The Train Was on Time
By: Heinrich Böll , Leila Vennewitz
3.88
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
Heinrich Boll's taut and haunting first novel tells the story of twenty-four-year-old Private Andre…
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1. The Emigrants
By: Michael Hulse , W.G. Sebald
4.17
Format: 237 pages, Paperback
At first The Emigrants appears simply to document the lives of four Jewish émigrés in the twentieth… read more
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"It is hard, said Mme Landau, when I told her about those railway lessons, in the end it is hard to know what it is that someone dies of. Yes, it is very hard, said Mme Landau, one really doesn't know."-Michael Hulse, The Emigrants
"The tiny features below, taken together with the gentle mass of Montblanc towering above them, the Vanoise glacier almost invisible in the shimmering distance, and the Alpine panorama that occupied h…"-Michael Hulse, The Emigrants
2. The Passport
By: Herta Müller , Martin Chalmers
3.32
Format: 93 pages, Paperback
From the winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature “[The Passport] has the same clipped prose… read more
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"He's looking into the night, in case a shadow comes to listen and look."-Herta Müller, The Passport
"Before the war an apple tree had stood behind the church. It was an apple tree that ate its own apples."-Herta Müller, The Passport
"Windisch closes his eyes. He feels his eyes. He feels his eyeballs in his hands. His eyes without a face."-Herta Müller, The Passport
"Jesus sleeps on the cross by the church door. When he wakes up, he'll be old. The air in the village will be brighter than his naked skin."-Herta Müller, The Passport
3. The View from Castle Rock
By: Alice Munro
3.71
Format: 656 pages, Hardcover
A powerful new collection from one of our most beloved, admired, and honored writers. In stories th… read more
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4. The Train Was on Time
By: Heinrich Böll , Leila Vennewitz
3.88
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
Heinrich Boll's taut and haunting first novel tells the story of twenty-four-year-old Private Andre… read more
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- war
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5. The Lady and the Little Fox Fur
By: Deborah Levy , Violette Leduc , Derek Coltman
3.69
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Trapped in the depths of poverty, an old woman escapes into an existence where objects, streets, an… read more
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6. Cat and Mouse
By: Günter Grass , Ralph Manheim
3.81
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
An alternate cover for this isbn can be found . To compensate for his unusually large Adam's apple… read more
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7. Lorna Doone
By: R.D. Blackmore , Michelle Allen
3.42
Format: None pages, Paperback
First published in 1869, Lorna Dooneis the story of John Ridd, a farmer who finds love amid the rel… read more
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8. Salammbô
By: Gustave Flaubert , A.J. Krailsheimer
3.71
Format: 412 pages, Paperback
An epic story of lust, cruelty, and sensuality, this historical novel is set in Carthage in the day… read more
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9. Ein fliehendes Pferd
By: Martin Walser
3.66
Format: None pages, Paperback
Helmut Halm, Lehrer an einem renommierten Stuttgarter Gymnasium, und seine Frau Sabine verbringen, … read more
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10. The Confusions of Young Törless
By: J.M. Coetzee , Shaun Whiteside , Robert Musil
3.38
Format: None pages, Paperback
Like his contemporary and rival Sigmund Freud, Robert Musil boldly explored the dark, irrational un… read more
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11. Una novelita lumpen
By: Roberto Bolaño
4.32
Format: 650 pages, Paperback
The Final Bolano Novella "Now I am a mother and a married woman, but not long ago I led a life of c… read more
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12. The Complete Stories of Truman Capote
By: Truman Capote , Reynolds Price
4.31
Format: 517 pages, Paperback
A landmark collection that brings together Truman Capote's life's work in the form he called his "g… read more
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13. Malone Dies
By: Samuel Beckett
4.37
Format: None pages, Paperback
Written and published in French in 1951, and in Samuel Beckett's English translation in 1956, Malon… read more
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14. 19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei
By: Octavio Paz , Wang Wei , Eliot Weinberger
3.93
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Nineteen different translations of a single poem with comments on each version by Eliot Weinberger … read more
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15. The Art of Fiction: Illustrated from Classic and Modern Texts
By: David Lodge
3.90
Format: 15 pages, Paperback
The articles with which David Lodge entertained and delighted readers of the Independent on Sundaya… read more
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17. The Gulf: The Making of An American Sea
By: Jack E. Davis
3.46
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
When painter Winslow Homer first sailed into the Gulf of Mexico, he was struck by its "special kind… read more
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18. A Dictator Calls
By: Ismail Kadare
3.14
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Using a sophisticated and literary version of the ever-popular game of telephone to examine the rel… read more
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"And a cursory glance at Karl Marx shows that a man who had dedicated his life to the violent overthrow of the world order never devoted half a page in any of his dozens of books to the trauma and rem…"-Ismail Kadare, A Dictator Calls
19. The Divorce
By: César Aira
3.85
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
With an enthusiastic foreword by Patti Smith, The Divorce is a delighful book of chance meetings, b… read more
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20. Brat
By: Gabriel Smith
3.53
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From a provocative new literary talent, a hilarious and haunted novel featuring an unlikable protag… read more
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"I chose this one. This is the one I care about."-Gabriel Smith, Brat
21. Rosarita
By: Anita Desai
3.30
Format: 71 pages, Kindle Edition
'Anita Desai is a magnificent writer' - Salman RushdieFrom three times Booker-shortlisted author An… read more
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