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"The Children's Book" is a captivating read for those interested in the intricate lives of families. It delves into the secrets and betrayals that shape us while weaving an intricate Edwardian world. It is a perfect read for those who enjoy a mysterious and complicated story.
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The Isle of Youth is a collection of stories depicting the lives of women who are bound to secrecy and burdened with deception. These stories show the struggle of young women, searching for something that can unlock their lives. The author's writing style is elegant and compelling- her stories feel relaxing yet fascinating, earning her the title of a "sorceress" by her fans. The book is perfect for those who are looking for inspiring and empowering stories of women who are fighting against all odds to survive, and discover their true worth. The exceptional character portrayal and the unique perspective towards life make it a must-read for all readers who appreciate good storytelling.
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Eleanor Catton
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Granta
The Luminaries (Man Booker Prize winner 2013)
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The Luminaries could be a great read for fans of historical mysteries. Eleanor Catton expertly weaves together a complex network of fates and fortunes in a way that keeps readers guessing until the very end. The richly evoked mid-19th century world of shipping and banking and goldrush boom and bust creates a setting that is both immersive and intriguing. Additionally, Catton's structuring device offers a unique spin on the classic mystery genre. Overall, The Luminaries is a thrilling achievement that is sure to captivate readers who enjoy historical fiction, mysteries, and ghost stories.
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Karl Ove Knausgaard, Karl Ove Knausgård, Don Bartlett |
Farrar,
Straus
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My Struggle, Book One
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My Struggle, Book One is for those who are looking for an intensively introspective autobiography that delves into the poignant moments of life while showcasing originality in writing. The book should be read by those who enjoy autobiographies that blend into contemporary literature. The author, Karl Ove Knausgaard, takes a bold approach towards discussing deep issues such as death, love, fear, and art. Readers are bound to find themselves compelled to read on as Knausgaard brings out his life with raw honesty.
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Joshua Cohen
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Dalkey
Archive
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Witz : A Novel
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This book is perfect for readers who enjoy dark humor and satire. It offers a unique and thought-provoking exploration of cultural identity and the way it is constructed and commodified. With its intricate plot and complex characters, Witz is a challenging but rewarding read for those who appreciate literary fiction.
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Jonathan Franzen
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Purity
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Recommended for those who enjoy complex and morally ambiguous characters, Purity weaves together the lives of Californians, East Germans, leakers, and more, to offer a daring and intense story of youthful idealism, murder, and the search for personal identity. Jonathan Franzen's masterful storytelling, vivid characters, and intricate plot will keep readers captivated until the very end.
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Gregory Rabassa, Gabriel García Márquez |
Penguin
One Hundred Years of Solitude
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Recommended for those seeking an immersive, multigenerational Latin American family saga told with a blend of fantasy and reality. Marquez's writing style captures the essence of Latin American culture through vivid, descriptive storytelling.
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Jonathan Lethem
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Doubleday
Dissident Gardens
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A must-read for those interested in American counterculture and the evolution of radicalism in America. You'll get lost in Lethem's captivating storytelling style and richly developed characters as they navigate their complex personal relationships and political convictions, ultimately reminding us of the undeniable connection between the personal and the political.
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Jonathan Franzen
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4th
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The Twenty-Seventh City
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The Twenty-Seventh City could be a good read for those interested in political thrillers and complex characters. Franzen's writing style and ability to intertwine multiple storylines makes for an immersive reading experience. The city of St. Louis also serves as a character in itself, adding to the overall atmosphere of the book.
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For fans of complex, thought-provoking fiction, 'Strong Motion' provides a riveting narrative as it unveils the intricate relationships between its diverse characters. With earthquakes serving as a metaphor for the instability of modern life, readers are taken through a journey of family, inheritance, and the search for deeper meaning in a world that seems to be continually shifting. Franzen's writing is unapologetically intense and introspective, making 'Strong Motion' a powerful and engaging read.
