Michelangelo: A Tormented Life
By: Antonio Forcellino
4.03
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
This major new biography recounts the extraordinary life of one of the most creative figures in Wes…
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1. Beauty Is a Wound
By: Eka Kurniawan , Annie Tucker
4.05
Format: 470 pages, Paperback
The epic novel Beauty Is a Wound combines history, satire, family tragedy, legend, humor, and roman… read more
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"You don't need to belong to one another in order to love one another."-Eka Kurniawan, Beauty Is a Wound
"If I might share my opinion, this world is hell, and our task is to create our own heaven."-Eka Kurniawan, Beauty Is a Wound
"Semua perempuan itu pelacur, sebab seorang istri baik-baik pun menjual kemaluannya demi mas kawin dan uang belanja, atau cinta jika itu ada."-Eka Kurniawan, Beauty Is a Wound
"It's not man's job to think about whether God exists or not, especially when you know that right in front of your eyes one person is stepping on another's neck."-Eka Kurniawan, Beauty Is a Wound
2. A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
By: David Foster Wallace
4.15
Format: 353 pages, Paperback
In this exuberantly praised book — a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television… read more
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- nonfiction
"What I know about auto racing could be inscribed with a dry Magic Marker on the lip of a Coke bottle."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
"If Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see it."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
"Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
"American human beings are a slippery and protean bunch in real life, hard as hell to get any kind of universal handle on."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
3. Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic
By: Henri Bergson , Fred Rothwell , Yaşar Avunç , None
3.73
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
En este espléndido ensayo filosófico escrito en los albores del siglo XX, Henri Bergson se pregunta… read more
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- nonfiction
"A flexible vice may not be so easy to ridicule as a rigid virtue."-Henri Bergson, Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic
"Useful professions are clearly meant for the public, but those whose utility is more dubious can only justify their existence by assuming that the public is meant for them."-Henri Bergson, Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic
"En ce sens, on pourrait dire que la nature obtient souvent elle-même des succès de caricaturiste. Dans le mouvement par lequel elle a fendu cette bouche, rétréci ce menton, gonflé cette joue, il semb…"-Henri Bergson, Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic
"Si régulière que soit une physionomie, si harmonieuse qu'on en suppose les lignes, si souples les mouvements, jamais l'équilibre n'en est absolument parfait. On y démêlera toujours l'indication d'une…"-Henri Bergson, Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic
4. Napoleon: A Life
By: Andrew Roberts
4.23
Format: 976 pages, Paperback
The definitive biography of the great soldier-statesman by the New York Times bestselling author of… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
"I am very happy to see the enemy wish to avoid our coming to him. – Napoleon"-Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life
"I have beaten the Russian and Austrian army commanded by the two emperors. I am a little tired."-Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life
"His constant references to the ancient world have the effect of giving ordinary soldiers a sense of their lives."-Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life
5. Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
By: Carlo Rovelli , Simon Carnell , Erica Segre
4.42
Format: 718 pages, Hardcover
Everything you need to know about the beauty of modern physics in less than 100 pages. In seven bri… read more
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- nonfiction
6. Memoirs of Hadrian
By: Marguerite Yourcenar , Grace Frick
4.23
Format: 347 pages, Paperback
Both an exploration of character and a reflection on the meaning of history, Memoirs of Hadrian has… read more
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"And it was at about this time that I began to feel myself divine."-Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian
"La morale è una convenzione privata; il decoro è una faccenda pubblica."-Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian
"I was willing to yield to nostalgia, that melancholy residue of desire."-Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian
"Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul..."-Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian
7. Il giorno della civetta
By: Leonardo Sciascia
3.96
Format: 425 pages,
Di questo romanzo breve sulla mafia, apparso per la prima volta nel 1961, ha scritto Leonardo Scias… read more
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- italy
- italian literature
8. The Leopard
By: Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa , Archibald Colquhoun
4.01
Format: 319 pages, Paperback
The Sicilian prince Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa (1896-1957) died just after writing The Leopard, h… read more
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- italy
- italian literature
"While there’s death there’s hope"-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard
"Cambiare tutto perché niente cambi."-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard
"La eternidad amorosa dura pocos años."-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard
"Nothing could be decently hated except eternity."-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard
9. The Doré Illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy
By: Dante Alighieri , Gustave Doré
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Gustave Dore (1832-83) was perhaps the most successful illustrator of the nineteenth century. His D… read more
