The Trouble with Happiness: And Other Stories
By: Tove Ditlevsen
3.90
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
The Trouble with Happiness is a powerful new collection of short stories by Tove Ditlevsen, a terri…
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1. The Lady and the Little Fox Fur
By: Deborah Levy , Violette Leduc , Derek Coltman
3.69
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Trapped in the depths of poverty, an old woman escapes into an existence where objects, streets, an… read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
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2. The Shutter of Snow
By: Emily Holmes Coleman
3.50
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
In a prose form as startling as its content, "The Shutter of Snow" portrays the post-partum psychos… read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
- fiction
3. Aliss at the Fire
By: Jon Fosse , Damion Searls
3.99
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
In her old house by the fjord, Signe lies on a bench and sees a vision of herself as she was more t… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
4. 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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5. The Lost Daughter
By: Elena Ferrante
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Elena Ferrante will blow you away."-Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones From the author of Th… read more
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6. Greek Lessons
By: Han Kang
3.47
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A powerful novel about the saving grace of language and human connection, from the author of the In… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"If snow is the silence that falls from the sky, perhaps rain is an endless sentence."-Han Kang, Greek Lessons
"Si tomamos como cierta la premisa que dice que, cuando perdemos algo, ganamos otra cosa, ¿Qué es lo que he ganado yo al perderte a ti?."-Han Kang, Greek Lessons
"Before she lost words - when she was still able to se them to write - she sometimes wished that her own expressions would more closely resemble inarticulacy: a moan or low cry."-Han Kang, Greek Lessons
"To her, there was no touch as instantaneous and intuitive as the gaze. It was close to being the only way of touching without touch. Language, by comparison, is an infinitely more physical way to tou…"-Han Kang, Greek Lessons
7. Bliss Montage
By: Ling Ma
3.91
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
A new creation by the author of Severance, the stories in Bliss Montage crash through our carefully… read more
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- literary fiction
- short story collection
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"To live is to exist within time. To remember is to negate time."-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
"It doesn't take much to come into your own; all it takes is someone's gaze."-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
"Maybe you don't know that you're wounded until you receive the salve. The salve that makes everything come back."-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
"It was a time when the future could have been anything, been anywhere. It was so open that it could actually crush her."-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
8. 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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- fiction
- contemporary
"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
9. August Blue
By: Deborah Levy
3.68
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A new novel from the Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy, the celebrated author of The Man Who Saw E… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"We agreed that whatever happened next in the world, we would still rub conditioner into our hair after we washed it and comb it through to the ends, we would soften our lips with rose-, strawberry-, …"-Deborah Levy, August Blue
10. Kick the Latch
By: Kathryn Scanlan
4.11
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Kathryn Scanlan’s Kick the Latch vividly captures the arc of one woman’s life at the racetrack—the … read more
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- short stories
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- contemporary
11. Minor Detail
By: Adania Shibli
4.20
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn a… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"Man, not the tank, shall prevail."-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Não há como descartar a probabilidade de uma conexão entre os dois fatos, ou alguma ligação oculta entre eles, por analogia às relações que os seres humanos encontram entre as plantas, por exemplo, q…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Desde que tive ciência da minha incapacidade consumada de me mover de acordo com os limites, resolvi, finalmente, permanecer dentro dos limites da minha casa, tanto quanto possível. Agora, uma vez qu…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Toch zijn er mensen die in die logica − dus dat je je concentreert op de meest futiele details zoals stof op een bureau of vliegenpoepjes op een schilderij − de enige manier zien om de waarheid te do…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
12. Exteriors
By: Annie Ernaux
3.57
Format: 91 pages, Paperback
Taking the form of random journal entries over the course of seven years, Exteriors concentrates on… read more
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- short stories
- contemporary
13. The Trouble with Happiness: And Other Stories
By: Tove Ditlevsen
3.90
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
The Trouble with Happiness is a powerful new collection of short stories by Tove Ditlevsen, a terri… read more
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- classics
- female authors
- short story collection
- denmark
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- danish
- audiobook
14. 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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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"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
15. Scenes from a Childhood
By: Jon Fosse
3.67
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
One of Norway's most celebrated authors and playwrights, Jon Fosse is famed for the minimalist and … read more
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- short story collection
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
16. Our Strangers: Stories
By: Lydia Davis
3.92
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
Only available at independent bookstores and libraries, by request of the author. From one of the m… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
17. The Easy Life
By: Marguerite Duras
3.79
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
For the first time in English, literary icon Marguerite Duras's foundational masterpiece about a yo… read more
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- classics
- fiction
- audiobook
18. Getting Lost
By: Annie Ernaux
3.44
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE The diary of one of France’s most important, award-… read more
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"I write in lieu of love, to fill that empty space above death."-Annie Ernaux, Getting Lost
19. Like Love: Essays and Conversations
By: Maggie Nelson
3.76
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A career-spanning collection of inspiring, revelrous essays about art and artists Like Love is a… read more
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20. The Anthropologists
By: Aysegül Savas
4.05
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Asya and Manu are looking at apartments, envisioning their future in a foreign city. What should th… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
21. Municipal Dreams: The Rise and Fall of Council Housing
By: John Boughton
3.96
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Municipal Dreams presents an alternative history of the United Kingdom. This history begins in the… read more
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