Absence
By: Lucie Paye
3.83
Format: 150 pages, Paperback
A masterful debut that dramatizes the role of the unconscious in artistic creation and the power of…
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1. The Little Virtues
By: Dick Davis , Natalia Ginzburg
4.10
Format: 110 pages, Paperback
"As far as the education of children is concerned," states Natalia Ginzburg in this collection of h… read more
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"It seemed to me that I had discovered how people in books should be—funny and at the same time sad."-Dick Davis, The Little Virtues
"What we must remember above all in the education of our children is that their love of life should never weaken."-Dick Davis, The Little Virtues
"And perhaps even for learning to walk in worn-out shoes, it is as well to have dry, warm feet when we are children."-Dick Davis, The Little Virtues
"Y los detalles se gastan, se echan a perder si uno los lleva consigo sin utilizarlos durante mucho tiempo. No sólo los detalles sino todo, todas las ocurrencias y las ideas."-Dick Davis, The Little Virtues
2. A Line Made By Walking
By: Sara Baume
3.74
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The author of the award-winning Spill Simmer Falter Wither returns with a stunning new novel about … read more
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"Art, and sadness, which last forever."-Sara Baume, A Line Made By Walking
"I open my eyes to find the morning adjourned."-Sara Baume, A Line Made By Walking
"People don't like it when you say real things."-Sara Baume, A Line Made By Walking
"But now I remember, of course, I'm never going to be old."-Sara Baume, A Line Made By Walking
3. King Kong théorie
By: Virginie Despentes
4.01
Format: 155 pages, Paperback
J’écris de chez les moches, pour les moches, les frigides, les mal baisées, les imbaisables, toutes… read more
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"Le prostitute costituiscono l'unico proletariato la cui condizione commuove tanto la borghesia"-Virginie Despentes, King Kong théorie
"Dans la morale judéo-chrétienne, mieux vaut être prise de force que prise pour une chienne, on nous l'a assez répété."-Virginie Despentes, King Kong théorie
"Il faut être crétin, ou simplement malhonnête, pour trouver une oppression insupportable et juger l'autre pleine de poésie."-Virginie Despentes, King Kong théorie
"Hace falta ser idiota, o asquerosamente deshonesto, para pensar que una forma de opresión es insoportable y juzgar que la otra está llena de poesía."-Virginie Despentes, King Kong théorie
4. The Lover
By: Marguerite Duras , Barbara Bray , Maxine Hong Kingston
3.72
Format: 117 pages, Paperback
Set against the backdrop of French colonial Vietnam, The Lover reveals the intimacies and intricaci… read more
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"The air was blue, you could hold it in your hand. Blue. The sky was the continual throbbing of the brilliance of the light."-Marguerite Duras, The Lover
"He says he’s lonely, horribly lonely because of this love he feels for her. She says she’s lonely too. She doesn’t say why."-Marguerite Duras, The Lover
"When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them."-Marguerite Duras, The Lover
"You didn't have to attract desire. Either it was in the woman who aroused it or it didn't exist. Either it was there at first glance or else it had never been."-Marguerite Duras, The Lover
5. Hotel du Lac
By: Anita Brookner
3.93
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
"Impeccably written and suffused with pleasing wit."--Newsweek In the novel that won her the Booker… read more
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6. 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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7. Çocukluğun Soğuk Geceleri
By: Tezer Özlü
4.03
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
Tezer Ozlu'nun bu ilk romani, yasamin yalnizca baslangicini olusturmakla kalmayan, surekli donulen,… read more
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8. Transit
By: Rachel Cusk
4.14
Format: 222 pages, Hardcover
The stunning second novel of a trilogy that began with Outline, one of The New York Times Book Revi… read more
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9. Outline
By: Rachel Cusk
4.20
Format: 488 pages, Hardcover
A woman writer goes to Athens in the height of summer to teach a writing course. Though her own cir… read more
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10. Witches, Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers
By: Barbara Ehrenreich , Deirdre English
3.96
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Women have always been healers, and medicine has always been an arena of struggle between female pr… read more
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11. Girl Meets Boy
By: Ali Smith
3.99
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
Girl meets boy. It's a story as old as time. But what happens when an old story meets a brand new s… read more
