Short Friday and Other Stories
By: Isaac Bashevis Singer
4.08
Format: 202 pages, Mass Market Paperback
A collection of short stories by a miraculous writer who can chill the spine, gorge the senses, and…
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1. The History of the Siege of Lisbon
By: José Saramago , Giovanni Pontiero
3.83
Format: 314 pages, Paperback
"If proofreaders were given their freedom and did not have their hands and feet tied by a mass of p… read more
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- literature
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- classics
- fiction
"Não vim de tão longe para morrer diante dos muros de Lisboa"-José Saramago, The History of the Siege of Lisbon
"As palavras, senhor, estão por aí, no ar, qualquer as pode aprender."-José Saramago, The History of the Siege of Lisbon
"Every novel is like this, desperation, a frustrated attempt to save something of the past. Except that it still has not been established whether it is the novel that prevents man from forgetting hims…"-José Saramago, The History of the Siege of Lisbon
"Certaines relations harmonieuses se créent et durent grâce à un système complexe de menues contre-vérités, de renoncements, une espèce de ballet complice d'attitudes et de postures qui peut se résume…"-José Saramago, The History of the Siege of Lisbon
2. Wide Sargasso Sea
By: Jean Rhys
3.59
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Wide Sargasso Sea, a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean Rhys’s return to the literary center s… read more
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- literature
- classics
- fiction
"When trouble comes, close ranks"-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
"I thought I'd try to write her a life"-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
"Have all beautiful things sad destinies?"-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
"I thought if I told no one it might not be true."-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
3. Pale Fire
By: Vladimir Nabokov
3.98
Format: 574 pages,
The urbane authority that Vladimir Nabokov brought to every word he ever wrote, and the ironic amus… read more
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- literature
- classics
- fiction
4. Le Blé en herbe
By: Colette Gauthier-Villars , None
3.44
Format: 128 pages, Mass Market Paperback
"Son ami plongea brusquement, saisit un pied de Vinca et la tira sous la vague. Ils burent ensemble… read more
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- literature
- classics
- fiction
"Philippe did not know how to express such a thought as: 'All too few are the occasions in life when, with mind content, eyes surfeited with beauty, heart light, retentive, and almost empty, there com…"-Colette Gauthier-Villars, Le Blé en herbe
"Those late August mornings smelt of autumn from day-break till the hour when the sun-baked earth allowed the cool sea breezes to drive back the then less heavy aroma of threshed wheat, open furrows, …"-Colette Gauthier-Villars, Le Blé en herbe
5. Palestine
By: None , Joe Sacco
4.16
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Prior to Safe Area Gorazde: The War In Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995--Joe Sacco's breakthrough novel of … read more
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6. Svinalängorna
By: Susanna Alakoski
3.66
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Leena har tva basta vanner. Ase ar nastan den enda hon kanner som inte har en pappa som super, men … read more
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- fiction
7. The Brothers Lionheart
By: Astrid Lindgren , Ilon Wikland , Jill M. Morgan
4.54
Format: 380 pages, Hardcover
The Brothers Lionheart (Swedish: Broderna Lejonhjarta) is a children's fantasy novel written by Ast… read more
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8. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
By: Milan Kundera , Aaron Asher
3.55
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Rich in its stories, characters, and imaginative range, The Book of Laughter and Forgettingis the n… read more
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9. Zorba the Greek
By: None , None , Nikos Kazantzakis
4.04
Format: 335 pages, Paperback
The classic novel, international sensation, and inspiration for the film starring Anthony Quinn exp… read more
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- literature
- classics
- fiction
"فالروح نفسها تبدو وكأنها بحر وغيمة وعطر"-None, Zorba the Greek
"كم هو حزين ان تسير بمفردك على ساحل البحر"-None, Zorba the Greek
"إنّني أعتقد - ليسامحني الله - أنّني سعيد."-None, Zorba the Greek
