Animales
By: Hebe Uhart
3.72
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
«Yo no recuerdo haber insultado invocando a los animales; los han convocado a todos para insultar. …
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1. Swimming Studies
By: Leanne Shapton
3.96
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
"Swimming Studies" is a brilliantly original, meditative memoir that explores the worlds of competi… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
"The pictures achieve something rarely articulated about the metaphysical state of swimming: The body, immersed, feels amplified, heavier and lighter at the same time. Weightless yet stronger."-Leanne Shapton, Swimming Studies
"Being pool-trained, I'm used to seeing four sides and a bottom. When that clarity is removed I get nervous. I imagine things. Sharks, the slippery sides of large fish, shaggy pieces of sunken frigate…"-Leanne Shapton, Swimming Studies
2. Ladrilleros
By: Selva Almada
4.16
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
Luego de El viento que arrasa, su primera novela, verdadero acontecimiento literario debido a la gr… read more
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"A knife is almost like a continuation of your arm; you’d feel the other man’s life slipping out through the wound, the enemy blood gushing up the handle and wetting your clenched fist."-Selva Almada, Ladrilleros
"Antes de decirle que sí al cura, Celina le había dicho que sí a su novio, a la urgencia de sus besos que le dejaban el cuello y los hombros llenos de pequeños moretones. Que era como decirle, también…"-Selva Almada, Ladrilleros
"Marciano solía sentarse afuera las noches en que el calor hacía imposible quedarse adentro. Es decir, casi todas las noches del año, excepto las del invierno, tan breve como un suspiro. Todo el barri…"-Selva Almada, Ladrilleros
3. 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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- short stories
- nonfiction
- essays
"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
4. Los suicidas del fin del mundo: Crónica de un pueblo patagónico
By: Leila Guerriero
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
Entre 1997 y 1999, una oleada de suicidios conmovio a la pequena localidad petrolera de Las Heras, … read more
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- nonfiction
5. My Documents
By: Alejandro Zambra , Megan McDowell
4.36
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Archived in a folder on award-winning author Alejandro Zambra's desktop are 11 stories of liars and… read more
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- short stories
6. Glass Houses (The Morganville Vampires, #1)
By: Rachel Caine
3.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
From the author of the popular Weather Warden series comes the debut of an exciting new series set … read more
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7. Acá todavía
By: Romina Paula
3.86
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Las coordenadas sobre las que esta novela se construye se enuncian desde el titulo. Aca: espacio qu… read more
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8. Surfacing
By: Margaret Atwood
4.03
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Part detective novel, part psychological thriller, Surfacingis the story of a talented woman artist… read more
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9. Piano Stories
By: Julio Cortázar , Felisberto Hernández
3.96
Format: 433 pages, Paperback
Inhabited by rich, eccentric characters and full of strange and surprising landscapes, this collect… read more
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10. The Tiger Rising
By: Kate DiCamillo
3.22
Format: 111 pages, Paperback
The National Book Award finalist from the best-selling author of BECAUSE OF WINN-DIXIE - now in pap… read more
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11. When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
By: Terry Tempest Williams
3.07
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The beloved author of Refugereturns with a work that explodes and startles, illuminates and celebra… read more
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12. El viento que arrasa
By: Selva Almada
4.10
Format: None pages, Paperback
Un reverendo y su hija de viaje por el Chaco, en un clima de conflictos y tormentas, entreveros y c… read more
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13. The Daughters of Block Island
By: Christa Carmen
3.82
Format: 323 pages, Kindle Edition
In this ingenious and subversive twist on the classic gothic novel, the mysterious past of an islan… read more
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14. Sacrificios humanos
By: María Fernanda Ampuero
4.09
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
María Fernanda Ampuero se ha convertido en una de las voces indispensables de la literatura latinoa… read more
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- short stories
15. Pink Slime
By: Fernanda Trías
3.68
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A taut, harrowing novel about a woman and the people who depend on her as the world around them tee… read more
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16. The Adventures of China Iron
By: Gabriela Cabezón Cámara
3.83
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
(* China. Pronounced ‘cheena’: designation for female, from the Quechua. Iron: The English word for… read more
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"Poverty yields cracked skin. It carves and slowly scrapes away at its young, and leaves them to fend for themselves in all weathers."-Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, The Adventures of China Iron
"It's difficult to know what you remember, is it what actually happened? Or is it the story that you've told and re-told and polished like a gemstone over the course of years, like something that has …"-Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, The Adventures of China Iron
"But the dragon aroused such passion in me, that beautiful beast made from horrible beasts: the eyes of a locust, the horns of a zebu, the snout of an ox, the nose of a dog, the whiskers of a catfish,…"-Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, The Adventures of China Iron
"Los pastizales se bamboleaban con el viento cuando salimos y parecía la pampa un mar de dos colores: cuando se dejaban vencer los tallos, era blanca y destellaba como espuma; cuando volvían a su posi…"-Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, The Adventures of China Iron
17. This Strange Eventful History
By: Claire Messud
3.63
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
An immersive, masterful story of a family born on the wrong side of history, from one of our finest… read more
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"Literature... Now, that's a religion I can believe in. That is perhaps my God."-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
"Family life, like playing chess, involved always thinking several steps ahead."-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
"... she'd been a fool, enamored of a figment, had created the soul of a man who never existed -"-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
