8 Best poetry books like Tipos de agua by Anne Carson

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Tipos de agua

By: Anne Carson

3.87

Format: 102 pages, Hardcover

"Tipos de agua. El Camino de Santiago" es un largo ensayo escrito a manera de diario donde la autor…

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1. Sostiene Pereira

By: Antonio Tabucchi

4.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

Lisboa, 1938. En una Europa recorrida por el fantasma de los totalitarismos, Pereira, un periodista… read more

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2. The Sea, the Sea

By: Iris Murdoch , Mary Kinzie

3.66

Format: 341 pages, Paperback

Charles Arrowby, leading light of England's theatrical set, retires from glittering London to an is… read more

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3. Fierce Attachments: A Memoir

By: Jonathan Lethem , Vivian Gornick

3.61

Format: 231 pages, Paperback

In this deeply etched and haunting memoir, Vivian Gornick tells the story of her lifelong battle wi… read more

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4. Amulet

By: Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews

4.00

Format: 98 pages, Hardcover

Amulet is a monologue, like Bolano's acclaimed debut in English, By Night in Chile. The speaker is … read more

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5. The Odd Woman and the City: A Memoir

By: Vivian Gornick

3.99

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A memoir of self-discovery and the dilemma of connection in our time, The Odd Woman and the Cityexp… read more

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6. Água Viva

By: Clarice Lispector , Benjamin Moser , Stefan Tobler

4.29

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Lispector at her most philosophically radical. A meditation on the nature of life and time, Água Vi… read more

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"I always give names to things"

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

"I'm not a synonym—I'm a proper noun."

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

"Suddenly I was crying. It was already love."

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

"To write you I first cover myself with perfume."

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

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7. Los armarios vacíos

By: Annie Ernaux

3.94

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Es la historia de una ruptura social, de una hija atrapada entre dos mundos: el de sus padres, prol… read more

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"Farklılıkların paradan kaynaklanabileceği hiç aklıma gelmezdi, insanların doğuştan temiz ya da pasaklı, zevk sahibi ya da sallapati olduğunu sanırdım. Ayyaşlık, konserve et, kenefin yanındaki çiviye …"

-Annie Ernaux, Los armarios vacíos

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8. Te di ojos y miraste las tinieblas

By: Irene Solà

3.91

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Escondida entre riscos lejanos, en algún remoto lugar de las Guillerías transitado por cazadores de… read more

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"Aunque lo peor de todo, musitó, no es morirse. Todos nos tenemos que morir un día u otro. Lo peor es la soledad."

-Irene Solà, Te di ojos y miraste las tinieblas

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9. La mala costumbre

By: Alana S. Portero

4.55

Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition

Narrada desde una singular y desgarradora voz en primera persona, La mala costumbre recorre la adol… read more

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"Cuando reímos con ganas no tenemos edad, lo hacemos igual durante toda nuestra vida y puede adivinarse en nuestra mueca la niña que fuimos o la anciana que seremos."

-Alana S. Portero, La mala costumbre

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10. A Frozen Woman

By: Annie Ernaux

4.16

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A Frozen Woman charts Ernaux's teenage awakening, a… read more

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"Old equals plain equals lonely."

-Annie Ernaux, A Frozen Woman

"So, what are you up to, where are you going on your vacation, that's a cute dress--no one knows what to talk about with an unmarried girl. Whereas a husband, children, an apartment, a washing machine…"

-Annie Ernaux, A Frozen Woman

"Menstruation, making love, that had to come, but getting married? Everything that I've just experienced seems like all those things that are neither deliberately willed nor firmly rejected, and are t…"

-Annie Ernaux, A Frozen Woman

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11. Leer mata

By: Luna Miguel

3.88

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

Leer hiere como una daga o una flecha que entra en el corazón. Los libros son peligrosos si se leen… read more

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12. Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)

By: Deborah Levy

4.29

Format: 297 pages, Hardcover

'Three bicycles. Seven ghosts. A crumbling apartment block on the hill. Fame. Tenderness. The statu… read more

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"É difícil reivindicar fragilidade e força em igual proporção, mas é essa mistura que nos constitui a todos"

-Deborah Levy, Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)

"A história neste livro era sobre uma mulher que oferece a sua vida a um homem. Não se deve tentar isso em casa, mas é normalmente aí que acontece."

-Deborah Levy, Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)

"The story in this book was about a woman who has gifted her life to a man. This is not something to be tried at home but it is usually where it happens."