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Jonathan Franzen
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Fourth
Estate
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The Corrections
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Recommendation: The Corrections is a powerful family drama that explores the complexities of relationships and the challenges of aging. Jonathan Franzen creates vivid characters whose personal struggles and emotional journeys will resonate with anyone who has grappled with the ups and downs of family life. This book is perfect for readers who enjoy intense, character-driven stories that explore the complexities of the human experience.
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Anne Enright
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Vintage
The Gathering
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The Gathering is a must-read for those who love family sagas with a touch of mystery. Enright's beautiful prose delicately peels back layers of family secrets and regrets while exploring the complexities of love and loss. The novel's unique feature lies in how the author uses the protagonist's memory to weave past and present together, creating a haunting and evocative atmosphere. Overall, this is a heart-wrenching and poignant story that will stay with readers long after the last page.
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Lucy Ellmann
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Galley
Beggar
Press
Ducks, Newburyport
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LATTICING one cherry pie after another, an Ohio housewife tries to bridge the gaps between reality and the torrent of meaningless info that is the United States of America. She worries about her children, her dead parents, African elephants, the bedroom rituals of “happy couples”, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and how to hatch an abandoned wood pigeon egg. Is there some trick to surviving survivalists? School shootings? Medical debts? Franks ’n’ beans?A scorching indictment of America’s barbarity, past and present, and a lament for the way we are sleepwalking into environmental disaster, Ducks, Newburyport is a heresy, a wonder—and a revolution in the novel.It’s also very, very funny.
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Hotel Honolulu by Paul Theroux is an intriguing read for those who enjoy character-driven novels. Set in Hawaii, the book provides an intimate look into the chaotic lives of hotel guests and the customs of Hawaiian islanders. The book is written in eighty distinct episodes, each depicting strange pilgrims and islanders confronting their fates in the seedy hotel. The most unique feature of this book is the thread of personal redemption that runs through the plot, ultimately leading to a satisfying conclusion. Readers who enjoy a blend of humor, romance, and drama will find Hotel Honolulu an enjoyable and insightful read.
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Librarian note: An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here.David Winkler begins life in Anchorage, Alaska, a quiet boy drawn to the volatility of weather and obsessed with snow. Sometimes he sees things before they happen—a man carrying a hatbox will be hit by a bus; Winkler will fall in love with a woman in a supermarket. When David dreams that his infant daughter will drown in a flood as he tries to save her, he comes undone. He travels thousands of miles, fleeing family, home, and the future itself, to deny the dream.On a Caribbean island, destitute, alone, and unsure if his child has survived or his wife can forgive him, David is sheltered by a couple with a daughter of their own. Ultimately it is she who will pull him back into the world, to search for the people he left behind.Doerr's characters are full of grief and longing, but also replete with grace. His compassion for human frailty is extraordinarily moving. In luminous prose, he writes about the power and beauty of nature and about the tiny miracles that transform our lives. About Grace is heartbreaking, radiant, and astonishingly accomplished.
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Tudor England. Henry VIII is on the throne, but has no heir. Cardinal Wolsey is charged with securing his divorce. Into this atmosphere of distrust comes Thomas Cromwell - a man as ruthlessly ambitious in his wider politics as he is for himself. His reforming agenda is carried out in the grip of a self-interested parliament and a king who fluctuates between romantic passions and murderous rages.
