Austral
By: Carlos Fonseca
3.77
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Una deslumbrante novela las huellas que dejamos, las huellas que borramos y las huellas que buscamo…
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1. Un mundo huérfano
By: Giuseppe Caputo
3.84
Format: 179 pages, Paperback
Un padre y un hijo intentan sobrevivir a la pobreza. Viven en un barrio oscuro, sin faroles, a oril… read more
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2. La ciudad de los prodigios
By: Eduardo Mendoza
3.85
Format: 220 pages, Hardcover
En 1887, Onofre Bouvila, un joven campesino arruinado, llega a la gran ciudad que todavia no lo es,… read more
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- literature
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3. They Came Like Swallows
By: William Maxwell
3.69
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
First published in 1937, They Came Like Swallows was William Maxwell's second novel. It tells of an… read more
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4. Soul
By: John Berger , Andrei Platonov , Robert Chandler , None
3.60
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
A New York Review Books Original The Soviet writer Andrey Platonov saw much of his work suppressed … read more
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5. L'analphabète: récit autobiographique
By: Ágota Kristóf
4.11
Format: 57 pages, Paperback
Onze chapitres pour onze moments de sa vie, de la petite enfance en Hongrie à l'apprentissage du fr… read more
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- literature
"You become a writer by writing with patience and obstinacy, without ever losing faith in what you write."-Ágota Kristóf, L'analphabète: récit autobiographique
"في الغالب أكتفي بالكتابة في ذهني . ذلك اسهل . داخل الراس تجري الامور كلها بيسر . لكن ما ان نشرع في الكتابة حتى تتغير الأفكار .تتشوه.تصير خاطئة"-Ágota Kristóf, L'analphabète: récit autobiographique
6. Nazi Literature in the Americas
By: Roberto Bolaño
4.14
Format: 438 pages, Hardcover
Nazi Literature in the Americas was the first of Roberto Bolano's books to reach a wide public. Whe… read more
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7. Umami
By: Laia Jufresa
3.95
Format: None pages,
Umamiconstituye una propuesta literaria original en su afan por explorar la amplia gama de sensacio… read more
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8. Sevgili Arsız Ölüm
By: Latife Tekin
4.33
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
"1957 yilinda Kayserinin Bunyan kasabasina bagli Karacefenk koyunde dogdum. Yurumeyi ogrenir ogrenm… read more
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9. The Weight of Things
By: None , Marianne Fritz
3.85
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
The Weight of Things is the first book, and the first translated book, and possibly the only transl… read more
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"..the present is always the best time to spread your arms wide and embrace the whole world, all at once, as best you can."-None, The Weight of Things
"...the ideal legal form being, it goes without saying, the one in which the least taxes are paid and the company is least vulnerable to any official prying."-None, The Weight of Things
10. Nie mówię żegnaj
By: Han Kang
3.77
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Zdobywczyni nagrody Man Booker Prize 2016, Han Kang, powraca po 5 latach z nową, pełnowymiarową pow… read more
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11. Kairos
By: Jenny Erpenbeck
3.46
Format: 379 pages, Hardcover
Die neunzehnjährige Katharina und Hans, ein verheirateter Mann Mitte fünfzig, begegnen sich Ende de… read more
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"She would like a shallow life, swift and shallow, till some day she can start again. Get through her time fast until then. And when will that be? Then."-Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos
12. Da igual: Los veinticinco cuentos despiadados de Agota Kristof
By: Ágota Kristóf
3.65
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Una mujer le explica al doctor que su marido se ha partido el cráneo con un hacha al caerse de la c… read more
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"È lì, accanto al letto , sul tappeto. Ha una scure piantata nella testa. Vuole visitarlo? Sì, lo visiti pure. Un incidente davvero stupido, non trova? È caduto dal letto nel sonno, ed è caduto su que…"-Ágota Kristóf, Da igual: Los veinticinco cuentos despiadados de Agota Kristof
"– Allora a domani, Lucien, – dice. E prima di riattaccare aggiunge: – Trovo tutto ciò appassionante. Appassionante! C’è gente che usa certe parole con grande facilità. Io non potrei mai parlare così.…"-Ágota Kristóf, Da igual: Los veinticinco cuentos despiadados de Agota Kristof