-Deborah Levy, Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)

"One of these men told me at a book festival that if he did not transgress too many boundaries in his marriage, there would always be a comforting pair of slippers warming for him by the fire...Will t…"

-Deborah Levy, Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)

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13. Poesía masculina

By: Luna Miguel

4.09

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Después de sus dos trilogías de juventud, Luna Miguel se despide en Poesía masculina de algunos de … read more

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14. What Are You Going Through

By: Sigrid Nunez

3.74

Format: 210 pages, Hardcover

A story about the meaning of life and death, and the value of companionship A woman describes a … read more

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"Only those who are writers, it seems, get to say what happened"

-Sigrid Nunez, What Are You Going Through

"And what the movie makes clear is that, if there really was a Supreme Being who had to listen to people's prayers all the time, he would go out of his mind."

-Sigrid Nunez, What Are You Going Through

"Anyway, don't they say that every good story is a suspense story? And every story is a love story. And every love story is a ghost story. And everybody loves somebody sometime."

-Sigrid Nunez, What Are You Going Through

"What are you going through? When Simone Weil said that being able to ask this question was what love of one's neighbor truly meant, she was writing in her native French. And in French the great quest…"

-Sigrid Nunez, What Are You Going Through

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15. I Remain in Darkness

By: Annie Ernaux

3.99

Format: 94 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Written in journal form, Annie Ernaux's account of … read more

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"Where are the eyes of my childhood, those fearful eyes she had thirty years ago, the eyes that made me?"

-Annie Ernaux, I Remain in Darkness

"As I bend forward to check the safety catch of my mother's wheelchair, she leans over and kisses my hair. How can I survive that kiss, such love, my mother, my mother."

-Annie Ernaux, I Remain in Darkness

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16. Agua y jabón

By: Marta D. Riezu

3.78

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

Preguntaron a Cecil Beaton: ¿qué es la elegancia? Y respondió: agua y jabón. Que es lo mismo que de… read more

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"Hay un tipo de persona terca, libre y con empuje para apartarse del discurso ortodoxo de su gremio. Ni siquiera se da cuenta, no funciona a la contra, solo hace lo que le da la gana y cree en ello ci…"

-Marta D. Riezu, Agua y jabón

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17. Un amor

By: Sara Mesa

3.58

Format: 143 pages, Kindle Edition

La historia de Un amor ocurre en La Escapa, un pequeño núcleo rural donde Nat, una joven e inexpert… read more

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18. Panza de burro

By: Andrea Abreu López

3.80

Format: 172 pages, Paperback

«Reconozco que al principio, cuando Panza de burro solo había crecido unos capitulitos, pensé que s… read more

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"A la altura del cruce vi la forma del cuerpo de Isora al final del camino. Era verla allá, al final de la carretera, justo en el rasante, donde el camino se volvía casi vertical, y me golpeaba una al…"

-Andrea Abreu López, Panza de burro

"Y ya las ranitas del estanque en el que ya nadie nadaba empezaban a cantar y parecía como una canción antigua, una canción que venía de siglos atrás, de cuando Isora y yo todavía no éramos amigas per…"

-Andrea Abreu López, Panza de burro

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19. El perro del hortelano

By: Lope de Vega

3.60

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

"Diana, Countess of Belfor, a beautiful and headstrong young woman is beset by aristocratic suitors… read more

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20. Estuve aquí y me acordé de nosotros: Una historia sobre turismo, trabajo y clase

By: Anna Pacheco

4.14

Format: 141 pages, Paperback

Una brillante radiografía de las dinámicas laborales en el sector del turismo. El turismo ha cam… read more

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21. The Easy Life

By: Marguerite Duras

3.79

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

For the first time in English, literary icon Marguerite Duras's foundational masterpiece about a yo… read more

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22. Teoría de la gravedad

By: Leila Guerriero

4.38

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

En esta sección de columnas, publicadas a lo largo de más de cinco años en la contraportada de El P… read more

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"Sólo cuando sé que mi hija está condenada por mi, que la traje al mundo para morir y acepto eso, es cuando puedo ser su padre de manera cabal, liberándola y liberándome"

-Leila Guerriero, Teoría de la gravedad

"El olor del jabón y de las flores. La casa navegando como un barco hacia el verano. Y yo, en medio de todo, feliz de una manera perfecta y peligrosa. Con la única clase de felicidad que iba a salvarm…"

-Leila Guerriero, Teoría de la gravedad

"Cuando nacés tenés esencia. Después, eempieza a aparecer la personalidad. La personalidad trabaja en contra de la esencia. En nuestra cultura capitalista de demanda constante, rinde la personalidad. …"

-Leila Guerriero, Teoría de la gravedad

"Tuve un despertar súbito bajo la forma de pregunta ardiente: "¿Qué estoy haciendo acá?". Entonces él —ya saben, ni siquiera es amor— me preguntó sonriendo: "¿Te gusta?". No estábamos ahí construyendo…"

-Leila Guerriero, Teoría de la gravedad

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23. The Possession

By: Annie Ernaux

3.75

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE “The strangest thing about jealousy is that it can … read more

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"The strangest thing about jealousy is that it can populate an entire city, the whole world, with a person you have never met."

