Signor Hoffman
By: Eduardo Halfon
3.97
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
Un escritor viaja a Italia para honrar la memoria de su abuelo polaco, prisionero en Auschwitz; rec…
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1. Zama
By: Antonio di Benedetto
3.99
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
Publicada por primera vez en 1956, Zama está considerada de manera unánime como una de las grandes … read more
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"The past was a small notebook, much scribbled-upon, that I had somehow mislaid."-Antonio di Benedetto, Zama
"Como un dios no puede crear dioses, pensó crear al hombre, para que este los creara."-Antonio di Benedetto, Zama
"... but she reckoned that in larger cities people were less alone, for they didn't all know each other so well."-Antonio di Benedetto, Zama
"Me pregunté, no por qué vivía, sino por qué había vivido. Supuse que por la espera y quise saber si aún esperaba algo. Me pareció que sí. Siempre se espera más"-Antonio di Benedetto, Zama
2. The Private Lives of Trees
By: Alejandro Zambra , Megan McDowell
3.66
Format: 259 pages,
The Private Lives of Trees tells the story of a single night: a young professor of literature named… read more
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3. Mermaid Singing
By: Charmian Clift
4.00
Format: 10 pages, Paperback
The story of a year spent by two Australian writers on the Greek island of Kalymnos in the 1950s. read more
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4. A Tomb for Boris Davidovich
By: Joseph Brodsky , William T. Vollmann , Danilo Kiš , None , None , Danilo Kies
3.91
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Composed of seven dark tales, A Tomb for Boris Davidovichpresents variations on the theme of politi… read more
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5. The Savage Detectives
By: Roberto Bolaño , Natasha Wimmer
4.48
Format: 334 pages,
New Year's Eve, 1975: Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, founders of the visceral realist movement in p… read more
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6. Distant Star
By: Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews
4.48
Format: 334 pages, Paperback
The star of Roberto Bolano's hair-raising novel Distant Staris Alberto Ruiz-Tagle, an air force pil… read more
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7. Breath
By: Tim Winton
3.19
Format: 292 pages, Hardcover
Breath is an extraordinary evocation of an adolescence spent resisting complacency, testing one's l… read more
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8. Aura
By: Carlos Fuentes
3.82
Format: 118 pages, Paperback
Felipe Montero is employed in the house of an aged widow to edit her deceased husband's memoirs. Th… read more
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"Hay que morir antes de renacer."-Carlos Fuentes, Aura
"También el demonio fue un ángel, antes…"-Carlos Fuentes, Aura
"Hay un momento en el que ya no es posible distinguir el paso de los años."-Carlos Fuentes, Aura
"La soledad es necesaria para alcanzar la santidad. Se han olvidado de que en la soledad la tentación es más grande."-Carlos Fuentes, Aura
9. Chilean electric
By: Nona Fernández
4.16
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
El escenario de Chilean Electric está completamente a oscuras. Es la condición necesaria de un libr… read more
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10. Nothing
By: Janne Teller , Martin Aitken
3.93
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
When Pierre-Anthon realizes there is no meaning to life, the seventh-grader leaves his classroom, c… read more
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11. El Ruletista
By: Mircea Cărtărescu , Marian Ochoa de Eribe
4.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
Esta pieza, tan breve como intensa, narra la improbable historia de un hombre al que nunca le ha so… read more
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12. The Waste Land and Other Poems
By: T.S. Eliot
3.62
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Few readers need any introduction to the work of the most influential poet of the twentieth century… read more
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13. Shame
By: Annie Ernaux
3.67
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
"My father tried to kill my mother one Sunday in June, in the early afternoon." Thus begins Shame, … read more
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"People are forever remembering."-Annie Ernaux, Shame
"We have no true memory of ourselves."-Annie Ernaux, Shame
"Le pire dans la honte, c'est qu'on croit être seul à la ressentir"-Annie Ernaux, Shame
"anyone who doesn't speak "the way we do" is, to some extent, labeled a foreigner."-Annie Ernaux, Shame
14. Basilisco
By: Jon Bilbao
3.65
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Insatisfecho con su trabajo como ingeniero, el protagonista de Basilisco se traslada a California. … read more
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15. 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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16. The Maniac
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.34
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more
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"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac
17. Vi er ikke her for å ha det morsomt
By: Nina Lykke
3.55
Format: 275 pages, Hardcover
Knut er en middelaldrende forfatter som aldri har kommet tilbake på nivå med suksessromanen han skr… read more
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18. 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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"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
19. Our Share of Night
By: Mariana Enríquez
4.28
Format: 588 pages, Hardcover
