Letters to Camondo
By: Edmund de Waal
4.15
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A tragic family history told in a collection of imaginary letters to a famed collector, Moise de Ca…
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1. Old Filth (Old Filth, #1)
By: Jane Gardam
3.94
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
Sir Edward Feathers has had a brilliant career, from his early days as a lawyer in Southeast Asia, … read more
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- historical
"-Laikas bėga. -Nesu tikras, kad jis žino kur."-Jane Gardam, Old Filth (Old Filth, #1)
"Apie praeitį, nebent ji būtų be galo laiminga, vaikai kalbėti nelinkę."-Jane Gardam, Old Filth (Old Filth, #1)
"If you've not been loved as a child, you don't know how to love a child."-Jane Gardam, Old Filth (Old Filth, #1)
"Kai tik atsiranda merginų, egzaminų pažymiai ima blogėti. Kuo karštesnė aistra, tuo prasčiau sekasi mokslas."-Jane Gardam, Old Filth (Old Filth, #1)
2. The Flaneur: A Stroll through the Paradoxes of Paris
By: Edmund White
4.62
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Bloomsbury is proud to announce the first title in an occasional series in which some of the world'… read more
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- nonfiction
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3. East West Street: On the Origins of "Genocide" and "Crimes Against Humanity"
By: Philippe Sands
3.30
Format: 215 pages, Hardcover
A profound and profoundly important book--a moving personal detective story, an uncovering of secre… read more
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- history
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- nonfiction
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4. The Library at Night
By: Alberto Manguel
3.68
Format: 191 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by creating a library for his fifteenth-century home near the Loire, in France, the author… read more
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- nonfiction
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5. The Man in the Wooden Hat (Old Filth, #2)
By: Jane Gardam
4.10
Format: 233 pages, Paperback
The New York Times called Sir Edward Feathers one of the most memorable characters in modern litera… read more
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- historical
6. Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved, and Died Under Nazi Occupation
By: Anne Sebba
3.72
Format: 134 pages, Hardcover
What did it feel like to be a woman living in Paris from 1939 to 1949? These were years of fear, po… read more
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7. The Last Supper: A Summer in Italy
By: Rachel Cusk
4.35
Format: 255 pages, Hardcover
Casting off a northern winter and an orderly life, a family decides to sell everything and go to It… read more
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8. Atmospheres: Architectural Environments. Surrounding Objects
By: Peter Zumthor , None
4.34
Format: 196 pages, Hardcover
Was eine architektonische Atmosphare wirklich ausmacht, sagt Peter Zumthor, ist diese einmalige Dic… read more
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9. Watermark
By: Joseph Brodsky , None
4.08
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
In this brief, intense, gem-like book, equal parts extended autobiographical essay and prose poem, … read more
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"Aesthetic sense is the twin of one's instinct for self-preservation and is more reliable than ethics."-Joseph Brodsky, Watermark
"To have another life, one ought to be able to wrap up the first one, and the job should be done neatly."-Joseph Brodsky, Watermark
"In the end, there's always this city. As long as it exists, I don't believe that I, or for that matter, anyone, can be mesmerized or blinded by romantic tragedy."-Joseph Brodsky, Watermark
"I always adhered to the idea that God is time, or at least that His spirit is... In any case, I always thought that if the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the water, the water was bound to refle…"-Joseph Brodsky, Watermark
10. 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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"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
11. Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
By: Laura Cumming
4.19
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Laura Cumming “combines first-rate art history with deeply felt m… read more
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"It is such a long journey out, this one, from where we came; this life, our life, the journey between the first and last shores."-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"We see pictures in time and place. We cannot see them otherwise. They are fragments of our lives, moments of existence that may be as unremarkable as rain or as startling as a clap of thunder. Whatev…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"I cannot get enough of Dutch art. You can turn to this other world -- and it is a picture world as no other, a whole society visualised through time and place, seasons and generations, moment by mome…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"Fabritius is thirty-two, and I was the same age when I first wrote about his self-portrait. He and I remain the same age whenever we meet. He is dead, I am still alive, so the existential maths [sic]…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
12. Letters to Camondo
By: Edmund de Waal
4.15
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A tragic family history told in a collection of imaginary letters to a famed collector, Moise de Ca… read more
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13. Ik kom hier nog op terug
By: Rob van Essen
3.78
Format: 398 pages, Paperback
Wanneer hij de mogelijkheid krijgt een fout uit het verleden te herstellen grijpt Rob Hollander dit… read more
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"Was het grote falen van mijn leven eigenlijk niet dat ik zo weinig had gefaald, omdat ik zo weinig had gedaan, omdat ik me zo weinig had verbonden, aan mensen, aan dingen? Ik had mezelf geen kans geg…"-Rob van Essen, Ik kom hier nog op terug
14. Het lied van ooievaar en dromedaris
By: Anjet Daanje
4.38
Format: 656 pages, Hardcover
