Das Foto schaute mich an
By: Katja Petrowskaja
4.13
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Ein Bild trifft den Blick der Betrachterin und lässt sie nicht los. Das Foto einer geisterhaften Pf…
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1. The Drowned and the Saved
By: Primo Levi , R. Rosenthal
4.43
Format: None pages, Paperback
The author tries to understand the rationale behind Auschwitz, Treblinka, Bergen-Belsen. Dismissing… read more
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2. Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
By: Thomas Mann , John E. Woods , T.J. Reed
3.69
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Buddenbrooks, first published in Germany in 1901, when Mann was only twenty-six, has become a class… read more
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3. 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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4. L'altra figlia
By: Annie Ernaux , Lorenzo Flabbi
3.95
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
In un’assolata domenica d’estate una bambina ascolta per caso una conversazione della madre, e la s… read more
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5. 2666
By: Roberto Bolaño
4.21
Format: 1128 pages, Paperback
A cuatro profesores de literatura, Pelletier, Morini, Espinoza y Norton, los une su fascinación por… read more
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"Nothing is ever behind us."-Roberto Bolaño, 2666
"Reading is never a waste of time."-Roberto Bolaño, 2666
"Every hundred feet the world changes"-Roberto Bolaño, 2666
"The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower."-Roberto Bolaño, 2666
6. The High Window (Philip Marlowe, #3)
By: Raymond Chandler
3.99
Format: 11 pages, Paperback
A wealthy Pasadena widow with a mean streak, a missing daughter-in-law with a past, and a gold coin… read more
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7. Felici i felici
By: Yasmina Reza , Maurizia Balmelli
4.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Felici gli amati e gli amanti e coloro che possono fare a meno dell'amore. Felici i felici>>: le d… read more
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8. 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
9. Triste tigre
By: Neige Sinno
4.23
Format: 283 pages, Paperback
J'ai voulu y croire, j'ai voulu rêver que le royaume de la littérature m'accueillerait comme n'impo… read more
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"C'est vrai qu'aucun [...] n'avait vu ce que nous pouvions voir nous, les enfants et ma mère, au sein du foyer, où il se comportait comme un tyran. Et c'est quand même ça qui ressort avant tout de cet…"-Neige Sinno, Triste tigre
10. 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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"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
11. L’ultima cosa bella sulla faccia della terra
By: Michael Bible
3.60
Format: 135 pages, ebook
Mentre tutti sono raccolti in preghiera, dall’ultima fila Iggy avanza verso il centro della chiesa.… read more
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"Quegli anni sono così malinconici e bizzarri. Per effetto del vento sembrava che le azalee levitassero a una spanna da terra. I cani dei vicini, Sale e Pepe, abbaiavano come due innamorati durante un…"-Michael Bible, L’ultima cosa bella sulla faccia della terra
12. What Happens at Night
By: Peter Cameron
3.47
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An unnamed American couple travels to a strange, snowy European city to adopt a baby. It’s a diffic… read more
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13. Blutbuch
By: Kim de l'Horizon
3.89
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Die Erzählfigur in ›Blutbuch‹ identifiziert sich weder als Mann noch als Frau. Aufgewachsen in eine… read more
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"Ich wollte kein Gegenstand sein, ich wollte ein Mensch sein und gross; und gross zu sein, bedeutete, ein Geschlecht zu haben, ein männliches. Als Frau drohte einem, ein Gegenstand zu bleiben oder ein…"-Kim de l'Horizon, Blutbuch
"Ich wollte dir meine konstante Angst vor meinem Körper erzählen: Mit dem schrecklichsten Monster unterm Bett unter einer Decke zu stecken. Nur ist das keine Decke, sondern meine Haut. Eine Angst, wie…"-Kim de l'Horizon, Blutbuch
"Und so ass ich meine erste koschere Zimtschnecke mit Dina, es war Anfang Sommer, die Sommerferienekstase der Kinder diffundierte in unsere trägen Glieder rüber, wir sassen vor der Bäckerei, und es wa…"-Kim de l'Horizon, Blutbuch
14. Kummer aller Art
By: Mariana Leky
4.15
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Alle wirken innerlich blitzblank, nur in unserem Inneren sieht es aus wie bei Hempels unterm Sofa, … read more
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15. Locus desperatus
By: Michele Mari
3.29
Format: 136 pages, ebook
A tutti, prima o poi, è toccato separarsi da qualcosa che reputavamo soltanto ma senza ciò che ci … read more
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16. Il fuoco che ti porti dentro
By: Antonio Franchini
3.90
Format: 224 pages, ebook
Il fuoco che ti porti dentro racconta la vita e la morte di Angela, una donna dal carattere impossi… read more
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"Sua madre è esattamente come lei, odia molti e disprezza tutti."-Antonio Franchini, Il fuoco che ti porti dentro