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10. Dans les forêts de Sibérie
By: Sylvain Tesson
3.26
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Sylvain Tesson, pour rassasier son besoin de liberte, a trouve une solution radicale et vieille com… read more
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11. My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)
By: Gerald Durrell , Helma Lapiņa
4.17
Format: 273 pages, Paperback
When the unconventional Durrell family can no longer endure the damp, gray English climate, they do… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
"Larry was always full of ideas about things of which he had no experience."-Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)
"'All we need is a book,' roared Leslie; 'don't panic, hit 'em with a book."-Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)
"I can't be expected to produce deathless prose in an atmosphere of gloom and eucalyptus."-Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)
"Gradually the magic of the island [Corfu] settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen."-Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)
12. Nada
By: Edith Grossman , Carmen Laforet
3.83
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
Carmen Laforet’s Nada ranks among the most important literary works of post-Civil War Spain. Loosel… read more
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"You always move in the same circle of people no matter how many turns you seem to make"-Edith Grossman, Nada
"... siempre se mueve uno en el mismo círculo de personas por más vueltas que parezca dar."-Edith Grossman, Nada
"el interés y la estimación que inspire una persona son dos cosas que no siempre van unidas."-Edith Grossman, Nada
"Su charla insubstancial me parecía el rumor de lluvia que se escucha con gusto y con pereza."-Edith Grossman, Nada
13. Metamorphoses
By: Ovid , David Raeburn , Denis Feeney
3.99
Format: 240 pages,
Metamorphoses (from Greek meta meta and morphe morphe, meaning "changes of shape"), is a Latin narr… read more
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14. The Portrait of a Lady
By: Henry James , Patricia Crick
3.79
Format: 797 pages, Paperback
When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy Aunt Touche… read more
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- italy
"She has only one fault; too many ideas."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
"If one is strong, one loves the more strongly."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
"It's not my fate to give up--I know it can't be."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
"The finer natures were those that shone at the larger times."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
15. Nemesis
By: Philip Roth
4.19
Format: 45 pages, Hardcover
In the "stifling heat of equatorial Newark," a terrifying epidemic is raging, threatening the child… read more
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16. Novecento. Un monologo
By: Alessandro Baricco
3.37
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
Il Virginianera un piroscafo. Negli anni tra le due guerre faceva la spola tra Europa e America, co… read more
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17. Lettere contro la guerra
By: Tiziano Terzani
3.57
Format: 10 pages,
Il volume raccoglie una serie di lettere inedite e alcune comparse sul "Corriere della Sera". Con q… read more
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18. Greek Lessons
By: Han Kang
3.47
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A powerful novel about the saving grace of language and human connection, from the author of the In… read more
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"If snow is the silence that falls from the sky, perhaps rain is an endless sentence."-Han Kang, Greek Lessons
"Si tomamos como cierta la premisa que dice que, cuando perdemos algo, ganamos otra cosa, ¿Qué es lo que he ganado yo al perderte a ti?."-Han Kang, Greek Lessons
"Before she lost words - when she was still able to se them to write - she sometimes wished that her own expressions would more closely resemble inarticulacy: a moan or low cry."-Han Kang, Greek Lessons
"To her, there was no touch as instantaneous and intuitive as the gaze. It was close to being the only way of touching without touch. Language, by comparison, is an infinitely more physical way to tou…"-Han Kang, Greek Lessons
19. The Eighth Life
By: Nino Haratischwili
4.52
Format: 944 pages, Hardcover
Six romances, one revolution, the story of the century. 'That night Stasia took an oath, swearin… read more
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"And if you don’t know who you are, then look at all the possible versions of you, find the most impossible one, and become that."-Nino Haratischwili, The Eighth Life
"and you asked me where people keep their childhood, and I remember telling you that we keep it hidden, between our ribs, in little liver spots and moles, in the roots of our hair, above our heart, in…"-Nino Haratischwili, The Eighth Life
"Love was slow, creeping poison, loge was treacherous and insincere, love was a veil thrown over the misery of the world, love was sticky and indigestible, it was a mirror in which one could be what o…"-Nino Haratischwili, The Eighth Life
20. Ferrovie del Messico
By: Gian Marco Griffi
4.10
Format: 824 pages, Paperback
Se cercate dell'avventura, in questo romanzo ne troverete a bizzeffe. Se cercate della letteratura,… read more
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- italy
- italian literature
21. The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
By: Steve Brusatte
4.20
Format: 404 pages, Hardcover
The dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth’s most fearsome creatures vanished. Today the… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"There is a dinosaur outside my window. I'm watching it as I write this."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
"The Great Hall of Dinosaurs at Yale's Peabody Museum may not bill itself as a place of spiritual pilgrimage, but that's sure what it feels like to me."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
