6 Top poetry books like A mulher submersa by Mar Becker

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A mulher submersa

By: Mar Becker

4.63

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Há alguns anos, quando ainda era adolescente, vi em um livro de arte, impresso em papel brilhante e…

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1. Story of the Eye

By: Georges Bataille , Joachim Neugroschel , Dovid Bergelson

3.66

Format: 103 pages, Paperback

Only Georges Bataille could write, of an eyeball removed from a corpse, that "the caress of the eye… read more

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"We pedaled rapidly, without laughing or speaking, peculiarly satisfied with our mutual presence, akin to one another in the common isolation of lewdness, weariness, and absurdity."

-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye

"Simone was tall and lovely. She was usually very natural; there was nothing heartbreaking in her eyes or her voice. But on a sensual level, she so bluntly craved any upheaval that the faintest call f…"

-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye

"I remember that one day, when we were in a car tooling along at top speed,we crashed into a cyclist, an apparently very young and very pretty girl. Her head was almost totally ripped off by the wheel…"

-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye

"As for the fact that Simone dared to piss on the corpse, whether in boredom or, at worst, in irritation: it mainly goes to prove how impossible it was for us to understand what was happening, and of …"

-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye

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2. The Argonauts

By: Maggie Nelson

3.91

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Ma… read more

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3. Quarto de Despejo: Diário de Uma Favelada

By: Carolina Maria de Jesus , None

4.47

Format: 199 pages, Paperback

O diário da catadora de papel Carolina Maria de Jesus deu origem à este livro, que relata o cotidia… read more

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"Why is it that the saints of June are honored with fire?"

-Carolina Maria de Jesus, Quarto de Despejo: Diário de Uma Favelada

"A noite está tépida. O céu está salpicado de estrelas. Eu que sou exótica gostaria de recortar um pedaço do céu para fazer um vestido"

-Carolina Maria de Jesus, Quarto de Despejo: Diário de Uma Favelada

"Eskiden unlu maddeler pahalı idi. Şimdi de pirinç ve fasulye onları gölgede bıraktı.Yeni zenginler gibi asillerin tarafına geçtiler. Demek siz de, fasulye ve pirinç, bizi terkettiniz?"

-Carolina Maria de Jesus, Quarto de Despejo: Diário de Uma Favelada

"Skeçler yazıp sirk müdürüne götürdüm. Bana, "Ne yazık ki zencisiniz." diye cevap verdiler. Kıvırcık saçlarımla, esmer tenimi ne kadar sevdiğimi unutuyorlar halbuki. Hatta zencilerin saçlarını beyazla…"

-Carolina Maria de Jesus, Quarto de Despejo: Diário de Uma Favelada

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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. Kunskapens frukt

By: Liv Strömquist

4.40

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Liv Stromquists nya seriealbum Kunskapens frukt handlar om det som brukar kallas for det kvinnliga … read more

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6. The Lost Daughter

By: Elena Ferrante

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Elena Ferrante will blow you away."-Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones From the author of Th… read more

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7. Night Sky with Exit Wounds

By: Ocean Vuong

4.00

Format: 258 pages, Paperback

Ocean Vuong's first full-length collection aims straight for the perennial "big"--and very human--s… read more

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8. Shame

By: Annie Ernaux

3.67

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

"My father tried to kill my mother one Sunday in June, in the early afternoon." Thus begins Shame, … read more

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"People are forever remembering."

-Annie Ernaux, Shame

"We have no true memory of ourselves."

-Annie Ernaux, Shame

"Le pire dans la honte, c'est qu'on croit être seul à la ressentir"

-Annie Ernaux, Shame

"anyone who doesn't speak "the way we do" is, to some extent, labeled a foreigner."

-Annie Ernaux, Shame

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9. Simple Passion

By: Annie Ernaux

3.93

Format: 67 pages, Paperback

In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensn… read more

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"I experienced pleasure like a future pain."

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

"I do not wish to explain my passion—that would imply that it was a mistake or some disorder I need to justify—I just want to describe it."

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

"A partir du mois de septembre l'année dernière, je n'ai plus rien fait d'autre qu'attendre un homme : qu'il me téléphone et qu'il vienne chez moi."

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

"Yet it is that surreal, almost non-existent last visit that gives my passion its true meaning, which is precisely to be meaningless, and to have been for two years the most violent and unaccountable …"

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

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10. Happening

By: Annie Ernaux

4.32

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her like a plag… read more

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"There is no such thing as a lesser truth."

