Fate
By: Jorge Consiglio
3.24
Format: 117 pages, Paperback
They inhabited a present that was weightless, fickle even, and yet at the same time effortlessly as…
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1. Hot Milk
By: Deborah Levy
3.94
Format: 489 pages, Hardcover
Sofia, a young anthropologist, has spent much of her life trying to solve the mystery of her mother… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
2. Death and the Penguin
By: Andrey Kurkov , George Bird
4.33
Format: 268 pages, Paperback
Viktor is an aspiring writer with only Misha, his pet penguin, for company. Although he would prefe… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
3. La débil mental
By: Ariana Harwicz
3.74
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Escrita como un flujo de conciencia que recuerda a la mejor literatura moderna -Virgina Woolf, Nath… read more
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4. Sweet Days of Discipline
By: Tim Parks , Fleur Jaeggy
4.50
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Set in postwar Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggy's eerily beautiful novel begins simply and innocently enou… read more
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5. 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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6. Boquitas pintadas
By: Manuel Puig
3.89
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
El titulo hace referencia a un fox trot, Rubias de New York, que Carlos Gardel cantaba en una pelic… read more
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7. Keep the Aspidistra Flying
By: George Orwell
4.00
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
London, 1936. Gordon Comstock has declared war on the money god; and Gordon is losing the war. Near… read more
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8. 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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- fiction
"I absorbed his every word and tried to see if there was any love in it."-Natalia Ginzburg, The Dry Heart
9. La segunda venida de Hilda Bustamante
By: Salomé Esper
3.89
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Hilda Bustamante tiene 79 años y, como a todas las personas, un día le toca morir. Lo insólito es q… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"Ella pasaba su mano por cada rama, liberaba las hojas de bichos y sequedades; él, mate en mano, escuchaba cómo aquella begonia tardaba en florecer, que Carmen había comprado unas masas riquísimas cua…"-Salomé Esper, La segunda venida de Hilda Bustamante
10. Cursed Bunny
By: Bora Chung
3.78
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
Cursed Bunny is a genre-defying collection of short stories by Korean author Bora Chung. Blurring t… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"Her husband had pursued an “alternative lifestyle"-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny
"One can break the curse, but it is impossible to cure their blindness from greed. They were always ready to wage another war"-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny
"But there I remained, standing in the bathroom, waiting for someone to miraculously find me, to release me from my ties to this life."-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny
"Once you experience a terrible trauma and understand the world from an extreme perspective, it is difficult to overcome this perspective. Because your very survival depends on it."-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny
11. The Pachinko Parlour
By: Elisa Shua Dusapin
3.61
Format: 171 pages, Paperback
The days are beginning to draw in. The sky is dark by seven in the evening. I lie on the floor and … read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"They made it illegal to speak Korean. You could be sentenced to death for speaking it. And do you know what your grandmother’s mother did to avoid being subjected to speaking Japanese at school? She …"-Elisa Shua Dusapin, The Pachinko Parlour
"When Korea was divided, we were still nationals of a unified Korea. It was called Choson. At separation, the Japanese government gave us permission to keep our Korean identity, but we had to choose b…"-Elisa Shua Dusapin, The Pachinko Parlour
12. Mouthful of Birds
By: Samanta Schweblin
3.73
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A powerful, eerily unsettling story collection from a major international literary star. Unearth… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
13. Seven Empty Houses
By: Samanta Schweblin
3.71
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
The seven houses in these seven stories are empty. Some are devoid of love or life or furniture, of… read more
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- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
14. A Little Luck
By: Claudia Piñeiro
4.29
Format: 211 pages, Paperback
After twenty years, a woman returns to the suburban Argentina she had fled to escape a dreadful acc… read more
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- literature
- latin american
- fiction
- contemporary
"Para escribir un diario hay que tener una seguridad del valor que tiene contar la vida propia que yo no tengo."-Claudia Piñeiro, A Little Luck
15. The Appointment
By: Katharina Volckmer
3.53
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
In a well-appointed examination in London, a young woman unburdens herself to a certain Dr. Seligma… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"I think that our bodies know things long before our minds, Dr. Seligman; they will have all the words written on them long before our tongues can find them and our teeth can pull them apart in the em…"-Katharina Volckmer, The Appointment
"All that rubbish about souls is simply not true, that you can love a soul independent of the shape it comes in. Our brains are made so that we can only love a cat as a cat and not as a bird or an ele…"-Katharina Volckmer, The Appointment
"For the first time in my life, I feel like I am being strong for the two of us, like I have broken free from those chains of lipstick and perfect hair and can take pride in my worn feet and the hair …"-Katharina Volckmer, The Appointment
16. Paradais
By: Fernanda Melchor
3.64
Format: 118 pages, Paperback
Inside a luxury housing complex, two misfit teenagers sneak around and get drunk. Franco Andrade, l… read more
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- latin american
- fiction
- contemporary
"It was fatboy's fault, that's what he would tell them"-Fernanda Melchor, Paradais
17. 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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- fiction
- contemporary
"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
18. If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English
By: Noor Naga
3.92
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, an Egyptian American woman and a man from the village of Shobr… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
19. Study for Obedience
By: Sarah Bernstein
3.05
