Ellis Island
By: Georges Perec
3.85
Format: 156 pages, Paperback
The French novelist Georges Perec has continually captured the American imagination, most recently …
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1. Rue des boutiques obscures
By: Patrick Modiano
3.63
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
Que reste-t-il de la vie d'un homme ? Une photo, au fond d'une boîte ou d'un tiroir, des papiers ad… read more
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- literature
- france
- french literature
"One has to retire eventually, Guy."-Patrick Modiano, Rue des boutiques obscures
"The letters dance before my eyes. Who am I?"-Patrick Modiano, Rue des boutiques obscures
"Did you see her again in France?" I asked him."-Patrick Modiano, Rue des boutiques obscures
"Nice is a city of ghosts and specters, but I hope not to become one of them right away."-Patrick Modiano, Rue des boutiques obscures
2. Regarde les lumières mon amour
By: Annie Ernaux
3.94
Format: 489 pages, Paperback
Pendant un an, Annie Ernaux a tenu le journal de ses visites a l'hypermarche Auchan du centre comme… read more
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- nonfiction
- france
- french literature
- essays
3. Aliss at the Fire
By: Jon Fosse , Damion Searls
3.99
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
In her old house by the fjord, Signe lies on a bench and sees a vision of herself as she was more t… read more
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- literature
4. Solenoid
By: Mircea Cărtărescu
3.59
Format: 83 pages, Paperback
,,Vreau sa scriu o dare de seama despre anomaliile mele. In viata mea obscura, in afara oricarei is… read more
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5. Whatever
By: Michel Houellebecq , Paul Hammond
3.57
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Just thirty, with a well-paid job, depression and no love life, the narrator and anti-hero par exce… read more
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- literature
- france
- french literature
"En su lugar, una víbora ya se habría suicidado."-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever
"Me considero un tipo normal. Bueno, puede que no exactamente, pero ¿Quién lo es exactamente? Digamos que soy normal al 80%."-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever
"Il me dit: « Vous avez dû avoir peur. » Je réponds oui pour ne pas faire d'histoires, mais en fait je n'ai pas eu peur du tout, j'ai juste eu l'impression que j'allais crever dans les prochaines minu…"-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever
"Een vrouw die in de handen van de psychoanalytici is gevallen wordt totaal en voorgoed onbruikbaar. Dat fenomeen moet niet als een neveneffect van de psychoanalyse worden beschouwd maar wel degelijk …"-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever
6. La première gorgée de bière et autres plaisirs minuscules
By: Philippe Delerm
4.12
Format: None pages,
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7. Vernon Subutex, 2 (Vernon Subutex, #2)
By: Virginie Despentes
3.10
Format: None pages,
QUI EST VERNON SUBUTEX ? Une legende urbaine. Un ange dechu. Un disparu qui ne cesse de ressurgir. … read more
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8. Natural Novel
By: Georgi Gospodinov , Zornitsa Hristova
3.00
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
Gospodinov flits and buzzes among various subjects -- from graffiti in public toilets to the movies… read more
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9. 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
"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
10. The Dry Heart
By: Natalia Ginzburg
4.00
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
The Dry Heart begins and ends with the matter-of-fact pronouncement: “I shot him between the eyes.”… read more
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"I absorbed his every word and tried to see if there was any love in it."-Natalia Ginzburg, The Dry Heart
11. A Woman's Story
By: Annie Ernaux
4.23
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
A Woman's Story is Annie Ernaux's "deeply affecting account of mothers and daughters, youth and age… read more
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- literature
- france
- nonfiction
- french literature
"Until I was twenty, I thought I was responsible for her growing old."-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story
"With so much misery around, fighting for social advancement had lost all meaning."-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story
"I believe I am writing about my mother because it is my turn to bring her into the world."-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story
"Het beeld van haar wordt langzaam weer dat wat ik mij voorstel te hebben gehad van haar in mijn babytijd, een grote, blanke schaduw boven mij."-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story
12. Qui a tué mon père
By: Édouard Louis
4.16
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
« Est-ce qu’il est normal d’avoir honte d’aimer ? » Édouard Louis a publié deux livres, En finir… read more
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- france
- nonfiction
- french literature
- essays
