My Prizes: An Accounting
By: Thomas Bernhard , Carol Brown Janeway
4.55
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
A gathering of brilliant and viciously funny recollections from one of the twentieth century's most…
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1. El africano
By: J.M.G. Le Clézio
3.67
Format: 135 pages, Paperback
Todo ser humano es el resultado de un padre y de una madre. Se puede no reconocerlos, no quererlos,… read more
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- nonfiction
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- memoir
"La mémoire d'un enfant exagère les distances et les hauteurs."-J.M.G. Le Clézio, El africano
2. 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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- german literature
- 20th century
- literature
"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
3. Dora Bruder
By: Patrick Modiano , None
3.57
Format: 123 pages, Hardcover
Patrick Modiano opens Dora Bruder by telling how in 1988 he stumbled across an ad in the personal c… read more
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"But I am a patient man. I can wait for hours in the rain."-Patrick Modiano, Dora Bruder
"Existen casualidades, encuentros y coincidencias que se ignorarán siempre…"-Patrick Modiano, Dora Bruder
"El éxtasis no dura mucho, sin embargo. No tiene porvenir. Pronto nuestro impulso es frenado en seco."-Patrick Modiano, Dora Bruder
"That is her secret. A poor and precious secret that not even the executioners, the decrees, the occupying authorities, the Depot, the barracks, the camps, History, time-everything that defiles and de…"-Patrick Modiano, Dora Bruder
4. The Art of the Novel
By: Milan Kundera , Linda Asher
3.60
Format: 246 pages, Paperback
Kundera brilliantly examines the work of such important and diverse figures as Rabelais, Cervantes,… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
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6. My Prizes: An Accounting
By: Thomas Bernhard , Carol Brown Janeway
4.55
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
A gathering of brilliant and viciously funny recollections from one of the twentieth century's most… read more
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- german literature
- biography
- memoir
- literature
- nonfiction
- essays
- 20th century
7. La herencia de Eszter
By: Sándor Márai , Judit Xantus Szarvas
3.12
Format: None pages,
Instalada en la casa que heredo de su padre y con la sola compania de una pariente anciana, Eszter … read more
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- literature
8. Nove saggi danteschi
By: Jorge Luis Borges , Tommaso Scarano
4.00
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
Di Dante, come di tanti altri scrittori, Borges si e dimostrato capace di dirci cio che altrove non… read more
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9. The Clown
By: Heinrich Böll , Leila Vennewitz , Laureano Xoaquín Araujo Cardalda
3.94
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Acclaimed entertainer Hans Schnier collapses when his beloved Marie leaves him because he won’t mar… read more
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- german literature
- 20th century
- literature
"I am a clown...and I collect moments."-Heinrich Böll, The Clown
"بی خداها حوصله ام را سر می برند، چون فقط درباره خدا حرف می زنند!"-Heinrich Böll, The Clown
"Atheisten langweilen mich, weil sie immer nur von Gott sprechen."-Heinrich Böll, The Clown
"An artist is like a woman who can do nothing but love, and who succumbs to every stray male jackass."-Heinrich Böll, The Clown
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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. By Night in Chile
By: Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews
3.89
Format: 118 pages, Paperback
During the course of a single night, Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, a Chilean priest, who is a m… read more
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"…and for goodness’ sake read widely and deeply…"-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile
"I am dying now, but I still have many things to say."-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile
"His falcon, called Othello, had struck terror into the heart of every pigeon in Turin..."-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile
"As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravine that swallows up all human endeavour except the struggle to survive."-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile
13. Putas asesinas
By: Roberto Bolaño
4.48
Format: 334 pages, Paperback
<>se narra un viaje a Acapulco que se convierte paulatinamente en un des-censo a los infiernos. En … read more
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14. The Tanners
By: Robert Walser , W.G. Sebald , Susan Bernofsky , Jo Catling
4.20
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Tanners, Robert Walser's amazing 1907 novel of twenty chapters, is now presented in English for… read more
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16. The Aspern Papers
By: Henry James
