Constance, or Solitary Practices
By: Lawrence Durrell
3.73
Format: 393 pages, Paperback
The party is over, and the world is in the throes of the 1939-45 war, but the story continues as pa…
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1. The 42nd Parallel (U.S.A. #1)
By: John Dos Passos
3.82
Format: 325 pages, Trade Paperback
With his U.S.A. trilogy, comprising THE 42nd PARALLEL, 1919, and THE BIG MONEY, John Dos Passos is … read more
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- literature
- fiction
- 20th century
- historical fiction
" Luther Burbank was born in a brick farmhouse in Lancaster Mass, he walked through the woods one winter crunching through the shinycrusted snow stumbling into a little dell where a warm spring was an…"-John Dos Passos, The 42nd Parallel (U.S.A. #1)
2. The Black Prince
By: Iris Murdoch , Martha C. Nussbaum
3.96
Format: 408 pages, Paperback
Bradley Pearson, an unsuccessful novelist in his late fifties, has finally left his dull office job… read more
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- literary fiction
- british literature
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- 20th century
"Coming events do cast shadows."-Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince
"I've thought about nothing else but you."-Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince
"Sometimes one feels suddenly doomed by fate."-Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince
"I know people can be awful dooms for each other."-Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince
3. La carte et le territoire
By: Michel Houellebecq
3.95
Format: 428 pages, Paperback
Si Jed Martin, le personnage principal de ce roman, devait vous en raconter l’histoire, il commence… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"Sexuality is a fragile thing: it is difficult to enter, and easy to leave."-Michel Houellebecq, La carte et le territoire
"Jed then realized that he was standing in a book, and wondered if this book told the story of his life."-Michel Houellebecq, La carte et le territoire
"Las flores son sólo órganos sexuales, vaginas abigarradas que adornan la superficie del mundo, entregadas a la lubricidad de los insectos."-Michel Houellebecq, La carte et le territoire
"Ciudată e uneori omenirea. Din nefericire, cel mai adesea era genul ciudată și respingătoare, și doar arareori de genul ciudat și încântător."-Michel Houellebecq, La carte et le territoire
4. Flaubert's Parrot
By: Julian Barnes
3.65
Format: 190 pages, Paperback
Flaubert's Parrot deals with Flaubert, parrots, bears and railways; with our sense of the past and … read more
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- literary fiction
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- 20th century
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"How submerged does a reference have to be before it drowns?"-Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot
"Mystification is simple; clarity is the hardest thing of all."-Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot
"Me and my books, in the same apartment: like a gherkin in its vinegar."-Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot
"Irony - The modern mode: either the devil’s mark or the snorkel of sanity."-Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot
5. 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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"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
6. The Nose
By: Nikolai Gogol , Ronald Wilks
4.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
'Strangely enough, I mistook it for a gentleman at first. Fortunately I had my spectacles with me s… read more
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- fiction
7. Visitation
By: Susan Bernofsky , Jenny Erpenbeck
3.93
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A house on the forested bank of a Brandenburg lake outside Berlin (once belonging to Erpenbeck's gr… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
8. Embers
By: Sándor Márai , Carol Brown Janeway
3.87
Format: 268 pages, Paperback
Originally published in 1942 and now rediscovered to international acclaim, this taut and exquisite… read more
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9. L'Angoisse du roi Salomon
By: Romain Gary , None
3.87
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
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10. The Breast
By: Philip Roth
4.46
Format: 170 pages,
Like a latter-day Gregor Samsa, Professor David Kepesh wakes up one morning to find that he has bee… read more
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11. L'analphabète: récit autobiographique
By: Ágota Kristóf
4.11
Format: 57 pages, Paperback
Onze chapitres pour onze moments de sa vie, de la petite enfance en Hongrie à l'apprentissage du fr… read more
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"You become a writer by writing with patience and obstinacy, without ever losing faith in what you write."-Ágota Kristóf, L'analphabète: récit autobiographique