Eliza May Drayden, het hoofdpersonage van Het lied van ooievaar en dromedaris, is al dood als de ro… read more
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"De berg heeft zijn duistere kant verloren, het is een vriend geworden, zijn enige, want hij durft niemand meer te vertrouwen."-Anjet Daanje, Het lied van ooievaar en dromedaris
"Alles verliest zijn waarde als het er altijd is, alsof je langzaam blind wordt. Dat hij van Sally hield, begreep hij ook pas toen ze langer de zijne was."-Anjet Daanje, Het lied van ooievaar en dromedaris
"Een uur is een object, zo lijkt het, waarvan ze de omvang inschat aan de hand van wat haar ogen zien, en hier is niets dan duisternis, als een nachtkaars is de tijd gedoofd."-Anjet Daanje, Het lied van ooievaar en dromedaris
"Alleen vanaf de drempel kijkend naar onze versimpelde, geordende wereld der grote dingen, ervaren we verandering, en dus Tijd. Die Tijd is het gevolg van ons onvermogen om de wereld te zien zoals hij…"-Anjet Daanje, Het lied van ooievaar en dromedaris
15. Schemering
By: Philippe Claudel
3.97
Format: 371 pages, Kindle Edition
In een ingedut dorp aan de rand van het wegkwijnende Oostenrijks-Hongaarse Rijk wordt in een ijskou… read more
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16. A Guest at the Feast
By: Colm Tóibín
3.71
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
In his essay about the life of Irish writer John McGahern, Tóibín reveals the tones of melancholy a… read more
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17. The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading
By: Dwight Garner
3.88
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Garner gathers a literary chorus to capture the joys of reading and eating in this comic, personal … read more
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"There's no verb for traveling while hopping from swimming pool to swimming pool. Perhaps "cheevering" would suffice."-Dwight Garner, The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading
"A friend once told her that he had seen graffiti in a restaurant's men's room that read, "Gael Greene uses a thesaurus."-Dwight Garner, The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading
18. Tres enigmas para la Organización
By: Eduardo Mendoza
3.37
Format: 408 pages, Paperback
Barcelona, primavera de 2022. Los miembros de una organización gubernamental secreta se enfrentan a… read more
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19. De herinnerde soldaat
By: Anjet Daanje
4.11
Format: 536 pages, Paperback
Tijdens de Eerste Wereldoorlog wordt vlak achter de Belgische frontlinie een soldaat gevonden. Hij … read more
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20. Hogere machten
By: Joost de Vries
3.91
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
De jaren dertig van de vorige eeuw. James Welmoed ontmoet Elizabeth van Elzenburg. Hij is een socia… read more
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21. Nirwana
By: Tommy Wieringa
4.07
Format: 478 pages, Kindle Edition
De geschiedenis van een grootvader bepaalt het heden van een samen vertellen ze het verhaal van ee… read more
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22. 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
23. The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain's Colonial Legacy
By: Philippe Sands
4.18
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
After the Second World War, new international rules heralded an age of human rights and self-determ… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
"I appeared as counsel in the first case, in a barrister’s wig and gown at a hearing in a makeshift courtroom in Hamburg’s Town Hall; years later, Judge Mensah told me, with a big grin, that he wonder…"-Philippe Sands, The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain's Colonial Legacy
24. Chevreuse
By: Patrick Modiano
3.58
Format: 176 pages, Broché
Pour la première fois depuis quinze ans, le nom de cette femme lui occupait l'esprit, et ce nom ent… read more
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- france
25. De gebeurtenis
By: Peter Terrin
3.44
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Een subtiel ingenieuze roman-in-verhalen van internationale allure. Juliette is een alleenstaande… read more
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"Wat me het meest aan bestsellers stoorde, was hun eindeloosheid. Hoe konden deze spannende boeken spannend worden genoemd? Honderden pagina’s aan het lijntje worden gehouden over wie het gedaan had, …"-Peter Terrin, De gebeurtenis
26. Canción
By: Eduardo Halfon
3.69
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Una fría mañana de enero de 1967, en plena guerra civil de Guatemala, un comerciante judío y libané… read more
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27. Een ander leven
By: Bart Moeyaert
4.34
Format: 341 pages, Kindle Edition
In januari 1996 verrast Bart Moeyaert zijn zeventigjarige moeder met een verjaardagscadeau. Ze gaan… read more
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28. Fyrstene av Finntjern
By: Lars Elling
4.15
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
I 1985 går Filip siste året på videregående, men først og fremst tegner han, på evig jakt etter en … read more
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29. The House of Fragile Things: A History of Jewish Art Collectors in France, 1870 - 1945
By: James McAuley
4.14
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A powerful history of Jewish art collectors in France, and how an embrace of art and beauty was met… read more
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- history
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- france
- holocaust
30. The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum: The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime Boss
By: Margalit Fox
3.48
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A Jewish mother of four, a gracious society hostess, a beloved member of her community—and the firs… read more
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31. The Window Seat: Notes from a Life in Motion
By: Aminatta Forna
4.20
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Aminatta Forna is one of our most important literary voices, and her novels have won the Windham Ca… read more
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