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Brock Clarke
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Arrow
An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England
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Zia Haider Rahman
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Picador
In the Light of What We Know
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A bold, epic debut novel set during the war and financial crisis that defined the beginning of our centuryAn investment banker approaching forty, his career collapsing and his marriage unraveling, receives a surprise visitor at his West London town house. Confronting the disheveled figure of a South Asian male carrying a backpack, the banker recognizes a long-lost college friend, a mathematics prodigy who disappeared many years earlier under mysterious circumstances. The friend has resurfaced with a confession of unsettling power.Zia Haider Rahman takes us on a journey of exhilarating scope, ranging over Kabul, London, New York, Islamabad, Oxford, and Princeton and dealing with love, belonging, finance, science, and war. Its framework is an age-old story: the friendship of two men and the betrayal of one by the other, both of them desperate in their different ways to climb clear of their wrong beginnings. Set against the breaking of nations and beneath the clouds of economic recession, the novel chronicles the lives of people carrying unshakable legacies of class, culture, and faith as they struggle to tame their futures. In the Light of What We Know is by turns tender, intimate, and panoramic, telescoping the great upheavals of our young century into a first novel of rare ambition and profundity.
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Thomas Pynchon
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Random
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Gravity's Rainbow
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We could tell you the year is 1944, that the main character is called Tyrone Slothrop and that he has a problem because bombs are falling across Europe and crashing to earth at the exact locations of his sexual conquests. But that doesn't really begin to cover it.Reading this book is like falling down a rabbit hole into an outlandish, sinister, mysterious, absurd, compulsive netherworld. As the Financial Times said, 'you must forget earlier notions about life and letters and even the Novel.' Forty years since publication, Gravity's Rainbow has lost none of its power to enthral.
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James Joyce, Declan Kiberd |
Penguin
Books
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Ulysses
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(*) 'Everybody knows now that Ulysses is the greatest novel of the century' Anthony Burgess, ObserverFollowing the events of one single day in Dublin, the 16th June 1904, and what happens to the characters Stephen Dedalus, Leopold Bloom and his wife Molly, Ulysses is a monument to the human condition. It has survived censorship, controversy and legal action, and even been deemed blasphemous, but remains an undisputed modernist classic: ceaselessly inventive, garrulous, funny, sorrowful, vulgar, lyrical and ultimately redemptive. It confirms Joyce's belief that literature 'is the eternal affirmation of the spirit of man'.'The most important expression which the present age has found; it is a book to which we are all indebted, and from which none of us can escape' T. S. Eliot'Intoxicating ... a towering work, in its word play surpassing even Shakespeare' Guardian(*) New cover edition
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Philip Hensher
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Harpercollins
Publishers
The Northern Clemency
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In 1974, the Sellers family is transplanted from London to Sheffield in northern England. On the day they move in, the Glover household across the street is in upheaval: convinced that his wife is having an affair, Malcolm Glover has suddenly disappeared. The reverberations of this rupture will echo through the years to come as the connection between the families deepens. But it will be the particular crises of ten-year-old Tim Glover--set off by two seemingly inconsequential but ultimately indelible acts of cruelty--that will erupt, full-blown, two decades later in a shocking conclusion. Expansive and deeply felt, "The Northern Clemency" shows Philip Hensher to be one of our most masterly chroniclers of modern life, and a storyteller of virtuosic gifts.
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"& Sons is a daring feat of fiction that explores complex family dynamics and how they shape us. Through the story of an iconic novelist, his three sons, and two interconnected families, David Gilbert weaves a deeply affecting tale that will resonate with readers of Jonathan Franzen and Claire Messud. The book's most distinctive feature is its layered, almost Proustian detail in conjuring up the characters' memories. It is a smart, engrossing saga that is both funny and heart-wrenching, infused with warmth and wisdom about what it means to be a family."
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A.M. Homes
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Granta
This Book Will Save Your Life
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This work is short listed for the Richard & Judy Book Club 2007. It is an uplifting story set in Los Angeles about one man's effort to bring himself back to life. Richard is a modern day everyman; a middle-aged divorcee trading stocks out of his home. He has done such a good job getting his life under control that he needs no one. His life has slowed almost to a standstill, until two incidents conspire to hurl him back into the world. One day he wakes up with a knotty cramp in his back, which rapidly develops into an all-consuming pain. At the same time a wide sinkhole appears outside his living room window, threatening the foundations of his house. A vivid novel about compassion and transformation, "This Book Will Save Your Life" reveals what can happen if you are willing to open up to the world around you. Since her debut in 1989, A.M. Homes has been among the boldest and most original voices of her generation, acclaimed for the psychological accuracy and unnerving emotional intensity of her storytelling. Her keen ability to explore how extraordinary the ordinary can be is at the heart of her touching and funny new novel, her first in six years.
