Contemporary Fiction
Umberto Eco
Minerva's Matchbook
This volume collects texts published between 1990 and 2000 in the legendary column "Bustina di Minerva" - "Minerva Matches", which Umberto Eco (1932-2016) wrote in the magazine.
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The Will of The Many
Welcome to the Academy of Catena, the place where the elite of the Hierarchy are educated.
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Laurent Gounelle
An Almost Perfect World
The young programmer David Lisner lives in the Land of the Upright, an overdeveloped technological society that has nearly achieved perfection in its concern for the happiness of its citizens.
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Pete Townshend
Minerva's Matchbook
Pete Townsend started with the idea of an opera, but as he said in an interview, he turned the plot into a "psychological novel".
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Kiril Kadiiski
Starry Convict Prison. The New Guernica
This volume of poetry offers a new perspective on a painfully familiar reality. This is poetry that is fragmentary and embossed, faithful to tradition and innovative in spirit, introspective and impetuous, rhyming the heart with the mind.
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Giovanna Giordano
The Scent of Freedom
The year is 1923 and the place is a small village in Sicily named Jesso. A brave boy leaves the known world and rushes with all the energy of his twenties to the new and unknown continent of America.
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Tom Kuka
Stones of Loneliness
The year is 1913. Seventy-two selected men, Albanian Muslims from the disputed region of Chameria, were lured to Paramitia by the Greek bishop with an olive branch, but were beaten to death…
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Francis Kirps
The Mutations
"The Mutation" is a collection of seven short stories and one poem written in German, with one story featuring passages written in Luxembourgish. The titlegiving ‘mutations’ are programmatic in two major regards: thematically, as the sto
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Javier Cercas
Soldiers of Salamis
In the final moments of the Spanish Civil War, a writer and founding member of Franco's Fascist Party is about to be shot, and yet miraculously escapes into the forest. When his hiding place is discovered, he faces death for the second time
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Richard Flanagan
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
The Narrow Road to the Deep North is winner of The Man Booker Prize 2014!
“Daring … Captivating … Often unbearably powerful … The Narrow Road to the Deep North [will draw you] into dark contemplation the way only th
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Silvia Avallone
Black Heart
Emilia and Bruno meet in Sassaya, a small village nestled in the Biella mountains. In this God-forgotten corner of the world, they realize that they have lost everything - although for very different reasons - and that Sassaya is a plac
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Mélissa Da Costa
The Next Day
Amanda has lost her husband and the child she was expecting. Isolated in a secluded house in the countryside, she lives with the shutters down and without contact with the outside world, unable to overcome her grief from her misfortune. Th
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Laura Esquivel
Like Hot Water for Chocolate
Each chapter of Esquivel's utterly charming interpretation of life in turn-of-the-century Mexico begins with a recipe -- not surprisingly, since so much of the action of this exquisite first novel (a bestseller in Mexico) centers around the kitchen,
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Paul Auster
Baumgartner
A final masterpiece of love, memory and grief by Paul Auster, “one of the great American prose stylists of his time” (NYT)
A master. The Times
Exquisite… A super-abundantly gifted, big-hearted novelist. Ian McEwan
A writer who
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Camilla Läckberg
Burnished Dreams
The third instalment in the daring suspense series about Faye – a charged revenge drama of betrayal, redemption and sisterhood.
Faye’s ex-husband is dead, but she is threatened by her father who is still on the run from prison. The m
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Irene Vallejo
The Bowman's Whistle
"A short novel that dialogues between times, between the exiled and the lives they recommence, between gods and men. In terms of contemporary cinema, The Bowman's Whistle is the polyphonic remake of a classic, written with an expressiv
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Anne Holt
Blind Goddess
The first book in Edgar-nominated Anne Holt's international bestselling mystery series featuring detective Hanne Wilhelmsen.
A small-time drug dealer is found battered to death on the outskirts of the Norwegian capital, Oslo. A youn
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Maud Ventura
★★★★★
My Husband
She has a dream life – a beautiful house, two lovely children, a job she loves, and a husband who is perfect in every way. And yet, after fifteen years of marriage, she wants more – she wants to love each other like they did a
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Elena Poniatowska
Leonora
Born in Lancashire as the wealthy heiress to her British father's textiles empire, Leonora Carrington was destined to live the kind of life only known by the moneyed classes. But even from a young age she rebelled against the strict rul
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Davorin Lenko
Psychoporn
"Psychoporn" is a collection of short and very short stories, with which Davorin Lenko opens a new chapter in his literary and creative pursuits.
As the title suggests, the stories deal with reality, with the flesh, as well as with the
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Flavius Ardelean
Venerare
A foul smell invades a young writer's room, tearing him away from his work. In an attempt to find the source of the stench, he looks outside and sees that others have also climbed out the windows in search of the same answer. The answer tur
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Irvin D. Yalom
A Matter of Death and Life
A year-long journey by the renowned psychiatrist Irvin D. Yalom and his wife Marylin Yalom after her terminal diagnosis, as they reflect on how to love and live without regret.
Internationally acclaimed psychiatrist and author devoted his career t
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Jeff Schinker
Sabotage
In this book, which seems to compare the homeland of author Jeff Schinker with the multilingual situation in the Tower of Babel, the author confronts readers with the excesses and perversions in the sphere of labor and interpersonal
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Dimitar Shumnaliev
A Poem about a Bohemian
Sofia in the years of “mature” socialism. A group of former classmates from Sofia High School in “Lozenets” share a common bohemian company and together experience both their dramatic intimate stories and their smal
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Holly Ringland
The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding
From international bestselling author of The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, Holly Ringland, comes a haunting and magical novel about joy, grief, courage, and transformation.