-Annie Ernaux, Happening

"I was intoxicated, wrapped up in wordless intelligence."

-Annie Ernaux, Happening

"People judged according to the law, they didn't judge the law."

-Annie Ernaux, Happening

"love children are the most beautiful of all.' What a terrible statement."

-Annie Ernaux, Happening

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11. 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

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12. Torto Arado

By: Itamar Vieira Junior

4.49

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

Vencedor dos prémios LeYa (2018) e Jabuti, finalista do Oceanos (2020). Um livro comovente que traz… read more

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"Olha, dona"

-Itamar Vieira Junior, Torto Arado

"Durante algum tempo, pensei que pudesse haver uma ruptura entre nossas famílias, mas o perdão aflorava da bênção que poderia ser o retorno de alguém de qual somos parte."

-Itamar Vieira Junior, Torto Arado

"Você incutiu naquelas vidas um respeito grande por suas próprias histórias. Mas agora nem você conseguia mais se iluminar com a esperança de que a mudança fosse possível, muito menos acreditava que a…"

-Itamar Vieira Junior, Torto Arado

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13. Childhood / Youth / Dependency (The Copenhagen Trilogy, #1-3)

By: Tove Ditlevsen

4.37

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

Called a masterpiece by The New York Times, the acclaimed trilogy from Tove Ditlevsen, a pioneer in… read more

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"Every person has their own truth just as every child has their own childhood."

-Tove Ditlevsen, Childhood / Youth / Dependency (The Copenhagen Trilogy, #1-3)

"My classmates find me unceasingly, overwhelmingly comical, and I've gotten used to the clown role and even find a sad comfort in it, because together with my confirmed stupidity, it protects me again…"

-Tove Ditlevsen, Childhood / Youth / Dependency (The Copenhagen Trilogy, #1-3)

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14. Boulder

By: Eva Baltasar

3.89

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

La protagonista d'aquesta novel·la és una dona atreta per la solitud com per un imant. Es guanya la… read more

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"Los niños pequeños tienen ese poder, imponen su alegría al malestar ordinario de los adultos."

-Eva Baltasar, Boulder

"Y sin embargo he descubierto que no se puede columpiar a un hijo sin sonreír. Lo he intentado y es imposible. Los niños pequeños tienen ese poder, imponen su alegría al malestar ordinario de los adul…"

-Eva Baltasar, Boulder

"I listen with all five senses, I listen to her with my entire body, with everything but my heart, which feels like it wants to thrash the hell out of me. This wasn't part of our plan. The truth is we…"

-Eva Baltasar, Boulder

"But all this tunneling has opened rifts through which the captive parts of me have started to emerge. I realize that I am smoke, that the things that define me rise as they would up a chimney, probin…"

-Eva Baltasar, Boulder

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15. A Woman's Story

By: Annie Ernaux

4.23

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

A Woman's Story is Annie Ernaux's "deeply affecting account of mothers and daughters, youth and age… read more

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"Until I was twenty, I thought I was responsible for her growing old."

-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story

"With so much misery around, fighting for social advancement had lost all meaning."

-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story

"I believe I am writing about my mother because it is my turn to bring her into the world."

-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story

"Het beeld van haar wordt langzaam weer dat wat ik mij voorstel te hebben gehad van haar in mijn babytijd, een grote, blanke schaduw boven mij."

-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story

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16. Literatura infantil

By: Alejandro Zambra

4.25

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

Diario de paternidad, «carta al hijo» y ficción pura conviven en extraordinaria armonía a lo largo … read more

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"No recuerdo nuestro primer viaje solos, a mis tres o cuatro años, pero él lo ha contado tantas veces que su relato funciona casi como un recuerdo implantado."

-Alejandro Zambra, Literatura infantil

"La biología nos asegura un lugar en sus vidas, pero igual ansiamos que nos elijan como padres. Que alguna vez digan esta frase tan maravillosamente rara: 'Mi padre fue mi verdadero padre'."

