Samuels bok
By: Sven Delblanc
3.85
Format: 382 pages, Hardcover
I Samuelserien som inleddes med Samuels bok (1981) grep Sven Delblanc tillbaka på sin egen släkthis…
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1. Doctor Glas
By: Margaret Atwood , Hjalmar Söderberg , Paul Britten Austin
3.70
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A masterpiece of enduring power, Doctor Glas confronts a chilling moral quandary with gripping in… read more
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- swedish literature
- sweden
- fiction
"We know so little about one another. We embrace a shadow and love a dream."-Margaret Atwood, Doctor Glas
"Besynnerligt, att det alltid går en rysning genom luften före soluppgången."-Margaret Atwood, Doctor Glas
"Nothing diminishes and degrades a human being more than the knowledge of being unloved."-Margaret Atwood, Doctor Glas
"La moralidad es un servicio doméstico, no una divinidad. Conviene usarla, pero no debe mandar"-Margaret Atwood, Doctor Glas
2. The Emigrants
By: Michael Hulse , W.G. Sebald
4.17
Format: 237 pages, Paperback
At first The Emigrants appears simply to document the lives of four Jewish émigrés in the twentieth… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
"It is hard, said Mme Landau, when I told her about those railway lessons, in the end it is hard to know what it is that someone dies of. Yes, it is very hard, said Mme Landau, one really doesn't know."-Michael Hulse, The Emigrants
"The tiny features below, taken together with the gentle mass of Montblanc towering above them, the Vanoise glacier almost invisible in the shimmering distance, and the Alpine panorama that occupied h…"-Michael Hulse, The Emigrants
3. Picnic at Hanging Rock
By: Joan Lindsay
3.67
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
It was a cloudless summer day in the year nineteen hundred. Everyone at Appleyard College for Yo… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
"Thinking's all right if you have the time for it."-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock
"At every step the prospect ahead grew more enchanting with added detail of crenellated crags and lichen-patterned stone. Now a mountain laurel glossy above the dogwood's dusty silver leaves, now a da…"-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock
"Although we are necessarily concerned, in a chronicle of events, with physical action by the light of day, history suggests that the human spirit wanders farthest in the silent hours between midnight…"-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock
"And now, at last, after a lifetime of linoleum and asphalt and Axminster carpets, the heavy flat-footed woman trod the springing earth. Born fifty-seven years ago in a suburban wilderness of smoke-gr…"-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock
4. I en förvandlad stad (Stadserien, #4)
By: Per Anders Fogelström
3.64
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
Fjarde delen i Per Anders Fogelstroms alskade romankronika over arbetarklassens utveckling under dr… read more
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- swedish literature
- sweden
- fiction
- historical fiction
5. Invisible Cities
By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver
4.11
Format: 15 pages, Paperback
"Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities v… read more
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- fiction
6. 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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7. Hunting and Gathering
By: Anna Gavalda , Alison Anderson
4.42
Format: 288 pages,
<> Ce livre ne raconte rien d'autre qu'une histoire d'amour. Une histoire d'amour entre quatre eclo… read more
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8. Three Men in a Boat (Three Men, #1)
By: Jerome K. Jerome
4.60
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Martyrs to hypochondria and general seediness, J. and his friends George and Harris decide that a j… read more
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9. Journey to the End of the Night
By: Louis-Ferdinand Céline , Ralph Manheim , William T. Vollmann
4.19
Format: 453 pages, Paperback
Louis-Ferdinand Celine's revulsion and anger at what he considered the idiocy and hypocrisy of soci… read more
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- fiction
"If you aren't rich you should always look useful."-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
"When you write, you should put your skin on the table."-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
"Sonuçta savaş dediğiniz şey, anlamadığınız ne varsa odur"-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
"Nearly all a poor bastard's desires are punishable by jail."-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
10. Stad i världen (Stadserien, #5)
By: Per Anders Fogelström
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
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11. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
By: John Le Carré
3.94
Format: 322 pages, Paperback
In this classic, John le Carre's third novel and the first to earn him international acclaim, he cr… read more
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12. Dreams of Roses and Fire
By: Eyvind Johnson , None
3.29
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"In 17th century Loudun, a city already destabilised by prolonged religious conflict and an outbrea… read more
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13. Den allvarsamma leken
By: Hjalmar Söderberg
3.42
Format: 8 pages, Paperback
Arhundradets karlekssaga >>Mig far du alska pa ett hedniskt vis!<< sager Lydia Stille till Arvid St… read more
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14. Minns du den stad (Stadserien, #3)
By: Per Anders Fogelström
3.32
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
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15. Middlemarch
By: Michel Faber , George Eliot
4.02
Format: 912 pages, Mass Market Paperback
"People are almost always better than their neighbours think they are" George Eliot’s most ambit… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
"After all, the true seeing is within."-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
"I protest against any absolute conclusion."-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
"I shall do everything it becomes me to do."-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?"-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
16. Mothering Sunday
By: Graham Swift
4.25
Format: 179 pages, Hardcover
A luminous, intensely moving tale that begins with a secret lovers' assignation in the spring of 19… read more
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17. Happening
By: Annie Ernaux
4.32
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
In 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her like a plag… read more
