The Unmapped Country: Stories and Fragments
By: Ann Quin
3.84
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
This new collection of rare and unpublished writing by the cult 1960s author explores the risks and…
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1. The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
By: Marcel Proust , None , Terence Kilmartin , D.J. Enright
4.39
Format: 957 pages, Paperback
The Modern Library’s fifth volume of In Search of Lost Time contains both The Captive (1923) and Th… read more
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- literature
- fiction
- 20th century
"...every social class has its own pathology..."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"Love is space and time made perceptible to the heart."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"There are optical errors in time as there are in space."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
2. Pond
By: Claire-Louise Bennett
4.33
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
Feverish and forthright, Pondis an absorbing chronicle of the pitfalls and pleasures of a solitudin… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
"If we have lost the knack of living, I thought, it is a safe bet to presume we have forfeited the magic of dying."-Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond
"I only wish you could spend just five minutes beneath my skin and feel what it’s like. Feel the savage swarming magic I feel."-Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond
"I haven't yet discovered what my first language is so for the time being I use English words in order to say things: I expect I will always have to do it that way; regrettably I don't think my first …"-Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond
"Quite often I'm terribly disappointed by how things turn out, but it's usually my own fault for the simple reason that I'm too quick to conclude that things have turned out as fully as it is possible…"-Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond
3. Down Below
By: Leonora Carrington , Debra Taub
3.84
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
Black Swan Press 1983 Surrealist Editions Paperback. read more
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- 20th century
"I think she was mistaken when she said I was torturing myself. I think that she interpreted me fragmentarily, which is worse than not to interpret at all."-Leonora Carrington, Down Below
"I am afraid I am going to drift into fiction, truthful but incomplete, for lack of some details which I cannot conjure up today and which might have enlightened us. This morning, the idea of the egg …"-Leonora Carrington, Down Below
4. Ice
By: Anna Kavan
3.67
Format: 158 pages, Paperback
In this haunting and surreal novel, the narrator and a man known as the warden search for an elusiv… read more
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- literature
- fiction
- 20th century
- british literature
"Her albino hair illuminated my dreams, shining brighter than moonlight."-Anna Kavan, Ice
"I had never before met anyone who owned a telephone and believed in dragons."-Anna Kavan, Ice
"What I saw had no solidity, it was all made of mist and nylon, with nothing behind."-Anna Kavan, Ice
"I had a curious feeling that I was living on several planes simultaneously; the overlapping of these planes was confusing."-Anna Kavan, Ice
5. The Sluts
By: Dennis Cooper
3.79
Format: 263 pages, Paperback
Set largely on the pages of a website where gay male escorts are reviewed by their clients, and tol… read more
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- fiction
6. The Shutter of Snow
By: Emily Holmes Coleman
3.50
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
In a prose form as startling as its content, "The Shutter of Snow" portrays the post-partum psychos… read more
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- fiction
7. The Vorrh
By: Alan Moore , Brian Catling
3.76
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
Prepare to lose yourself in the heady, mythical expanse of The Vorrh, a daring debut that Alan Moor… read more
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8. The Children of Men
By: None
4.00
Format: None pages,
In the year 2021, the world is a bleak place where all human males have become sterile, and no chil… read more
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9. Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
By: Marcel Proust , Simon Vance , Lydia Davis
4.15
Format: 710 pages, Mass Market Paperback
«Et tout d'un coup le souvenir m'est apparu. Ce goût, c'était celui du petit morceau de madeleine q… read more
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- literature
"Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"the comfort of reclusion, the poetry of hibernation"-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"Now are the woods all black, But still the sky is blue."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"Fall in love with a dog's bum, And thou'll think it pretty as a plum."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
10. Dark Spring
By: Unica Zürn
4.23
Format: 690 pages, Paperback
Fiction. DARK SPRING is an autobiographical coming-of-age novel that reads more like an exorcism th… read more
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11. The Black Album
By: Hanif Kureishi
3.48