-Annie Ernaux, The Possession

"Writing has been a way to save that which is no longer my reality – a sensation seizing me from head to foot, in the streets – but has become ''the possession,'’ a period of time, circumscribed and c…"

-Annie Ernaux, The Possession

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24. In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing

By: Elena Ferrante

3.81

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Four new and revelatory essays by the author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lost Daughter In 202… read more

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"Literary work couldn't seriously force the whirlpool of debris that constituted the real into any grammatical or syntactical order."

-Elena Ferrante, In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing

"Dealings with the world, yes, at any time they are entirely ours. But the words--the written form in which we enclose them, attentive to the red margins of our notebooks--are not. We have to accept t…"

-Elena Ferrante, In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing

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25. Lectura fácil

By: Cristina Morales

4.06

Format: 424 pages, Paperback

Son cuatro: Nati, Patri, Marga y Àngels. Son parientas, tienen diversos grados de lo que la Adminis… read more

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"Igual que hemos subvertido el hecho de que siempre limpiaran o cocinaran las tías, debemos subvertir el hecho de que siempre escriba el escritor."

-Cristina Morales, Lectura fácil

"al estirarle un brazo, hice crujir yo las costuras de la camisa de Ibrahim, y va el tío y me dice que perdón. ¿Perdón por qué? ¿Por ir vestido? Será que se están pidiendo perdón a ellos mismos por at…"

-Cristina Morales, Lectura fácil

"Rather than yielding to power in despondence and defeat, we can radicalise against it. We can become so thoroughly repellent that they wouldn’t dare tell us to overcome our adversity, so repellent th…"

-Cristina Morales, Lectura fácil

"La profesora repitió la disimulada orden. Era disimulada por dos motivos: primero, porque no dijo "Quitaos los calcetines" sino "Nos quitamos los calcetines", es decir, que no dio la orden sino que e…"

-Cristina Morales, Lectura fácil

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26. Amor y pan

By: Paula Melchor

4.34

Format: 102 pages, Paperback

Construimos el ritual de la comida casi sin esfuerzo ni consciencia, como todas las cosas que impor… read more

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27. Ya no será

By: Idea Vilariño

4.45

Format: 68 pages, Paperback

Colección Poesía Portátil read more

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"Inútil decir más. Nombrar alcanza."

-Idea Vilariño, Ya no será

"Nunca sabrás quién fui por qué me amaron otros"

-Idea Vilariño, Ya no será

"Da hasta miedo seguir, si con tan pocos años pesa tanto la vida."

-Idea Vilariño, Ya no será

"La angustia ha devenido apenas un sabor, el dolor ya no cabe, la tristeza no alcanza."

-Idea Vilariño, Ya no será

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28. En busca del cielo

By: Nathalie Léger

4.22

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Este libro comienza con las siguientes palabras: Avanzamos temblando. Hay algo delicado, frágil y, … read more

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"Todo termina en una pieza fría, en una pieza gris. Tu cuerpo abandonado ahí como una piedra. Y después. En esa pieza fría, tu cuerpo. Qué. Tu cuerpo. Le damos vueltas al asunto. Ya nada te pertenece,…"

-Nathalie Léger, En busca del cielo

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29. Hierba mora

By: Teresa Moure

3.77

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Herba Moura de Teresa Moure, novela gañadora do Premio Xerais 2005, trasládanos, da man dun persona… read more

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30. Tipos de agua

By: Anne Carson

3.87

Format: 102 pages, Hardcover

"Tipos de agua. El Camino de Santiago" es un largo ensayo escrito a manera de diario donde la autor… read more

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31. The Unworthy

By: Agustina Bazterrica

3.84

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

The long-awaited new novel from the author of global sensation Tender Is the Flesh: a thrilling wor… read more

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14 Best fiction books like The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch, Mary Kinzie

Transform Your Habits

The Famished Road

Ben Okri

3.73

Transform Your Habits

To the Wedding

John Berger

4.03

Transform Your Habits

Oscar and Lucinda

Peter Carey

4.75

Transform Your Habits

Saville

David Storey

5.00

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