The Magician of Vienna
By: Sergio Pitol
4.11
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
The heartbreaking final volume in Sergio Pitol's groundbreaking memoir-essay-fiction-hybrid "Trilog…
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1. The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
By: Marcel Proust , None , Terence Kilmartin , D.J. Enright
4.39
Format: 957 pages, Paperback
The Modern Library’s fifth volume of In Search of Lost Time contains both The Captive (1923) and Th… read more
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"...every social class has its own pathology..."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"Love is space and time made perceptible to the heart."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"There are optical errors in time as there are in space."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
2. Faces in the Crowd
By: Valeria Luiselli , Christina MacSweeney
3.59
Format: 146 pages, Paperback
In Mexico City, a young mother is writing a novel of her days as a translator living in New York. I… read more
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"The boy wakes me up: do you know where mosquitoes come from, Mama?"-Valeria Luiselli, Faces in the Crowd
"That’s the way literary recognition works, at least to a certain degree. It’s all a matter of rumor, a rumor that multiplies like a virus until it becomes a collective affinity."-Valeria Luiselli, Faces in the Crowd
"El problema con los criollos, y hasta en mayor grado con las criollas, es que están convencidos de que merecen una mejor vida de la que tienen. La mente criolla está convencida de que bajo la corteza…"-Valeria Luiselli, Faces in the Crowd
"Dejar una vida. Dinamitar todo. No, no todo: dinamitar el metro cuadrado que uno ocupaba entre la gente. Más bien: dejar sillas vacías en las mesas que se compartían con las amistades, no a modo de m…"-Valeria Luiselli, Faces in the Crowd
3. The Elementary Particles
By: Michel Houellebecq , Frank Wynne
3.80
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
An international literary phenomenon, The Elementary Particles is a frighteningly original novel–pa… read more
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"He doesn't know it yet, but the infinity of childhood is brief."-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles
"It's a curious idea to reproduce when you don't even like life."-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles
"The world outside had its own rules, and those rules were not human."-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles
"J'aurais pu adhérer au Front National, mais à quoi bon manger de la choucroute avec des cons?"-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles
4. L'Avversario
By: Emmanuel Carrère , Eliana Vicari Fabris
3.99
Format: 169 pages, Paperback
«Il 9 gennaio 1993 Jean-Claude Romand ha ucciso la moglie, i figli e i genitori, poi ha tentato di … read more
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"Il est notoire que les hommes les plus remarquables sont aussi les plus modestes, les moins soucieux de l'opinion qu'on a d'eux."-Emmanuel Carrère, L'Avversario
"Je n'ai jamais été aussi libre, jamais la vie n'a été aussi belle. Je suis un assassin, j'ai l'image la plus basse qui puisse exister dans la société, mais c'est plus facile à supporter que les vingt…"-Emmanuel Carrère, L'Avversario
5. Desertion
By: Abdulrazak Gurnah
3.90
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
In 1899, an Englishman named Martin Pearce stumbles out of the desert into an East African coastal … read more
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"There is, as you can see, an I in this story, but it is not a story about me. It is one about all of us, about Farida and Amin and our parents, and about Jamila. It is about how one story contains ma…"-Abdulrazak Gurnah, Desertion
6. A Heart So White
By: Javier Marías , Margaret Jull Costa
4.02
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
An alternate cover of this ISBN can be found here. Javier Marías's A Heart So White chronicles w… read more
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"No es fácil saber por qué se mata la gente, ni los más próximos, todo el mundo está trastornado, todo el mundo las pasa putas, a veces sin causa y casi siempre en secreto, la gente vuelve cara contra…"-Javier Marías, A Heart So White
"Listening is the most dangerous thing of all, listening means knowing, finding out about something and knowing what’s going on, our ears don’t have lids that can instinctively close against the words…"-Javier Marías, A Heart So White
"Casi todo el mundo se avergüenza de su juventud, no es muy cierto que se añore como se dice, más bien se relega o rehúye y con facilidad o esfuerzo se confina el origen a la esfera de los malos sueño…"-Javier Marías, A Heart So White
"I have a tendency to want to understand everything people say and everything I hear, both at work and outside, even at a distance, even if it’s one of the innumerable languages I don’t know, even if …"-Javier Marías, A Heart So White
7. The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor
By: Gabriel García Márquez , Randolph Hogan
3.63
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
This is Marquez's account of a real-life event. In 1955, eight crew members of the destroyer Caldas… read more
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8. Memoirs of Hadrian
By: Marguerite Yourcenar , Grace Frick
4.23
Format: 347 pages, Paperback
Both an exploration of character and a reflection on the meaning of history, Memoirs of Hadrian has… read more
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"And it was at about this time that I began to feel myself divine."-Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian
"La morale è una convenzione privata; il decoro è una faccenda pubblica."-Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian
"I was willing to yield to nostalgia, that melancholy residue of desire."-Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian
"Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul..."-Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian
9. Los diarios de Emilio Renzi: Años de formación (Los diarios de Emilio Renzi, #1)
By: Ricardo Piglia
3.93
Format: None pages, Paperback
"When young Ricardo Piglia wrote the first pages of his diaries, which he would work on until the l… read more
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- literature
- fiction
10. The Double Flame: Love and Eroticism
By: Octavio Paz , None
3.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this series of essays Paz explores the intimate connection between sex, eroticism, and love in l… read more
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- latin american
11. The Quiet American
By: Graham Greene , Robert Stone
3.13
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Graham Greene's classic exploration of love, innocence, and morality in Vietnam "I never knew a man… read more
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12. Ochiul căprui al dragostei noastre
By: Mircea Cărtărescu
3.74
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
,,In adolescenta, ghemuit in pat, mi se-ntimpla sa citesc uneori de dimineata pina seara, uitind sa… read more
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13. The Passion According to G.H.
