Everything Like Before: Stories (Penguin Modern Classics)
By: Kjell Askildsen
3.98
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Spare, taut and told with flashes of pitch-black humour, the short stories of Norwegian master Kjel…
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1. Glaciers (A Tin House New Voice)
By: Alexis M. Smith
3.77
Format: 174 pages, Paperback
Isabel is a single, twentysomething thrift-store shopper and collector of remnants, things cast off… read more
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- literature
- literary fiction
- fiction
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"The woman seems ready to be pleased with the world."-Alexis M. Smith, Glaciers (A Tin House New Voice)
"We do not last, she thinks. In the end, only the stories survive."-Alexis M. Smith, Glaciers (A Tin House New Voice)
"There's not a thing in the world that will not change, including you."-Alexis M. Smith, Glaciers (A Tin House New Voice)
"Monotonous and thankless as her job can be sometimes, she cheers at the thought of her coworkers - a dozen of them crammed into their little offices in the basement - all cleverly disguised as harmle…"-Alexis M. Smith, Glaciers (A Tin House New Voice)
2. The Blue Room
By: Hanne Ørstavik , Deborah Dawkin
3.34
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
A novel about a mother-daughter relationship that will send a chill down your spine. Johanne is … read more
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- literary fiction
- scandinavian literature
- fiction
- contemporary
"I'm useless at concentrating on physical things."-Hanne Ørstavik, The Blue Room
"I have layer upon layer of thoughts in my head and the bottom one has nothing to grip on to."-Hanne Ørstavik, The Blue Room
"I wished I could split my body in two, give one part to Mum and the other to Ivar. Then they could both have their share, and I could keep my ribcage as a little raft on which I’d curl up and float a…"-Hanne Ørstavik, The Blue Room
"I look out of the window again. The rain is trickling down silently, evenly, like the tears that cover my face. Perhaps God is in the water, in the raindrops. I put my hand against the cold pane to b…"-Hanne Ørstavik, The Blue Room
3. Love and Summer
By: William Trevor
3.87
Format: 260 pages,
In his characteristically masterly way, Trevor evokes the passions and frustrations of the people o… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
4. Under the Glacier
By: Halldór Laxness , Magnus Magnusson
3.44
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
Nobel laureate Halldor Laxness's Under the Glacieris aone-of-a-kind masterpiece, a wryly provocativ… read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
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5. Victoria
By: Knut Hamsun
3.75
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Victoria A Love Story read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
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- scandinavian literature
"Åh, kjærligheten den er en sommernatt med stjerner på himmelen"-Knut Hamsun, Victoria
"Yes," he answered, "it's a strain being witty at my age. I'm giving it up."-Knut Hamsun, Victoria
"О, любовта превръща човешкото сърце в градина, едновременно разкошна и безсрамна, в която избуяват и цветя, и бурени!"-Knut Hamsun, Victoria
"Love was God's first word, the first thought that sailed across his mind. He said, Let there be light, and there was love."-Knut Hamsun, Victoria
6. The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
By: Anne Carson
4.23
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The Beauty Of The Husband is an essay on Keats’s idea that beauty is truth, and is also the story o… read more
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- literature
- classics
- fiction
- contemporary
"Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue."-Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
"Ray please I never lied to her. When need arose I may have used words that lied."-Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
"A wound gives off its own light surgeons say. If all the lamps in the house were turned out you could dress this wound by what shines from it"-Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
"A wound gives off its own light surgeons say. If all the lamps in the house were turned out you could dress this wound by what shines from it."-Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
7. Aliss at the Fire
By: Jon Fosse , Damion Searls
3.99
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
In her old house by the fjord, Signe lies on a bench and sees a vision of herself as she was more t… read more
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- literature
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
8. The Birds
By: Tarjei Vesaas , Michael Barnes , None
4.20
Format: 488 pages, Paperback
With spare simplicity, this story tells the tale of Mattis, a mentally disabled man cared for by hi… read more
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9. The Glass Bead Game
By: Theodore Ziolkowski , Hermann Hesse , Richard Winston , Clara Winston
4.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
The final novel of Hermann Hesse, for which he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946, 'The Gla… read more
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10. Out Stealing Horses
By: Per Petterson , Anne Born
3.99
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
We were going out stealing horses. That was what he said, standing at the door to the cabin where I… read more
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11. A Tale of Love and Darkness
By: Amos Oz , Nicholas de Lange
4.23
Format: 560 pages, Paperback
Tragic, comic, and utterly honest, A Tale of Love and Darkness is at once a family saga and a magic… read more
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- literature
"If you steal from one book you are condemned as a plagiarist, but if you steal from ten books you are considered a scholar, and if you steal from thirty or forty books, a distinguished scholar."-Amos Oz, A Tale of Love and Darkness
