L'Après-midi de Monsieur Andesmas
By: Marguerite Duras
3.37
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
Monsieur Andesmas, soixante-dix-huit ans, achète une maison pour sa fille Valérie. Il veut faire co…
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1. Gargantua and Pantagruel
By: François Rabelais , M.A. Screech
3.66
Format: 1041 pages, Paperback
The dazzling and exuberant moral stories of Rabelais (c.1471-1553) expose human follies with their … read more
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"gülmektir çünkü insanı insan eden"-François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
"El hombre no val más de lo que él mismo estima."-François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
"Aux lecteurs: Amis lecteurs, qui ce livre lisez, Despouillez vous de toute affection; Et, le lisant, ne vous scandalisez: Il ne contient mal ne infection; Vray est qu'icy peu de perfection Vous appre…"-François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
"Panurge stood beside the galley with an oar in his hand, not to help the herdsmen but to prevent from from somehow clambering aboard and thus escaping their death, and all the while preached to them …"-François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
2. Dora Bruder
By: Patrick Modiano , None
3.57
Format: 123 pages, Hardcover
Patrick Modiano opens Dora Bruder by telling how in 1988 he stumbled across an ad in the personal c… read more
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"But I am a patient man. I can wait for hours in the rain."-Patrick Modiano, Dora Bruder
"Existen casualidades, encuentros y coincidencias que se ignorarán siempre…"-Patrick Modiano, Dora Bruder
"El éxtasis no dura mucho, sin embargo. No tiene porvenir. Pronto nuestro impulso es frenado en seco."-Patrick Modiano, Dora Bruder
"That is her secret. A poor and precious secret that not even the executioners, the decrees, the occupying authorities, the Depot, the barracks, the camps, History, time-everything that defiles and de…"-Patrick Modiano, Dora Bruder
3. Annie John
By: Jamaica Kincaid
3.71
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Annie John is a haunting and provocative story of a young girl growing up on the island of Antigua.… read more
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"Like father like son, like mother like daughter!"-Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John
"I began to feel alternately too big and too small. First, I grew so big that I took up the whole street; then I grew so small that nobody could see me — not even if I cried out."-Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John
"I went back to my cabin and lay down on my berth. Everything trembled as if it had a spring at its very center. I could hear the small waves lap-lapping around the ship. They made an unexpected sound…"-Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John
"She smelled sometimes of lemons, sometimes of sage, sometimes of roses, sometimes of bay leaf. At times I would no longer hear what it was she was saying; I just liked to look at her mouth as it open…"-Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John
4. Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
By: Pablo Neruda , W.S. Merwin , Cristina García
4.21
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
When it appeared in 1924, this work launched into the international spotlight a young and unknown p… read more
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"Tonight I Can Write"-Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
"I remembered you with my soul clenched"-Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
"I want to fill my mouth with your name."-Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
"Every day you play with the light of the universe."-Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
5. Jacob's Room
By: Virginia Woolf
3.53
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Virginia Woolf's first original and distinguished work, Jacob's Room is the story of a sensitive yo… read more
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"One must love everything."-Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room
"Marvelous are the innocent. "-Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room
"But language is wine upon his lips"-Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room
"It is no use trying to sum people up."-Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room
6. Confabulations
By: John Berger
3.97
Format: 133 pages, Kindle Edition
'Language is a body, a living creature ... and this creature's home is the inarticulate as well as … read more
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"Preachers love only their own voices."-John Berger, Confabulations
"The clown knows that life is cruel. The ancient jester's motley coloured costume turned his usually melancholy expression in to a joke. The clown is used to loss. Loss is his prologue."-John Berger, Confabulations
"A spoken language is a body, a living creature, whose physiognomy is verbal and whose visceral functions are linguistic. And this creature's home is the inarticulate as well as the articulate."-John Berger, Confabulations
"Much of what happens to us in life is nameless because our vocabulary is too poor. Most stories get told out loud because the storyteller hopes that the feeling of the story can transform a nameless …"-John Berger, Confabulations
7. At Swim-Two-Birds
By: Flann O'Brien , William H. Gass
4.04
Format: None pages, Paperback
A wildly comic send-up of Irish literature and culture, At Swim-Two-Birdsis the story of a young, l… read more
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- fiction
8. The Blindfold
By: Siri Hustvedt
4.39
Format: None pages,
Iris Vegan, a young, impoverished graduate student from the Midwest, finds herself entangled with f… read more
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- fiction
9. Wittgenstein's Mistress