"Concorde con lo spirito del nostro tempo, non solo non teme la contraddizione ma disprezza la coerenza."-Antonio Franchini, Il fuoco che ti porti dentro
"A chiedere scusa ci si educa - e adesso so che è un processo accidentato -, mentre a casa mia non ci si confronta, si grida e si aggredisce, o si sta zitti. Non siamo stati abituati a parlare tra noi…"-Antonio Franchini, Il fuoco che ti porti dentro
"Conosco la rabbia che nasce dal senso di inferiorità, dall'inadeguatezza. Qualche volta sono stato preso da quella stessa frenesia, ho provato il desiderio di sfregiare con le parole coloro ai quali …"-Antonio Franchini, Il fuoco che ti porti dentro
17. Free Day
By: Inès Cagnati
3.83
Format: 214 pages, Kindle Edition
In the marshy countryside of southwestern France, fourteen-year-old Galla rides her battered bicycl… read more
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18. Liebe in Zeiten des Hasses: Chronik eines Gefühls 1929–1939
By: Florian Illies
4.01
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In einem virtuosen Epochengemälde erweckt Florian Illies die dreißiger Jahre, dieses Jahrzehnt bers… read more
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19. Storia di mia vita
By: Janek Gorczyca
3.53
Format: 114 pages, Kindle Edition
La storia di Janek, un polacco che vive a Roma da più di trent’anni, senza casa, senza documenti o … read more
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20. Øvelser i mørke
By: Naja Marie Aidt
4.51
Format: 258 pages, Hardcover
”Jeg øver mig i mørke, for jeg er frygtsom. Jeg øver mig i at være i mørket, men jeg øver mig også … read more
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21. Paradiso
By: Michele Masneri
3.27
Format: 187 pages, Hardcover
Nel «giorno più caldo di una delle estati più calde che si ricordino», Federico Desideri, giovane … read more
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22. Qui il sentiero si perde
By: Peské Marty
3.97
Format: 446 pages, Paperback
Esistono alcuni libri, scrisse una volta Leonardo Sciascia, che assomigliano alla felicità. L’isola… read more
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"Un giorno il vento gira, il cielo si rischiara, una primavera inaspettata fa gorgheggiare ogni tua fonte, spacca l'enorme ghiacciaio che ti imprigionava il cuore. E dal profondo di te trabocca, mugge…"-Peské Marty, Qui il sentiero si perde
23. The Besieged City
By: Clarice Lispector
3.71
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Seven decades after its original publication, Clarice Lispector’s third novel―the story of a girl a… read more
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"But without anyone's having forced her to choose the sacrifice, was she losing right then her youth through the symbol of youth? and life through the shape of life, her single hand pointing."-Clarice Lispector, The Besieged City
"The girl and a horse represented the two races of builders that had initiated the tradition of the future metropolis, both could figure on its coat of arms. The measly function of the girl in her tim…"-Clarice Lispector, The Besieged City
"The struggle to reach reality—that’s the main objective of this creature who tries, in every way, to cling to whatever exists by means of a total vision of things. I meant to make clear too the way v…"-Clarice Lispector, The Besieged City
"Upon the rubble horses would reappear announcing the rebirth of the old reality, their backs without riders. Because thus it had always been. Until a few men would tie them to wagons, once again erec…"-Clarice Lispector, The Besieged City
24. Un'anima persa
By: Giovanni Arpino
3.65
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Tino, un orfano di 17 anni, approda a Torino per affrontare gli esami di maturità. L'arrivo in citt… read more
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25. Prima di noi
By: Giorgio Fontana
4.05
Format: 896 pages, Paperback
Una famiglia del Nord Italia, tra l’inizio di un secolo e l’avvento di un altro, una metamorfosi co… read more
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26. Io?
By: Peter Flamm
3.83
Format: 125 pages, Kindle Edition
Berlino, 1918. La guerra è appena finita, un uomo torna a casa e non è più lui. È convinto di aver … read more
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27. Le lupe
By: Pierre Boileau
3.79
Format: 169 pages, Kindle Edition
«La porta si richiuse. Ero solo, con quelle tre donne che avevano in mano il mio destino e avrebber… read more
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28. Ucronia
By: Emmanuel Carrère
2.92
Format: 119 pages, Kindle Edition
Nel romanzo di Sarban «Il richiamo del corno», un ufficiale della Marina britannica sperimenta l’in… read more
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29. Attraverso la notte
By: William Sloane
3.78
Format: 279 pages, Paperback
«Alcune esperienze sono estranee alla vita di tutti i giorni, “condannate per un certo tempo a erra… read more
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30. Ned fra himlen
By: Liv Duvå
4.17
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Ned fra himlen er en fortælling om en ung mor på flugt og en stor roman om Velfærdsdanmark. Ma… read more
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31. La foto mi guardava
By: Katja Petrowskaja
4.10
Format: 259 pages, ebook
«La foto mi guardava. Quella vicinanza mi ipnotizzava, ne ero addirittura spaventata. Non sapevo ne… read more
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