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this classic 1888 novella, an anonymous narrator relates his obsessive quest to acquire some let… read more
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17. Yesterday
By: Ágota Kristóf
3.85
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
In spare, elegant prose, this modern novella recounts a troubled young man's flight from a judgment… read more
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- literature
- 20th century
18. Shyness and Dignity
By: Sverre Lyngstad , Dag Solstad
3.96
Format: 433 pages,
An Ibsen scholar falls desperately out of society--publication coinciding with Ibsen's 100th annive… read more
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19. German Autumn
By: Stig Dagerman
4.13
Format: None pages, Paperback
In late 1946, Stig Dagerman was assigned by the Swedish newspaper Expressen to report on life in Ge… read more
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20. Melancholy
By: Jon Fosse , Damion Searls , None
4.03
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
"Melancholy" takes us deep inside a painter's fragile consciousness, vulnerable to everything but t… read more
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21. Amulet
By: Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews
4.00
Format: 98 pages, Hardcover
Amulet is a monologue, like Bolano's acclaimed debut in English, By Night in Chile. The speaker is … read more
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22. Cosmopolis
By: Don DeLillo
4.00
Format: 279 pages, Paperback
It is a stunningly eventful day in the life of Eric Packer, a multi-billionaire who has recently ma… read more
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23. Bruges-La-Morte
By: Georges Rodenbach , Will Stone
3.95
Format: 132 pages, Paperback
Hugues Viane is a widower who has turned to the melancholy, decaying city of Bruges as the ideal lo… read more
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24. Women Without Men: A Novel of Modern Iran
By: Shahrnush Parsipur , Kamran Talattof , Jocelyn Sharlet , None
3.67
Format: 208 pages,
Shortly after the 1989 publication of Women Without Menin her native Iran, Shahrnush Parsipur was a… read more
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25. Baumgartner
By: Paul Auster
3.78
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A taut yet expansive novel of love, memory, and grief from Paul Auster, best-selling, award-winning… read more
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- literature
"Vivir es sentir dolor, y vivir con miedo al dolor es negarse a vivir"-Paul Auster, Baumgartner
"To live is to feel pain, he told himself, and to live in fear of pain is to refuse to live."-Paul Auster, Baumgartner
"at some point in the coming years, the two books should be combined and reconfigured into a large, one-volume collected poems—a monument of singing pages that will overwhelm the silence of Anna’s gra…"-Paul Auster, Baumgartner
"the story turns out to be so astounding and so powerful that your jaw drops open and you feel that it has changed or enhanced or deepened your understanding of the world, does it matter if the story …"-Paul Auster, Baumgartner
26. Guerre
By: Louis-Ferdinand Céline
3.79
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Parmi les manuscrits de Louis-Ferdinand Céline récemment retrouvés figurait une liasse de deux cent… read more
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"A tant d’années passées le souvenir des choses, bien précisément, c’est un effort. Ce que les gens ont dit c’est presque tourné des mensonges. Faut se méfier. C’est putain le passé, ça fond dans la r…"-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Guerre
"J’ai bien dû rester là encore une partie de la nuit suivante. Toute l’oreille à gauche était collée par terre avec du sang, la bouche aussi. Entre les deux y avait un bruit immense. J’ai dormi dans c…"-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Guerre
27. Ferrovie del Messico
By: Gian Marco Griffi
4.10
Format: 824 pages, Paperback
Se cercate dell'avventura, in questo romanzo ne troverete a bizzeffe. Se cercate della letteratura,… read more
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28. Systrarna
By: Jonas Hassen Khemiri
4.19
Format: 722 pages, Hardcover
"Första gången jag hörde talas om Mikkolasystrarna var jag fem eller sex år gammal, jag satt på var… read more
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29. Efter solen
By: Jonas Eika
3.18
Format: 159 pages, None
Vinder af Nordisk Råds Litteraturpris 2019 Noveller om en række personer, der, vidende eller uvi… read more
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30. The Third Realm (Morgenstjernen, #3)
By: Karl Ove Knausgård
4.33
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling author Karl Ove Knausgaard, a kaleidoscopic novel about human nature in the face o… read more
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31. Se på oss nu
By: Geir Gulliksen
3.28
Format: 318 pages, Hardcover
Passionen kan slå till när man minst anar det. 50-årige Hans har varit gift med Ingunn sedan han va… read more
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