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A parable about love, literature and fanaticism. A young university student becomes obsessed with a magical book that delves into the dangerous natures of love and self. Abandoning his studies and his family, he goes with the beautiful Janan on a search for the meaning of the book's darker secrets.
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Alexander Boguslawski, Sasha Sokolov |
Nyrb
Classics
A School For Fools
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By turns lyrical and philosophical, witty and baffling, A School for Fools confounds all expectations of the novel. Here we find not one reliable narrator but two “unreliable” the young man who is a student at the “school for fools” and his double. What begins as a reverie (with frequent interruptions) comes to seem a sort of fairy-tale quest not for gold or marriage but for self-knowledge. The currents of consciousness running through the novel are passionate and profound. Memories of childhood summers at the dacha are contemporaneous with the present, the dead are alive, and the beloved is present in the wind. Here is a tale either of madness or of the life of the imagination in conversation with reason, straining at the limits of language; in the words of Vladimir Nabokov, “an enchanting, tragic, and touching book.”
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In 1933, Chatto & Windus agreed to publish Samuel Beckett's More Pricks Than Kicks, a collection of ten interrelated stories—his first published work of fiction. At his editor's request, Beckett penned an additional story, "Echo's Bones", to serve as the final piece. However, he’d already killed off several of the characters—including the protagonist, Belacqua—throughout the book, and had to resurrect them from the dead. The story was politely rejected by his editor, as it was considered too imaginatively playful, too allusive, and too undisciplined—qualities now recognized as quintessentially Beckett. As a result, "Echo's Bones" (not to be confused with the poem and collection of poems of the same title) remained unpublished—until now, nearly eight decades later.This little-known text is introduced by the preeminent Beckett scholar, Dr. Mark Nixon, who situates the work in terms of its biographical context and textual references, examining how it is a vital link in the evolution of Beckett's early work. Beckett confessed that he included "all I knew" in the story. It harnesses an immense range of subjects: science, philosophy, religion, literature; combining fairy tales, gothic dreams, and classical myth. This posthumous publication marks the unexpected and highly exciting return of a literary legend.
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A.M. Homes
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Viking
Adult
This Book Will Save Your Life
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Disconnected from the outside world until a health scare and a sink hole in his yard force him to forge new relationships, middle-aged everyman Richard Novak finds his life changed by a doughnut shop owner, a kidnapped woman, a counterculture icon, and others. 40,000 first printing.
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Norman Rush
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Knopf
Mortals
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Mortals is a thrilling novel that expertly weaves together the personal misadventures of ex-pats with the political landscape and history of Africa. With humor, romance and political intrigue, Norman Rush paints a vivid picture of expat life in Botswana while shedding light on the complex relationships between Black populism and American intervention. A must-read for anyone interested in African politics and expat culture.
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Every major character in Until I Find You has been marked for life – not only William Burns, a church organist who is addicted to being tattooed, but also William's son, Jack, an actor who is shaped as a child by his relationships with older women. And Jack's mother, Alice – a Toronto tattoo artist – has been permanently damaged by William's rejection of her. This is a novel about the loss of innocence, on many levels.
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Tom Hanks
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Dutton
Uncommon Type
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If you're charmed by Tom Hanks's on-screen presence, imagine how his creativity translates into writing. "Uncommon Type" is a mosaic of America, its quirks, and its humanity, with Hanks's wit and heart stringing each story together. It's perfect for anyone who enjoys narratives that feel both grand and intimate, familiar yet wondrous.
