Karpathia
By: Mathias Menegoz
3.52
Format: 704 pages, Paperback
En 1833, à la suite d'un duel, le capitaine hongrois Alexander Korvanyi quitte brutalement l'armée …
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1. An Artist of the Floating World
By: Kazuo Ishiguro
3.77
Format: 206 pages, Paperback
In the face of the misery in his homeland, the artist Masuji Ono was unwilling to devote his art so… read more
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- historical
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- historical fiction
"An artist's concern is to capture beauty wherever he finds it."-Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World
"Democracy is a fine thing. But that doesn't mean citizens have a right to run riot whenever they disagree with something. #Page: 120"-Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World
"Revolution? Really, Ono! The communists want a revolution. We want nothing of the sort. Quite the opposite, in fact. We wish for a restoration."-Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World
"At times it was almost as it had been years ago, when on a sunny day the family would sit there together exchanging relaxed, often vacuous talk."-Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World
2. Soldados de Salamina
By: Javier Cercas
3.58
Format: 24 pages,
Un joven periodista topa por casualidad con una historia fascinante, y muy significativa, de la Gue… read more
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- historical fiction
3. A Heart So White
By: Javier Marías , Margaret Jull Costa
4.02
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
An alternate cover of this ISBN can be found here. Javier Marías's A Heart So White chronicles w… read more
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- novels
"No es fácil saber por qué se mata la gente, ni los más próximos, todo el mundo está trastornado, todo el mundo las pasa putas, a veces sin causa y casi siempre en secreto, la gente vuelve cara contra…"-Javier Marías, A Heart So White
"Listening is the most dangerous thing of all, listening means knowing, finding out about something and knowing what’s going on, our ears don’t have lids that can instinctively close against the words…"-Javier Marías, A Heart So White
"Casi todo el mundo se avergüenza de su juventud, no es muy cierto que se añore como se dice, más bien se relega o rehúye y con facilidad o esfuerzo se confina el origen a la esfera de los malos sueño…"-Javier Marías, A Heart So White
"I have a tendency to want to understand everything people say and everything I hear, both at work and outside, even at a distance, even if it’s one of the innumerable languages I don’t know, even if …"-Javier Marías, A Heart So White
4. The Sympathizer
By: Viet Thanh Nguyen
3.83
Format: 28 pages, Hardcover
The winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, as well as five other awards, The Sympathizeris … read more
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- historical
- novels
- historical fiction
5. Père Goriot
By: Honoré de Balzac
3.85
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Père Goriot is the tragic story of a father whose obsessive love for his two daughters leads to his… read more
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- novels
"Good befalls us while we sleep, sometimes."-Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot
"آری ,در این دنیا هیچ چیزی کامل نیست, مگر بدبختی."-Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot
"Notre coeur est un trésor, videz-le d'un coup, vous êtes ruinés."-Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot
"If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible."-Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot
6. The World According to Garp
By: John Irving
4.10
Format: 610 pages, Hardcover
This is the life and times of T. S. Garp, the bastard son of Jenny Fields—a feminist leader ahead o… read more
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"...energy begets energy."-John Irving, The World According to Garp
"Bonkie bit Garp!" Garp bit Bonkie"-John Irving, The World According to Garp
"In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases"-John Irving, The World According to Garp
"...the demands of writing and of real life are not always similar."-John Irving, The World According to Garp
7. Jo confesso
By: Jaume Cabré , None , None
3.59
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Si la botiga d'antiguitats de la familia es tot un univers per al petit Adria, el despatx del seu p… read more
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- historical fiction
8. The Unknown Masterpiece
By: Arthur C. Danto , Honoré de Balzac , Richard Howard
