Sight
By: Jessie Greengrass
3.39
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
The extraordinary first novel from the author of the prizewinning An Account of the Decline of the …
Want to Read $ 4.99"I read not with any particular object in mind, nor really with the intention of retaining any information about the subjects that I chose, but rather because the act of reading was a habit, and because it was soothing and, perhaps, from a lifetime's inculcated faith in the explanatory power of books, the half-held belief that somewhere in those hectares upon hectares of printed pages I might find that fact which would make sense of my growing unhappiness, allowing me to peel back the obscurant layers of myself and lay bare at last the solid structure underneath."-Jessie Greengrass, Sight
"I read not with any particular object in mind, nor really with the intention of retaining any information about the subjects that I chose, but rather because the act of reading was a habit, and because it was soothing and, perhaps, from a lifetime's inculcated faith in the explanatory power of books, the half-held belief that somewhere in those hectares upon hectares of printed pages I might find that fact which would make sense of my growing unhappiness, allowing me to peel back the obscurant layers of myself and lay bare at last the solid structure underneath."-Jessie Greengrass, Sight
"Lying by Johannes in the darkness, envying him the unquestioned habit of sleep, the way he could remove himself, I wished that I might pause, take stock; that is a thought that comes back to me now: that I would like to pause pregnancy like a film, to walk away, do something else, returning later when I have had time to rest or think. I had always, before my pregnancy, regarded my body as a kind of tool, a necessary mechanism, largely self-sustaining, which, unless malfunctioning, did what I instructed of it, and so to have my agency so abruptly curtailed, revealed as little more than conceit, felt like betrayal. I no longer listened to my own command. Inside me, while I wished that I might be able to be elsewhere, that I might leave my body in the frowsty sheets and go downstairs to sit in the dark kitchen, unswollen and cool, cells split to cells, thoughtless and ascending, forming heart and lungs, eyes, ears- a hand grew nails- this child already going about its business, its still uncomprehending mind unreachable, apart."-Jessie Greengrass, Sight
"Lying by Johannes in the darkness, envying him the unquestioned habit of sleep, the way he could remove himself, I wished that I might pause, take stock; that is a thought that comes back to me now: that I would like to pause pregnancy like a film, to walk away, do something else, returning later when I have had time to rest or think. I had always, before my pregnancy, regarded my body as a kind of tool, a necessary mechanism, largely self-sustaining, which, unless malfunctioning, did what I instructed of it, and so to have my agency so abruptly curtailed, revealed as little more than conceit, felt like betrayal. I no longer listened to my own command. Inside me, while I wished that I might be able to be elsewhere, that I might leave my body in the frowsty sheets and go downstairs to sit in the dark kitchen, unswollen and cool, cells split to cells, thoughtless and ascending, forming heart and lungs, eyes, ears- a hand grew nails- this child already going about its business, its still uncomprehending mind unreachable, apart."-Jessie Greengrass, Sight
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1. Balthazar (The Alexandria Quartet, #2)
By: Lawrence Durrell
4.13
Format: 280 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Balthazar, is the second volume of Durrell's The Alexandria Quartet, set in Alexandria, Egypt, duri… read more
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- literary fiction
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"Each of our five senses contains an art."-Lawrence Durrell, Balthazar (The Alexandria Quartet, #2)
"I love the French edition with its uncut pages. I would not want a reader too lazy to use a knife on me."-Lawrence Durrell, Balthazar (The Alexandria Quartet, #2)
"A diary is the last place to go if you wish to seek the truth about a person. Nobody dares to make the final confession to themselves on paper: or at least, not about love."-Lawrence Durrell, Balthazar (The Alexandria Quartet, #2)
"The steward, according to custom, had stopped all the clocks. This, in the language of Narouz, said, "Your stay with us is so brief, let us not be reminded of the flight of the hours. God made eterni…"-Lawrence Durrell, Balthazar (The Alexandria Quartet, #2)
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- feminism
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3. Naïve. Super
By: Erlend Loe , Tor Ketil Solberg
3.60
Format: 404 pages, Paperback
The narrator of this funny and poignant novel is searching for meaning, going back to his childhood… read more
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4. The Millstone
By: Margaret Drabble
3.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
Margaret Drabble's affecting novel, set in London during the 1960s, about a casual love affair, an … read more
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5. Hot Milk
By: Deborah Levy
3.94
Format: 489 pages, Hardcover
Sofia, a young anthropologist, has spent much of her life trying to solve the mystery of her mother… read more
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6. Cymbeline
By: William Shakespeare , Harold Bloom , Gabriele Baldini
3.50
Format: 142 pages, Paperback
Cymbeline also known as Cymbeline, King of Britain or The Tragedy of Cymbeline, is a play by Willia… read more
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7. L'analphabète: récit autobiographique
By: Ágota Kristóf
4.11
Format: 57 pages, Paperback
Onze chapitres pour onze moments de sa vie, de la petite enfance en Hongrie à l'apprentissage du fr… read more
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"You become a writer by writing with patience and obstinacy, without ever losing faith in what you write."-Ágota Kristóf, L'analphabète: récit autobiographique
"في الغالب أكتفي بالكتابة في ذهني . ذلك اسهل . داخل الراس تجري الامور كلها بيسر . لكن ما ان نشرع في الكتابة حتى تتغير الأفكار .تتشوه.تصير خاطئة"-Ágota Kristóf, L'analphabète: récit autobiographique
