Touch the Water, Touch the Wind
By: Amos Oz
3.22
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
As the Germans advance into Poland in 1939, Elisha Pomeranz, a Jewish mathematician and watchmaker,…
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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. A Heart So White
By: Javier Marías , Margaret Jull Costa
4.02
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
An alternate cover of this ISBN can be found here. Javier Marías's A Heart So White chronicles w… read more
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- literature
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"No es fácil saber por qué se mata la gente, ni los más próximos, todo el mundo está trastornado, todo el mundo las pasa putas, a veces sin causa y casi siempre en secreto, la gente vuelve cara contra…"-Javier Marías, A Heart So White
"Listening is the most dangerous thing of all, listening means knowing, finding out about something and knowing what’s going on, our ears don’t have lids that can instinctively close against the words…"-Javier Marías, A Heart So White
"Casi todo el mundo se avergüenza de su juventud, no es muy cierto que se añore como se dice, más bien se relega o rehúye y con facilidad o esfuerzo se confina el origen a la esfera de los malos sueño…"-Javier Marías, A Heart So White
"I have a tendency to want to understand everything people say and everything I hear, both at work and outside, even at a distance, even if it’s one of the innumerable languages I don’t know, even if …"-Javier Marías, A Heart So White
3. Kobane calling
By: Zerocalcare
4.10
Format: 136 pages, Hardcover
Tre viaggi nel corso di un anno. Turchia, Iraq, Siria, per documentare la vita della resistenza cur… read more
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4. The Museum of Innocence
By: Orhan Pamuk , Maureen Freely , None
3.95
Format: 161 pages, Hardcover
"It was the happiest moment of my life, though I didn't know it." So begins the new novel, his firs… read more
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5. La simmetria dei desideri
By: Eshkol Nevo , Ofra Bannet , Raffaella Scardi
4.13
Format: 376 pages, Paperback
Quattro amici guardano in televisione la finale dei Mondiali di calcio del 1998. Non hanno ancora t… read more
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- israel
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"Quando si viaggia con una persona per dei mesi, tutti i normali canali di conversazione, quelli forzosi, si esauriscono, e si arriva a comportarsi con la massima naturalezza. Si conversa con parsimon…"-Eshkol Nevo, La simmetria dei desideri
"Si, ho pensato. Voglio salire. Certo che voglio salire. E già per le scale afferrarti i fianchi. Forte. E darti un piccolo bacio leggero sulla nuca. Proprio dove finisce la spina dorsale. E più tardi…"-Eshkol Nevo, La simmetria dei desideri
6. The Hours
By: None , Michael Cunningham
4.16
Format: None pages, Paperback
Passionate, profound, and deeply moving, "The Hours" is the story of three women: Clarissa Vaughan,… read more
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7. The Double
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
3.68
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
While his literary reputation rests mainly on such celebrated novels as Crime and Punishment, The B… read more
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"Tulburarea sa echivala cu agonia."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Double
"La inocencia es la fuerza de la inocencia"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Double
"Totul, până și destinul, se înarma împotriva sa."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Double
"Așa e firea mea. Vreau întotdeauna să merg mai iute decât evenimentele."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Double
8. Una donna
By: Sibilla Aleramo , Maria Corti
3.84
Format: 640 pages,
Questo romanzo di Sibilla Aleramo e del 1906. La sua immediata fortuna in Italia e nei paesi in cui… read more
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9. La casa in collina
By: Cesare Pavese
4.70
Format: 84 pages,
Il momento forse piu alto della maturita dello scrittore Cesare Pavese: la storia di una solitudine… read more
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10. Kiss of the Spider Woman
By: Manuel Puig
4.01
Format: 281 pages, Paperback
Sometimes they talk all night long. In the still darkness of their cell, Molina re-weaves the glitt… read more
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"¿Qué pasa que a veces alguien dice algo y conquista para siempre a otra persona?"-Manuel Puig, Kiss of the Spider Woman
"--And the good thing about feeling happy, you know, Valentin? ...It's that you think it's forever, that one's never ever going to feel unhappy again."-Manuel Puig, Kiss of the Spider Woman
"– Io non ci credo alla faccenda del godi e non pensare al domani, Molina. Nessuno gode senza pensare al domani. Va bene solo per il paradiso terrestre."-Manuel Puig, Kiss of the Spider Woman