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Gregory Rabassa, Gabriel García Márquez |
Penguin
Books
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
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If you're drawn to the seamless blending of the fantastical with the mundane, "One Hundred Years of Solitude" could be a treasure for you. Gabriel García Márquez crafts a world where the lines between myth and reality blur, offering a literary journey that's as enchanting as it is profound. The multi-generational tale of the Buendia family encapsulates human experience in a way that's both unique and universally resonant.
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David Szalay
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Jonathan
Cape
All That Man Is : Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 MAN BOOKER PRIZENine men. Each of them at a different stage of life, each of them away from home, and each of them striving – in the suburbs of Prague, beside a Belgian motorway, in a cheap Cypriot hotel – to understand just what it means to be alive, here and now.Tracing an arc from the spring of youth to the winter of old age, All That Man Is brings these separate lives together to show us men as they are – ludicrous and inarticulate, shocking and despicable; vital, pitiable, hilarious, and full of heartfelt longing. And as the years chase them down, the stakes become bewilderingly high in this piercing portrayal of 21st-century manhood.
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Jonathan Franzen
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Farrar,
Straus
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Giroux
Purity
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A magnum opus for our morally complex times from the author of FreedomYoung Pip Tyler doesn't know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she's saddled with $130,000 in student debt, that she's squatting with anarchists in Oakland, and that her relationship with her mother – her only family – is hazardous. But she doesn't have a clue who her father is, why her mother chose to live as a recluse with an invented name, or how she'll ever have a normal life. Enter the Germans. A glancing encounter with a German peace activist leads Pip to an internship in South America with The Sunlight Project, an organization that traffics in all the secrets of the world – including, Pip hopes, the secret of her origins. TSP is the brainchild of Andreas Wolf, a charismatic provocateur who rose to fame in the chaos following the fall of the Berlin Wall. Now on the lam in Bolivia, Andreas is drawn to Pip for reasons she doesn't understand, and the intensity of her response to him upends her conventional ideas of right and wrong. Purity is a grand story of youthful idealism, extreme fidelity, and murder. The author of The Corrections and Freedom has imagined a world of vividly original characters – Californians and East Germans, good parents and bad parents, journalists and leakers – and he follows their intertwining paths through landscapes as contemporary as the omnipresent Internet and as ancient as the war between the sexes. Purity is the most daring and penetrating book yet by one of the major writers of our time.
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Gabriele d'Annunzio, Stephen Sartarelli, Virginia Jewiss |
Yale
University
Press
Notturno - A Margellos World Republic of Letters Book
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You'll find yourself immersing into the depths of "Notturno" with a sense of appreciation for D'Annunzio's capacity to create profound beauty amidst adversity. This blend of autobiography and lyrical poetry offers a unique reading experience, one where the darkness of the poet's temporary blindness shapes a haunting yet beautifully crafted work. The layers of past and present intertwine, making it a powerful choice for those who value introspective and innovative literature.