3.64
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
One of Honore de Balzac's most celebrated tales, "The Unknown Masterpiece" is the story of a painte… read more
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9. The Leopard
By: Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa , Archibald Colquhoun
4.01
Format: 319 pages, Paperback
The Sicilian prince Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa (1896-1957) died just after writing The Leopard, h… read more
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- historical
- novels
- historical fiction
"While there’s death there’s hope"-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard
"Cambiare tutto perché niente cambi."-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard
"La eternidad amorosa dura pocos años."-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard
"Nothing could be decently hated except eternity."-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard
10. Il sergente nella neve
By: Mario Rigoni Stern , Eraldo Affinati
3.64
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
I ricordi della ritirata di Russia scritti in un lager tedesco dall'alpino Rigoni Stern nell'invern… read more
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11. Sentimental Education
By: Gustave Flaubert , Geoffrey Wall , Robert Baldick
3.81
Format: 460 pages, Paperback
Based on Flaubert’s own youthful passion for an older woman, Sentimental Education was described by… read more
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- historical fiction
"Cheer up,' said the captain's son. 'Life is long, and we are young."-Gustave Flaubert, Sentimental Education
"A man so habituated to corruption that he would happily pay for the pleasure of selling himself."-Gustave Flaubert, Sentimental Education
"...I'm going to write a little novel entitled 'The History of the Idea of Justice' and won't it be funny!"-Gustave Flaubert, Sentimental Education
"It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find."-Gustave Flaubert, Sentimental Education
12. Il cavaliere inesistente
By: Italo Calvino
3.83
Format: 126 pages, Paperback
Suor Teodora narra la storia di Agilulfo, cavaliere senza corpo, di cui vive solo l'armatura. Mentr… read more
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- novels
- historical fiction
"I ja także chcę tylko jednego: być kimś, kto wie, czego chce!"-Italo Calvino, Il cavaliere inesistente
"[...] a życie to tylko tarzanie się między łóżkiem a trumną [...]"-Italo Calvino, Il cavaliere inesistente
"Wojna to trochę rzeźnia, a trochę rutyna i nie ma co czepiać się zanadto szczegółów."-Italo Calvino, Il cavaliere inesistente
"Jego [cesarza] zadanie to prowadzić tę wojnę, która w danej chwili się toczy, i co najwyżej pomyśleć jeszcze o następnej."-Italo Calvino, Il cavaliere inesistente
13. Des hommes
By: Laurent Mauvignier
3.98
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Ils ont ete appeles en Algerie au moment des <>, en 1960. Deux ans plus tard, Bernard, Rabut, Fevri… read more
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14. Another Country
By: James Baldwin
4.08
Format: None pages, Paperback
When Another Countryappeared in 1962, it caused a literary sensation. James Baldwin's masterly stor… read more
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15. The Prague Cemetery
By: Umberto Eco , Richard Dixon
3.50
Format: 445 pages, Hardcover
19th-century Europe—from Turin to Prague to Paris—abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. … read more
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- historical
- novels
- historical fiction
"Religious conversion evidently transforms not just the soul but also facial appearances."-Umberto Eco, The Prague Cemetery
"People are never so completely and enthusiastically evil as when they act out of religious conviction."-Umberto Eco, The Prague Cemetery
"Die Menschen tun das Böse nie so vollständig und begeistert, wie wenn sie es aus religiöser Überzeugung tun."-Umberto Eco, The Prague Cemetery
"Zawsze tak jest - jeśli ci sie nie powiedzie, szukasz kogoś, aby oskarżając go, usprawiedliwić własne niedołęstwo."-Umberto Eco, The Prague Cemetery
16. Nada
By: Edith Grossman , Carmen Laforet
3.83
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
Carmen Laforet’s Nada ranks among the most important literary works of post-Civil War Spain. Loosel… read more
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- novels
- historical fiction
"You always move in the same circle of people no matter how many turns you seem to make"-Edith Grossman, Nada
"... siempre se mueve uno en el mismo círculo de personas por más vueltas que parezca dar."-Edith Grossman, Nada