A woman’s mysterious death puts her husband and son on a collision course with her demonic family. … read more
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"Los fantasmas son reales. Y no siempre vienen los que uno llama."-Mariana Enríquez, Our Share of Night
"They sought me out, here I am. I don’t know how to let go of the dead."-Mariana Enríquez, Our Share of Night
"Nothing can hurt you now, how long was now, how long did the present last?"-Mariana Enríquez, Our Share of Night
"Detestaba cuando la gente se reía de esas fiestas donde la gente trataba de ser feliz."-Mariana Enríquez, Our Share of Night
20. Hurricane Season
By: Fernanda Melchor
4.06
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Notable Book (2020) A Guardian Best Book of 2020 A Literary Hub Favorite Book of… read more
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"а разнообразие и за да не губи навик, баба, когато е ядосана, си спомня само за лошите неща"-Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season
"за разнообразие и за да не губи навик, баба, когато е ядосана, си спомня само за лошите неща"-Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season
"There's no reasoning with dog, two ferocious dogs who refuse to let go of their prey until they've been torn to shreds"-Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season
"момчето, щом порасна, се превърна в диво животно, което, пуснеха ли го на свобода, дори по никое време вечер, все го теглеше към гората, защото според баба ѝ този бил начинът да възпитават момчетата,…"-Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season
21. Paradais
By: Fernanda Melchor
3.64
Format: 118 pages, Paperback
Inside a luxury housing complex, two misfit teenagers sneak around and get drunk. Franco Andrade, l… read more
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"It was fatboy's fault, that's what he would tell them"-Fernanda Melchor, Paradais
22. A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
By: Nathan Thrall
4.35
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION Named a Best Book of the Year by The N… read more
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23. Otra vida por vivir
By: Theodor Kallifatides
3.88
Format: 153 pages, Paperback
Nadie debería escribir después de los setenta y cinco años'', había dicho un amigo. A los setenta y… read more
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"Voltaire hablaba del derecho de los ciudadanos a expresar su opinión y a hacer la crítica del poder. A eso se le llama libertad de expresión. Sin embargo, la manera en que le hables a tu vecino no en…"-Theodor Kallifatides, Otra vida por vivir
24. Voyager
By: Nona Fernández
4.22
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
La memoria de las estrellas. La memoria de una madre. Y la de su hija. La memoria de un pueblo. Cóm… read more
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25. Lo que hay
By: Sara Torres
4.01
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
El esperado debut narrativo de la premiada poeta Sara Torres: una memoria sobre el duelo, el deseo … read more
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"Sola en la cocina escucho en bucle 'Me quedo contigo' cantado por Rosalía con un vestido rojo, en la sala de los Goya. "Me enamorao, te quiero y te quiero' me revuelve y me hace llorar -¿por quién? P…"-Sara Torres, Lo que hay
26. El fin del amor: querer y coger
By: Tamara Tenenbaum
4.19
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
El fin del amor deja entrever qué sucede cuando el matrimonio o la pareja monógama ya no son un obj… read more
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"No se trata de no tener valores, sino de vivir de acuerdo con los principios que vengan de nosotros y no desde afuera: es darnos a nosotros mismos nuestras propias leyes."-Tamara Tenenbaum, El fin del amor: querer y coger
"A mí nadie me había dicho que era legítimo dedicarle tiempo al placer o a no hacer nada, que la vida no era un tablero en el que siempre había que avanzar al siguiente casillero."-Tamara Tenenbaum, El fin del amor: querer y coger
"Estas frases son incriticables: nadie pregunta por qué estar mejor es siempre estar más flaca (si no tenés sobrepeso, ¿por qué estar más flaca sería estar mejor o tener una cola más dura es “más salu…"-Tamara Tenenbaum, El fin del amor: querer y coger
"Si las únicas opciones disponibles para una mujer son el matrimonio, el convento o vivir para siempre con los padres —como lo eran para mi abuela, que ni siquiera tenía el convento—, el matrimonio se…"-Tamara Tenenbaum, El fin del amor: querer y coger
27. La historia de los vertebrados
By: Mar García Puig
4.09
Format: 291 pages, Kindle Edition
Una novela sobre la ansiedad y el poder sanador de las historias de las mujeres que nos precedieron… read more
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28. Todas nuestras maldiciones se cumplieron
By: Tamara Tenenbaum
2.91
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Esta novela narra el tránsito a la madurez de una chica que creció en una comunidad judía ortodoxa … read more
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29. Araña
By: Jon Bilbao
4.04
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
El huraño pistolero John Dunbar, conocido como Basilisco, guía a un grupo de peregrinos a través de… read more
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30. Signor Hoffman
By: Eduardo Halfon
3.97
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
Un escritor viaja a Italia para honrar la memoria de su abuelo polaco, prisionero en Auschwitz; rec… read more
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31. A Sunny Place for Shady People
By: Mariana Enríquez
3.81
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A diabolical collection of stories featuring achingly human characters whose lives intertwine with … read more
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