"You can knock on a deaf man's door forever."-None, Zorba the Greek
10. Fathers and Sons
By: Ivan Turgenev , None , None
3.99
Format: 244 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Bazarov—a gifted, impatient, and caustic young man—has journeyed from school to the home of his fri… read more
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- literature
- classics
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"He has no faith in principles, only in frogs."-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
"Death's an old story, but new for each person."-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
"I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze."-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
"However, I know myself as a very unhappy person."-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
11. Nässlorna blomma
By: Harry Martinson
3.58
Format: None pages, Paperback
Nasslorna blommaar berattelsen om sockenpojken Martin Tomasson och hans oden pa de olika gardar dit… read more
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12. Popular Music from Vittula
By: Laurie Thompson , Mikael Niemi
3.66
Format: 237 pages, Paperback
Popular Music from Vittula tells the fantastical story of a young boy's unordinary existence, peopl… read more
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- humor
- fiction
"Greger gave us a faraway look. 'Now you'rrre getting somewhere, lads! This is Holgerrri.' I turned to Niila and muttered a gruesome premonition: 'By God, but he's going to get beaten up." 'What?' sai…"-Laurie Thompson, Popular Music from Vittula
"Even worse was [singing] in English, a language much too lacking in chewability for hard Finnish jaws, so sloppy that only little girls could get top marks in it - sluggish double Dutch, tremulous an…"-Laurie Thompson, Popular Music from Vittula
"Jag försökte lära honom det enkla knepet att tänka på döden när man stötte på brudar. Det har hjälp mig själv många gånger genom åren och är förvånansvärt effektivt. Jag kommer alltså att dö om några…"-Laurie Thompson, Popular Music from Vittula
"The most dangerous thing of all, and something he wanted to warn me about above all else, the one thing that had consigned whole regiments of unfortunate young people to the twilight world of insanit…"-Laurie Thompson, Popular Music from Vittula
13. Women in Love (Brangwen Family, #2)
By: D.H. Lawrence
3.34
Format: None pages, Paperback
"An analytical study of sexual depravity" and "an epic of vice" were two of the critical expression… read more
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14. A Death in the Family
By: James Agee , None
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
The classic American novel, re-published for the 100th anniversary of James Agee's birth Published … read more
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15. Gift
By: Tove Ditlevsen , Dy Plambeck
3.00
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
I sin tredje erindringsbog vender Tove Ditlevsen tilbage til sin ungdom og fortaeller om det kaerli… read more
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16. Baumgartner
By: Paul Auster
3.78
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A taut yet expansive novel of love, memory, and grief from Paul Auster, best-selling, award-winning… read more
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- literature
- american
- fiction
"Vivir es sentir dolor, y vivir con miedo al dolor es negarse a vivir"-Paul Auster, Baumgartner
"To live is to feel pain, he told himself, and to live in fear of pain is to refuse to live."-Paul Auster, Baumgartner
"at some point in the coming years, the two books should be combined and reconfigured into a large, one-volume collected poems—a monument of singing pages that will overwhelm the silence of Anna’s gra…"-Paul Auster, Baumgartner
"the story turns out to be so astounding and so powerful that your jaw drops open and you feel that it has changed or enhanced or deepened your understanding of the world, does it matter if the story …"-Paul Auster, Baumgartner
17. S'adapter
By: Clara Dupont-Monod
4.09
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
C’est l’histoire d’un enfant aux yeux noirs qui flottent, et s’échappent dans le vague, un enfant t… read more
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- fiction
18. Trilogía
By: Jon Fosse
3.90
Format: 162 pages, Paperback
Trilogía es un libro diferente. Es hipnótico. Para Jon Fosse escribir es como rezar y, para el lect… read more
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- literature
- nobel prize
- fiction
19. Stacken
By: Annika Norlin
4.16
Format: 300 pages, ebook