-Alejandro Zambra, Literatura infantil

"Me enorgullece que la primera palabra pronunciada por mi hijo, hace cinco días, haya sido, contra toda tendencia estadística, la palabra papá. Ahora la dice a cada rato. Todavía le cuesta, eso sí, ar…"

-Alejandro Zambra, Literatura infantil

"La lectura silenciosa es en cierto modo una conquista; quienes leemos en silencio y en soledad aprendemos, justamente, a estar solos, o mejor dicho reconquistamos una soledad menos agresiva, una sole…"

-Alejandro Zambra, Literatura infantil

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17. In the Eye of the Wild

By: Nastassja Martin

3.96

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

In the Eye of the Wild begins with a terrifying account of the anthropologist Nastassja Martin’s ne… read more

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"Da anni scrivo di confini, del margine, della liminarità, della zona di frontiera, del tra-due-mondi; a proposito di questo luogo molto speciale dove è possibile incontrare una potenza “altra"

-Nastassja Martin, In the Eye of the Wild

"İnsanların, kayalara yapışan istiridyeler gibi, başkalarının acılarına yapışmak gibi tuhaf bir saplantıları var. Başıma gelen şey onları kendileriyle yüzleştiriyor sanki. Bu trajedi organlarının, der…"

-Nastassja Martin, In the Eye of the Wild

"Cette nuit-là, j'écris qu'il faut croire aux fauves, à leurs silences, à leur retenue ; croire au qui-vive, aux murs blancs et nus, aux draps jaunes de cette chambre d'hôpital ; croire au retrait qui…"

-Nastassja Martin, In the Eye of the Wild

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18. 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

Cover of O que é Meu by José Henrique Bortoluci

19. O que é Meu

By: José Henrique Bortoluci

4.20

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Neste ensaio biográfico de rara sensibilidade, que já teve os direitos vendidos para dez editoras e… read more

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20. Saia da frente do meu sol

By: Felipe Charbel

3.86

Format: 127 pages, Kindle Edition

Uma investigação sobre o segredo que moldou a vida de um homem, um romance especulativo, uma biogra… read more

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21. Intermezzo

By: Sally Rooney

4.34

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.… read more

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22. Solitária

By: Eliana Alves Cruz

4.27

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

“Mãe, a senhora precisa se libertar destas pessoas. A senhora não deve nada pra elas. Não tenha med… read more

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23. Também guardamos pedras aqui

By: Luiza Romão

3.68

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Por Adelaide Ivánova As pedras de Luiza Romão têm a ver menos com as pedras no bolso de Virginia… read more

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Cover of À l'est des rêves (French Edition) by Nastassja Martin

24. À l'est des rêves (French Edition)

By: Nastassja Martin

4.30

Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition

Après avoir travaillé en Alaska avec le peuple Gwich'in, Nastassja Martin a franchi le détroit de B… read more

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25. A água é uma máquina do tempo

By: Aline Motta

4.46

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Entre palavra e imagem, entre arquivo e fabulação, A água é uma máquina do tempo, de Aline Motta, r… read more

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26. Dança para Cavalos

By: Ana Estaregui

3.83

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Depois do cultuado Coração de boi (7letras, 2016), Ana Estaregui apresenta agora Dança para cavalos… read more

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27. Traducción de la ruta

By: Laura Wittner

3.79

Format: None pages, None

Donde no hay movimiento, hay nostalgia del movimiento, movimiento pensado, imaginado, viaje o recue… read more

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28. A mulher submersa

By: Mar Becker

4.63

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Há alguns anos, quando ainda era adolescente, vi em um livro de arte, impresso em papel brilhante e… read more

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Cover of Abrir a boca da cobra by Sofia Mariutti

29. Abrir a boca da cobra

By: Sofia Mariutti

4.33

Format: 68 pages, Paperback

O novo livro de Sofia Mariutti cria um ambiente, ao mesmo tempo, de cuidado e de ameaça. É um besti… read more

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30. Poema do desaparecimento

By: Laura Liuzzi

4.54

Format: 79 pages, Paperback

“Todo poema/ declara o nosso desaparecimento” — é em torno dessa sentença que Laura Liuzzi, uma das… read more

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31. Um Teste de Resistores

By: Marília Garcia

4.29

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Um teste de resistores parece um livro de poesia, mas vai muito além. Com talento e originalidade, … read more

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7 Best nonfiction books like The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson

Transform Your Habits

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Claudia Rankine

4.27

Transform Your Habits

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Maggie Nelson

3.91

Transform Your Habits

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Carmen Maria Machado

4.42

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Olivia Laing

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