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A haunting, compressed masterwork from an extraordinary new voice in Canadian fiction. A young w… read more
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- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
"I try always to be good."-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
"How, I wondered, might a person, a people, take root, roots and rootlessness, the preservation of what little remains of the past, such were thoughts that blew through me on any given morning, standi…"-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
"In taking a side, I thought uneasily, perhaps I ought to take the long view, the survival of the species as a whole. That was my problem, I thought, I was always thinking at the level of the individu…"-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
"I had hoped that here in the country I would experience the turn of the seasons differently, with less apprehension, I might come to see the form and plan of the world. Not to frame it within systems…"-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
20. Into the Dark (Star Wars: The High Republic)
By: Claudia Gray
4.02
Format: 425 pages, Hardcover
Not everyone who hears the call to adventure wants to answer it.... Jedi Padawan Reath Silas lov… read more
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- fiction
"There’s no point in reacting to a lack of calm in a way that makes you even less calm."-Claudia Gray, Into the Dark (Star Wars: The High Republic)
"The mere making of a decision sometimes had as much power as any action. Purpose clarified every move, every thought."-Claudia Gray, Into the Dark (Star Wars: The High Republic)
21. Send Nudes
By: Saba Sams
3.53
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
In ten dazzling stories, Saba Sams dives into the world of girlhood and immerses us in its contradi… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"The sky was black, sprinkled with crystals of salt. The moon made polite conversation. The trees stood up and waved."-Saba Sams, Send Nudes
22. Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird
By: Agustina Bazterrica
3.14
Format: 154 pages, Paperback
A collection of nineteen dark, wildly imaginative short stories from the author of the award-winnin… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"She was horrified by the traces of monstrosity in everyday life. The things that we look at but don't see, whose true essences are unknown to us."-Agustina Bazterrica, Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird
"Outside the secure space of the circle, vulgarity accumulates. Ada loathes vulgarity because it's there that misery hides. She knows that misery is destructive and, as such, ephemeral."-Agustina Bazterrica, Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird
23. My Work
By: Olga Ravn
4.01
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
In this radical, funny, and mercilessly honest novel about motherhood, Anna is utterly lost after g… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
24. Of Cattle and Men
By: Ana Paula Maia
3.97
Format: 99 pages, Paperback
Animals go mad and men die (accidentally and not) at a slaughterhouse in an impoverished, isolated … read more
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- latin american
- fiction
- contemporary
"Senhor Milo knows cattlemen, he's cut from the same cloth. No one goes unpunished. They're men of cattle and blood."-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men
"Two enclosures, one for cattle and one for men, standing side by side. Sometimes the smell is familiar. Only the voices on one side and the mooing on the other distinguish the men from the ruminants."-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men
"Edgar picks up the mallet. The steer comes up close to him. Edgar looks into the animal's eyes and caresses its forehead. The cow stomps one hoof, wags its tail and snorts. Edgar shushes the animal a…"-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men
"For a few moments, Edgar Wilson yields to the late afternoon sun that has not yet fully set, but that is rushing headlong into a moonless, starless night. He knows how to listen in silence, even when…"-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men
25. Panenka
By: Ronan Hession
4.01
Format: 164 pages, Hardcover
His name was Joseph, but for years they had called him Panenka, a name that was his sadness and his… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"But isn't that what allowing yourself be loved is all about -- letting something greater than fear into your life?"-Ronan Hession, Panenka
"To him love was no union between two otherwise incomplete halves, but more like the gravity that locked two bodies into the same orbit"-Ronan Hession, Panenka
"Life should always be like that. Resting safely, with someone looking over you, attending to the little indulgences that loved people enjoy"-Ronan Hession, Panenka
"Aren't you afraid of failing? Letting everyone down?' Esther thought about it. 'Maybe it's important that other people learn how to handle disappointment."-Ronan Hession, Panenka
26. Fish Soup
By: Margarita García Robayo
3.77
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
From internationally acclaimed author Margarita García Robayo comes Fish Soup, a unique collection … read more
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- latin american
- fiction
- contemporary
27. Homesick
By: Jennifer Croft
3.78
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The coming of age story of an award-winning translator, Homesick is about learning to love language… read more
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28. Holiday Heart
By: Margarita García Robayo
3.47
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
From internationally acclaimed Colombian author Margarita García Robayo, and following the success … read more
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- latin american
- fiction
- contemporary
"la patria es eso que se muda contigo."-Margarita García Robayo, Holiday Heart
"mantener los afectos es cuestión de disciplina."-Margarita García Robayo, Holiday Heart
"pero un día te vas a dar cuenta de que un hombre sin raíces es un hombre muerto."-Margarita García Robayo, Holiday Heart
"Estaba en crisis, era cierto, pero —pensó Lucía y se llenó de furia—: ¿quién no estaba en crisis?"-Margarita García Robayo, Holiday Heart
29. Banal Nightmare
By: Halle Butler
3.64
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A ferocious novel by one of the boldest voices in American fiction and the author of The New Me, th… read more
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- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
30. Theatre of War
By: Andrea Jeftanovic
3.77
Format: 162 pages, Paperback
A unique insight into Chilean history and the devastating psychological effects of war, political v… read more
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- latin american
- fiction
31. Fate
By: Jorge Consiglio
3.24
Format: 117 pages, Paperback
They inhabited a present that was weightless, fickle even, and yet at the same time effortlessly as… read more
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