World Literature

  • The Pornographer

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    By “arguably the most important Irish writer since Samuel Beckett” (The Guardian), a character study of a young resident of Dublin who pens erotica for a living, making his money through fantasy while[more below]

    • Author: McGahern, John
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: September 17 2024
    • ISBN10: 1681378809
    • Language: English
  • Brothers and Ghosts

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    “A courageous and bold achievement by a bright new voice.” Ocean Vuong

    A young woman, torn between two cultures, belonging to neither. A family, torn apart by a war they had no choice about.

    Kiề

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    • Author: Phạm, Khuê
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: September 03 2024
    • ISBN10: 1957363797
    • Language: English
  • Star 111

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    A panoramic and picaresque novel of the first years after the fall of the Berlin Wall is told through the experiences of a young man making his way in a time of constant change.

    A bestseller in German

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    • Author: Seiler, Lutz
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 496
    • Publish Date: October 01 2024
    • ISBN10: 1681378531
    • Language: English
  • By: Aesop

    Aesop’s Fables: A New Translation

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    From a renowned scholar and translator, the definitive translation of Aesop’s Fables

    Aesop’s fables are among the most familiar and best-loved stories in the world. Tales like “The Tortoise and the H

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    • Author: Aesop
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: October 01 2024
    • ISBN10: 1541604849
    • Language: English
  • The Way You Want to Be Loved: Short Stories

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    “A collection of poignant, finely crafted stories set against the backdrop of violence that has long racked north-eastern India.” -Amitav Ghosh, via Twitter

    “A new voice in the burgeoning oeuvre of ang

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    • Author: Kashyap, Aruni
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: October 01 2024
    • ISBN10: 1958652083
    • Language: English
  • Antwerp

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    “It’s hard to think of a writer who has multiplied the possibilities more times than Roberto Bola?o . . . [Antwerp is] exceptional and moving.” –Nicole Krauss, The Guardian

    Oft called the “big bang”

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    • Author: Bola?o, Roberto
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: September 03 2024
    • ISBN10: 1250898161
    • Language: English
  • Black River

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    NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN, THE SUNDAY TIMES, AND THE FINANCIAL TIMES

    A searing debut set in a modern India simmering with the tension of growing religious intolerance, by a major n

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    • Author: Roy, Nilanjana
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: September 24 2024
    • ISBN10: 178227944X
    • Language: English
  • Gifted

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    A subtle and intimate accounting of a daughter’s final days with her mother, set amid the rush of Tokyo’s red-light district.

    Drawing on her own experiences as a hostess and adult film actor, Gifted–S… [more below]

    • Author: Suzumi, Suzuki
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 120
    • Publish Date: October 01 2024
    • ISBN10: 9798893389005
    • Language: English
  • That Reminds Me

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    This is the story of K. If you
    believe your life to be as fictitious as K’s, if you find yourself within the
    pages of this book, then you are holding the pen and not me.

    Attachments
    are broken at bi

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    • Author: Owusu, Derek
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 120
    • Publish Date: June 27 2023
    • ISBN10: 1913505553
    • Language: English
  • Aphrodite and the Duke

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    Bridgerton lovers have found their next read. J. J. McAvoy is a welcome new voice in historical romance.”–New York Times bestselling author Sarah MacLean

    “McAvoy has crafted a lushly romantic tale w

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    • Series: The Dubells
    • Author: McAvoy, J. J.
    • Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
    • Page Count: 400
    • