Terra Nostra
By: Carlos Fuentes , Jorge Volpi , Milan Kundera , Margaret Sayers Peden
3.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
Perhaps the most ambitious novel from one of Mexico's greatest writers, the narrative covers 20 cen…
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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. Hopscotch
By: Julio Cortázar , Gregory Rabassa
4.20
Format: 564 pages, Paperback
Horacio Oliveira is an Argentinian writer who lives in Paris with his mistress, La Maga, surrounded… read more
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"Pero el amor, esa palabra..."-Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch
"Explanation is a well-dressed error."-Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch
"Pobre amor el que de pensamiento se alimenta."-Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch
"Hay ausencias que representan un verdadero triunfo"-Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch
3. 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
4. Pale Fire
By: Vladimir Nabokov
3.98
Format: 574 pages,
The urbane authority that Vladimir Nabokov brought to every word he ever wrote, and the ironic amus… read more
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5. The Crab-Flower Club (The Story of the Stone #2)
By: Cao Xueqin , David Hawkes
4.53
Format: 302 pages, Paperback
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6. The Golden Days (The Story of the Stone #1)
By: Cao Xueqin , David Hawkes
4.05
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
"The Story of the Stone" (c. 1760) is one of the greatest novels of Chinese literature. The first p… read more
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- classics
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- historical fiction
7. Satantango
By: George Szirtes , László Krasznahorkai
4.14
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
Already famous as the inspiration for the filmmaker Béla Tarr’s six-hour masterpiece, Satantango is… read more
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"They’re waiting patiently, like the long-suffering lot they are, in the firm conviction that someone has conned them. They are waiting, belly to the ground, like cats at pig-killing time, hoping for …"-George Szirtes, Satantango
"Irimiás: God is not made manifest in language, you dope. He's not manifest in anything. He doesn't exist... God was a mistake. I've long understood there is zero difference between me and a bug, or a…"-George Szirtes, Satantango
8. Juntacadáveres
By: Juan Carlos Onetti
3.89
Format: 197 pages, Paperback
Larsen, apodado juntacadaveres, desembarca en Santa Maria acompanado de Irene, Nelly y Maria bonita… read more
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9. 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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10. Terra Nostra
By: Carlos Fuentes , Jorge Volpi , Milan Kundera , Margaret Sayers Peden
3.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
Perhaps the most ambitious novel from one of Mexico's greatest writers, the narrative covers 20 cen… read more
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- literature
- latin american
- spanish literature
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- historical fiction
- novels
11. The Obscene Bird of Night
By: José Donoso , Hardie St. Martin , Leonard Mades
4.21
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
This haunting jungle of a novel has been hailed as "a masterpiece" by Luis Bunuel and "one of the g… read more
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12. Solenoid
By: Mircea Cărtărescu
3.59
Format: 83 pages, Paperback
,,Vreau sa scriu o dare de seama despre anomaliile mele. In viata mea obscura, in afara oricarei is… read more
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13. The Dreamer Wakes (The Story of the Stone #5)
By: Cao Xueqin , Gao E , John Minford
0.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
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14. The Debt of Tears (The Story of the Stone #4)
By: Cao Xueqin , Gao E , John Minford
0.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
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15. The Warning Voice (The Story of the Stone #3)
By: Cao Xueqin , David Hawkes
4.12
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
"The Story of the Stone (c. 1760)", also known by the title of "The Dream of the Red Chamber", is t… read more
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16. Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
By: Marcel Proust , Simon Vance , Lydia Davis
4.15
Format: 710 pages, Mass Market Paperback
«Et tout d'un coup le souvenir m'est apparu. Ce goût, c'était celui du petit morceau de madeleine q… read more
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"Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"the comfort of reclusion, the poetry of hibernation"-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"Now are the woods all black, But still the sky is blue."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"Fall in love with a dog's bum, And thou'll think it pretty as a plum."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
17. A Brief Life
By: Juan Carlos Onetti , None
4.15
Format: 222 pages, Paperback
In A Brief Life, Juan Carlos Onetti's protagonist, Brausen, is caring for his wife after a long ill… read more
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18. The General in His Labyrinth
By: Gabriel García Márquez , Edith Grossman
3.99
Format: None pages, Hardcover
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Gabriel Garcia Marquez s most political novel is the tragic story of… read more
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19. Carpenter's Gothic
By: William Gaddis
3.50
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
This story of raging comedy and despair centers on the tempestuous marriage of an heiress and a Vie… read more
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20. 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.
21. 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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