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"There is no such thing as a lesser truth."-Annie Ernaux, Happening
"I was intoxicated, wrapped up in wordless intelligence."-Annie Ernaux, Happening
"People judged according to the law, they didn't judge the law."-Annie Ernaux, Happening
"love children are the most beautiful of all.' What a terrible statement."-Annie Ernaux, Happening
18. Mañana y tarde
By: Jon Fosse
3.88
Format: 102 pages, Paperback
Un niño que se llamará Johannes llega al mundo. Fallece un anciano llamado Johannes. Entre estos do… read more
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- fiction
"Ahora tú también estás muerto, Johannes, dice Peter Te moriste esta mañana, dice Y como yo era tu mejor amigo, me enviaron a recogerte, dice Pero ¿por qué hemos pescado cangrejos? dice Johannes Tenía…"-Jon Fosse, Mañana y tarde
"Vart ska vi fara? säger Johannes Nej nu frågar du som om du fortfarande var vid liv, säger Peter Inte till någon plats? säger Johannes Nej dit vi nu ska, det är inte någon plats, och därför har den h…"-Jon Fosse, Mañana y tarde
19. The Reindeer Hunters (Hekne, #2)
By: Lars Mytting
4.53
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
The second novel in the internationally bestselling Sister Bells trilogy, an epic, moving, and glor… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
20. The Shards
By: Bret Easton Ellis
4.00
Format: 595 pages, Hardcover
A sensational new novel from the best-selling author of Less Than Zero and Imperial Bedrooms that t… read more
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- fiction
"Non investivo nel mondo reale – perché avrei dovuto? Non era fatto per me o per i miei bisogni o desideri."-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards
"Eravamo adolescenti, bambini superficialmente sofisticati, che non sapevano davvero nulla di come funzionava il mondo - lo stavamo sperimentando, immagino, ma senza averne cognizione. Almeno fino a q…"-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards
"And I just stood there in the fading afternoon light, realizing at seventeen that I was already staring into my past — that the past had a meaning that would always define you. I remember this being …"-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards
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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- sweden
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"Min pappa är indian och nu ska jag berätta det för blomma."-Andrev Walden, Jävla karlar
22. The Years
By: Annie Ernaux
4.17
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist’s defining work and a breakout bestseller when… read more
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"Sauver quelque chose du temps où l'on ne sera plus jamais."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
"La profusion des choses cachait la rareté des idées et l'usure des croyances."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
"The profusion of things concealed the scarcity of ideas and the erosion of beliefs."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
"Je ne suis nulle part dans le temps. Il est l'ange qui fait revivre le passé, rend éternel."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
23. I Is Another: Septology III-V
By: Jon Fosse
4.44
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
Asle is an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway. His only fr… read more
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"...I just keep the mistakes and let them be wrong, because it’s often the mistakes that eventually lead to something right..."-Jon Fosse, I Is Another: Septology III-V
"...one of the most important things when it comes to painting is being able to stop at the right time, to know when a picture is saying what it can say, if you keep going too long then more often tha…"-Jon Fosse, I Is Another: Septology III-V
"...a person comes from God and goes back to God, I think, for the body is conceived and born, it grows and declines, it dies and vanishes, but the spirit is a unity of body and soul, the way form and…"-Jon Fosse, I Is Another: Septology III-V
"...everyone has a deep longing inside them, we always always long for something and we believe that what we long for is this or that, this person or that person, this thing or that thing, but actuall…"-Jon Fosse, I Is Another: Septology III-V
24. A New Name: Septology VI-VII
By: Jon Fosse
4.49
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
Asle is an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway. His only fr… read more
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"God is so far away that no one can say anything about him and that’s why all ideas about God are wrong, and at the same time he is so close that we almost can’t notice him, because he is the foundati…"-Jon Fosse, A New Name: Septology VI-VII
25. Samlade verk
By: Lydia Sandgren
4.08
Format: 689 pages, Hardcover
I Göteborg förbereds en stor retrospektiv över konstnären Gustav Beckers verk från 1980-talet och f… read more
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- swedish literature
- sweden
- fiction
"You’re right,"-Lydia Sandgren, Samlade verk
"People engage in a lot of self-deception,"-Lydia Sandgren, Samlade verk
"Over the years, I’ve thought a lot about what a person has a right to tell other people. As a therapist, it’s simple: everything you’re told is confidential. Outside the clinic, however, there are un…"-Lydia Sandgren, Samlade verk
26. W.
By: Steve Sem-Sandberg
3.47
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
In this internationally acclaimed novel, Steve Sem-Sandberg brilliantly refracts the story of Georg… read more
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- sweden
- fiction
- historical fiction
27. Samuels bok
By: Sven Delblanc
3.85
Format: 382 pages, Hardcover
I Samuelserien som inleddes med Samuels bok (1981) grep Sven Delblanc tillbaka på sin egen släkthis… read more
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28. Pubertet (Swedish Edition)
By: Ivar Lo-Johansson
3.65
Format: 449 pages, Hardcover
Pubertet är den första delen i en memoarserie som kom att omfatta fyra volymer. Författaren minns s… read more
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29. Babels hus: Roman (Swedish Edition)
By: P.C. Jersild
3.60
Format: 329 pages, Hardcover
Primus Svensson, 76, får en infarkt vid sin kolonistuga i närheten av det stora Enskede sjukhus. Pr… read more
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- fiction
30. Clean
By: Alia Trabucco Zerán
3.99
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER! From a global star and International Booker Prize finalist, a razor-sh… read more
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"Yo jamás me comí las uñas. Tampoco mi mamá. Para eso, me imagino, hay que tener las manos desocupadas."-Alia Trabucco Zerán, Clean
