The Crime of Olga Arbyelina
By: Andreï Makine
3.44
Format: 247 pages, Paperback
Olga Arbyelina--a rumored Russian princess, refugee from the Bolsheviks, and abandoned wife--is fou…
Want to Read $ 10.99"Men can be pitiless towards a woman whose body has eluded them, particularly if this is thanks to their own cowardice."-Andreï Makine, The Crime of Olga Arbyelina
"Men can be pitiless towards a woman whose body has eluded them, particularly if this is thanks to their own cowardice."-Andreï Makine, The Crime of Olga Arbyelina
"... lumea este totuna cu răul, un rău mereu mai viclean decăt poate bănui omul, iar binele este una din vicleniile lui."-Andreï Makine, The Crime of Olga Arbyelina
"... lumea este totuna cu răul, un rău mereu mai viclean decăt poate bănui omul, iar binele este una din vicleniile lui."-Andreï Makine, The Crime of Olga Arbyelina
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1. Of Love and Shadows
By: Isabel Allende , Margaret Sayers Peden
3.99
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Beautiful and headstrong, Irene Beltrán works as a magazine journalist—a profession that belies her… read more
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"Lo puedo leer en tus ojos, vienes de una noche de amor."-Isabel Allende, Of Love and Shadows
"Compartieron una alegre relación y no la llamaron amor."-Isabel Allende, Of Love and Shadows
"...era apenas la suma de dos soledades y de muchas ausencias."-Isabel Allende, Of Love and Shadows
"La nostalgia desgasta y aniquila, es el vicio de los desterrados."-Isabel Allende, Of Love and Shadows
2. The Days of Abandonment
By: Elena Ferrante , Ann Goldstein
3.87
Format: 188 pages, Paperback
A national bestseller for almost an entire year, The Days of Abandonment shocked and captivated its… read more
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"I'm dead, but I'm fine."-Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment
"The hardest things to talk about are the ones we ourselves can't understand."-Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment
"We don't know anything about people, even those with whom we share everything."-Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment
"Success depends on the capacity to manipulate the obvious with calculated precision."-Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment
3. The Kreutzer Sonata
By: Doris Lessing , Leo Tolstoy , Isai Kamen
3.87
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
When Marshal of the Nobility Pozdnyshev suspects his wife of having an affair with her music partne… read more
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- russia
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"In a large city the unhappy feel their sadness less acutely."-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata
"It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness."-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata
"Yes, man is much worse than the animal when he does not live like a man."-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata
"Удивительное дело, какая полная бывает иллюзия того, что красота есть добро."-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata
4. I Served the King of England
By: Bohumil Hrabal , Paul Wilson
3.43
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
In a comic masterpiece following the misadventures of a simple but hugely ambitious waiter in pre-W… read more
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5. A Happy Death
By: Albert Camus , Richard Howard , Jean Sarocchi
4.15
Format: 275 pages, Paperback
Is it possible to die a happy death?This is the central question of Camus's astonishing early novel… read more
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6. Between the Acts
By: Virginia Woolf
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
In Woolf's last novel, the action takes place on one summer's day at a country house in the heart o… read more
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7. Whatever
By: Michel Houellebecq , Paul Hammond
3.57
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Just thirty, with a well-paid job, depression and no love life, the narrator and anti-hero par exce… read more
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"En su lugar, una víbora ya se habría suicidado."-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever
"Me considero un tipo normal. Bueno, puede que no exactamente, pero ¿Quién lo es exactamente? Digamos que soy normal al 80%."-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever
"Il me dit: « Vous avez dû avoir peur. » Je réponds oui pour ne pas faire d'histoires, mais en fait je n'ai pas eu peur du tout, j'ai juste eu l'impression que j'allais crever dans les prochaines minu…"-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever
"Een vrouw die in de handen van de psychoanalytici is gevallen wordt totaal en voorgoed onbruikbaar. Dat fenomeen moet niet als een neveneffect van de psychoanalyse worden beschouwd maar wel degelijk …"-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever
8. Poor Things
By: Alasdair Gray
3.94
Format: 318 pages, Paperback
One of Alasdair Gray's most brilliant creations, Poor Things is a postmodern revision of Frankenste… read more
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"Besides, a life without freedom to choose is not worth having."-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things
"She also said the wicked people needed love as much as good people and were much better at it."-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things
