Pollak's Arm
By: Hans von Trotha
3.89
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
October 16, 1943, inside the Vatican as darkness descends upon Rome. Having been alerted to the Naz…
Want to Read $ 9.49"There’s no telling with the gods."-Hans von Trotha, Pollak's Arm
"There’s no telling with the gods."-Hans von Trotha, Pollak's Arm
"There’s no telling with the gods."-Hans von Trotha, Pollak's Arm
"When looking to unite a nation, one needs a king, a national hero, and a national museum."-Hans von Trotha, Pollak's Arm
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1. Two or Three Things I Know for Sure
By: Dorothy Allison
4.12
Format: 94 pages, Paperback
Bastard Out of Carolina, nominated for the 1992 National Book Award for fiction, introduced Dorothy… read more
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"Beauty, my first girlfriend said to me, is that inner quality often associated with great amounts of leisure time."-Dorothy Allison, Two or Three Things I Know for Sure
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"Women. Lord God, I used to follow these girls. THey would come at me, those girls who were not really girls anymore. Grown up, wounded, hurt and terrible. Pained and desperate. Mean and angry. Hungry…"-Dorothy Allison, Two or Three Things I Know for Sure
2. Morangos Mofados
By: Caio Fernando Abreu
4.14
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Morangos mofados é uma das mais importantes obras de Caio Fernando Abreu. Com este livro, o autor t… read more
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"This light that could be either enlightenment or madness fills my head."-Caio Fernando Abreu, Morangos Mofados
"The truth is, there was no one else around. Months later, not at first, one of them would say that the office was a “desert of souls."-Caio Fernando Abreu, Morangos Mofados
"I think that I also don’t know what possibility and obligation are, but I know very clearly what need is. Desire? … Desire, we make up."-Caio Fernando Abreu, Morangos Mofados
"I’ve read everything, man, I’ve tried macrobiotics psychoanalysis drugs acupuncture suicide yoga dance swimming jogging astrology roller-skating Marxism Candomblé gay clubs ecology, all that’s left i…"-Caio Fernando Abreu, Morangos Mofados
3. Under the Net
By: Iris Murdoch
4.27
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
Jake Donaghue, garrulous artist, meets Hugo Belfounder, silent philosopher. Jake, hack writer and s… read more
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5. Sweet Days of Discipline
By: Tim Parks , Fleur Jaeggy
4.50
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Set in postwar Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggy's eerily beautiful novel begins simply and innocently enou… read more
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6. The Maniac
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.34
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more
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"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac
7. After Sappho
By: Selby Wynn Schwartz
3.51
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
What did we want? To begin with, we wanted what half the population had got by just being born. … read more
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"The death of a child makes a barbaric sound, even in print."-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho
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"There is always this risk, in life, that we have our parts in a tragedy and we do not know it."-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho
8. The Netanyahus
By: Joshua Cohen
3.80
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Corbin College, not-quite-upstate New York, winter 1959-1960: Ruben Blum, a Jewish historian - but … read more
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9. Oh, qué espléndida música
By: Dorothy Evelyn Smith
4.54
Format: 377 pages, Hardcover
¡Oh, qué espléndida la música de los días de la infancia, cuando todo era inmenso, el mundo entero … read more
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10. God's Children Are Little Broken Things: Stories
By: Arinze Ifeakandu
4.09
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
In nine exhilarating stories of queer love in contemporary Nigeria, God’s Children Are Little Broke… read more
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11. Hypericon
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3.51
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
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12. Perspective(s)
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3.72
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
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13. A New Name: Septology VI-VII
By: Jon Fosse
4.49
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
Asle is an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway. His only fr… read more
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"God is so far away that no one can say anything about him and that’s why all ideas about God are wrong, and at the same time he is so close that we almost can’t notice him, because he is the foundati…"-Jon Fosse, A New Name: Septology VI-VII
14. Les Yeux de Mona
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3.72
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
Cinquante-deux semaines : c’est le temps qu’il reste à Mona pour découvrir toute la beauté du monde… read more
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3.81
Format: 4 pages, Audio CD
In four beautifully woven parts, Mukasonga spins a marvelous recounting of the clash between ancien… read more
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16. La encomienda
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3.69
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
La narradora de estas páginas vive a cinco mil kilómetros de su país natal, trabaja para una agenci… read more
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3.97
Format: 99 pages, Paperback
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18. Oczy, nosy, usta, brwi
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4.04
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
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3.78
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A darkly absorbing, prismatic debut novel from Christine Lai, set in a near future that is fraught … read more
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20. Pollak's Arm
By: Hans von Trotha
3.89
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
October 16, 1943, inside the Vatican as darkness descends upon Rome. Having been alerted to the Naz… read more
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"There’s no telling with the gods."-Hans von Trotha, Pollak's Arm
"When looking to unite a nation, one needs a king, a national hero, and a national museum."-Hans von Trotha, Pollak's Arm
"Solace is found in true grandeur, not in ideas, which orbit around that which is grand but possess no real grandeur of their own."-Hans von Trotha, Pollak's Arm
"Bigwig is a word Pollak uses a lot. It signifies a species he has always wrestled with and rebelled against. Saturated with indignation and profound disdain, the word stands for a power imbalance as …"-Hans von Trotha, Pollak's Arm
21. Toward Eternity
By: Anton Hur
3.90
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
What does it mean to be human in a world where technology is quickly catching up to biology? In … read more
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