"—And what's so bad about being soft like a woman? Why is it men or whoever, some poor bastard, some queen, can't be sensitive, too, if he's got a mind to? —I don't know, but sometimes that kind of be…"-Manuel Puig, Kiss of the Spider Woman
11. Samarkand
By: Amin Maalouf , Russell Harris
3.82
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Accused of mocking the inviolate codes of Islam, the Persian poet and sage Omar Khayyam fortuitousl… read more
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12. The Shadow of the Sun
By: Ryszard Kapuściński , Klara Glowczewska
3.93
Format: None pages, Paperback
In 1957, Ryszard Kapuscinski arrived in Africa to witness the beginning of the end of colonial rule… read more
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13. Humboldt's Gift
By: Saul Bellow
0.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
The novel, for which Bellow won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1976, is a self-described "comic … read more
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14. Gli indifferenti
By: Alberto Moravia , Eileen Romano , Edoardo Sanguineti , Tonino Tornitore
3.88
Format: 373 pages,
Gli indifferentie il primo romanzo scritto da Moravia appena diciottenne e pubblicato nel 1929. Tem… read more
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15. Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)
By: John Updike
3.58
Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition
Rabbit, Run is the book that established John Updike as one of the major American novelists of his—… read more
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"You were never in Texas,"-John Updike, Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)
"They’ve not forgotten him: worse, they never heard of him."-John Updike, Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)
"If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price."-John Updike, Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)
"The only way to get somewhere, you know, is to figure out where you’re going before you go there."-John Updike, Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)
16. Grande meraviglia
By: Viola Ardone
4.18
Format: 304 pages, ebook
«L'amore è incomprensibile, una forma di pazzia». Nel candore dello sguardo di Elba il manicomio di… read more
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17. L'età fragile
By: Donatella Di Pietrantonio
3.73
Format: 192 pages, ebook
Non esiste un'età senza paura. Siamo fragili sempre, da genitori e da figli, quando bisogna ricostr… read more
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18. La portalettere
By: Francesca Giannone
4.14
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Salento, giugno 1934. A Lizzanello, un paesino di poche migliaia di anime, una corriera si ferma ne… read more
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"Si diresse in cucina, aspettandosi che Anna la seguisse per aiutarla. Invece vide che scostava la sedia e si accomodava. Roba da matti, pensò allora, scuotendo il capo. Se c'era un'altra donna tra i …"-Francesca Giannone, La portalettere
19. People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
By: Dara Horn
4.36
Format: 237 pages, Hardcover
Renowned and beloved as a prizewinning novelist, Dara Horn has also been publishing penetrating ess… read more
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"Evil' may or may not be banal, but killing Jews sure is."-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
"between the raindrops" - a Hebrew expression for evading repeated disaster."-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
"Sometimes your body is someone else's haunted house. Other people look at you and can only see the dead."-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
"There are so few Jews in the world: even in the United States, we are barely 2 percent of the population, a minority among minorities... Statistically speaking, nothing that happens to Jews should be…"-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
20. Life for Sale
By: Yukio Mishima
3.72
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
'Life for sale. Use me as you wish. I am a twenty-seven-year-old male. Discretion guaranteed. Will … read more
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"It's only the desire to live as long as possible that makes everything seem complicated and mysterious."-Yukio Mishima, Life for Sale
"Když si rozsvítíš v malém pokoji modrou lampu, taky ti všechno zmodrá, ale tím se z toho pokoje ještě moře nestane."-Yukio Mishima, Life for Sale
"A dead body reminds me a bit of a bottle of whisky. If you drop the bottle and it cracks, what’s inside pours out. It’s only natural."-Yukio Mishima, Life for Sale
"To say human life had no meaning was the easy part. But Hanio was struck all over again by the huge amount of energy required to live a life filled with so much meaninglessness."-Yukio Mishima, Life for Sale
21. Touch the Water, Touch the Wind
By: Amos Oz
3.22
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
As the Germans advance into Poland in 1939, Elisha Pomeranz, a Jewish mathematician and watchmaker,… read more
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