"When my father was a young man in Vilna, every wall in Europe said, "Jews go home to Palestine." Fifty years later, when he went back to Europe on a visit, the walls all screamed, "Jews get out of Pa…"-Amos Oz, A Tale of Love and Darkness
"Papa used to say that wealth is a sin and poverty is a punishment but that God apparently wants there to be no connection between the sin and the punishment. One man sins and another is punished. Tha…"-Amos Oz, A Tale of Love and Darkness
"Love is a curious mixture of opposites, a blend of extreme selfishness and total devotion. A paradox! Besides which, love, everybody is always talking about love, love, but love isn't something you c…"-Amos Oz, A Tale of Love and Darkness
12. Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy, #3)
By: Cormac McCarthy
4.13
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
The concluding volume of the Border trilogy. In this magnificent new novel, the National Book Award… read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
"When the Papayuna is pining you need to call home."-Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy, #3)
"She looks like her face caught fire and they beat it out with a rake"-Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy, #3)
"Maybe it's like Mac says. Ever man winds up with the horse that suits him."-Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy, #3)
"Each man is the bard of his own existence. This is how he is joined to the world."-Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy, #3)
13. A Shining
By: Jon Fosse
3.49
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
A man starts driving without knowing where he is going. He alternates between turning right and lef… read more
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- literary fiction
- literature
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
"but you can’t just touch a whiteness like that. because if you did you’d probably get it dirty. and imagine getting something so white dirty"-Jon Fosse, A Shining
"Es ist auch nicht zu begreifen, es ist etwas anderes, vielleicht etwas, das man nur erlebt und das nicht wirklich geschieht. Aber geht es an, dass man so etwas einfach erlebt. Alles, was man erlebt, …"-Jon Fosse, A Shining
14. Terminal Boredom: Stories
By: Izumi Suzuki
3.59
Format: 218 pages, Paperback
Seven punky and pitch-black stories offer English-language readers an overdue introduction to Izumi… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
"INSUFFICIENT VEGETABLE OIL,’ quoth the replicator."-Izumi Suzuki, Terminal Boredom: Stories
"And having four kids? Giving birth to them naturally? What is she, an animal?"-Izumi Suzuki, Terminal Boredom: Stories
"When we first met, Reiko still had something of a wrecked beauty. Now, not even those ruins remained."-Izumi Suzuki, Terminal Boredom: Stories
"I’m a sucker for trends. I don’t have much in the way of agency. I always want to try whatever’s popular."-Izumi Suzuki, Terminal Boredom: Stories
15. The Trouble with Happiness: And Other Stories
By: Tove Ditlevsen
3.90
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
The Trouble with Happiness is a powerful new collection of short stories by Tove Ditlevsen, a terri… read more
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- classics
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
16. Scenes from a Childhood
By: Jon Fosse
3.67
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
One of Norway's most celebrated authors and playwrights, Jon Fosse is famed for the minimalist and … read more
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- literature
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- 21st century
- scandinavian literature
17. My Phantoms
By: Gwendoline Riley
3.83
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Bridget's mother is dying. An extrovert with few friends who has sought intimacy in the wrong place… read more
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- 21st century
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
18. The World and All That It Holds
By: Aleksandar Hemon
3.85
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The World and All That It Holds--in all its hilarious, heartbreaking, erotic, philosophical glory--… read more
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- fiction
19. The Other Name: Septology I-II
By: Jon Fosse
4.06
Format: 351 pages, Paperback
The Other Name follows the lives of two men living close to each other on the west coast of Norway.… read more
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- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- 21st century
- scandinavian literature
"...there inside the person is what will pass away and become one with what is invisible in everything..."-Jon Fosse, The Other Name: Septology I-II
"...what's beautiful in life turns out bad in a painting because it's like there's too much beauty, a good picture needs something bad in it in order to shine the way it should, it needs darkness in i…"-Jon Fosse, The Other Name: Septology I-II
20. Love
By: Hanne Ørstavik
3.63
Format: 125 pages, Paperback
A mother and son move to a village in northern Norway, each ensconced in their own world. Their dis… read more
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- scandinavian literature
"He looks at her as he listens, smiling when she's finished. She feels like touching the stubble of his beard with the tips of her fingers, smoothing her hands over his face the way she does with the …"-Hanne Ørstavik, Love
"The sound of the car. When he's waiting he can never quite recall it. I've forgotten, he tells himself. But then it comes back to him, often in pauses between the waiting, after he's stopped thinking…"-Hanne Ørstavik, Love
21. Everything Like Before: Stories (Penguin Modern Classics)
By: Kjell Askildsen
3.98
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Spare, taut and told with flashes of pitch-black humour, the short stories of Norwegian master Kjel… read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
- literature
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- 21st century
- scandinavian literature