"September 2017 Emmanuel Macron condemns the “laziness"-Édouard Louis, Qui a tué mon père
"You were as much a victim of the violence you inflicted as of the violence you endured."-Édouard Louis, Qui a tué mon père
"What we call history is nothing but the story of the same emotions, the same joys, reproduced across bodies and time"-Édouard Louis, Qui a tué mon père
"Where is history? The history they taught at school was not your own. We were learning world history, and you were left out."-Édouard Louis, Qui a tué mon père
13. 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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- literature
"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
14. A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East
By: László Krasznahorkai
3.89
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
The grandson of Prince Genji lives outside of space and time and wanders the grounds of an old mona… read more
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- literature
"...végső soron az egyszerű bizalmat abban, hogy van hagyomány, hogy ez a hagyomány a megfigyelésre, az ismétlésre és a természet belső rendjének és a dolgok természetének a tiszteletére épül, s hogy …"-László Krasznahorkai, A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East
"...mert maguk voltak a létezés, miközben a létezésből mégis ki voltak zárva, vagyis oly közel estek a létezéshez, hogy azonossá váltak vele, és a létezés nem látszik soha, így hát ha itt voltak is, a…"-László Krasznahorkai, A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East
15. The Third Realm (Morgenstjernen, #3)
By: Karl Ove Knausgård
4.33
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling author Karl Ove Knausgaard, a kaleidoscopic novel about human nature in the face o… read more
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- literature
16. 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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- france
- french literature
"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
17. La novia de Sandro
By: Camila Sosa Villada
4.11
Format: 50 pages, Paperback
La novia de Sandro, la amante desahuciada, el hueco sin fondo donde desaparece la esperanza, el pas… read more
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- poetry
"en este loco mundo que se rige por los caprichos de la luna, quisiera ir hasta tu casa y abrir las ventanas para mirarte sentado al sol, total es sabido que un día subirá definitivamente la [marea]"-Camila Sosa Villada, La novia de Sandro
"Y yo siempre deshojando flores envenenadas, me desea no me desea, con la dignidad por el piso amando sus piernas de cazadores y sus miradas sombrías, su despreocupada belleza de animal de monte. Y m …"-Camila Sosa Villada, La novia de Sandro
"Pasaron los años y no conocí a otro hombre con quien poder jugar un poco con las palabras haciendo la cosa mala, como quien dice. Nunca más un amante conversó y rio conmigo mientras teníamos sexo. Y …"-Camila Sosa Villada, La novia de Sandro
18. Ustedes brillan en lo oscuro
By: Liliana Colanzi
3.69
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Los cuentos de Liliana Colanzi exploran diversas formas de narrar el tiempo, como el viaje geológic… read more
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19. Not Everybody Lives the Same Way
By: Jean-Paul Dubois
3.73
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Narrated by a man held for an unknown crime in a Montreal prison, this novel was the winner of the … read more
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- literature
- france
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"Ils croyaient qu’un jour ou l’autre, cela arriverait, parce qu’ils avaient attendu toute une vie pour cela et qu’ils pensaient le mériter. Muss es sein? Es muss sein."-Jean-Paul Dubois, Not Everybody Lives the Same Way
"El encierro tiene un olor desagradable. Al hedor de los malos pensamientos macerándose, a los efluvios de las ideas malintencionadas que rondan por todas partes y al relente rancio de las viejas añor…"-Jean-Paul Dubois, Not Everybody Lives the Same Way
"Je vous demande alors de conserver à l’esprit cette phrase toute simple que je tiens de mon père et qu’il utilisait pour minorer les fautes de chacun : “Tous les hommes n’habitent pas le monde de la …"-Jean-Paul Dubois, Not Everybody Lives the Same Way
"J'étais bien. Je regardais les miens. Je pouvais sentir battre leur cœur et respirer leur souffle. Auprès d'eux je me sentais en paix. J'avais le sentiment qu'ils protégeaient ma vie, tous les trois …"-Jean-Paul Dubois, Not Everybody Lives the Same Way
20. Le nom sur le mur
By: Hervé Le Tellier
3.82
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Je ne suis pas l’ami d’André Chaix, et aurais-je d’ailleurs su l’être, moi que presque rien ne reli… read more
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21. Ellis Island
By: Georges Perec
3.85
Format: 156 pages, Paperback
The French novelist Georges Perec has continually captured the American imagination, most recently … read more
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- new york
- poetry
- american
- history
- jewish
- literature
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- france
- essays
- french literature
