The Skating Rink
By: Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews
4.29
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
Set in the seaside town of Z, on the Costa Brava, north of Barcelona, The Skating Rinkoscillates be…
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1. Vertigo
By: Michael Hulse , W.G. Sebald
4.00
Format: 263 pages, Paperback
Vertigo, W. G. Sebald's first novel, never before translated into English, is perhaps his most amaz… read more
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"Tiny details imperceptible to us decide everything!"-Michael Hulse, Vertigo
"How I wished during those sleepless hours that I belonged to a different nation, or better still, to none at all."-Michael Hulse, Vertigo
"There is something peculiarly dispriting about the emptiness that wells up when, in a strange city, one dials the same telephone numbers in vain."-Michael Hulse, Vertigo
"É um vazio todo peculiar que surge quando, numa cidade estranha, a pessoa disca números de telefone em vão. Quando ninguém atende, é uma decepção de alcance transcendente, como se esses números aleat…"-Michael Hulse, Vertigo
2. The Recognitions
By: William H. Gass , William Gaddis
4.20
Format: 976 pages, Paperback
The book Jonathan Franzen dubbed the "ur-text of postwar fiction" and the "first great cultural cri… read more
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"Women get desperate, but they don't understand despair."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"That fever had passed; but for the rest of his life it never left his eyes."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"Reading Proust isn't just reading a book, it's an experience and you can't reject an experience."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest." William Gaddis, The Recognitions."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
3. Slow Learner
By: Thomas Pynchon
3.52
Format: 195 pages, Paperback
Slow Learner is a compilation of early stories written between 1959 and 1964, before Pynchon achiev… read more
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"But as we all know, rock ‘n’ roll will never die, and education too, as Henry Adams always sez, keeps going on forever."-Thomas Pynchon, Slow Learner
"It is simply wrong to begin with a theme, symbol or other abstract unifying agent, and then try to force characters and events to conform to it."-Thomas Pynchon, Slow Learner
"Everybody gets told to write about what they know. The trouble with many of us is that at the earlier stages of life we think we know everything- or to put it more usefully, we are often unaware of t…"-Thomas Pynchon, Slow Learner
"What I mean is something like a closed circuit. Everybody on the same frequency. And after a while you forget about the rest of the spectrum and start believing that this is the only frequency that c…"-Thomas Pynchon, Slow Learner
4. The Tunnel
By: William H. Gass
4.17
Format: None pages,
Thirty years in the making, William Gass's second novel first appeared on the literary scene in 199… read more
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- literature
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5. Mao II
By: Don DeLillo
4.31
Format: 110 pages, Paperback
"One of the most intelligent, grimly funny voices to comment on life in present-day America" (The N… read more
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6. Sangre en el Ojo
By: Lina Meruane
3.18
Format: 183 pages, Paperback
"Sin ti me moriria" ?es una frase retorica? Decir: <>?compromete a quien lo dice? Esta es la histor… read more
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7. Todos los fuegos el fuego
By: Julio Cortázar , None
4.11
Format: 559 pages, Hardcover
Todos los fuegos el fuego offers eight great examples of the creative fullness that encompasses Cor… read more
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- literature
- latin american
- fiction
8. El perseguidor
By: Julio Cortázar
3.47
Format: 156 pages,
La obra del escritor argentino JULIO CORTAZAR, que llego a su plenitud en la decada de los cincuent… read more
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10. The Skating Rink
By: Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews
4.29
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
Set in the seaside town of Z, on the Costa Brava, north of Barcelona, The Skating Rinkoscillates be… read more
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- literature
- spain
- latin american
- fiction
- mystery
- novels
- crime
11. The Private Lives of Trees
By: Alejandro Zambra , Megan McDowell
3.66
Format: 259 pages,
The Private Lives of Trees tells the story of a single night: a young professor of literature named… read more
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- novels
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12. Ways of Going Home
By: Alejandro Zambra , Megan McDowell
3.98
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Ways of Going Homebegins with an earthquake, seen through the eyes of an unnamed nine-year-old boy.… read more
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13. El Llano en llamas
By: Juan Rulfo
4.47
Format: None pages,
'The Burning Plain and Other Stories consists of fifteen pieces ranging from brief anecdotes, casua… read more
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14. El lugar sin límites
By: José Donoso
3.47
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Un mundo que es el infierno, donde se ponen al descubierto las falsas apariencias, la sordidez, la … read more
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15. Las muertas
By: Jorge Ibargüengoitia
3.98
Format: None pages, Paperback
Si al despertarse, Simon Corona se hubiera vuelto a su casa, los crimenes de Las Poquianchis habria… read more
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17. Bartleby & Co.
