Swann's Way: In Search of Lost Time Vol 1 by Marcel Proust
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Category: Translated Fiction
VINTAGE CLASSICS FRENCH SERIES- stunning flapped paperback editions showcasing the bestselling, most acclaimed French writers of the twentieth century.The definitive translation of a truly great French novel - Proust's beautiful, atmospheric story of memory and loss.This is the first volume of In Search ...Show more
Territory of Light by Yuko Tsushima
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Category: Translated Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Wonderfully poetic ... extraordinary freshness ... a Virginia Woolf quality' Margaret Drabble It is Spring. A young woman, left by her husband, starts a new life in a Tokyo apartment. Territory of Light follows her over the course of a year, as she struggles to bring up her two-year-old daughter alone. ...Show more
The Night House by Jo Nesbo
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Category: Translated Fiction
From the internationally best-selling author comes a twisted, multi-layered spin on the classic horror novel for fans of Stranger Things and ITWHEN THE VOICES CALL, DON'T ANSWER...In the wake of his parents' tragic deaths fourteen-year-old Richard Elauved has been sent to live with his aunt and uncle in ...Show more
The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante
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Category: Translated Fiction | Series: Neapolitan Quartet
The Story of a New Name, the second book of the Neapolitan Quartet, picks up the story where My Brilliant Friend left off.Lila has recently married and made her entree into the family business; Elena, meanwhile, continues her studies and her exploration of the world beyond the neighbourhood that she so ...Show more
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
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Category: Fiction
In The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera tells the story of a young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing and one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover. This magnificent novel juxtaposes geographically distant places; brilliant and pl ...Show more
The Wolves of Eternity (Morning Star #2) by Karl Ove Knausgaard
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Category: Translated Fiction
Two adult siblings learn of their surprising shared history in this searching prequel to The Morning Star, set between Norway and Russia The future is no more, and eternity has begun.Norway, 1986. The government is in crisis, and far away in Russia, a nuclear reactor has exploded in Chernobyl. Syvert L ...Show more
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (#3 Neapolitan Quartet) by Elena Ferrante
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Category: Translated Fiction | Series: Neapolitan Quartet
Part of the bestselling saga about childhood friends following different paths by "one of the great novelists of our time" (The New York Times). In the third book in the New York Times-bestselling Neapolitan quartet that inspired the HBO series My Brilliant Friend, Elena and Lila have grown into womanh ...Show more
Vernon Subutex One by Virginie Despentes
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Category: Translated Fiction | Series: MacLehose Press Editions Ser.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL 2018. WHO IS VERNON SUBUTEX? An urban legend. A fall from grace. The mirror who reflects us all. Vernon Subutex was once the proprietor of Revolver, an infamous music shop in Bastille. His legend spread throughout Paris. But by the 2000s his shop is str ...Show more
Watch Us Dance by Leila Slimani
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Category: Translated Fiction
Watch Us Dance combines the youth, vibrancy and allure of Andre Aciman with the historical fiction force of Maggie Shipstead, and the exquisite sense of place and time of The Lost Daughter. The seductive, vibrant new novel from international bestselling author Leila Slimani. Morocco, 1968. As she stan ...Show more
What You Are Looking for is in the Library: The uplifting Japanese fiction bestseller by Michiko Aoyama
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Category: Translated Fiction
At once heart-rending and heartwarming, this bestselling shortlistee of the Japan Booksellers' Prize is a celebraton of community libraries and the life-changing power of book recommendation. 'I definitely want to visit this library. I feel kinder after this book' 5***** - Reader review What are you l ...Show more
When I Sing, Mountains Dance by Irene Sola
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Category: Translated Fiction
A ferociously imaginative, polyphonic debut: amid the rugged beauty of the Pyrenees, the mountains' inhabitants - both human and non-human - bear witness to the tragedies that befall one family "Sola pushes past the limits of human experience to tell a story of instinct and earth-time that is irresistib ...Show more
Zazie in the Metro by Raymond Queneau
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Category: Translated Fiction
The cult classic from one of France's most stylish writersImpish, foul-mouthed Zazie arrives in Paris from the country to stay with her uncle Gabriel. All she really wants to do is ride the metro, but finding it shut because of a strike, Zazie looks for other means of amusement and is soon caught up in ...Show more