"Chiudete bene la porta. Io arrivo senza rumore, con le mani guantate di nero. Non sono il tipo brutale. E neppure vorace e stupido. Sulle mie tempie e sui polsi potreste ammirare il disegno delicato …"-Ágota Kristóf, Da igual: Los veinticinco cuentos despiadados de Agota Kristof
"A quei tempi consumavo un'enorme quantità di gesso, per via di una carenza di calcio. La cosa mi causava un po' di febbre, ma non ne ho mai approfittato per trascurare la scuola, poiché – come dico s…"-Ágota Kristóf, Da igual: Los veinticinco cuentos despiadados de Agota Kristof
13. Animalia
By: Jean-Baptiste Del Amo
4.12
Format: 424 pages, Kindle Edition
Animalia retraces the history of a modest peasant family through the twentieth century as they deve… read more
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14. The Extinction of Irena Rey
By: Jennifer Croft
3.26
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the International Booker Prize–winning translator and Women's Prize finalist, a propulsive, be… read more
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- fiction
"The sun was higher, a white light between the birches that arched and bared their lenticels, shimmering their leaves."-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
"Glittering crystalline rainbows extended in every direction, while gentle gold beams swept between the softened trees that sparkled and beckoned and forbade."-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
"It was a new moon, but the stars of the northern hemisphere transformed her slim sinuous home, converting the oak strips on the convex walls into quicksilver that momentarily held the frenzied shadow…"-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
"It was barely spring in the southern hemisphere, and Buenos Aires was not yet soft, or sumptuous, or purple.* *I wasn't sure what this meant at first, but when I asked this author to explain it, she …"-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
15. Austral
By: Carlos Fonseca
3.77
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Una deslumbrante novela las huellas que dejamos, las huellas que borramos y las huellas que buscamo… read more
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- literary fiction
- literature
- latin american literature
- latin american
- spanish literature
- fiction
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16. The Maniac
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.34
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more
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- literary fiction
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"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac
17. A Little Luck
By: Claudia Piñeiro
4.29
Format: 211 pages, Paperback
After twenty years, a woman returns to the suburban Argentina she had fled to escape a dreadful acc… read more
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- literature
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"Para escribir un diario hay que tener una seguridad del valor que tiene contar la vida propia que yo no tengo."-Claudia Piñeiro, A Little Luck
18. No es un río
By: Selva Almada
3.95
Format: 104 pages, Kindle Edition
Enero y el Negro llevan de pesca a Tilo, hijo adolescente de Eusebio, el amigo muerto. Mientras beb… read more
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19. Parade
By: Rachel Cusk
3.70
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more
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"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
20. Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants
By: Mathias Énard
3.86
Format: 151 pages, Kindle Edition
In 1506, Michelangelo – a young but already renowned sculptor – is invited by the sultan of Constan… read more
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- fiction
"We all ape God in His absence."-Mathias Énard, Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants
"Calligraphies are our images, Maestro, images of our faith."-Mathias Énard, Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants
"Entscheide dich für mich und meine erloschenen Geschichten."-Mathias Énard, Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants
"How many works of art will there have to be to put beauty into the world?"-Mathias Énard, Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants
21. Huaco retrato
By: Gabriela Wiener
3.89
Format: 170 pages, Paperback
La muerte de su padre y los fantasmas de su herencia marcan el retorno de Wiener con esta exploraci… read more
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22. La tiranía de las moscas
By: Elaine Vilar Madruga
3.89
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Casandra, Caleb y Calia son tres hermanos a cada cual más insólito. Casandra, la mayor, siente atra… read more
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- novels
- latin american literature
- fiction
