Sidewalks - Grantland Book of the Year.
Vol. 1 Brooklyn, A Year of Favorites, Jason Diamond.
Book Riot, 2014’s Must-Read Books from Indie Presses.
"Valeria Luiselli is a writer of formidable...
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Zou Lei, orphan of the desert, migrates to work in America and finds herself slaving in New York's kitchens. She falls in love with a young man whose heart has been broken in another desert. A new life may be possible if together they can survive...
The characters in Praying Drunk speak in tongues, torture their classmates, fall in love, hunt for immortality, abandon their children, keep machetes beneath passenger seats, and collect porcelain figurines. A man crushes pills on the bathroom...
Set in the future — a world where the past is a dangerous country, not to be talked about or visited — J is a love story of incomparable strangeness, both tender and terrifying.
Two people fall in love, not yet knowing where they have...
Flat-Out Love is a warm and witty novel of family love and dysfunction, deep heartache and raw vulnerability, with a bit of mystery and one whopping, knock-you-to-your-knees romance.It's not what you know - or when you see - that...
Автор: Witt L A
Серия: Warriors of Rome #1
Язык: английский
Год: 2012
Статус: Закончена
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Former gladiator Saevius is certain Fortune’s smiling on him when a Pompeiian politician buys him to be his bodyguard. But then his new master, Laurea Calvus, orders Saevius to discover the gladiator with whom his wife is having an affair. In...
An international sensation, this startling and heartbreaking debut introduces us to precocious eleven-year-old Djata, whose life in the totalitarian state he calls home is about to change forever.
Djata doesn’t know what to make of...
Автор: Radvilaviciute Giedra
Серия: Lithuanian Literature Series
Язык: английский
Год: 2013
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In ten of her best essay-stories, Giedra Radvilavičiūtė travels between the ridiculous and the sublime, the everyday and the extraordinary. In the place of plot, which the author claims to have had "shot and buried with the...
In the tradition of George Saunders and Aimee Bender, an exuberantly imagined debut that chronicles an ordinary world marked by unusual phenomena.
The eighteen stories of Manuel Gonzales’s exhilarating first book render the fantastic...
A short, stunning book by a Brazilian master of the avant-garde.
Something has changed in Amos Keres, a university mathematics professor — his sentences trail off in class, he is disgusted by the sight of his wife and son, and he longs...