Vad är det som händer nere vid vattnet? Emelie har flytt staden förr skogen och ser plötsligt en g… read more
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- fiction
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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- fiction
"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. Jävla karlar
By: Andrev Walden
4.07
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
"En gång hade jag sju pappor på sju år. Det här är berättelsen om de åren. Om något låter påhittat … read more
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"Min pappa är indian och nu ska jag berätta det för blomma."-Andrev Walden, Jävla karlar
22. At Night All Blood is Black
By: David Diop
3.82
Format: 145 pages, Hardcover
Alfa Ndiaye is a Senegalese man who, never before having left his village, finds himself fighting a… read more
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- fiction
"La nuit, tous les sangs sont noirs."-David Diop, At Night All Blood is Black
"Temporary madness, in war, is bravery's sister."-David Diop, At Night All Blood is Black
"Laughter brings laughter and smiles bring smiles."-David Diop, At Night All Blood is Black
"God's truth, each thing carries its opposite within."-David Diop, At Night All Blood is Black
23. Western Lane
By: Chetna Maroo
3.51
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize A taut, enthralling first novel about grief, sisterhood, a… read more
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- fiction
24. The Netanyahus
By: Joshua Cohen
3.80
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Corbin College, not-quite-upstate New York, winter 1959-1960: Ruben Blum, a Jewish historian - but … read more
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- literature
- american
- fiction
- jewish
25. The Pole
By: J.M. Coetzee
3.69
Format: 166 pages, Hardcover
A psychologically probing, compulsively readable novel about dogged love and the unpredictability o… read more
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- literature
- fiction
26. Childhood (The Copenhagen Trilogy #1)
By: Tove Ditlevsen
4.10
Format: 99 pages, Paperback
The first volume in The Copenhagen Trilogy, the searing portrait of a woman's journey through love,… read more
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- classics
"Childhood is long and narrow like a coffin, and you can’t get out of it on your own."-Tove Ditlevsen, Childhood (The Copenhagen Trilogy #1)
"Eine Hure ist eine Dame, die es für Geld macht, was mir viel mehr einleuchtet, als es umsonst zu machen."-Tove Ditlevsen, Childhood (The Copenhagen Trilogy #1)
"Jokin ahdistaa rintaani kun kiipeän portaita ylös. Ihmiselämän nurja puoli ammottaa entistä avoimempana minua vasten, ja sitä on entistä vaikeampi kattaa niillä kirjoittamattomilla, vapisevilla sanoi…"-Tove Ditlevsen, Childhood (The Copenhagen Trilogy #1)
"Aikuisten lapsuus roikkuu repaleisena ja puhkottuna heidän sisimmässään kuin käytetty ja koinsyömä matto jota kukaan ei ajattele eikä tarvitse. Heistä ei näe että heillä on ollut lapsuus, eikä heiltä…"-Tove Ditlevsen, Childhood (The Copenhagen Trilogy #1)
27. Girig-Sverige: så blev folkhemmet ett paradis för de superrika
By: Andreas Cervenka
3.99
Format: 254 pages, Hardcover
Bostadspriser som rusar mest i västvärlden. Hundratusentals svenskar som kastar sig in på börsen. E… read more
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28. Youth
By: Tove Ditlevsen
4.22
Format: 132 pages, Paperback
The second volume in The Copenhagen Trilogy, the searing portrait of a woman's journey through love… read more
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- classics
"Being young is itself temporary, fragile, and ephemeral. You have to get through it - it has no other meaning."-Tove Ditlevsen, Youth
29. Sista sommaren
By: Eleonore Holmgren
3.99
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Sista sommaren är en varm och underhållande roman om ett slumpartat möte, en oväntad vänskap och en… read more
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- fiction
30. Brittas arv
By: Eleonore Holmgren
3.70
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
Den efterlängtade uppföljaren till succédebuten Sista sommaren handlar om de spår en älskad människ… read more
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31. Short Friday and Other Stories
By: Isaac Bashevis Singer
4.08
Format: 202 pages, Mass Market Paperback
A collection of short stories by a miraculous writer who can chill the spine, gorge the senses, and… read more
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- classics
- american
- jewish
- literature
- humor
- poland
- short stories
- fiction
