The Best American Essays 2022 by Robert Atwan
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Category: World Literature | Series: Best American Ser.
A collection of the year's best essays, selected by award-winning writer Alexander Chee. Alexander Chee, an essayist of "virtuosity and power" (Washington Post), selects twenty essays out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.
Clytemnestra: The spellbinding retelling of Greek mythology's greatest heroine by Costanza Casati
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Category: World Literature
Giving voice to a woman condemned by history, this debut is an epic feminist retelling of the story of notorious Spartan queen, Clytemnestra. 'When vengeance calls and the gods stop watching,what do we do to those who harm the people we love?' Wife. Mother. Fighter. Conspirator. Queen. CLYTEMNESTRA. Thi ...Show more
Sojourn by Amit Chaudhuri
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Category: World Literature
The new novel about the present, the past, and the slippage between private and public life-from a writer who has 'like Proust, mastered the art of the moment.' (Hilary Mantel)An unnamed man arrives in Berlin as a visiting professor. It is a place fused with Western history and cultural fracture lines. ...Show more
Tales of Villa Diodati: The Origins of Iconic Science Fiction and Gothic Horror by VARIOUS
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Category: World Literature
In 1816, also known as The Year without a Summer, a group of pioneering writers gathered at Villa Diodati in Lake Geneva, Switzerland, and wrote some of the most iconic Gothic horror stories in English literature. The Tales of Villa Diodati is the result of a legendary ghost story contest between friend ...Show more
Teacher Narit by Pamda Bure
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Category: World Literature
A story told in three parts, Teacher Narit is a historical novel centering on the main protagonist, Narit, a mysterious civil war veteran who escaped the capital in the 70s to start a new life as a history teacher in northern Thailand.Once a young, idealistic postgraduate student and activist during one ...Show more
The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown
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Category: World Literature
'A stunning fever dream of a story that feels completely real - don't miss this fantastic thriller debut.' LEE CHILD If you could open a door to anywhere, where would you go?In New York City, bookseller Cassie Andrews is living an unassuming life when she is given a gift by a favourite customer. It's a ...Show more
Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-reum
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Category: World Literature
There was only one thing on her mind.'I must start a bookshop.' Yeongju did everything she was supposed to, go to university, marry a decent man, get a respectable job. Then it all fell apart. Burned out, Yeongju abandons her old life, quits her high-flying career, and follows her dream. She opens a bo ...Show more
Baumgartner by Paul Auster
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Category: World Literature
Baumgartner's life has been defined by his deep, abiding love for his wife, Anna. But now Anna is gone, and Baumgartner is embarking on his seventies whilst trying to live with her absence. Rich with compassion, wit and Auster's keen eye for beauty in the smallest, most transient episodes of ordinary l ...Show more
Old Babes in the Wood by Margaret Atwood
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Category: World Literature
A highly personal new collection of stories by the bestselling, twice Booker-winning cultural icon Margaret Atwood is celebrated as one of the most gifted storytellers in the world. This new collection showcases her many talents -- and the return of her beloved characters Nell & Tig They explore the ...Show more
The Goodbye Cat by Hiro Arikawa
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Category: World Literature
The Goodbye Cat: The uplifting tale of wise cats and their humans by the global bestselling author of THE TRAVELLING CAT CHRONICLES. A PERFECT READ FOR CAT-LOVERS! A new Japanese bestseller- seven fabulous warm, wise and sarcastic cats support the complicated lives of their humans. Against changing sea ...Show more
The Language of Food by Annabel Abbs
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Category: World Literature
'A sensual feast of a novel, written with elegance, beauty, charm and skill in a voice that is both lyrical and unique. The Language of Food is an intriguing story with characters that leap off the page and live, but what sets it apart from it's contemporaries is Abbs' outstanding prose' Santa Montefior ...Show more
The Startup Wife by Tahmima Anam
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Category: World Literature
A quirky, funny, deeply intelligent story of love, big dreams, starting up and feminist geekdom. Halfway through her PhD and already dreaming of running her own lab, computer scientist Asha has her future all mapped out. Then a chance meeting and whirlwind romance with her old high-school crush, Cyrus, ...Show more