"...let's not forget about those birds--they are dinosaurs, they survived, they are still with us. The dinosaur empire may be over, but the dinosaurs remain."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
"...another trove of spectacular fossils, found in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia...provide unprecedented insight into the lifestyles of dinosaurs and early birds."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
22. La plus secrète mémoire des hommes
By: Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
4.18
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Un magistral roman d'apprentissage, une saisissante enquête sur les traces d'un mystérieux auteur m… read more
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"Nunca intentes decir de qué habla un gran libro. O si lo haces, la única respuesta posible es: de nada."-Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, La plus secrète mémoire des hommes
"He alcanzado el estado terminal de la inmigración: simplemente ya no creo en la posibilidad del regreso."-Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, La plus secrète mémoire des hommes
"Estuvo tanto tiempo en el exilio - medio siglo! - que nos decíamos que debía de haberse dejado una parte de sí mismo por el camino"-Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, La plus secrète mémoire des hommes
"Nos apetece hablar de todo, menos del exilio. De todas formas, no hay nada que decir sobre el exilio. No conozco un tema más molesto en este mundo."-Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, La plus secrète mémoire des hommes
23. The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources
By: Javier Blas
4.34
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Meet the traders who supply the world with oil, metal and food - no matter how corrupt, war-torn or… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Little noticed and little scrutinised, the commodity traders have become essential cogs in the modern economy. Without them, petrol stations would run out of fuel, factories would grind to a halt and…"-Javier Blas, The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources
"Most of us take for granted the ease with which we can fill up our cars, buy a new smartphone or order a cup of Colombian coffee. But underpinning almost all of our consumption is a frenetic internat…"-Javier Blas, The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources
24. Still Born
By: Guadalupe Nettel
4.13
Format: 224 pages, ebook
Longlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize! For readers of Rachel Cusk and Sheila Heti, … read more
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"Thoughts are like clouds moving in the sky, you know? Before you know it, they change shape or they just aren't there anymore."-Guadalupe Nettel, Still Born
"There is a word to describe someone who loses their spouse, and a word for children who are left without parents. There is no word, however, for a parent who loses their child."-Guadalupe Nettel, Still Born
"A mí me intrigan más las aves a las que parasitan. Según yo, saben que no son sus crías y aun así las cuidan y las atienden. Yo pienso que llega un punto en que todas las madres nos damos cuenta de e…"-Guadalupe Nettel, Still Born
"A mí me intrigan más las aves a las que parasitan. Según yo, saben que no son sus crías y aun así las cuidan y las atienden. Yo pienso que llega un punto en que todas las madres nos damos cuenta de e…"-Guadalupe Nettel, Still Born
25. Optic Nerve
By: María Gainza
3.92
Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition
The narrator of Optic Nerve is an Argentinian woman whose obsession is art. The story of her life i… read more
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- art
- art history
"el estilo es un medio para insistir sobre algo."-María Gainza, Optic Nerve
"Mal administrada, la historia del arte puede ser letal como la estricnina."-María Gainza, Optic Nerve
"Nos llamábamos igual, mi prima y yo. Recién ahora me doy cuenta de que nuestro nombre contiene al mar como un llamado, como una premonición."-María Gainza, Optic Nerve
"Y eso me lleva a T. S. Eliot: «Cuanto más perfecto es el artista, más completamente separado en él estará el hombre que sufre de la mente que crea»"-María Gainza, Optic Nerve
26. No-cosas: Quiebras del mundo de hoy
By: Byung-Chul Han
3.85
Format: 109 pages, Kindle Edition
«Hoy estamos en la transición de la era de las cosas a la era de las no-cosas. No son las cosas, si… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
27. Figure: Come funzionano le immagini dal Rinascimento a Instagram
By: Riccardo Falcinelli
4.56
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
Perché alcune immagini diventano famose e altre no, perché ci catturano, stupiscono, ipnotizzano: c… read more
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- art
- art history
- nonfiction
28. Bomba atomica
By: Roberto Mercadini
4.43
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
“Se il mondo è in fiamme, racconta una storia. A volte è proprio quando tutto sembra finito per sem… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- italian literature
"È venuta al mondo una creatura nuova: cresce marcendo, si nutre della sua morte prospera sulla sua rovina."-Roberto Mercadini, Bomba atomica
29. Dominio. La guerra invisibile dei potenti contro i sudditi
By: Marco D'Eramo
4.22
Format: 233 pages, Paperback
Negli ultimi cinquant’anni si è compiuta una gigantesca rivoluzione dei ricchi contro i poveri, dei… read more
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- nonfiction
30. Caravaggio
By: Roberto Longhi
3.80
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
Barcelona. 20 cm. 145 p. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Colección 'Elba'. Ed… read more
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- art
- nonfiction
31. Michelangelo: A Tormented Life
By: Antonio Forcellino
4.03
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
This major new biography recounts the extraordinary life of one of the most creative figures in Wes… read more
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- art
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- history
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- italian literature