"...el proceso ni siquiera se detiene con la muerte, el pelo es lo único vivo que nos acompaña, lo único que prueba la perdurabilidad del concepto vida sobre el concepto desaparición, no somos tan fin…"-Elaine Vilar Madruga, La tiranía de las moscas
23. My Friends
By: Hisham Matar
4.34
Format: 399 pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Return , a luminous novel of friendship, family, and … read more
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"A vast distance exists between a protester and his slogan; the entire history of politics exists in that gap."-Hisham Matar, My Friends
"For a writer, exile is prison, a severing from the source, and so, courageous or not, he dies in front of our eyes."-Hisham Matar, My Friends
"She was older and all the more beautiful, had the weary tiredness of one who, in surrendering to her life, was ennobled by it."-Hisham Matar, My Friends
"I walked off feeling an emptiness well up inside me. It seemed, for all the emptiness that it was, a presence. It made me want to run away, dive deeper into myself, into that cold desolation, to the …"-Hisham Matar, My Friends
24. Ustedes brillan en lo oscuro
By: Liliana Colanzi
3.69
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Los cuentos de Liliana Colanzi exploran diversas formas de narrar el tiempo, como el viaje geológic… read more
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25. Enero
By: Sara Gallardo
3.97
Format: 101 pages, Paperback
La pertenencia de Sara Gallardo a la alta burguesía nacional no es un dato aleatorio a la hora de c… read more
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"Cuando chica, Nefer quería ser hombre para lucir en las fiestas esas prendas resplandecientes."-Sara Gallardo, Enero
"Porque no se puede volver atrás, el tiempo viene y todo crece, y después de crecer viene la muerte. Pero para atrás no se puede andar."-Sara Gallardo, Enero
"Her former tormenter has become her friend, her companion in a private world, which, until only a few days ago, was untainted by outside words and prying eyes. Her blood thins and begins to flow free…"-Sara Gallardo, Enero
"Nefer tiene oídos y por eso oye, y la boca le sirve para comer, pero el mundo pasa a su alrededor como el agua en torno a un peñasco, y ella está seria y nada importa. Dentro de un tiempo empezará a …"-Sara Gallardo, Enero
26. Of Cattle and Men
By: Ana Paula Maia
3.97
Format: 99 pages, Paperback
Animals go mad and men die (accidentally and not) at a slaughterhouse in an impoverished, isolated … read more
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"Senhor Milo knows cattlemen, he's cut from the same cloth. No one goes unpunished. They're men of cattle and blood."-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men
"Two enclosures, one for cattle and one for men, standing side by side. Sometimes the smell is familiar. Only the voices on one side and the mooing on the other distinguish the men from the ruminants."-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men
"Edgar picks up the mallet. The steer comes up close to him. Edgar looks into the animal's eyes and caresses its forehead. The cow stomps one hoof, wags its tail and snorts. Edgar shushes the animal a…"-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men
"For a few moments, Edgar Wilson yields to the late afternoon sun that has not yet fully set, but that is rushing headlong into a moonless, starless night. He knows how to listen in silence, even when…"-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men
27. Furia
By: Clyo Mendoza
4.07
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
En un desierto salpicado de poblados asolados por la guerra, dos desertores de bandos opuestos desc… read more
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"Il mercante finì il racconto con una battuta che non c'entrava nulla. Ridendo tra sé disse: è da pazzi credere che il Diavolo vesta sempre in modo elegante."-Clyo Mendoza, Furia
28. Tierra fresca de su tumba
By: Giovanna Rivero
3.86
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Los extraños y maravillosos cuentos de Tierra Fresca de su Tumba nos arrojan a lugares desconocidos… read more
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"Nuestra casa era una prodigiosa zarza ardiente que lamía los troncos de los árboles y avanzaba como una legión por el huerto. Supe que el sonido de esa crepitación descomunal era el de todos los esqu…"-Giovanna Rivero, Tierra fresca de su tumba
29. Landscapes
By: Christine Lai
3.78
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
A darkly absorbing, prismatic debut novel from Christine Lai, set in a near future that is fraught … read more
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- fiction
30. Small Rain
By: Garth Greenwell
4.30
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A medical crisis brings one man close to death—and to love, art, and beauty—in a profound and lumin… read more
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