"el interés y la estimación que inspire una persona son dos cosas que no siempre van unidas."-Edith Grossman, Nada
"Su charla insubstancial me parecía el rumor de lluvia que se escucha con gusto y con pereza."-Edith Grossman, Nada
17. The Castle of the Carpathians
By: Jules Verne
5.00
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
The descriptions of the quaint villagers of Werst, their costumes, manner of living, and belief in … read more
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18. Judas
By: Amos Oz , Raquel García Lozano
3.85
Format: 303 pages, Kindle Edition
«Amos Oz narra en Judas las grandes preguntas y conflictos de la historia y de la religión en Orien… read more
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- novels
- historical fiction
"Toate sentimentele mi se par inutile, făcînd ca lucrurile să se termine rău. Viața poate fi mult mai simplă dacă abolim emomțiile. Dar nu trebuie să te educ, Shmuel. Poate te mulțumești cu faptul că,…"-Amos Oz, Judas
"Why should they love us?Why do you think the Arabs are not entitled to resist strangers who come here suddenly as if from another planet, and take away their land and their soil, fields, villages and…"-Amos Oz, Judas
"L'amore è una faccenda intima strana e piena di contraddizioni, visto che non di rado amiamo qualcuno solo perchè amiamo noi stessi, per egoismo, avidità, desiderio fisico, brama di dominare l'oggett…"-Amos Oz, Judas
"io, mio caro, non credo nell'amore universale. L'amore esiste in dosi modiche. Si possono amare forse cinque fra uomini e donne, dieci magari, talvolta financo quindici. E anche questo solo assai di …"-Amos Oz, Judas
19. Combray (In Search of Lost Time, #1.1)
By: Marcel Proust , None
3.54
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
A guide to "Combray," the opening section of Proust's "A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu." This text he… read more
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"And from that instant I did not have to take another step; the ground moved forward under my feet in that garden where for so long my actions had ceased to require any control, or even attention, fro…"-Marcel Proust, Combray (In Search of Lost Time, #1.1)
20. Serotonin
By: Michel Houellebecq
3.58
Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition
»Es ist nicht die Zukunft, es ist die Gegenwart, die dich tötet, die wiederkommt, um an dir zu nage… read more
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"[...] chiaramente sto semplificando ma se non si semplifica non si conclude niente."-Michel Houellebecq, Serotonin
"nic nas nie koi równie łatwo jak świadomość innych niż nasze dramatów, które nam zostały oszczędzone"-Michel Houellebecq, Serotonin
"An atmosphere of general catastrophe always alleviates individual catastrophe- that's probably why suicides are so rare in wartime"-Michel Houellebecq, Serotonin
"... it isn't the future but past that kills you, that comes back to torment and undermine you, and effectively ends up killing you."-Michel Houellebecq, Serotonin
21. Au revoir là-haut
By: Pierre Lemaitre
4.20
Format: 567 pages, Paperback
Sur les ruines du plus grand carnage du XXe siècle,deux rescapés des tranchées, passablement abîmés… read more
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- historical
- novels
- historical fiction
"Même les grandes joies vous laissent un peu de regret, il y a un fond de manque dans tout ce qu'on vit."-Pierre Lemaitre, Au revoir là-haut
"Elle les avait démasqués de loin, les petits ambitieux qui la trouvait banale vue de face, mais très jolie vue de dot."-Pierre Lemaitre, Au revoir là-haut
"Le pays tout entier était saisi d'une fureur commémorative en faveur des morts, proportionnelle à sa répulsion vis-à-vis des survivants."-Pierre Lemaitre, Au revoir là-haut
22. La plus secrète mémoire des hommes
By: Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
4.18
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Un magistral roman d'apprentissage, une saisissante enquête sur les traces d'un mystérieux auteur m… read more
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- novels
"Nunca intentes decir de qué habla un gran libro. O si lo haces, la única respuesta posible es: de nada."-Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, La plus secrète mémoire des hommes
"He alcanzado el estado terminal de la inmigración: simplemente ya no creo en la posibilidad del regreso."-Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, La plus secrète mémoire des hommes
"Estuvo tanto tiempo en el exilio - medio siglo! - que nos decíamos que debía de haberse dejado una parte de sí mismo por el camino"-Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, La plus secrète mémoire des hommes