By: David Foster Wallace , Steven Moore , David Markson
3.32
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
Wittgenstein's Mistress is a novel unlike anything David Markson - or anyone else - has ever writte… read more
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- fiction
10. Viper's Tangle
By: Robert Coles , François Mauriac
4.29
Format: None pages, Paperback
The masterpiece of one of the twentieth century's greatest Catholic writers, Vipers' Tangle tells t… read more
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- france
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11. The Nun
By: Denis Diderot , Russell Goulbourne
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Diderot's The Nun (La Religieuse) is the seemingly true story of a young girl forced by her parents… read more
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12. Svinalängorna
By: Susanna Alakoski
3.66
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Leena har tva basta vanner. Ase ar nastan den enda hon kanner som inte har en pappa som super, men … read more
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- fiction
13. Run River
By: Joan Didion
3.29
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Joan Didion's electrifying first novel is a haunting portrait of a marriage whose wrong turns and b… read more
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- fiction
14. The Confusions of Young Törless
By: J.M. Coetzee , Shaun Whiteside , Robert Musil
3.38
Format: None pages, Paperback
Like his contemporary and rival Sigmund Freud, Robert Musil boldly explored the dark, irrational un… read more
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16. Invitation to a Beheading
By: Vladimir Nabokov
4.89
Format: 78 pages, Paperback
An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found Like Kafka's The Castle, Invitation to a … read more
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17. Petersburg
By: Andrei Bely , Robert A. Maguire , None
4.08
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
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18. Requiem for a Dream
By: Hubert Selby Jr. , Richard Price , Darren Aronofsky
4.14
Format: None pages, Trade Paperback
In Coney Island, Brooklyn, Sarah Goldfarb, a lonely widow, wants nothing more than to lose weight a… read more
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19. Murphy
By: Samuel Beckett
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
'Murphy', Samuel Beckett's first published novel, was written in English and published in London in… read more
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20. Three Trapped Tigers
By: Guillermo Cabrera Infante , Suzanne Jill Levine , Donald Gardner
3.83
Format: 35 pages, Paperback
Cabrera Infante's masterpiece, Three Trapped Tigers is one of the most playful books to reach the U… read more
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21. The Eye
By: Vladimir Nabokov , Dmitri Nabokov
3.79
Format: 223 pages, Paperback
Nabokov's fourth novel, The Eyeis as much a farcical detective story as it is a profoundly refracti… read more
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22. Sobre héroes y tumbas
By: None
4.79
Format: None pages,
Esta es la segunda novela de Ernesto Sabato, que profundiza la senda iniciada por El tunel. Una obr… read more
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23. Women Without Men: A Novel of Modern Iran
By: Shahrnush Parsipur , Kamran Talattof , Jocelyn Sharlet , None
3.67
Format: 208 pages,
Shortly after the 1989 publication of Women Without Menin her native Iran, Shahrnush Parsipur was a… read more
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24. The Young Man
By: Annie Ernaux
3.61
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Annie Ernaux's most recent book, dazzling and breat… read more
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25. Guerre
By: Louis-Ferdinand Céline
3.79
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Parmi les manuscrits de Louis-Ferdinand Céline récemment retrouvés figurait une liasse de deux cent… read more
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"A tant d’années passées le souvenir des choses, bien précisément, c’est un effort. Ce que les gens ont dit c’est presque tourné des mensonges. Faut se méfier. C’est putain le passé, ça fond dans la r…"-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Guerre
"J’ai bien dû rester là encore une partie de la nuit suivante. Toute l’oreille à gauche était collée par terre avec du sang, la bouche aussi. Entre les deux y avait un bruit immense. J’ai dormi dans c…"-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Guerre
26. Mamut
By: Eva Baltasar
3.58
Format: 148 pages, Paperback
La protagonista de Mamut és una dona arcaica atrapada en la vida moderna. El seu medi és la ciutat,… read more
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27. Harrow
By: Joy Williams
3.19
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In her first novel since The Quick and the Dead (nominated for the Pulitzer Prize), the legendary … read more
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28. 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!
29. Three Radio Plays: A Deal in Dreams; The Cicadas; The Good God of Manhattan
By: Ingeborg Bachmann
4.10
Format: 223 pages, Paperback
Ingeborg Bachmann ranks among the best known postwar Austrian authors. Critical acclaim for her poe… read more
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30. L'Après-midi de Monsieur Andesmas
By: Marguerite Duras
3.37
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
Monsieur Andesmas, soixante-dix-huit ans, achète une maison pour sa fille Valérie. Il veut faire co… read more
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31. Sürgün Ruhum
By: Zabel Yesayan
4.21
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Türkçeye çevrilen kitaplarıyla büyük ilgi gören Zabel Yesayan, 'Sürgün Ruhum'da, uzun yıllar yurt d… read more
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