Format: None pages, Paperback
The second novel from one of the most celebrated voices in British fiction and film, The Black Albu… read more
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12. Vernon Subutex, 2 (Vernon Subutex, #2)
By: Virginie Despentes
3.10
Format: None pages,
QUI EST VERNON SUBUTEX ? Une legende urbaine. Un ange dechu. Un disparu qui ne cesse de ressurgir. … read more
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13. Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry
By: John Lanchester , B.S. Johnson
4.47
Format: 907 pages, Paperback
B.S. Johnson's funniest and most accessible novel, reissued for the first time in 25 years. Christi… read more
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14. House Mother Normal
By: B.S. Johnson
4.00
Format: 279 pages, Paperback
Eight residents in a home for the elderly sit down to dinner, along with the House Mother herself, … read more
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15. 10:04
By: Ben Lerner
3.97
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
In the last year, the narrator of 10:04has enjoyed unlikely literary success, has been diagnosed wi… read more
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16. Boulder
By: Eva Baltasar
3.89
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
La protagonista d'aquesta novel·la és una dona atreta per la solitud com per un imant. Es guanya la… read more
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- fiction
"Los niños pequeños tienen ese poder, imponen su alegría al malestar ordinario de los adultos."-Eva Baltasar, Boulder
"Y sin embargo he descubierto que no se puede columpiar a un hijo sin sonreír. Lo he intentado y es imposible. Los niños pequeños tienen ese poder, imponen su alegría al malestar ordinario de los adul…"-Eva Baltasar, Boulder
"I listen with all five senses, I listen to her with my entire body, with everything but my heart, which feels like it wants to thrash the hell out of me. This wasn't part of our plan. The truth is we…"-Eva Baltasar, Boulder
"But all this tunneling has opened rifts through which the captive parts of me have started to emerge. I realize that I am smoke, that the things that define me rise as they would up a chimney, probin…"-Eva Baltasar, Boulder
17. An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
By: Clarice Lispector
4.27
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
What to make of a writer who follows the metaphysical heights of her great Passion According to GH … read more
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- literature
- fiction
- 20th century
"Ah "persona", como não te usar e ser!"-Clarice Lispector, An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
"Oh God! Having just one life was so little."-Clarice Lispector, An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
"Meu mistério é simples: eu não sei como estar viva."-Clarice Lispector, An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
"E digo: eu está apaixonada pelo teu eu. Então nós é."-Clarice Lispector, An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
18. Tentacle
By: Rita Indiana
3.58
Format: 144 pages, ebook
Plucked from her life on the streets of post-apocalyptic Santo Domingo, young maid Acilde Figueroa … read more
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- fiction
19. The Taiga Syndrome
By: Cristina Rivera Garza
3.48
Format: 82 pages, Kindle Edition
A fairy tale run amok, The Taiga Syndrome follows an unnamed Ex-Detective as she searches for a cou… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
"...in the same way, just like being in love, being out of love also ends one day."-Cristina Rivera Garza, The Taiga Syndrome
"In fairy tales, the wolf is always ferocious. Astute and agile, the wolf always figures out how to get its way. … The Wolf, in other words, always wins."-Cristina Rivera Garza, The Taiga Syndrome
"Places where sex is sold are the same everywhere. They always have a viewing window or something similar: a bar, a walkway, a stage where you can see bodies and, if permitted, feel them. It has to be…"-Cristina Rivera Garza, The Taiga Syndrome
"Failures weigh people down. Writing reports of all the cases I was unable to solve, however, had helped me to tell stories, or at least get them down on paper, as they say. Whether I was obeying or t…"-Cristina Rivera Garza, The Taiga Syndrome
20. Parade
By: Rachel Cusk
3.70
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more
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- fiction
- british literature
"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
21. Mona
By: Pola Oloixarac
3.30
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
From the critically acclaimed author of Savage Theories and Dark Constellations comes Pola Oloixara… read more
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- fiction
"There was a niche sort of glamour to it, like being a rare specimen of an endangered species—as though her myste- rious DNA were a tiara encrusted with rare pearls, and the universities each a mas- s…"-Pola Oloixarac, Mona
22. My Death
By: Lisa Tuttle
3.98
Format: 93 pages, Paperback
A widowed writer begins to work on a biography of a novelist and artist—and soon uncovers bizarre p… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
23. Mrs. Caliban
By: Rachel Ingalls
3.76
