
Set in America in 1951, the second year of the Korean War, Indignation is narrated by Marcus Messner, a college student from New Jersey, who describes his sophomore year at Winesburg College in Ohio. Marcus transfers to
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“I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there is some sort of secret homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers.” January 1946: London is emerging from the shadow of the Second World War, and writer Juliet
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A controversial novel set in an isolated, run-down community in the Andes. Part detective story and part political allegory, it offers a panoramic view of Peruvian society, of the country's recent political violence, and of its cultural
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A long lost letter arrives in the post and Edie Burchill finds herself on a journey to Milderhurst Castle, a great but moldering old house, where the Blythe spinsters live and where her mother was billeted 50 years before as a 13 year old child
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“The Dream of the Celt” is a novel written by Peruvian writer and 2010 Nobel laureate in literature Mario Vargas Llosa.The novel was presented to the public on November 3, 2010 during a special ceremony held in the Casa de
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Winner of the 2001 National Book Award for FictionAfter almost fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun. Unfortunately, her husband, Alfred, is losing his sanity to Parkinson's disease, and their children have long
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This talky first novel by psychotherapist Yalom ( Love's Executioner ) is set in 1882 Vienna, where Joseph Breuer, an eminent physician and mentor of Sigmund Freud, has applied his recently discovered talking cure to a woman afflicted with multiple
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“The Old King in His Exile” is Arno Geiger’s account of his father’s years suffering from dementia (Alzheimer’s). August was part of a large family, and though he started his own relatively late (only marrying at age
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Isabel Allende’s latest novel, set in the present day (a new departure for the author), tells the story of a 19-year-old American girl who finds refuge on a remote island off the coast of Chile after falling into a life of drugs, crime, and
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In Change, Mo Yan, the 2012 Nobel Laureate in Literature, personalizes the political and social changes in his country over the past few decades in this novella disguised as autobiography—or vice-versa. Unlike most historical narratives
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“Help, Forgiveness” tells the story of Octave who had changed his profession – now he is a “model-hunter” in Russia and his target are the most beautiful women in the world. Octave confesses his wickedness to a priest
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After meeting Lenny on an extended Roman holiday, blistering Eunice puts that Assertiveness minor to work, teaching our “ancient dork” effective new ways to brush his teeth and making him buy a cottony nonflammable wardrobe. But America
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“No one ever suspects”, begins “Tomorrow in the Battle Think On Me”, “that they might one day find themselves with a dead woman in their arms...” Marta has just met Victor when she invites him to dinner at
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Captain Pantoja and the Special Service (1973) (orig. Spanish Pantaleón y las visitadoras) is a relatively short comedic novel by acclaimed Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa. The story takes place in the Peruvian department of Amazonas,
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