"Nos apetece hablar de todo, menos del exilio. De todas formas, no hay nada que decir sobre el exilio. No conozco un tema más molesto en este mundo."-Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, La plus secrète mémoire des hommes
23. Going Zero
By: Anthony McCarten
3.89
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From four-time Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Anthony McCarten comes a breakneck, wickedly en… read more
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"...I can’t approve of a private company that profits from algorithmic amplification, dissemination and micro targeting of corrupt information, much of it produced by coordinated schemes of disinforma…"-Anthony McCarten, Going Zero
24. 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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"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
25. On the Wandering Paths (Univocal)
By: Sylvain Tesson
3.51
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
A walking journey through France’s vast interior becomes a meditation on both personal recovery and… read more
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"Le paysage était devenu le décor du passage. La ruralité s'instituait en principe de résistance à cet emportement général."-Sylvain Tesson, On the Wandering Paths (Univocal)
"Nous étions nombreux à développer une allergie aux illusions virutuelles. Les sommations de l'époquenous fatiguaient : "Enjoy! Take care ! Be safe !Be connected !" Nous étions dégoûtés du clignotemen…"-Sylvain Tesson, On the Wandering Paths (Univocal)
26. All This I Will Give to You
By: Dolores Redondo
4.14
Format: 495 pages, Kindle Edition
The award-winning, international bestselling page-burner about the secrets and lies of one man that… read more
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"Sería más fácil si los muertos no dejaran sus pertenencias atrás, como cascarones vacíos de nautilus extinguidos; sería más sencillo si cualquier huella de su existencia fuera borrada con ellos, olvi…"-Dolores Redondo, All This I Will Give to You
"Leer era una defensa, un escudo con el que armar de recursos su timidez para relacionarse. Pero escribir era infinitamente más que eso. Escribir era el palacio interior, los sitios secretos, los luga…"-Dolores Redondo, All This I Will Give to You
27. Les exportés
By: Sonia Devillers
3.95
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Ma famille maternelle a quitté la Roumanie communiste en 1961. On pourrait la dire « immigrée » ou … read more
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28. Manières d'être vivant
By: Baptiste Morizot
4.14
Format: 316 pages, ebook
Le mystère d’être un corps, un corps qui interprète et vit sa vie, est partagé par tout le vivant :… read more
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29. Deux secondes d'air qui brûle
By: Diaty Diallo
3.82
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Entre Paname et sa banlieue : un quartier, un parking, une friche, des toits, une dalle. Des coffre… read more
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30. Karpathia
By: Mathias Menegoz
3.52
Format: 704 pages, Paperback
En 1833, à la suite d'un duel, le capitaine hongrois Alexander Korvanyi quitte brutalement l'armée … read more
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- german literature
- historical
- novels
- historical fiction
31. The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story
By: Olga Tokarczuk
4.05
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The Nobelist's latest masterwork, set in a sanitarium on the eve of World War I, probes the horrors… read more
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- historical
- historical fiction
"mitologię, jako zbiór pouczających opowieści, które pomagają żyć"-Olga Tokarczuk, The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story
"Ojciec często powtarzał mu (...) że kobiety są z natury swojej zdradliwe i chwiejne. Rozmazane."-Olga Tokarczuk, The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story
"To proste - myślał Mieczyś Wojnicz, łykając łzy, które mieszały się z krwią zwierzęcia w jego wątłym ciele - być mężczyzną to nauczyć się ignorować to, co sprawia kłopot. Oto cała tajemnica."-Olga Tokarczuk, The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story
"Wojnicz już zauważył, że każda dyskusja, czy szło o demokrację, czy o piąty wymiar, czy o rolę religii socjalizm, Europę, wreszcie sztukę nowoczesną, wszystko w końcu sprowadzało się do kobiet"-Olga Tokarczuk, The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story
