ryū Murakami , Ralph McCarthy
4.20
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Documentary-maker Aoyama hasn't dated anyone in the seven years since the death of his beloved wife… read more
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17. The Lady Killer
By: Masako Togawa
3.96
Format: 286 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Ichiro Honda is a good-looking computer expert who works in Tokyo, lives in a respectable hotel, an… read more
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18. Out
By: Natsuo Kirino , Stephen Snyder
3.95
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Natsuo Kirino's novel tells a story of random violence in the staid Tokyo suburbs, as a young mothe… read more
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"...I'm willing to march into hell if I'm following you."-Natsuo Kirino, Out
"And I'm willing to march into hell if I'm following you."-Natsuo Kirino, Out
"I'm desperate for money'. She said. And I'm willing to march into hell if I'm following you."-Natsuo Kirino, Out
"I'm desperate for money'. She said. 'And I'm willing to march into hell if I'm following you'. (Yoshie Azuma)"-Natsuo Kirino, Out
19. Greek Lessons
By: Han Kang
3.47
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A powerful novel about the saving grace of language and human connection, from the author of the In… read more
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"If snow is the silence that falls from the sky, perhaps rain is an endless sentence."-Han Kang, Greek Lessons
"Si tomamos como cierta la premisa que dice que, cuando perdemos algo, ganamos otra cosa, ¿Qué es lo que he ganado yo al perderte a ti?."-Han Kang, Greek Lessons
"Before she lost words - when she was still able to se them to write - she sometimes wished that her own expressions would more closely resemble inarticulacy: a moan or low cry."-Han Kang, Greek Lessons
"To her, there was no touch as instantaneous and intuitive as the gaze. It was close to being the only way of touching without touch. Language, by comparison, is an infinitely more physical way to tou…"-Han Kang, Greek Lessons
20. Baumgartner
By: Paul Auster
3.78
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A taut yet expansive novel of love, memory, and grief from Paul Auster, best-selling, award-winning… read more
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"Vivir es sentir dolor, y vivir con miedo al dolor es negarse a vivir"-Paul Auster, Baumgartner
"To live is to feel pain, he told himself, and to live in fear of pain is to refuse to live."-Paul Auster, Baumgartner
"at some point in the coming years, the two books should be combined and reconfigured into a large, one-volume collected poems—a monument of singing pages that will overwhelm the silence of Anna’s gra…"-Paul Auster, Baumgartner
"the story turns out to be so astounding and so powerful that your jaw drops open and you feel that it has changed or enhanced or deepened your understanding of the world, does it matter if the story …"-Paul Auster, Baumgartner
21. Non è un lavoro per ragazze
By: Kazuki Sakuraba
3.23
Format: 183 pages, Paperback
Fino a che punto può spingersi l'odio nei confronti degli adulti e un'amicizia suggellata dalla com… read more
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22. I baffi
By: Emmanuel Carrère
3.73
Format: 149 pages, Paperback
È quasi un capriccio, uno scherzo, quello di tagliarsi i baffi, da parte del protagonista di questo… read more
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23. 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
24. Parti e omicidi
By: Sayaka Murata
3.76
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Parti e omicidi è una raccolta di racconti ambientati in una Tokyo di un futuro non ben precisato, … read more
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25. Life Ceremony
By: Sayaka Murata
3.75
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
With Life Ceremony, the incomparable Sayaka Murata is back with her first collection of short stori… read more
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"Nowadays, your partner is not necessarily a sex object - this is a wonderful advancement."-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony
"I'm seeking an amicable daily routine with someone I get along well with, like brother and sister, without being a slave to sex"-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony
"Walking like this, feeling like a feral human, even machines and buildings were warm to the touch, and some emitted sounds and vibrations. Their presence was similar to the sounds emitted by life-for…"-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony
"If they tried it, the memories of the wild rooted in their flesh would come back to them, and they would discover that eating the city like this would connect the earth between the gaps in the concre…"-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony
26. The City and Its Uncertain Walls
By: Haruki Murakami
3.82
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
'Truth is not found in fixed stillness, but in ceaseless change/movement. Isn't this the quintessen… read more
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"Vielleicht ist das einer der Problempunkte an der Ewigkeit. Dass man nun mal nicht weiß, wohin man sich fortan wenden soll. Aber was ist eine Liebe wert, die nicht nach Ewigkeit strebt?"-Haruki Murakami, The City and Its Uncertain Walls
"Später war er so freundlich, mir in einem Satz zu erklären, warum er im Alltag immer einen Rock trug. "Vor allem fühle ich mich, wenn ich einen Rock trage, wie die Zeilen eines schönen Gedichts."-Haruki Murakami, The City and Its Uncertain Walls
27. Ambos mundos
By: Natsuo Kirino
3.54
Format: 295 pages, Paperback
Una giovane vagabonda, fiera e ribelle, diventa oggetto di contesa sessuale in un gruppo di clochar… read more
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28. The Membranes
By: Chi Ta-wei
3.98
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
It is the late twenty-first century, and Momo is the most celebrated dermal care technician in all … read more
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29. On the Savage Side
By: Tiffany McDaniel
4.06
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Six women--mothers, daughters, sisters--gone missing. When the first is found floating dead in the … read more
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30. Concerning My Daughter
By: Hye-Jin Kim
3.71
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
When an ageing mother allows her thirty-something daughter to move into her apartment, she wants fo… read more
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"Ir abrindo mão das coisas de que gostamos. Essa é a definição do verbo envelhecer."-Hye-Jin Kim, Concerning My Daughter
"That child who sprang from my own flesh and blood is perhaps the creature I'm most distant from."-Hye-Jin Kim, Concerning My Daughter
"Ela estudou tanto que, não tendo mais o que estudar, foi aprender o que não devia. Por exemplo: como negar o mundo, como ir contra o mundo."-Hye-Jin Kim, Concerning My Daughter
"It's not my fault. It's not your fault. It's no one's fault. If we keep telling ourselves that, then who should all the victims of the world go to for their apology?"-Hye-Jin Kim, Concerning My Daughter
31. Un serpente di giugno
By: Shin'ya Tsukamoto
3.40
Format: 124 pages, Paperback
In una metropoli del Giappone investita dai monsoni, Rinko, la timida consulente di una hot line de… read more
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