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12. Swimming Home
By: Deborah Levy , Tom McCarthy
4.04
Format: 156 pages, Paperback
Swimming Homeis a subversive page-turner, a merciless gaze at the insidious harm that depression ca… read more
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13. The World of Yesterday
By: Stefan Zweig , Harry Zohn
3.72
Format: 640 pages, Paperback
Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) was a poet, novelist, and dramatist, but it was his biographies that expre… read more
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14. Spill Simmer Falter Wither
By: Sara Baume
3.83
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
You find me on a Tuesday, on my Tuesday trip to town. You're sellotaped to the inside pane of the j… read more
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15. Triste tigre
By: Neige Sinno
4.23
Format: 283 pages, Paperback
J'ai voulu y croire, j'ai voulu rêver que le royaume de la littérature m'accueillerait comme n'impo… read more
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"C'est vrai qu'aucun [...] n'avait vu ce que nous pouvions voir nous, les enfants et ma mère, au sein du foyer, où il se comportait comme un tyran. Et c'est quand même ça qui ressort avant tout de cet…"-Neige Sinno, Triste tigre
16. Inseparable
By: Simone de Beauvoir
4.10
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A never-before-published novel by the iconic Simone de Beauvoir of an intense and vivid girlhood fr… read more
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"How old do you have to be to think: this is forever?"-Simone de Beauvoir, Inseparable
"She was often late, not because she didn't care, but because she had too many contradictory cares."-Simone de Beauvoir, Inseparable
"I didn't understand: you don't believe what you believe on purpose. Could you be punished because certain ideas come into your mind?"-Simone de Beauvoir, Inseparable
"to fight against time, against forgetting, against death, to do justice to this absolute presence of the instant, to this eternity of the instant, which will have been forever"-Simone de Beauvoir, Inseparable
17. The Cabinet
By: Kim Un-Su
3.53
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Munhakdongne Novel Award, South Korea’s most prestigious literary prize. Cabinet 1… read more
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"There are two types of lives people can live,' he said. 'The kind of life in which one writes in a diary every day, and the kind of life in which one doesn't. They're as different as a country with a…"-Kim Un-Su, The Cabinet
"I wonder if my lost time is rolling around somewhere. I could have loved someone with that time -- I could have done something beautiful for someone. But I've nothing to show for that lost time. No w…"-Kim Un-Su, The Cabinet
18. Paradise Rot
By: Jenny Hval
3.55
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A lyrical debut novel from a musician and artist renowned for her sharp sexual and political imager… read more
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"I took a bite of a Bloody Ploughman. Even the flesh was red. 'Bloody,' Carral said. 'Nice colour,' I answered. 'It looks sinful. I bet that was the apple Eve ate, you know, in the Bible, the forbidde…"-Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot
"I'll tell you the fairy tale of the apple. Eve ate the apple, and then Adam came and did so too. Afterwards the apple was forgotten, and it was assumed that it rolled away in the grass while Adam and…"-Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot
19. The Pachinko Parlour
By: Elisa Shua Dusapin
3.61
Format: 171 pages, Paperback
The days are beginning to draw in. The sky is dark by seven in the evening. I lie on the floor and … read more
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"They made it illegal to speak Korean. You could be sentenced to death for speaking it. And do you know what your grandmother’s mother did to avoid being subjected to speaking Japanese at school? She …"-Elisa Shua Dusapin, The Pachinko Parlour
"When Korea was divided, we were still nationals of a unified Korea. It was called Choson. At separation, the Japanese government gave us permission to keep our Korean identity, but we had to choose b…"-Elisa Shua Dusapin, The Pachinko Parlour
20. August Blue
By: Deborah Levy
3.68
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A new novel from the Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy, the celebrated author of The Man Who Saw E… read more
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"We agreed that whatever happened next in the world, we would still rub conditioner into our hair after we washed it and comb it through to the ends, we would soften our lips with rose-, strawberry-, …"-Deborah Levy, August Blue
21. Eastbound
By: Maylis de Kerangal
3.97
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
