Le goût des jeunes filles
By: Dany Laferrière
3.66
Format: 397 pages, Kindle Edition
Le Goût des jeunes filles est l'histoire d'un exilé haïtien à Miami qui se remémore son adolescence…
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1. The Masque of the Red Death
By: Edgar Allan Poe
4.06
Format: 9 pages, Paperback
The story follows Prince Prospero's attempts to avoid a dangerous plague known as the Red Death by … read more
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"Existem cordas, nos corações dos mais indiferentes, que não podem ser tocadas sem emoção."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
"Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
"There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
"And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
2. I'm Gone
By: Jean Echenoz , None
3.40
Format: 195 pages, Paperback
A sophisticated Parisian art dealer abandons his family to join a treasure hunting expedition to th… read more
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3. Survival in Auschwitz
By: Primo Levi , Philip Roth , Stuart J. Woolf
4.33
Format: 187 pages, Paperback
The true and harrowing account of Primo Levi’s experience at the German concentration camp of Ausch… read more
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"... infin che un giorno senso non avrà più dire : domani" (...jusqu'à ce qu'un jour dire "demain" n'ait plus de sens)"-Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz
"…in this place everything is forbidden, not for hidden reasons, but because the camp has been created for that purpose."-Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz
"...for a country is considered the more civilized the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak or a powerful one too powerful."-Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz
"Qualcuno, molto tempo fa, ha scritto che anche i libri, come gli esseri umani, hanno un loro destino, imprevedibile, diverso da quello che per loro si desiderava e si attendeva."-Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz
4. L'amour dure trois ans (Marc Marronnier, #3)
By: Frédéric Beigbeder
3.54
Format: 337 pages, Mass Market Paperback
C'est une histoire d'amour moderne et radicalement autobiographique. Le heros - un jeune homme "bra… read more
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5. Monsieur Ibrahim and The Flowers of the Qur'an
By: Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt , Patricia Benecke , Patrick Driver
4.83
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Internationally acclaimed play of cross-cultural friendship Paris in the 1960s. Thirteen-year-old M… read more
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6. La extraña
By: Sándor Márai , Mária Szijj , J.M. González Trevejo
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Rodeado del bullicio de las numerosas familias que veranean en el concurrido Hotel Argentina, en Du… read more
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7. Love in a Fallen City
By: Eileen Chang , Karen S. Kingsbury
4.20
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
Eileen Chang is one of the great writers of twentieth-century China, where she enjoys a passionate … read more
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8. La bête à sa mère
By: David Goudreault
4.00
Format: 232 pages, Mass Market Paperback
« Ma mère se suicidait souvent. Elle a commencé toute jeune, en amatrice. Très vite, maman a su obt… read more
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9. The Fire Next Time
By: James Baldwin
3.54
Format: None pages, Paperback
A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Timegalvanized the nation and g… read more
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10. Letter to D: A Love Story
By: Julie Rose , André Gorz
3.67
Format: 44 pages, Hardcover
'You're 82 years old. You've shrunk six centimetres, you only weigh 45 kilos yet you're still beaut… read more
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11. Un roman français
By: Frédéric Beigbeder
3.70
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
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12. L'avalée des avalés
By: Réjean Ducharme
3.74
Format: 70 pages, Paperback
"Tout m'avale (...) Je suis avalee par le fleuve trop grand, par le ciel trop haut, par les fleurs … read more
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13. Snow Country
By: Yasunari Kawabata , Edward G. Seidensticker
3.59
Format: 175 pages, Paperback
Nobel Prize recipient Yasunari Kawabata's Snow Country is widely considered to be the writer's mast… read more
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"국경의 긴 터널을 빠져나오자, 雪國이었다."-Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country
"Nothing is so strange when one is in love."-Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country
"In the moonlight the fine geishalike skin took on the luster of a seashell."-Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country
"The notes went out crystalline into the clean winter morning, to sound on the far, snowy peaks."-Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country
14. The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex/Oedipus at Colonus/Antigone (The Theban Plays, #1–3)
By: Sophocles , Robert Fitzgerald , Dudley Fitts , None
5.00
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
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15. Vivre vite
By: Brigitte Giraud
3.58
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
"J'ai été aimantée par cette double mission impossible. Acheter la maison et retrouver les armes ca… read more
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16. A Man's Place
By: Annie Ernaux
3.88
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A New York Times Notable Book Annie Ernaux's fat… read more
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"J'écris peut-être parce qu'on n'avait plus rien à se dire."-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place
"Sous le bonheur, la crispation de l'aisance gagnée à l'arraché."-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place
"Có lẽ niềm tự hào lớn nhất đối với ông, hay thậm chí là lời biện minh cho cuộc đời ông: là tôi đang thuộc về thế giới từng khinh miệt ông."-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place