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Now back in print, Mrs. Caliban is “totally unforgettable” ( The New York Times Book Review ) and “… read more
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- fiction
"Drugs,"-Rachel Ingalls, Mrs. Caliban
"Why do you call him a monster?"-Rachel Ingalls, Mrs. Caliban
"I can’t imagine living in a different time,"-Rachel Ingalls, Mrs. Caliban
"Still, people would notice a man with a green head. I guess I should get you a wig."-Rachel Ingalls, Mrs. Caliban
24. Checkout 19
By: Claire-Louise Bennett
3.17
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The adventures of a young woman discovering her own genius, through the people she meets--and dream… read more
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- literature
- fiction
- british literature
"Mimicry can be unkind, but at least it acknowledges that you’re there."-Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19
"Yet in my heart I was bereft, grieving – homesick for a place I had never seen. For a place that doesn't exist, yet I belonged there nonetheless. Ridiculous really. Ridiculous, yet so acute and abidi…"-Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19
"…the impulse for transgression and a taste for abasement is not so difficult to locate and arouse. Because of course it is thrilling to be astutely defiled. To have every revered trait and inimitable…"-Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19
"an unbearably tense and disorienting paradox that underscores everyday life in a working-class environment—on the one hand it’s an abrasive and in-your-face world, yet, at the same time, much of it s…"-Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19
25. Small Worlds
By: Caleb Azumah Nelson
4.32
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
An exhilarating and expansive new novel about fathers and sons, faith and friendship from Caleb Azu… read more
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- fiction
"Grief never ends, but we find a way to walk in the light someone has left behind, rather than living in pain's shadow."-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Small Worlds
"It's here, when I'm with her, I know that a world can be two people, occupying a space where we don't have to explain. Where we can feel beautiful. Where we might feel free."-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Small Worlds
26. The Buddha of Suburbia
By: Hanif Kureishi
3.74
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Karim Amir lives with his English mother and Indian father in the routine comfort of suburban Londo… read more
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- literature
- fiction
- 20th century
- british literature
"Die Belohnung für Langeweile sind Sicherheit und Geborgenheit."-Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia
"Someone to whom jokes are never told soon contracts enthusiasm deficiency."-Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia
"Selbst die Verwandten der Berühmten [sind] berühmt, denn Ruhm [ist] erblich."-Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia
"Yes, Eleanor loathed herself and yet required praise, which she then never believed."-Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia
27. Too Much of Life
By: Clarice Lispector
4.53
Format: 742 pages, Paperback
'How did I so unwittingly transform the joy of living into the great luxury of being alive?' Bet… read more
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- literature
- short stories
- 20th century
"Meu instinto precedera a minha inteligência."-Clarice Lispector, Too Much of Life
"E a morte, que era para ser uma única boa vez, não: está sendo sem parar."-Clarice Lispector, Too Much of Life
"A CHALLENGE FOR PSYCHOANALYSTS: I dreamed that a fish took off its clothes and was left naked."-Clarice Lispector, Too Much of Life
"E tudo é muito para um coração de repente enfraquecido que só suporta o menos, só pode querer o pouco e aos poucos."-Clarice Lispector, Too Much of Life
28. The Weak Spot
By: Lucie Elven
3.21
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
A woman discovers something toxic at work in the isolated village where she is apprenticing as a ph… read more
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- literature
- fiction
"I felt like what he said was a thin cloth he held over what he meant, letting me see its shadow or its shape protruding. If I pushed at the veil, the mystery under the surface would poke out."-Lucie Elven, The Weak Spot
29. The Cloven (The Vorrh Trilogy, #3)
By: Brian Catling
4.04
Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition
In the stunning conclusion to Brian Catling's Vorrh trilogy, the colonial city of Essenwald gives u… read more
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- fiction
30. Through the Billboard Promised Land Without Ever Stopping
By: Derek Jarman
3.75
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Published here for the very first time, Through the Billboard Promised Land Without Ever Stopping … read more
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31. The Unmapped Country: Stories and Fragments
By: Ann Quin
3.84
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
This new collection of rare and unpublished writing by the cult 1960s author explores the risks and… read more
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- british literature
- literature
- short stories
- fiction
- 20th century