8. The Wren, the Wren
By: Anne Enright
3.55
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
An incandescent novel about the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of… read more
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"It's not that I think about him constantly, he is my way of thinking. His mind is my compass, his eyes my only mirror."-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
"We don’t walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
"We don't walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
9. Intimacies
By: Lucy Caldwell
3.90
Format: 158 pages, Paperback
Intimacies exquisitely charts the steps and missteps of young women trying to find their place in t… read more
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10. Daheim
By: Judith Hermann
3.48
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Judith Hermann erzählt von einem Aufbruch: eine alte Welt geht verloren und eine neue entsteht. Ih… read more
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11. Soldier Sailor
By: Claire Kilroy
4.10
Format: 256 pages, ebook
Well, Sailor. Here we are once more, you and me in one another's arms. The Earth rotates beneath us… read more
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"I laughed and then we were doing that thing again, our thing: laughing into one another's eyes. All that time I had thought I was jollying you along when all that time you were jollying along me."-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"I tell my husband about my childhood and he tells me about his but it isn't the same. We can never know each other as we were then. But I know you. I will see the child you were in the man you will b…"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"Hated cling film. Hated it more than I hated kinetic sand. Defeated by something that lacked a third dimension. While I'd been off tinkering on the cerebral plane, the smart money has been mastering …"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"I knelt down to pick up the hatchling to . . . . what? Give it back to its mother? Here is your dying chick? Just before I made contact with it, she dive-bombed me. The mother actually dive-bombed me…"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
12. Here We Are
By: Graham Swift
3.45
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
In his newest novel, acclaimed author Graham Swift marries the erratic devastations of reality with… read more
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13. The Nursery
By: Szilvia Molnar
3.78
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Um casal que vive em Nova York, uma gravidez, o nascimento da primeira filha. O enredo poderia ser … read more
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- adult fiction
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"I want you as much as I fear you"-Szilvia Molnar, The Nursery
14. Marigold and Rose
By: Louise Glück
3.65
Format: 55 pages, Hardcover
Marigold and Rose is a magical and incandescent fiction from Nobel Prize laureate Louise Glück. … read more
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15. West
By: Carys Davies
3.70
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
When Cy Bellman, American settler and widowed father of Bess, reads in the newspaper that huge anci… read more
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16. The Water Cure
By: Sophie Mackintosh
3.25
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The Handmaid’s Tale meets The Virgin Suicides in this dystopic feminist revenge fantasy about three… read more
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"New dangers, though, coming to the surface like the bubbles of soap."-Sophie Mackintosh, The Water Cure
"Sometimes she was my enemy and sometimes she was just my mother, an enemy in a different way."-Sophie Mackintosh, The Water Cure
"Love as a protest within my body. Or perhaps it’s just that I am unused to touch, am out of practice. Bodies do not lie. This all acts as proof that he has touched me here, here, here."-Sophie Mackintosh, The Water Cure
"It used to bother me that we would leave little trace, but now I have never been more glad about anything. I will wake up in the empty mornings with the absence of you, and I will think, Glad, glad, …"-Sophie Mackintosh, The Water Cure
17. Liebewesen
By: Caroline Schmitt
3.93
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
"Vor drei Monaten war ich sicher, dass ich nicht schwanger werden konnte. Dann war ich sicher, dass… read more
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18. Wovon wir leben
By: Birgit Birnbacher
3.81
Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition
Ein literarischer Roman über die brennenden Themen der Das neue Buch der Bachmannpreisträgerin Bir… read more
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19. Mum & Dad
By: Joanna Trollope
3.67
Format: 332 pages, Kindle Edition
Sunday Times number one bestseller Joanna Trollope explores the issues at the heart of a modern fam… read more
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20. Aetherial Worlds: Stories
By: Tatyana Tolstaya
3.93
Format: None pages, Audio CD
From one of modern Russia's finest writers, a spellbinding collection of eighteen stories, her firs… read more
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21. Sight
By: Jessie Greengrass
3.39
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
The extraordinary first novel from the author of the prizewinning An Account of the Decline of the … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- british literature
- feminism
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- contemporary
- family
- womens
- novels
- audiobook
"I read not with any particular object in mind, nor really with the intention of retaining any information about the subjects that I chose, but rather because the act of reading was a habit, and becau…"-Jessie Greengrass, Sight
"Lying by Johannes in the darkness, envying him the unquestioned habit of sleep, the way he could remove himself, I wished that I might pause, take stock; that is a thought that comes back to me now: …"-Jessie Greengrass, Sight
"John’s adolescence was marked by loss. When he was thirteen his father died, swiftly followed by his two sisters. Shortly after he turned seventeen his eldest brother, James, whose progress through h…"-Jessie Greengrass, Sight