By: Clarice Lispector , None
4.13
Format: 173 pages, Paperback
G.H., a well-to-do Rio sculptress, enters the room of her maid, which is as clear and white 'as in … read more
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"I don't want beauty, I want identity."-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.
"I' is merely one of the world's instantaneous spasms."-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.
"The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence."-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.
"In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness."-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.
14. Água Viva
By: Clarice Lispector , Benjamin Moser , Stefan Tobler
4.29
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Lispector at her most philosophically radical. A meditation on the nature of life and time, Água Vi… read more
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"I always give names to things"-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
"I'm not a synonym—I'm a proper noun."-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
"Suddenly I was crying. It was already love."-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
"To write you I first cover myself with perfume."-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
15. The Portrait of a Lady
By: Henry James , Patricia Crick
3.79
Format: 797 pages, Paperback
When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy Aunt Touche… read more
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"She has only one fault; too many ideas."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
"If one is strong, one loves the more strongly."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
"It's not my fate to give up--I know it can't be."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
"The finer natures were those that shone at the larger times."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
16. Borges on Writing
By: Jorge Luis Borges , Frank MacShane , Norman Thomas di Giovanni , Daniel Halpern
4.18
Format: None pages, Paperback
In 1971, Jorge Luis Borges was invited to preside over a series of seminars on his writing at Colum… read more
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17. Greek Lessons
By: Han Kang
3.47
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A powerful novel about the saving grace of language and human connection, from the author of the In… read more
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"If snow is the silence that falls from the sky, perhaps rain is an endless sentence."-Han Kang, Greek Lessons
"Si tomamos como cierta la premisa que dice que, cuando perdemos algo, ganamos otra cosa, ¿Qué es lo que he ganado yo al perderte a ti?."-Han Kang, Greek Lessons
"Before she lost words - when she was still able to se them to write - she sometimes wished that her own expressions would more closely resemble inarticulacy: a moan or low cry."-Han Kang, Greek Lessons
"To her, there was no touch as instantaneous and intuitive as the gaze. It was close to being the only way of touching without touch. Language, by comparison, is an infinitely more physical way to tou…"-Han Kang, Greek Lessons
18. Te di ojos y miraste las tinieblas
By: Irene Solà
3.91
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Escondida entre riscos lejanos, en algún remoto lugar de las Guillerías transitado por cazadores de… read more
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"Aunque lo peor de todo, musitó, no es morirse. Todos nos tenemos que morir un día u otro. Lo peor es la soledad."-Irene Solà, Te di ojos y miraste las tinieblas
19. Canto yo y la montaña baila
By: Irene Solà
4.24
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Primero llegan la tormenta y el rayo y la muerte de Domènec, el campesino poeta. Luego, Dolceta, qu… read more
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"La eternidad, cosa ligera. Cosa diaria, cosa pequeña."-Irene Solà, Canto yo y la montaña baila
"Em diu coses boniques que no entenc però sí que entenc"-Irene Solà, Canto yo y la montaña baila
"Quan arribés a casa s'hauria de fer escalfar aigua per rentar-se el fred i la plutja"-Irene Solà, Canto yo y la montaña baila
"S'hi està bé aquí sota. S'hi està bé, en aquest bosc. En aquest tros de terra. En aquest tros de món."-Irene Solà, Canto yo y la montaña baila
20. Trilogía
By: Jon Fosse
3.90
Format: 162 pages, Paperback
Trilogía es un libro diferente. Es hipnótico. Para Jon Fosse escribir es como rezar y, para el lect… read more
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21. Peluquería y letras
By: Juan Pablo Villalobos
3.72
Format: 101 pages, Paperback
El narrador de esta novela (que, casualidad o no, realidad ficción, se llama como el autor) es escr… read more
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"Si fuera verdad lo que yo le había dicho al adolescente, que la literatura siempre contaba otra cosa más allá de las apariencias, que por detrás o por debajo de toda historia había una segunda histor…"-Juan Pablo Villalobos, Peluquería y letras
22. Poeta chileno
By: Alejandro Zambra
4.39
Format: 421 pages, Paperback
En Santiago de Chile, a principios de los años noventa del pasado siglo, dos quinceañeros, Gonzalo … read more
