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Similar categories in Itamar Vieira Junior's Torto Arado book and Selva Almada's No es un río

• literature
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary

"Olha, dona"

-Itamar Vieira Junior, Torto Arado

"Durante algum tempo, pensei que pudesse haver uma ruptura entre nossas famílias, mas o perdão aflorava da bênção que poderia ser o retorno de alguém de qual somos parte."

-Itamar Vieira Junior, Torto Arado

"Você incutiu naquelas vidas um respeito grande por suas próprias histórias. Mas agora nem você conseguia mais se iluminar com a esperança de que a mudança fosse possível, muito menos acreditava que a…"

-Itamar Vieira Junior, Torto Arado

Similar categories in Jenny Erpenbeck's Kairos book and Selva Almada's No es un río

• literary fiction
• literature
• fiction
• contemporary
• novels

"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

Similar categories in Colin Barrett's Wild Houses book and Selva Almada's No es un río

• literary fiction
• novels
• fiction
• contemporary

"What you are in, Dev, is a holding pattern, only you're not holding out for anything."

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"All boys, all children, are capable of cruelty at the right juncture of opportunity and circumstance, but only a few become committed prodigies of sadism..."

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"In the dream, exactly as he had in real life, he sensed the slow, inexorable approach of the shapeless, prospectless days to come, days when there would be no need to get out of bed or brush his teet…"

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"He looked around the empty kitchen. A part of him wanted this of course. A part of him had always wanted this, to be alone, away from even the prospect of any demand upon him to talk, to interact, to…"

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

Similar categories in Ia Genberg's The Details book and Selva Almada's No es un río

• literary fiction
• adult
• fiction
• contemporary

"La fiducia resta lettera morta, se non la si sente nelle ossa."

-Ia Genberg, The Details

"L'io , o meglio, il cosidetto "io", non è altro che questo: ciò che resta delle persone a cui ci siamo stretti."

-Ia Genberg, The Details

"La vita mi ha regalato la mia buona dose di magia, e il più delle volte è successo all'incontro con gli altri. Lì c'è qualcosa. Lì, soltanto lì."

-Ia Genberg, The Details

"Per i morti la successione del tempo non ha importanza, l'unica cosa che conta sono i dettagli, la densità, il come e il cosa e tutto ciò che riguarda il chi."

-Ia Genberg, The Details

Similar categories in Andrey Kurkov's The Silver Bone (The Kyiv Mysteries, #1) book and Selva Almada's No es un río

• adult
• fiction

Similar categories in Selva Almada's No es un río book and Selva Almada's No es un río

• literary fiction
• literature
• novella
• latin american
• spanish literature
• fiction
• contemporary
• womens
• novels
• adult

Similar categories in Rita Bullwinkel's Headshot book and Selva Almada's No es un río

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• womens
• novels
• adult

"The desire to please people is the desire to not be singular."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"Tanya Maw's sister is two years older, the perfect age gap for wisdom transmission."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"It can be intoxicating to play a sport that requires one to look in their opponent's eyes."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"It's a warmth that she'll feel again very few times in her life. It's almost like love, but it has a surer, less desperate edge to it."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

Similar categories in Rodrigo Blanco Calderón's Simpatía book and Selva Almada's No es un río

• literary fiction
• literature
• spanish literature
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult

Similar categories in Sarah Perry's Enlightenment book and Selva Almada's No es un río

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary

"Thomas [Hart] lived where he'd been born, and where (so he often thought without rancor) he'd very likely die; and if he lived alone he was not lonely, that being a condition not of solitude but of l…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"So I told her this: that it's true I've only rarely been happy, and perhaps more often been sad. But I have been content. I have lived. I have felt everything available to me: I've been faithless, de…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"I wish I could say, James, that we forgave each other in the end. I wish I could say: she put her head on my shoulder and I welcomed it and we laughed and said all was well. But in fact we were quiet…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"...in the ordinary way we love because we're loved, and give more or less what we're given. But to love without return is more strange and more wonderful, and not the humiliating thing I'd once taken…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

Similar categories in Gabriela Wiener's Huaco retrato book and Selva Almada's No es un río

• womens
• literary fiction
• latin american
• contemporary

Similar categories in Samantha Harvey's Orbital book and Selva Almada's No es un río

• literary fiction
• novella
• fiction
• contemporary
• novels
• adult

"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

Similar categories in Domenico Starnone's The House on Via Gemito book and Selva Almada's No es un río

• literature
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary

Similar categories in Hwang Sok-yong's Mater 2-10 book and Selva Almada's No es un río

• literature
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary

Similar categories in Ismail Kadare's A Dictator Calls book and Selva Almada's No es un río

• literary fiction
• literature
• fiction
• novels
• adult

"And a cursory glance at Karl Marx shows that a man who had dedicated his life to the violent overthrow of the world order never devoted half a page in any of his dozens of books to the trauma and rem…"

-Ismail Kadare, A Dictator Calls

Similar categories in Hisham Matar's My Friends book and Selva Almada's No es un río

• literary fiction
• literature
• fiction
• contemporary
• novels

"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

Similar categories in Urszula Honek's Białe noce book and Selva Almada's No es un río

• literature
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary

Similar categories in Jente Posthuma's What I'd Rather Not Think About book and Selva Almada's No es un río

• literary fiction
• literature
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult

"Cracks in the ground aren't always visible to the naked eye. Every movement has the potential to take you down."

-Jente Posthuma, What I'd Rather Not Think About

"This was shocking to me, because if the oldest person I knew understood even less about the world than I did, then how was it possible that other adults had all the answers? And what was the point of…"

-Jente Posthuma, What I'd Rather Not Think About

"To be a natural presence, you shouldn't take up too much space, which I always found easy at the beginning of a friendship. It felt nice to reshape myself into precisely the right format until the mo…"

-Jente Posthuma, What I'd Rather Not Think About

Similar categories in Yael van der Wouden's The Safekeep book and Selva Almada's No es un río

• literary fiction
• adult
• fiction

Similar categories in Ana Paula Maia's Of Cattle and Men book and Selva Almada's No es un río

• literary fiction
• novella
• latin american
• fiction
• contemporary

"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

Similar categories in Anne Michaels's Held book and Selva Almada's No es un río

• literature
• literary fiction
• fiction

"Who can say what happens when we are remembered?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"Do we really need our own misery to teach us to be kind?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"Would he know the moment of his death or would it be like night falling."

-Anne Michaels, Held

Similar categories in Velia Vidal's Tidal Waters book and Selva Almada's No es un río

• literary fiction
• fiction