Reducere. Playful on the surface, dark and disturbing in its depths.--J.M. Coetzee, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature"Wonderfully atmospheric and evoc...
Reducere. DescriptionWinner of the Melbourne Prize for Literature's Best Writing AwardShortlisted for the Stella PrizeHow to speak of the searing, unpindowna...
Reducere. Stunning... poetic, urgent. [Taneja] turns a critical lens toward the way language shapes violence, suggesting that 'power tells a story to sustain...
Reducere. Cat sitter, insomniac, former schoolteacher. Ania worries she is a "stand-in occupant, " a substitute in her own life. When she receives a request ...
Reducere. "Grove is a story of an existence stilled by loss, but the promise of life, and with it renewal and hope, pulses gently but steadily at its heart."...
Reducere. DescriptionBoston Globe Best Books of 2018"This short but profoundly moving novel by the young Brazilian writer is one of the finest explorations o...
Reducere. Longlisted for the 2020 International Booker Prize"Fosse's fusing of the commonplace and the existential, together with his dramatic forays into th...
Reducere. Fosse's portrait of intersecting lives is that rare metaphysical novel that readers will find compulsively readable."--Publishers Weekly, Starred R...
Reducere. Description"All My Goodbyes is a virtuoso performance. A love story told in razor sharp fragments, the novel lies at the intersection of memory, vi...
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Reducere. DescriptionAccommodations follows Wiola after she leaves her childhood village, a close-knit agricultural community in Poland where the Catholic ca...
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Reducere. Longlisted for the 2014 Etisalat Prize for Debut African FictionWinner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize"Kintu is a masterpiece, an absolute ge...
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Reducere. Reveals Saturn's useful and developmental influence in our lives. Erin Sullivan gives a thorough account of the astrology, mythology, and psycholog...
Reducere. "Every once in a while a novel does not record reality but creates a whole new reality, one that casts a light on our darkest feelings. Kafka did t...
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Reducere. DescriptionLonglisted for the 2018 Man Booker International PrizeThe Dinner Guest is Gabriela Ybarra's prizewinning literary debut: a singular auto...
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Reducere. Description1960s Angola. A Goan immigrant family finds itself caught between their complicity in Portuguese rule and their own outsider status in t...
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Reducere. "Here are stories to read again and again. Here is language to live in. David Hayden is a serious force."--Sam Lipsyte, author of The Fun PartsDriv...
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Reducere. DescriptionMara is a simultaneous interpreter who moves to a provincial town in Argentina in order to speak as little as possible for a year. Steel...
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Reducere. DescriptionHow far does one have to travel to find home elsewhere? The stories in Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi's collection attempt to measure that d...
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Reducere. Includes an afterword by the author Harry Crosby was the godson of J. P. Morgan and a friend of Ernest Hemingway. Living in Paris in the twenties a...
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Reducere. In this compelling study of the children of serial migrants, Danau Tanu argues that the international schools they attend promote an ideology of be...
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Reducere. Just like we don't pay to use elevators, this book argues that we shouldn't pay to ride public transit. In an age of increasing inequalities and ec...
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