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David Foster Wallace
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Back
Bay
Books
Brief Interviews With Hideous Men - Stories
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David Foster Wallace made an art of taking readers into places no other writer even gets near. The series of stories from which this exuberantly acclaimed book takes its title is a sequence of imagined interviews with men on the subject of their relations with women. These portraits of men at their most self-justifying, loquacious, and benighted explore poignantly and hilariously the agonies of sexual connections.List of stories "A Radically Condensed History of Postindustrial Life" "Death Is Not the End" "Forever Overhead" "Brief Interviews with Hideous Men" "Yet Another Example of the Porousness of Certain Borders (XI)" "The Depressed Person" "The Devil Is a Busy Man" "Think" "Signifying Nothing" "Brief Interviews with Hideous Men" "Datum Centurio" "Octet" "Adult World (I)" "Adult World (II)" "The Devil Is a Busy Man" "Church Not Made with Hands" "Yet Another Example of the Porousness of Certain Borders (VI)" "Brief Interviews with Hideous Men" "Tri-Stan: I Sold Sissee Nar to Ecko" "On His Deathbed, Holding Your Hand, the Acclaimed New Young Off-Broadway Playwright's Father Begs a Boon" "Suicide as a Sort of Present" "Brief Interviews with Hideous Men" "Yet Another Example of the Porousness of Certain Borders (XXIV)"
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Malcolm Lowry
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Pan
In
Association
With
Jonathan
Cape
Under the Volcano
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Geoffrey Firmin, a former British consul, has come to Quauhnahuac, Mexico. His debilitating malaise is drinking, an activity that has overshadowed his life. On the most fateful day of the consul's life-- the Day of the Dead, 1938-- his wife, Yvonne, arrives in Quauhnahuac, inspired by a vision of life together away from Mexico and the circumstances that have driven their relationship to the brink of collapse. She is determined to rescue Firmin and their failing marriage, but her mission is further complicated by the presence of Hugh, the consul's half brother, and Jacques, a childhood friend. The events of this one significant day unfold against an unforgettable backdrop of a Mexico at once magical and diabolical. "Under the Volcano" remains one of literature's most powerful and lyrical statements on the human condition, and a brilliant portrayal of one man's constant struggle against the elemental forces that threaten to destroy him.
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Salman Rushdie
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Random
House
Trade
Paperbacks
The Golden House : A Novel
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În agitatul şi aglomeratul New York există un spaţiu liniştit şi plin de farmec unde tînărul René, regizor aspirant, duce o viaţă plăcută şi liniştită. Asta pînă în ziua cînd în cartier se mută o familie ciudată, alcătuită din patru bărbaţi – un tată vîrstnic şi cei trei fii ai săi – ce folosesc nume romane ca să-şi ascundă originile şi trecutul. Cei patru Golden, Nero şi fiii săi, stîrnesc interesul viitorului cineast, căci această familie exorbitant de bogată ascunde taine uluitoare: legături vechi cu lumea interlopă din India, dezechilibre psihice, dezorientări sexuale. În scenă intră şi o rusoaică superbă, o vînătoare de avere ce-l cucereşte pe bătrînul Nero Golden, manipulîndu-i pe toţi cei din jur, inclusiv pe naratorul René. Casa Golden este un tur de forţă narativ, un roman cosmopolit, un roman al globalizării în decor newyorkez, un roman despre identitate şi destin.„De la împăratul Nero la Obama, prin Naşul… Acest veteran al romanului combină istoria şi miturile Antichităţii cu afacerile murdare, cultura populară şi tehnicile cinematografice pentru a crea o istorie de moravuri a zilelor noastre.” (The Guardian) „Din cînd în cînd ai ocazia să dai peste o carte care te captivează, îţi spune o poveste plină de farmec şi te face să te minunezi cum a născocit autorul aşa ceva. Casa Golden este o astfel de carte... Abordează o serie întreagă de adevăruri universale şi, în acelaşi timp, se dovedeşte absolut originală.” (The Associated Press)
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Jonathan Franzen
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Fourth
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The Corrections
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Franzen's "The Corrections" masterfully unravels the messy, intertwined lives of the Lambert family with sharp wit and deep insight. If you enjoy rich character development and a narrative that captures the absurdities of modern life, this may be the next book on your list. It's not just a story—it's a mirror to the quintessential American life, reflecting personal and societal struggles that resonate long after the last page is turned.
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Narrated by the twin voices of the artist Butcher Bones, and his 'damaged two-hundred-and-twenty-pound brother' Hugh, A Love Story once again displays Peter Carey's extraordinary flair for language. Ranging from the rural wilds of Australia to Manhattan via Tokyo, it is a brilliant and moving exploration of art, fraud, friendship and redemption.