"It was in other people that I searched for the figure of my father, in the way they would call their children, sit down and looked bored in waiting rooms and wave goodbye on station platforms."-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place
17. The Postcard
By: Anne Berest
4.37
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the Choix Goncourt Prize, Anne Berest’s The Postcard is a vivid portrait of twentieth-cen… read more
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"It would be wrong to call them memories; they are moments of life, that man hat es erlebt - one has lived. They are inside me, part of me, branded into my skin, you might say - but they're not memori…"-Anne Berest, The Postcard
"After the war, women in orthodox Jewish families had made it their mission to have as many children as possible to replenish the population -- and it seemed to me that the same was true for books. Th…"-Anne Berest, The Postcard
18. The Anomaly
By: Hervé Le Tellier
3.81
Format: 391 pages, Paperback
A virtuoso novel where logic confronts magic and that explores the part of ourselves that eludes us… read more
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"Aimer évite au moins de chercher sans cesse un sens à sa vie."-Hervé Le Tellier, The Anomaly
"Le vrai pessimiste sait qu'il est déjà trop tard pour l'être."-Hervé Le Tellier, The Anomaly
"Une traduction est une œuvre, les traducteurs sont des auteurs."-Hervé Le Tellier, The Anomaly
"Es gibt ein Leben nach dem Tod, besonders nach dem der anderen."-Hervé Le Tellier, The Anomaly
19. Là où je me terre
By: Caroline Dawson
4.38
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Valparaíso, décembre 1986, tremblement de terre entre les quatre murs d’une maison. Un homme et une… read more
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"Parce que c'est ma mère, elle qui a sacrifié chacun de ses jours et plusieurs de ses nuits pour me voir libérée des servilités et soumissions qui étaient les siennes, qui a souahaité le plus ma réuss…"-Caroline Dawson, Là où je me terre
20. Le Mage du Kremlin
By: Giuliano da Empoli
4.13
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
On l’appelait le « mage du Kremlin ». L’énigmatique Vadim Baranov fut metteur en scène puis product… read more
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21. The Years
By: Annie Ernaux
4.17
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist’s defining work and a breakout bestseller when… read more
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"Sauver quelque chose du temps où l'on ne sera plus jamais."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
"La profusion des choses cachait la rareté des idées et l'usure des croyances."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
"The profusion of things concealed the scarcity of ideas and the erosion of beliefs."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
"Je ne suis nulle part dans le temps. Il est l'ange qui fait revivre le passé, rend éternel."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
22. Kukum
By: Michel Jean
4.55
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
«C'est un de ces soirs où je trayais les vaches dans la lumière du soleil couchant que je l'ai vu p… read more
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"Péribonka, c'est un chemin creusé par des géants à même le roc. Cette nature indomptée et somptueuse m'a libérée de l'horizon."-Michel Jean, Kukum
"Ce soir d'été, quand je suis arrivée au pâturage, il m'attendait, assis sur la clôture, avec la patience de celui qui se moque du temps qui passe."-Michel Jean, Kukum
23. Grey Bees
By: Andrey Kurkov
4.07
Format: 349 pages, Paperback
49-year-old safety inspector-turned-beekeeper Sergey Sergeich, wants little more than to help his b… read more
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24. Le cigare au bord des lèvres
By: Akim Gagnon
3.99
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
Une bouteille de rouge, un cigare, un ordinateur, un écrivain au travail. Il souhaite raconter sa v… read more
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25. Les Marins ne savent pas nager
By: Dominique Scali
3.76
Format: 708 pages, Paperback
Danaé Berrubé-Portanguen dite Poussin possède le rare don de savoir nager. Orpheline, tour à tour s… read more
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26. La sangre de la aurora
By: Claudia Salazar Jiménez
3.94
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
En La sangre de la aurora los destinos de tres mujeres se entrelazan y se desgarran durante lo que … read more
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"I overhear the soldiers whispering. That terrorist looks a bit butch. They laugh. I turn to glare right into their mindless sheep eyes and they stiffen, pretend they don't see me. Miserable fools. Wh…"-Claudia Salazar Jiménez, La sangre de la aurora
27. Alice Guy
By: José-Louis Bocquet
3.96
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Le parcours exceptionnel de la première réalisatrice de l’histoire du cinéma En 1895, à Lyon, le… read more
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28. L'usure d'un monde: Une traversée de l'Iran
By: François-Henri Désérable
4.08
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
"La peur était pour le peuple iranien une compagne de chaque instant, la moitié fidèle d'une vie. L… read more
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29. Niko
By: Dimitri Nasrallah
3.72
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Six-year-old Niko Karaam has never known a life outside civil war. He rarely leaves his parents' sm… read more
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30. Le goût des jeunes filles
By: Dany Laferrière
3.66
Format: 397 pages, Kindle Edition
Le Goût des jeunes filles est l'histoire d'un exilé haïtien à Miami qui se remémore son adolescence… read more
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31. Treize nouvelles vaudou
By: Gary Victor
4.04
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Inspektor Azémar, der hier zum ersten Mal vorkommt, jagt einen Mörder, der seine Opfer zu Brei zerq… read more
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