"All-U-Can Hi-way 4-Sale Thru. This American English thrilled him - its energy, its freedom, its carelessness."-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
18. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
4.40
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James—f… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
"Heartbreak itself is a primary color. Stagnant without a series of secondary colors to activate it. Longing is an activator."-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
"With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns."-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
"It is a strange miracle to be able to trace your own aging, your own mortality through someone who's living alongside you, someone who has survived eras at the same time as you have in some of the sa…"-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
19. My Friends
By: Hisham Matar
4.34
Format: 399 pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Return , a luminous novel of friendship, family, and … read more
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"A vast distance exists between a protester and his slogan; the entire history of politics exists in that gap."-Hisham Matar, My Friends
"For a writer, exile is prison, a severing from the source, and so, courageous or not, he dies in front of our eyes."-Hisham Matar, My Friends
"She was older and all the more beautiful, had the weary tiredness of one who, in surrendering to her life, was ennobled by it."-Hisham Matar, My Friends
"I walked off feeling an emptiness well up inside me. It seemed, for all the emptiness that it was, a presence. It made me want to run away, dive deeper into myself, into that cold desolation, to the …"-Hisham Matar, My Friends
20. The Wolves of Eternity (Morgenstjernen, #2)
By: Karl Ove Knausgård
4.03
Format: 800 pages, Hardcover
From the internationally bestselling author Karl Ove Knausgaard, a sprawling and deeply human novel… read more
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21. Optic Nerve
By: María Gainza
3.92
Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition
The narrator of Optic Nerve is an Argentinian woman whose obsession is art. The story of her life i… read more
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"el estilo es un medio para insistir sobre algo."-María Gainza, Optic Nerve
"Mal administrada, la historia del arte puede ser letal como la estricnina."-María Gainza, Optic Nerve
"Nos llamábamos igual, mi prima y yo. Recién ahora me doy cuenta de que nuestro nombre contiene al mar como un llamado, como una premonición."-María Gainza, Optic Nerve
"Y eso me lleva a T. S. Eliot: «Cuanto más perfecto es el artista, más completamente separado en él estará el hombre que sufre de la mente que crea»"-María Gainza, Optic Nerve
22. Sexographies
By: Gabriela Wiener
3.88
Format: 240 pages, ebook
In fierce and sumptuous first-person accounts, renowned Peruvian journalist Gabriela Wiener records… read more
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- short stories
- nonfiction
- essays
"In a threesome, there are always two exhibitionists and a voyeur."-Gabriela Wiener, Sexographies
"Moving to another city is to change the accent of your affections."-Gabriela Wiener, Sexographies
"His relationship with the Catholic Church ended the way love affairs tend to: a priest wanted him to believe a blatant lie, and that was the end of it."-Gabriela Wiener, Sexographies
23. Una familia bajo la nieve
By: Monica Zwaig
3.93
Format: 120 pages, Kindle Edition
Una familia vive sus días en los suburbios de una ciudad francesa. Corren las últimas décadas del s… read more
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24. Diario inconsciente
By: Santiago Loza
4.06
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
«Dice así: «Cuando tenía veinte años y me volví loco, tenía piedras en los bolsillos». Bien podría … read more
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25. Girlhood
By: Melissa Febos
4.23
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A gripping set of stories about the forces that shape girls and the adults they become. A wise and … read more
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- short stories
- nonfiction
- essays
"Nature isn't cruel, but unconcerned with human frailty."-Melissa Febos, Girlhood
"My wonder was bottomless for the world empty of stories, mine alone to name."-Melissa Febos, Girlhood
"I have since learned that recognizing the invisible parts of oneself in another person can feel like a radiant kind of love."-Melissa Febos, Girlhood
"My poor body. My precious body. How had I let her be treated this way? My body was me. To hate my own body was to suffer from an autoimmune disease of the mind."-Melissa Febos, Girlhood
26. An Inventory of Losses
By: Judith Schalansky
3.36
Format: 253 pages, Hardcover
Each disparate object described in this book—a Caspar David Friedrich painting, a species of tiger,… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
27. El último sueño
By: Pedro Almodóvar
3.70
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
El libro más personal de Pedro Almodóvar: un autorretrato articulado en doce relatos que revelan su… read more
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"No tengo inconveniente en escribir sobre mí mismo. Diría que es casi lo único que hago."-Pedro Almodóvar, El último sueño
"Me gustan los escritores que hablan sobre el hecho de escribir y citan continuamente frases de otros autores"-Pedro Almodóvar, El último sueño
"Si de algo estaba seguro cuando era joven era de que nunca me aburriría. Ahora me aburro. Y eso es una especie de derrota."-Pedro Almodóvar, El último sueño
"Chavela le respondió: «A veces, pero siempre acabo donde debo». Me tatuaría esa frase en su honor. ¡Cuántas veces la he visto terminar donde debía!"-Pedro Almodóvar, El último sueño
28. Someone Who Isn’t Me
By: Geoff Rickly
4.60
Format: 258 pages, Paperback
Geoff Rickly’s debut novel Someone Who Isn’t Me is a feverish journey through the psyche of someone… read more
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"He asks me to leave, turns to his manager and says, "The epidemic of our time," as if time were the epidemic and we're all subject to its disastrous effects."-Geoff Rickly, Someone Who Isn’t Me
29. Lo que aprendí de las bestias (Spanish Edition)
By: Albertina Carri
3.38
Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition
En esta esperada novela debut, Albertina Carri -figura ineludible del cine más original e irreveren… read more
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30. Animales
By: Hebe Uhart
3.72
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
«Yo no recuerdo haber insultado invocando a los animales; los han convocado a todos para insultar. … read more
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- animals
- short stories
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- nature
31. Clean
By: Alia Trabucco Zerán
3.99
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER! From a global star and International Booker Prize finalist, a razor-sh… read more
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"Yo jamás me comí las uñas. Tampoco mi mamá. Para eso, me imagino, hay que tener las manos desocupadas."-Alia Trabucco Zerán, Clean