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Set entirely on one day, 16 June 1904, Ulysses follows Leopold Bloom and Stephen Daedalus as they go about their daily business in Dublin. From this starting point, James Joyce constructs a novel of extraordinary imaginative richness and depth. Unique in the history of literature, Ulysses is one of the most important and enjoyable works of the twentieth century.After its first publication in Paris in 1922, Ulysses was published in Great Britain by The Bodley Head in 1936. These editions, as well as the subsequent resettings of 1960 in Great britain and of 1961 in the US, included an increasing number of transmission and printing errors. In 1977 a team of scholars, led by Professor Hans Walter Gabler, began to study manuscript evidence, typescripts and proofs in an attempt to reconstruct Joyce's creative process in order to come up with a more accurate text.This edition uses the revised 1993 text of Gabler's version.
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Lydia Davis
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The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
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Goodreads rating: 4.26
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Find out why fellow authors like Ali Smith, Dave Eggers and Jonathan Franzen love her writing in this collection of all her stories to date, from across three decades.
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Imagine you give a dinner party and a friend of a friend brings a stranger to your house as his guest. He seems pleasant enough.Imagine that this stranger goes upstairs halfway through the dinner party and locks himself in one of your bedrooms and won't come out.Imagine you can't move him for days, weeks, months. If ever.This is what Miles does, in a chichi house in the historic borough of Greenwich, in the year 2009-10, in There but for the. Who is Miles, then? And what does it mean, exactly, to live with other people?Sharply satirical and sharply compassionate, with an eye to the meanings of the smallest of words and the slightest of resonances, There but for the fuses disparate perspectives in a crucially communal expression of identity and explores our very human attempts to navigate between despair and hope, enormity and intimacy, cliché and grace.Ali Smith's dazzling new novel is a funny, moving book about time, memory, thought, presence, quietness in a noisy time, and the importance of hearing ourselves think.
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Arundhati Roy
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The Ministry of Utmost Happiness : A novel
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The Ministry of Utmost Happiness takes us on a journey of many years – the story spooling outwards from the cramped neighbourhoods of Old Delhi into the burgeoning new metropolis and beyond, to the Valley of Kashmir and the forests of Central India, where war is peace and peace is war, and where, from time to time, ‘normalcy’ is declared.Anjum, who used to be Aftab, unrolls a threadbare carpet in a city graveyard that she calls home. A baby appears quite suddenly on a pavement, a little after midnight, in a crib of litter. The enigmatic S. Tilottama is as much of a presence as she is an absence in the lives of the three men who love her.
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JULES EPSTEIN IS UNDERGOING A TRANSFORMATIONIt began in the wake of his parents' death, when he divorced his wife of over thirty-five years, retired from his legal firm, and started rapidly shedding the possessions he'd spent a lifetime accumulating. With the last of his wealth and a nebulous plan, he departs New York for the Tel Aviv Hilton.Meanwhile, a novelist leaves her husband and children behind in Brooklyn and checks in to the same hotel, hoping that the view of the pool she used to swim in on childhood holidays will unlock her writer's block. But when a man claiming to be a retired professor of literature recruits her for a project involving Kafka, she is drwan in to a mystery that will change her life in ways she could never have imagined.Bursting with life and humour, this is a novel of metamorphosis and self-realisation - of looking beyond all that is visible towards the infinite.
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Jeffrey Eugenides
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Harperperennial
My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead: Great Love Stories from Chekhov to Munro
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Goodreads rating: 3.9
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If you've ever marveled at the myriad ways love unfolds and unravels, "My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead" could be a treasure trove for you. Not only does it offer a diverse array of perspectives—from Chekhov's classic encounters to Munro's contemporary reflections—but it also serves a noble cause, with proceeds supporting young writers. Delve into these pages, and you might find the bittersweet comfort in knowing that your own love experiences are part of a grander, universal tapestry.
