The Singularity
By: Balsam Karam
3.81
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Lyrical and devastating, The Singularity is a breathtaking study of grief, migration, and motherhoo…
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1. Verderame
By: Michele Mari
4.00
Format: 222 pages, Hardcover
La memoria di Felice si sta sbriciolando: per tutta la vita si e occupato della grande casa di camp… read more
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2. The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild
By: Mathias Énard
3.59
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
To research his thesis on contemporary agrarian life, anthropology student David Mazon moves from P… read more
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3. Kairos
By: Jenny Erpenbeck
3.46
Format: 379 pages, Hardcover
Die neunzehnjährige Katharina und Hans, ein verheirateter Mann Mitte fünfzig, begegnen sich Ende de… read more
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"She would like a shallow life, swift and shallow, till some day she can start again. Get through her time fast until then. And when will that be? Then."-Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos
4. Stone Yard Devotional
By: Charlotte Wood
3.68
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
A deeply moving novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be 'good', from the award-winn… read more
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5. The Details
By: Ia Genberg
3.90
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
An acclaimed Swedish author makes her English language debut with this intoxicating novel in the ve… read more
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- literary fiction
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- sweden
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"La fiducia resta lettera morta, se non la si sente nelle ossa."-Ia Genberg, The Details
"L'io , o meglio, il cosidetto "io", non è altro che questo: ciò che resta delle persone a cui ci siamo stretti."-Ia Genberg, The Details
"La vita mi ha regalato la mia buona dose di magia, e il più delle volte è successo all'incontro con gli altri. Lì c'è qualcosa. Lì, soltanto lì."-Ia Genberg, The Details
"Per i morti la successione del tempo non ha importanza, l'unica cosa che conta sono i dettagli, la densità, il come e il cosa e tutto ciò che riguarda il chi."-Ia Genberg, The Details
6. No es un río
By: Selva Almada
3.95
Format: 104 pages, Kindle Edition
Enero y el Negro llevan de pesca a Tilo, hijo adolescente de Eusebio, el amigo muerto. Mientras beb… read more
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7. Orbital
By: Samantha Harvey
3.73
Format: 207 pages, Hardcover
A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more
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- fiction
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- audiobook
"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
8. Alphabetical Diaries
By: Sheila Heti
4.02
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling confessional from the award-winning, beloved author of Pure Colour. Sheila Heti kept a… read more
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9. It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
By: Anne de Marcken
3.82
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, this incredible life-after-death novel asks us to consider how m… read more
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- contemporary
"Fasting makes sense of the hunger. The constant internal grasping. The only sensible answer to this is to always withdraw the thing after which I grasp. To subvert. To thwart. To deny. It closes the …"-Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
10. Mild Vertigo
By: Mieko Kanai
3.55
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Housewife Natsumi leads a small, unremarkable life in a modern Tokyo apartment with her husband and… read more
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11. Tell
By: Jonathan Buckley
3.17
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, Tell is an exuberant, intensely fluid, and probing examination o… read more
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12. The Book of All Loves
By: Agustín Fernández Mallo
3.51
Format: 178 pages, Kindle Edition
In the wake of the Great Blackout, faced with the near-extinction of humanity, a pair of lovers spe… read more
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13. The Observable Universe: An Investigation
By: Heather McCalden
3.96
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A moving memoir of a young woman's reckoning with her parents' absence, the virus that took them, a… read more
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14. Ungeenheden
By: Fine Gråbøl
3.68
Format: 169 pages, Paperback
Ungeenheden er Fine Gråbøls debut. En omsorgsfuld og kritisk roman om en gruppe unge i psykiatrien … read more
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"Our daily routines are our best illusions of new beginnings, a new cycle."-Fine Gråbøl, Ungeenheden
15. Ædnan
By: Linnea Axelsson
4.23
Format: 762 pages, Hardcover
Ædnan är ett mäktigt epos som på en ordknapp vers berättar om två samiska familjer. I deras öden sp… read more
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- sweden
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- audiobook
16. The Son of Man
By: Jean-Baptiste Del Amo
3.71
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the “extraordinary” Animalia ( Sunday Times ), winner of the Republic of Conscio… read more
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- family
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17. The Singularity
By: Balsam Karam
3.81
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Lyrical and devastating, The Singularity is a breathtaking study of grief, migration, and motherhoo… read more
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18. The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story
By: Olga Tokarczuk
4.05
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The Nobelist's latest masterwork, set in a sanitarium on the eve of World War I, probes the horrors… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"mitologię, jako zbiór pouczających opowieści, które pomagają żyć"-Olga Tokarczuk, The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story
"Ojciec często powtarzał mu (...) że kobiety są z natury swojej zdradliwe i chwiejne. Rozmazane."-Olga Tokarczuk, The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story
"To proste - myślał Mieczyś Wojnicz, łykając łzy, które mieszały się z krwią zwierzęcia w jego wątłym ciele - być mężczyzną to nauczyć się ignorować to, co sprawia kłopot. Oto cała tajemnica."-Olga Tokarczuk, The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story
"Wojnicz już zauważył, że każda dyskusja, czy szło o demokrację, czy o piąty wymiar, czy o rolę religii socjalizm, Europę, wreszcie sztukę nowoczesną, wszystko w końcu sprowadzało się do kobiet"-Olga Tokarczuk, The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story
19. Gifted
By: Suzumi Suzuki
3.22
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
A moving portrayal of a troubled mother–daughter relationship, shortlisted for Japan’s prestigious … read more
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20. Living Things
By: Munir Hachemi
3.82
Format: 116 pages, Kindle Edition
Living Things follows four recent graduates – Munir, G, Ernesto and Álex – who travel from Madrid t… read more
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21. Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative
By: Isabella Hammad
4.74
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
From the award-winning novelist of The Parisian and Enter Ghost comes an outstanding essay on the P… read more
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