By: Enrique Vila-Matas , Jonathan Dunne
4.08
Format: None pages, Paperback
In Bartleby Co., an enormously enjoyable novel, Enrique Vila-Matas tackles the theme of silence in … read more
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18. Los siete locos (Los siete locos, #1)
By: Roberto Arlt
3.81
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
El entusiasmo y la atraccion de Roberto Arlt por los experimentos cientificos y mecanicos forma par… read more
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19. Whores for Gloria
By: William T. Vollmann
3.37
Format: 297 pages, Paperback
From the acclaimed author of The Rainbow Stories, The Ice Shirt, and Fathers and Crowscomes this fe… read more
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20. Respiración artificial
By: Ricardo Piglia
3.65
Format: None pages, Paperback
Respiracion artificialse trata no solo del unico libro memorable publicado durante el periodo de la… read more
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21. The Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory
By: Jorge Luis Borges , Norman Thomas di Giovanni
3.53
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
'One of the most remarkable artists of our age' - Mario Vargas Llosa. The Book of Sandwas the last … read more
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22. Near to the Wild Heart
By: Clarice Lispector , Giovanni Pontiero
4.04
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Near to the Wild Heart is Clarice Lispector's first novel, written from March to November 1942 and … read more
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"Words are pebbles rolling in the river"-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart
"She felt the phrase “demand her rights"-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart
"What does it feel like to have a girl?"-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart
"She expected nothing. She was in herself, the end itself."-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart
23. Bonsai
By: Alejandro Zambra
3.49
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Winner of Chile's Literary Critics' Award for Best Novel" Now a Major Motion Picture Hailed as a g… read more
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24. Multiple Choice
By: Alejandro Zambra , Megan McDowell
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Multiple Choiceis unlike anything I've ever encountered before. . . . Reading this book is a wonde… read more
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25. 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
26. The Taiga Syndrome
By: Cristina Rivera Garza
3.48
Format: 82 pages, Kindle Edition
A fairy tale run amok, The Taiga Syndrome follows an unnamed Ex-Detective as she searches for a cou… read more
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"...in the same way, just like being in love, being out of love also ends one day."-Cristina Rivera Garza, The Taiga Syndrome
"In fairy tales, the wolf is always ferocious. Astute and agile, the wolf always figures out how to get its way. … The Wolf, in other words, always wins."-Cristina Rivera Garza, The Taiga Syndrome
"Places where sex is sold are the same everywhere. They always have a viewing window or something similar: a bar, a walkway, a stage where you can see bodies and, if permitted, feel them. It has to be…"-Cristina Rivera Garza, The Taiga Syndrome
"Failures weigh people down. Writing reports of all the cases I was unable to solve, however, had helped me to tell stories, or at least get them down on paper, as they say. Whether I was obeying or t…"-Cristina Rivera Garza, The Taiga Syndrome
27. La crisis de la narración
By: Byung-Chul Han
3.90
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Las narraciones crean lazos. De ellas nace lo que nos conecta y vincula. De este modo, fundan comun… read more
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"Nuevas narraciones hacen posible una nueva percepción. La "nueva valoración de todos los valores" de la que hablaba Nietzsche abre una nueva perspectiva al mundo."-Byung-Chul Han, La crisis de la narración
28. Tema libre
By: Alejandro Zambra
3.99
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Tema libre agrega un impensado capítulo a la celebrada obra de Alejandro Zambra, un autor a estas a… read more
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"Hoy más que nunca el escritor es alguien que construye sentido juntando pedazos. Cortando, pegando y borrando."-Alejandro Zambra, Tema libre
29. Chasing Homer
By: László Krasznahorkai
3.72
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
In this thrilling chase narrative, a hunted man escapes certain death at breakneck speed—carooming … read more
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- novels
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30. Spadework for a Palace
By: László Krasznahorkai
3.92
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
Spadework for a Palace bears the subtitle “Entering the Madness of Others” and offers an epigraph: … read more
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