"في الغالب أكتفي بالكتابة في ذهني . ذلك اسهل . داخل الراس تجري الامور كلها بيسر . لكن ما ان نشرع في الكتابة حتى تتغير الأفكار .تتشوه.تصير خاطئة"-Ágota Kristóf, L'analphabète: récit autobiographique
12. The End of Days
By: Susan Bernofsky , Jenny Erpenbeck
4.09
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Hans Fallada Prize, The End of Days, by the… read more
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13. The Noise of Time
By: Julian Barnes
2.60
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A compact masterpiece dedicated to the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich: Julian Barnes's first … read more
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14. Niente di vero
By: Veronica Raimo
3.59
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Prendete lo spirito dissacrante che trasforma nevrosi, sesso e disastri famigliari in commedia, da … read more
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"Quando finalmente arrivò la scoperta dei libri, non fu una forma di evasione, piuttosto una rasserenante coalescenza di noia. Riuscivo quasi a visualizzarla, bianca e melmosa: leggere era come sprofo…"-Veronica Raimo, Niente di vero
15. Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme
By: Édouard Louis
4.13
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Pendant une grande partie de sa vie ma mère a vécu dans la pauvreté et la nécessité, à l'écart de t… read more
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"Why do I feel as though I'm writing a sad story, when my aim was to tell the story of a liberation?"-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme
"I'd gotten so used to seeing her unhappy at home that the joy on her face seemed scandalous to me, a deceit, a lie that had to be exposed as soon as possible."-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme
"I started this book wanting to tell the story of a woman, but I've realized that yours is the story of a human being who fought for the right to exist as a woman, as opposed to the nonexistence impos…"-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme
"A final memory. A few months ago, in the garden of a teahouse where I’d suggested we meet, she told me how she had once been called to the school by my teacher when I was six years old. The teacher w…"-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme
16. Long Live the Post Horn!
By: Vigdis Hjorth
3.67
Format: 240 pages, ebook
Ellinor, a 35-year-old media consultant, has not been feeling herself; she's not been feeling much … read more
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"A letter is practically a gift."-Vigdis Hjorth, Long Live the Post Horn!
"What do we do with our despair if our lives are too small to contain it?"-Vigdis Hjorth, Long Live the Post Horn!
"What do we do with our despair if our lives are too small to contain it?’ . . . .accept that there’s so much we’ll never understand intellectually and try to live with things which don’t add up, that…"-Vigdis Hjorth, Long Live the Post Horn!
17. Baron Bagge
By: Alexander Lernet-Holenia
3.88
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Baron Bagge, a cavalry officer during the First World War, receives orders from his unhinged comman… read more
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- war
- fiction
- 20th century
- historical fiction
18. Indelicacy
By: Amina Cain
3.59
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
In "a strangely ageless world somewhere between Emily Dickinson and David Lynch" (Blake Butler), a … read more
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"I hated March more than any other month, with its promises of warmth that never came"-Amina Cain, Indelicacy
"I would listen to a bird cry, or the cat and the dog scratching around. In those moments I felt like a giant ear."-Amina Cain, Indelicacy
"In books I found even more strongly my desire to write, to write back to them and their jagged, perfect words. I found life that ran close to my own"-Amina Cain, Indelicacy
"Why is empty space a comfort and a relief? It's not because I project myself there; it's because I can't. It shows me my projections, but they haven't left my mind. Empty space remains empty, always.…"-Amina Cain, Indelicacy
19. Constance, or Solitary Practices
By: Lawrence Durrell
3.73
Format: 393 pages, Paperback
The party is over, and the world is in the throes of the 1939-45 war, but the story continues as pa… read more
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- 20th century
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20. We Do Not Part
By: Han Kang
3.76
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
FROM HAN KANG, WINNER OF THE 2024 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE “[Han Kang writes in] intense poeti… read more
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21. Les Vacances de M. Hulot
By: Jean-Claude Carrière
3.59
Format: 221 pages, Paperback
The novelization of Jacques Tati's Les Vacances de M. Hulot. Featuring illustrations by Pierre Éta… read more
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