'On the afternoon that Esther Wilding drove homeward along the coast, a year
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Michael Caine
Deadly Game
DCI Harry Taylor has no respect for red tape or political reputations – but he's great at catching criminals. And all his unorthodox skills will be needed as an extraordinary situation unfolds on his doorstep: a metal box of radi
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Jean Reno
Emma
Marked by an incurable trauma, Emma’s life is suddenly turned upside down by an extraordinary set of circumstances, at the center of which is a fatal meeting with a high-ranking man from the Sultanate of Oman. The cozy solitude
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Amanda Weinberg
The Italian Bookshop Among the Vines
In a secluded Italian village, Jewish and Catholic families live side by side. As the storm clouds of war gather, everyone will have to make a heart-breaking choice to save the lives of those they love...
Bella's Jewish family has run the lo
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Elitza Gueorguieva
Odyssey of the Girls from the East
Like frames from a film, scenes from the lives of two Bulgarian women in France at the beginning of the new century alternate.
Armed with "The Great Encyclopedic Dictionary of Larousse" and "The Little Larousse of Good M
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T. Kingfisher
Nettle and Bone
After years of seeing her sisters suffer at the hands of an abusive prince, Marra — the shy, convent-raised, third-born daughter—has finally realized that no one is coming to their rescue. No one, except for Marra herself.
See
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Federico García Lorca
Songs and Romances
But what can I say about Poetry? What can I say about these clouds, about this sky? I look, I look, I look at them, I look at it, and that's it. You understand that a poet can't say anything about Poetry. Leave that to the critics and the professor
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Georgy Borisov
My Stories (1973 – 2023). Volume 1
In this impressive literary work in terms of volume and time span, which the author has called “My Stories”, and some would define it as a kind of “writer’s diary”, Georgi Borisov presents his unpublished poems, th
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Jostein Gaarder
The World According to Anna
When fifteen-year-old Anna begins receiving messages from another time, her parents take her to the doctor. But he can find nothing wrong; in fact he believes there may be some truth to what she is seeing. Anna is haunted by visions of the desolate
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Daniel Kehlmann
Measuring the World
"Measuring the World" is a novel by the Austrian writer Daniel Kehlmann who has been hailed as one of the most promising new generation of writers. This novel is the first of his to be translated into English (by Carol Brown Janeway) and ha
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Pablo Neruda
The Captain's Verses: Love Poems
Pablo Neruda, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, finished writing The Captain's Verses in 1952 while in exile on the island of Capri ― the paradisal setting for the blockbuster film Il Postino (The Postman). Surrounded by sea, sun,
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Irvine Welsh
Trainspotting
Irvine Welsh's controversial first novel, set on the heroin-addicted fringe of working-class youth in Edinburgh, is yet another exploration of the dark side of Scottishness. The main character, Mark Renton, is at the center of a clique of nihilisti
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Fonda Lee
Jade City
"Jade City" is a gripping Godfather-esque saga of intergenerational blood feuds, vicious politics, magic, and kungfu.
The Kaul family is one of two crime syndicates that control the island of Kekon. It's the only place in the world that produ
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Fonda Lee
Jade City (Hardback)
"Jade City" is a gripping Godfather-esque saga of intergenerational blood feuds, vicious politics, magic, and kungfu.
The Kaul family is one of two crime syndicates that control the island of Kekon. It's the only place in the world that produ
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Italo Calvino
The Uses of Literature: Essays
This volume of essays is a kind of intellectual autobiography of Italo Calvino (1923-1985), one of the greatest Italian writers of the 20th century, often cited as a candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature. Selected by the author him
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Daniel Kehlmann
Cinema
Translating the title is both easy and difficult. It literally means play of light but is a a somewhat archaic German word for film or cinema, perhaps akin to the English moving picture.
The book is about the famous Austrian film director G. W
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Annette Bjergfeldt
Mr Saito’s Travelling Cinema
An infant is left in a shoebox on the doorstep of Buenos Aires’ Magdalene Monastery and is given the name Fabiola by the nuns. Early in life the rebellious Fabiola develops a propensity for finding the perfect pair of shoes for any give
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Christine Leunens
In Amber's Wake
Ethan Grieg, a film student, is in love with his close friend Amber Deering, an environmental activist, who lives at her family’s seemingly picture-perfect stud farm. Amber loves Ethan dearly, but not the way that Ethan longs for. Instead,
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Salman Rushdie
Knife
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER
• From Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring — and surviving — an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him
On the mo
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Milan Kundera
Eighty-Nine Words / Prague: A Disappearing Poem
IRONY. Which character is right and which is wrong? Is Emma Bovary unbearable? Or bold and touching? No answer. The novel is by its very essence an ironic art, which means: its "truth" is hidden, unspoken and unutterable. Man wishes to see the s
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Lyudmila Ulitskaya
Yakov's Ladder
At first glance, Yacov’s Ladder perfectly embodies the generic definition of a “family saga.” The story of several generations of Osetskys, who were originally from Kiev and then transplanted to Moscow, spans an entire c
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Marta Dzido
The Clam
The Clam (2005) is Marta Dzido's first novel. The protagonist Magda is looking for a job, looking for true love, looking for herself. And she can't find them, she can't fit into reality, the world seems unfamiliar to her, everywhere she s
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Richard Powers
Bewilderment
A heartrending new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning and #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Overstory.
The astrobiologist Theo Byrne searches for life throughout the cosmos while single-handedly raising his unusual nine-year
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Irvin D. Yalom
The Schopenhauer Cure
A novel of group therapy with a cast of memorably wounded characters struggling to heal pain and change lives
Suddenly confronted with his own mortality after a routine checkup, eminent psychotherapist Julius Hertzfeld is forced to reexamine
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