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Bonbon Palace was once a stately apartment block in Istanbul. Now it is a sadly dilapidated home to ten wildly different individuals and their families. There's a womanizing, hard-drinking academic with a penchant for philosophy; a 'clean freak' and her lice-ridden daughter; a lapsed Jew in search of true love; and a charmingly naïve mistress whose shadowy past lurks in the building. When the trash at Bonbon Palace is stolen, a mysterious sequence of events unfolds that result in a soul-searching quest for truth. By turns comic and tragic, this is an outstandingly original novel driven by an overriding sense of social justice.
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As the snow begins to fall, a journalist arrives in the remote city of Kars on the Turkish border. Kars is a troubled place - there's a suicide epidemic among its young women, Islamists are poised to win the local elections, and the head of the intelligence service is viciously effective. When the growing blizzard cuts off the outside world, the stage is set for a terrible and desperate act ...Orhan Pamuk's magnificent and bestselling new novel evokes the spiritual fragility of the non-Western world, its ambivalence about the godless West, and its fury.--back cover
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"Infinite Jest" is a heavy but rewarding tome. If you're someone who's intrigued by incisive commentary on modern society, addiction, and the pursuit of happiness, this book is for you. David Foster Wallace's unique style combines richly detailed world-building, complex characters, and a deep examination of life's more challenging aspects, all while maintaining a comedic touch that makes the denseness approachable. It's a modern classic that's as thought-provoking as it is entertaining.
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Wait now, light me up so we do this right, yes, hold me steady to the lamp, hold it, hold, good, a slow pull to start with, to draw the smoke low into the lungs, yes, oh my...Shuklaji Street, in Old Bombay. In Rashid's opium room the air is thick with voices and ghosts: Hindu, Muslim, Christian. A young woman holds a long-stemmed pipe over a flame, her hair falling across her eyes. Men sprawl and mutter in the gloom. Here, they say you introduce only your worst enemy to opium. There is an underworld whisper of a new terror: the Pathar Maar, the stone killer, whose victims are the nameless, invisible poor. In the broken city, there are too many to count.Stretching across three decades, with an interlude in Mao's China, it portrays a city in collision with itself. With a cast of pimps, pushers, poets, gangsters and eunuchs, it is a journey into a sprawling underworld written in electric and utterly original prose.
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Barbara Kingsolver
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Harper
The Lacuna
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In her most accomplished novel, Barbara Kingsolver takes us on an epic journey from the Mexico City of artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo to the America of Pearl Harbor, FDR, and J. Edgar Hoover. The Lacuna is a poignant story of a man pulled between two nations as they invent their modern identities. Born in the United States, reared in a series of provisional households in Mexico—from a coastal island jungle to 1930s Mexico City—Harrison Shepherd finds precarious shelter but no sense of home on his thrilling odyssey. Life is whatever he learns from housekeepers who put him to work in the kitchen, errands he runs in the streets, and one fateful day, by mixing plaster for famed Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. He discovers a passion for Aztec history and meets the exotic, imperious artist Frida Kahlo, who will become his lifelong friend. When he goes to work for Lev Trotsky, an exiled political leader fighting for his life, Shepherd inadvertently casts his lot with art and revolution, newspaper headlines and howling gossip, and a risk of terrible violence. Meanwhile, to the north, the United States will soon be caught up in the internationalist goodwill of World War II. There in the land of his birth, Shepherd believes he might remake himself in America's hopeful image and claim a voice of his own. He finds support from an unlikely kindred soul, his stenographer, Mrs. Brown, who will be far more valuable to her employer than he could ever know. Through darkening years, political winds continue to toss him between north and south in a plot that turns many times on the unspeakable breach—the lacuna—between truth and public presumption. With deeply compelling characters, a vivid sense of place, and a clear grasp of how history and public opinion can shape a life, Barbara Kingsolver has created an unforgettable portrait of the artist—and of art itself. The Lacuna is a rich and daring work of literature, establishing its author as one of the most provocative and important of her time.