Contemporary World Fiction
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Leonora Carrington
The Hearing Trumpet
Surreal and splendidly unconventional, The Hearing Trumpet is an apocalyptic fairy tale quest about an occult old ladies' home and the spry nonagenarian who ends up there.
After coming into possession of a hearing trumpet, 92-year-old Marian L
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Clarice Lispector
The Hour of the Star
Narrated by the cosmopolitan Rodrigo S.M., this brief, strange, and haunting tale is the story of Macabéa, one of life's unfortunates. Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a poor living as a typist, Macabéa loves mo
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Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Before the Coffee Gets Cold
If you could go back in time, who would you want to meet?
In a small back alley of Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. Local legend says that this shop offers s
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Mario Vargas Llosa
The Bad Girl
Ricardo Somocurcio is in love with a bad girl. He loves her as a teenager known as "Lily" in Lima in 1950, when she flits into his life one summer and disappears again without explanation. He loves her still when she reappears as a revolut
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Mieko Kawakami
Breasts and Eggs
The story of three women by a writer hailed by Haruki Murakami as Japan’s most important contemporary novelist, WINNER OF THE AKUTAGAWA PRIZE.
"Breasts and Eggs" took my breath away.” — Haruki Murakami
Challenging every
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Axie Oh
The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea
New York Times Bestseller
The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea is an enthralling feminist retelling of the classic Korean folktale “The Tale of Shim Cheong,” perfect for fans of Wintersong, Uprooted, and Miyazaki’s Spiri
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Irvin D. Yalom
The Spinoza Problem
A haunting portrait of Arthur Rosenberg, one of Nazism's chief architects, and his obsession with one of history's most influential Jewish thinkers
In The Spinoza Problem, Irvin Yalom spins fact and fiction into an unforgettable psycho-philosop
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Paul Auster
Sunset Park
Luminous, passionate, expansive, an emotional tour de force, "Sunset Park" follows the hopes and fears of a cast of unforgettable characters brought together by the mysterious Miles Heller during the dark months of the 2008 economic collap
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Guadalupe Nettel
Natural Stories / Petals and Other Awkward Stories
This volume contains two collections of short prose by Guadalupe Nettel: Natural Stories (2013) and Petals and Other Awkward Stories (2008). The stories are often written as a first-person confession, tight, without unnecessary drama, but with skill
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Rumaan Alam
Leave the World Behind
A magnetic novel about two families, strangers to each other, who are forced together on a long weekend gone terribly wrong.
Amanda and Clay head to a remote corner of Long Island expecting a a quiet reprieve from life in New York City, qual
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Sandra Newman
Julia
London, chief city of Airstrip One, the third most populous province of Oceana. It's 1984 and Julia Worthing works as a mechanic fixing the novel-writing machines in the Fiction Department at the Ministry of Truth. Under the ideolo
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Sequoia Nagamatsu
How High We Go in the Dark
For fans of Cloud Atlas and Station Eleven, a spellbinding and profoundly prescient debut that follows a cast of intricately linked characters over hundreds of years as humanity struggles to rebuild itself in the aftermath of a climate plague &m
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Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
When We Were Birds
A mythic love story set in Trinidad and Tobago, Ayanna Lloyd Banwo's radiant debut introduces two unforgettable outsiders brought together by their connection with the dead.
You were never the smartest child, but even you should know that when a de
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Ted Chiang
Exhalation
In these nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories, Ted Chiang tackles some of humanity’s oldest questions along with new quandaries only he could imagine.
In "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate," a por
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Isabel Allende
The Wind Knows My Name
This powerful and moving novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea weaves together past and present, tracing the ripple effects of war and immigration on one child in Europe in 1938 and another in the United
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Irvin D. Yalom
When Neitzsche Wept
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 m
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Haruki Murakami
1Q84
When the first two books of the 1Q84 trilogy were published in Japan, readers snapped up the million print run and were completely captivated by the story of Aomame and Tengo and the strange parallel world they inhabit. And then - a year lat
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Paul Auster
4 3 2 1
Astonishing, a masterpiece, Paul Auster’s greatest, most satisfying, most vivid and heartbreaking novel - a sweeping and surprising story of inheritance, family, love and life itself.
Nearly two weeks early, on March 3, 1947, in the mate
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Douglas Kennedy
Afraid of the Light
Brendan has always lived a careful, constrained life. A salesman who never liked the work, he's a man who has stayed in his marriage and his faith because it was what was expected of him. But now, having lost his job after corporate downsizing
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Santiago Amigorena
The Ghetto Within
In his English language debut, Santiago H. Amigorena writes to fight the silence that “has stifled him since he was born”, weaving together fiction, biography, and memoir to distill a stirring novel of loss and unshakeable
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Mario Vargas Llosa
Harsh Times
Guatemala, 1954. A CIA-supported military coup topples the government. Behind this violent act is a lie passed off as truth, which forever changed the development of Latin America: that those in power encouraged the spread of Soviet commu
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Hiro Arikawa
The Travelling Cat Chronicles
The life-affirming one million copy bestseller
"Bewitching... as self-possessed and comforting as - well, a cat." SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
"A book about kindness and love, and how the smallest things can provide happiness." STYLIST
It's not the journ
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Robert Galbraith
The Ink Black Heart
When frantic, dishevelled Edie Ledwell appears in the office begging to speak to her, private detective Robin Ellacott doesn’t know quite what to make of the situation. The co-creator of a popular cartoon, The Ink Black Heart, E
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Haruki Murakami
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
The twenty-four stories that make up Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman generously express the incomparable Haruki Murakami’s mastery of the form.
Here are animated crows, a criminal monkey, and an ice man, as well as the dreams that shape us and
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Ted Chiang
Stories of Your Life and Others
What if men built a tower from Earth to Heaven-and broke through to Heaven's other side? What if we discovered that the fundamentals of mathematics were arbitrary and inconsistent? What if there were a science of naming things that calls li
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Douglas Kennedy
Isabelle in the Afternoon
Before Isabelle I knew nothing of sex.
Before Isabelle I knew nothing of freedom.
Before Isabelle I knew nothing of life.
Paris in the early Seventies. Sam, an American student, meets a woman in a bookshop. Isabelle is enigmatic, beautiful, o
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Isabel Allende
Violeta
Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first girl in a family of five boisterous sons. From the start, her life will be marked by extraordinary events, for the ripples of the Great War are still being felt, even as the Spanish flu
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Paul Auster
The Invention of Solitude
This debut work by New York Times-bestselling author Paul Auster (The New York Trilogy), a memoir, established Auster’s reputation as a major new voice in American writing.
His moving and personal meditation on fatherhood is s
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Haruki Murakami
First Person Singular
A mind-bending new collection of short stories from the internationally acclaimed Haruki Murakami.
The eight stories in this new book are all told in the first person by a classic Murakami narrator. From memories of youth, meditation
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Shubhangi Swarup
Latitudes of Longing
A sweeping debut novel about the desire and longing between humanity and the earth itself — by a major new literary talent from India.
Latitudes of Longing follows the interconnected lives of characters searching for true inti
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Richard Powers
The Overstory
The Overstory is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of - and paean to - the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, Richard Powers’s twelfth novel unfold
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Reed King
FKA USA
FKA USA is the epic novel we’ve all been waiting for about the American end of times, with its unavoidable sense of being on the wrong end of the roller coaster ride. It is a masterwork of ambition, humor, and satire with the p
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David Grossman
More Than I Love My Life
From the internationally best-selling author - and revered moral voice - a remarkable novel of suffering, love, and healing, the story of three generations of women and a secret that needs to be told.
More Than I Love My Life is the story of three
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