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"fumar rabiosamente y aguantar las lágrimas, lo que no era fácil, porque fumar y llorar son actividades complementarias"-Alejandro Zambra, Poeta chileno
"Decir que eso la felicidad: nunca sentir que sería mejor estar en otra parte, nunca sentir que sería mejor ser alguien más. Otra persona. Alguien más joven, más viejo. Alguien mejor."-Alejandro Zambra, Poeta chileno
"El padre señala con sutileza y autoridad la forma correcta de patear la pelota, porque el padre sabe de esas cosas. El padre se deja ganar, porque para ser un buen padre hay que dejarse ganar. Ser pa…"-Alejandro Zambra, Poeta chileno
"It is better to write than not to write. Poetry is subversive because it exposes you, tears you apart. You dare to distrust yourself. You dare to disobey. That's the idea, to disobey everyone. Disobe…"-Alejandro Zambra, Poeta chileno
23. The Vulnerables
By: Sigrid Nunez
3.61
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times –bestselling, National Book Award–winning author of The Friend and What Are You … read more
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"Only when I was young did I believe that it was important to remember what happened in every novel I read. Now I know the truth: what matters is what you experience while reading, the states of feeli…"-Sigrid Nunez, The Vulnerables
24. Territory of Light
By: Yūko Tsushima
3.59
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
Territory of Light is the luminous story of a young woman, living alone in Tokyo with her three-yea… read more
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- fiction
"Why were children the only ones who ever got to melt down?"-Yūko Tsushima, Territory of Light
"During the night, there had been a sound of water on the other side of the wall. In my sleep I was looking out from the fourth-floor bedroom at nearby buildings bathed in rain, gleaming with neon and…"-Yūko Tsushima, Territory of Light
25. La cabeza de mi padre
By: Alma Delia Murillo
4.26
Format: 207 pages, Paperback
Escribo para soltar el peso de cuarenta años rumiando el mito de mi padre, las infinitas versiones … read more
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"Las abuelas son la literatura del mundo."-Alma Delia Murillo, La cabeza de mi padre
"Todo lo que ocurre, ocurre para ser contado."-Alma Delia Murillo, La cabeza de mi padre
"No hay peor ciego que el que está cegado por su pasión."-Alma Delia Murillo, La cabeza de mi padre
"...la comodidad es una enfermedad degenerativa y mortal."-Alma Delia Murillo, La cabeza de mi padre
26. The Other Name: Septology I-II
By: Jon Fosse
4.06
Format: 351 pages, Paperback
The Other Name follows the lives of two men living close to each other on the west coast of Norway.… read more
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"...there inside the person is what will pass away and become one with what is invisible in everything..."-Jon Fosse, The Other Name: Septology I-II
"...what's beautiful in life turns out bad in a painting because it's like there's too much beauty, a good picture needs something bad in it in order to shine the way it should, it needs darkness in i…"-Jon Fosse, The Other Name: Septology I-II
27. La encomienda
By: Margarita García Robayo
3.69
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
La narradora de estas páginas vive a cinco mil kilómetros de su país natal, trabaja para una agenci… read more
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- latin american
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"How quickly the shell of a routine is shattered. Any routine, however solid it may be, is obliterated by the unexpected."-Margarita García Robayo, La encomienda
"When I meet the parents of someone close to me, I can't help but imagine the boy or girl they once were, bring them onstage to pose beside their older incarnation. Something about that picture oppres…"-Margarita García Robayo, La encomienda
"I felt I had the right to not be a trustworthy person. It was good to make that clear, even if it worked against my professional future; from now on you should be aware that assigning me a job includ…"-Margarita García Robayo, La encomienda
"When she notices my silence she goes quiet and sighs. I guess she, too, gets fed up with the weight of incomprehension. I guess that on top of seeming like a sister who is detached, dejected and disc…"-Margarita García Robayo, La encomienda
28. Tarántula (Spanish Edition)
By: Eduardo Halfon
4.11
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
Hacia fines de 1984, dos jóvenes hermanos guatemaltecos, exiliados desde hace años en Estados Unido… read more
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29. A Sunny Place for Shady People
By: Mariana Enríquez
3.81
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A diabolical collection of stories featuring achingly human characters whose lives intertwine with … read more
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- fiction
30. The Magician of Vienna
By: Sergio Pitol
4.11
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
The heartbreaking final volume in Sergio Pitol's groundbreaking memoir-essay-fiction-hybrid "Trilog… read more
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