Huit leçons sur l'Afrique
By: Alain Mabanckou
4.20
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
En 2016, Alain Mabanckou a occupé la Chaire de création artistique du Collège de France. C’était la…
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1. 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
2. The Wild Iris
By: Louise Glück
4.18
Format: 65 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature From Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louise Glück, a stunnin… read more
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"things that can't move learn to see"-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris
" No one's despair is like my despair-- "-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris
"I'm tired of you, chaos of the living world--"-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris
"What does the horse give you That I cannot give you?"-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris
3. Pinocchio
By: John Boyne , Unknown , Monteiro Lobato , Carlo Collodi
3.85
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
A timeless classic to be read over and over. This is the story of Pinocchio, filled with harrowi… read more
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"Hunger is the best cook."-John Boyne, Pinocchio
"A conscience is that still small voice that people won't listen to."-John Boyne, Pinocchio
"Would it be possible to find a more ungrateful boy, or one with less heart than I have!"-John Boyne, Pinocchio
"Laziness is a serious illness and one must cure it immediately; yes, even from early childhood. If not, it will kill you in the end."-John Boyne, Pinocchio
4. Confessions of a Mask
By: Yukio Mishima
2.57
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
Confessions of a Maskis the story of an adolescent who must learn to live with the painful fact tha… read more
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5. The Devil in the Flesh
By: None , Raymond Radiguet
4.40
Format: 82 pages, Paperback
The Devil in the Flesh, one of the finest, most delicate love stories ever written, is set in Paris… read more
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6. The Conscript: A Novel of Libya's Anticolonial War
By: Laura Chrisman , Ghirmai Negash , Gebreyesus Hailu
4.75
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
"This translation from Tigrinya into English by Ghirmai Negash brings the slim, fascinating novel t… read more
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7. Nadja
By: André Breton , Richard Howard
3.55
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Nadja, originally published in France in 1928, is the first and perhaps best Surrealist romance eve… read more
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"I am the soul in limbo."-André Breton, Nadja
"Le coeur humain, beau comme un sismographe."-André Breton, Nadja
"Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all."-André Breton, Nadja
"...with the end of my breath, which is the beginning of yours."-André Breton, Nadja
8. Jamilia
By: Chingiz Aitmatov , James Riordan
3.87
Format: 268 pages, Paperback
Jamilia is the first major novel by Chingiz Aytmatov, published originally in Russian in 1958. The … read more
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9. Petit pays
By: Gaël Faye
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Avant, Gabriel faisait les quatre cents coups avec ses copains dans leur coin de paradis. Et puis l… read more
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10. The Torture Garden
By: Octave Mirbeau
3.00
Format: None pages,
Lidandets lustgardav Octave Mirbeau ar en av de stora dekadenta klassikerna. Romanen vackte enormt … read more
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11. Forbidden Colors
By: Yukio Mishima , Alfred H. Marks
5.00
Format: 172 pages, Paperback
From one of Japan's greatest modern writers comes an exquisitely disturbing novel of sexual combat … read more
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12. Nana
By: Émile Zola
3.84
Format: 473 pages, Paperback
Wenn die üppige blonde Nana auf der Bühne des Pariser Varietétheaters steht, spürt jeder: sie hat k… read more
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"The more grievous the sin, the greater the repentance, God was bidding His time."-Émile Zola, Nana
"A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground."-Émile Zola, Nana
"Kalau kau sendiri tidak senang melakukan sesuatu, itu bukan alasan untuk mencegah orang lain menyukainya."-Émile Zola, Nana
"The passion for defiling things was inborn in her. It was not enough for her to destroy them, she had to soil them too."-Émile Zola, Nana
13. La Curée (Les Rougon-Macquart, #2)
By: Émile Zola
3.99
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
A la fin d'une chasse, pendant la curee, les chiens devorent les entrailles de la bete tuee. Pour l… read more
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14. The Dark Child
By: James Kirkup , Camara Laye , None , None
3.19
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
The Dark Child is a distinct and graceful memoir of Camara Laye's youth in the village of Koroussa,… read more
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15. Season of Migration to the North
By: Tayeb Salih , Denys Johnson-Davies
3.72
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
After years of study in Europe, the young narrator of Season of Migration to the North returns to h… read more
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"شفق المغيب ليس دماً ، ولكنه حناء في قدم المرأة"-Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North
"لا يعنيني أن كان للحياة معنى أو لم يكن لها معنى."-Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North
"You are entitled to wonder and to doubt - you're free."-Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North
"أشباح الليل تتبخر مع الفجر ، وحمى النهار تبرد مع نسيم الليل"-Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North
16. Chi dice e chi tace
By: Chiara Valerio
3.77
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
Scauri, affacciato sul Tirreno, è l’ultimo paese del Lazio, un posto né bello né brutto, con una su… read more
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17. The Books of Jacob
By: Olga Tokarczuk
4.02
Format: 965 pages, Hardcover
The Nobel Prize-winner's richest, most sweeping and ambitious novel yet follows the comet-like rise… read more
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"A thing that is not talked about ceases to exist."-Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob
"Literatura to szczególny rodzaj wiedzy, to... (...) ... doskonałość form nieprecyzyjnych."-Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob
"Gdy przepisujemy i cytujemy, budujemy gmach wiedzy i rozmnażamy ją jak moje warzywa czy jabłonki. Przepisywanie jest jak szczepienie drzewa; cytowanie – jak wysiewanie nasion."-Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob
"If human beings had only known how to truly preserve their knowledge of the world, if they had just engraved it into rock, into crystals, into diamond and in so doing, passed it on to their descendan…"-Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob
18. Adelaida
By: Adrián N. Bravi
3.51
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Una donna, un’artista, una madre. Adelaida Gigli è stata una delle figure femminili più sorprendent… read more
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19. How to Feed a Dictator: Saddam Hussein, Idi Amin, Enver Hoxha, Fidel Castro, and Pol Pot Through the Eyes of Their Cooks
By: Witold Szabłowski
4.20
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Anthony Bourdain meets Kapuściński in this chilling look from within the kitchen at the appetites o… read more
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"Przyprawy dla dania to jak makijaż dla kobiety. Potrafią wydobyć smaki, których istnienia byś nawet nie podejrzewał."-Witold Szabłowski, How to Feed a Dictator: Saddam Hussein, Idi Amin, Enver Hoxha, Fidel Castro, and Pol Pot Through the Eyes of Their Cooks
20. Huit leçons sur l'Afrique
By: Alain Mabanckou
4.20
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
En 2016, Alain Mabanckou a occupé la Chaire de création artistique du Collège de France. C’était la… read more
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- france
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- african literature
21. Jacaranda
By: Gaël Faye
4.60
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Milan, 11 ans, enfant unique, s’ennuie ferme dans une France où les échos des tragédies lointaines … read more
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