From Wellcome Prize winner Maylis de Kerangal comes a fast-paced story of two fugitives set on the … read more
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22. Whereabouts
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
3.77
Format: 157 pages, Hardcover
Exuberance and dread, attachment and estrangement: in this novel, Jhumpa Lahiri stretches her theme… read more
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"the routine purchases of a woman on her own,"-Jhumpa Lahiri, Whereabouts
"My mother, by now, clings to life like a yellowing piece of Scotch tape in a scrapbook."-Jhumpa Lahiri, Whereabouts
"wastes away like an old woman who was once a stunning beauty before shutting down completely."-Jhumpa Lahiri, Whereabouts
"There’s no point discussing it given that she’s blind to the small pleasures my solitude affords me"-Jhumpa Lahiri, Whereabouts
23. The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
By: Deborah Levy
4.18
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
A searching examination of all the dimensions of love, marriage, mourning, and kinship from two-tim… read more
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"Sometimes we want to unbelong as much as we want to belong."-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
"It was a big release from the terror of death to finally acknowledge that it is also always absurd."-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
"I might one day risk falling in love again, but I was not going to lose my heart to the cardiologist."-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
"To unfold any number of ideas through all the dimensions of time is the great adventure of the writing life."-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
24. The Man Who Saw Everything
By: Deborah Levy
3.67
Format: 199 pages, Hardcover
It is 1988 and Saul Adler, a narcissistic young historian, has been invited to Communist East Berli… read more
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"There is a spectre inside every photograph."-Deborah Levy, The Man Who Saw Everything
"She wanted to escape from a reality that was so rational it was a little bit mad."-Deborah Levy, The Man Who Saw Everything
"I wanted to die of shame but everyone insisted on keeping me alive. I had to live."-Deborah Levy, The Man Who Saw Everything
"We were doing everything we could to avoid the moment we would both go our separate ways."-Deborah Levy, The Man Who Saw Everything
25. Kudos
By: Rachel Cusk
3.89
Format: 236 pages, ebook
En un avión, una mujer escucha a su vecino de vuelo contarle la historia de su vida: su trabajo, su… read more
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"Perhaps it follows, he said, that people who live in the sun don't take responsibility for their own happiness."-Rachel Cusk, Kudos
"We invent these systems with the aim of ensuring fairness, she said, and yet the human situation is so complex that it always evades our attempts to encompass it."-Rachel Cusk, Kudos
"You asked me earlier,' she said to me, 'whether I believed that justice was merely a personal illusion. I don't have the answer to that,' she said, 'but I know that it is to be feared, feared in ever…"-Rachel Cusk, Kudos
"We live with an almost superstitious belief in our own differences, she said, and Luis has shown that those differences are not the result of some divine mystery but are merely the consequence of our…"-Rachel Cusk, Kudos
26. The Woman in the Garden (Eustacia Rose #1)
By: Jill Johnson
3.62
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
I've always been better with plants than people . . . Eustacia Rose is a Professor of Botanical … read more
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27. Être à sa place: Habiter sa vie, habiter son corps
By: Claire Marin
4.04
Format: 218 pages, Kindle Edition
Ca commence parfois par une inquiétude ou un malaise. On se sent en décalage, on craint d'agir de m… read more
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28. Power of Gentleness: Meditations on the Risk of Living
By: Anne Dufourmantelle
4.00
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
Gentleness is an enigma. Taken up in a double movement of welcoming and giving, it appears on the t… read more
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29. Absence
By: Lucie Paye
3.83
Format: 150 pages, Paperback
A masterful debut that dramatizes the role of the unconscious in artistic creation and the power of… read more
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30. So Distant From My Life
By: Monique Ilboudo
3.72
Format: 127 pages, Paperback
Jeanphi, a young man from the fictional West African city Ouabany, has one obsession that will dete… read more
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31. Deranged As I Am
By: Ali Zamir
3.57
Format: 84 pages, Paperback
Set on the island of Anjouan, Comoros, Deranged As I Am follows the story of a humble dock worker. … read more
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