"Baxter knows a lot more than I do, I told her. Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of it."-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things
"You, dear reader, have now two accounts to choose between and there can be no doubt which is most probable."-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things
9. Antic Hay
By: Aldous Huxley
4.36
Format: 209 pages,
London life just after World War I, devoid of values and moving headlong into chaos at breakneck sp… read more
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10. Félicie
By: Georges Simenon
2.83
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Peg Leg Lapie, a crusty old sailor, is found mysteriously murdered in a most incongruous setting: a… read more
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11. Someone I Loved
By: Anna Gavalda , Catherine Evans
3.73
Format: None pages,
Anna Gavalda has been hailed as an author "graced with the Gallic virtues of dry wit and almost inv… read more
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12. Herzog
By: Philip Roth , Saul Bellow
3.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
This is the story of Moses Herzog, a great sufferer, joker, mourner, and charmer. Although his life… read more
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13. Badenheim 1939
By: Aharon Appelfeld , Dalya Bilu
4.75
Format: 14 pages, Paperback
It is the spring of 1939. In months Europe will be Hitler's, and Badenheim, a resort town vaguely i… read more
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14. Maigret's Dead Man: Inspector Maigret #29
By: Georges Simenon
3.33
Format: 194 pages, Paperback
Maigret plunges into the murky Parisian underworld in book twenty-nine of the new Penguin Maigret s… read more
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15. A Clergyman's Daughter
By: George Orwell
4.24
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Intimidated by her father, the rector of Knype Hill, Dorothy performs her submissive roles of dutif… read more
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16. Women Without Men: A Novel of Modern Iran
By: Shahrnush Parsipur , Kamran Talattof , Jocelyn Sharlet , None
3.67
Format: 208 pages,
Shortly after the 1989 publication of Women Without Menin her native Iran, Shahrnush Parsipur was a… read more
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17. Greek Lessons
By: Han Kang
3.47
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A powerful novel about the saving grace of language and human connection, from the author of the In… read more
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"If snow is the silence that falls from the sky, perhaps rain is an endless sentence."-Han Kang, Greek Lessons
"Si tomamos como cierta la premisa que dice que, cuando perdemos algo, ganamos otra cosa, ¿Qué es lo que he ganado yo al perderte a ti?."-Han Kang, Greek Lessons
"Before she lost words - when she was still able to se them to write - she sometimes wished that her own expressions would more closely resemble inarticulacy: a moan or low cry."-Han Kang, Greek Lessons
"To her, there was no touch as instantaneous and intuitive as the gaze. It was close to being the only way of touching without touch. Language, by comparison, is an infinitely more physical way to tou…"-Han Kang, Greek Lessons
18. Zuleiha deschide ochii
By: Guzel Yakhina
4.39
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
Marea revelație a literaturii ruse din 2015, romanul Zuleiha deschide ochii, salutat cu entuziasm l… read more
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"„Inima e sălașul sentimentelor, nu al rațiuni"-Guzel Yakhina, Zuleiha deschide ochii
"Inima e sălașul sentimentelor, nu al rațiunii."-Guzel Yakhina, Zuleiha deschide ochii
"Мысли – не речка, плотиной не перегородишь; пусть текут."-Guzel Yakhina, Zuleiha deschide ochii
"Метлой по спине – это не больно. Почти как веником. Зулейха лежит смирно, как и велел муж, только вздрагивает и царапает ногтями лэукэ при каждом ударе, – поэтому бьет он недолго. Быстро остывает. Вс…"-Guzel Yakhina, Zuleiha deschide ochii
19. ca și cum nimic nu s-ar fi întâmplat
By: Alina Nelega
4.52
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
„După ce, timp de decenii, s-a implicat în viața teatrală din România, impunîndu-se ca una dintre f… read more
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20. The Crime of Olga Arbyelina
By: Andreï Makine
3.44
Format: 247 pages, Paperback
Olga Arbyelina--a rumored Russian princess, refugee from the Bolsheviks, and abandoned wife--is fou… read more
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"Men can be pitiless towards a woman whose body has eluded them, particularly if this is thanks to their own cowardice."-Andreï Makine, The Crime of Olga Arbyelina
"... lumea este totuna cu răul, un rău mereu mai viclean decăt poate bănui omul, iar binele este una din vicleniile lui."-Andreï Makine, The Crime of Olga Arbyelina
"Eu credeam că înțelepciunea constă în izgonirea acestui delir pe care ceilalți nu-l observă. Și se dovedește că este exact invers. Înțelept e cel care știe să rămână oarecum orb. Care nu-și sfâșie in…"-Andreï Makine, The Crime of Olga Arbyelina
"Tilting her head back, she plunged in among the stars for a long time. A silent, unflagging wind descended from these nocturnal depths. . . . The shadow of the wood, the dark reflection of the water,…"-Andreï Makine, The Crime of Olga Arbyelina
21. Despre psihologia vieții erotice
By: Sigmund Freud
3.29
Format: 119 pages, Paperback
Noua serie FREUD despre... isi propune sa aduca in atentia cititorilor mai mult sau mai putin famil… read more
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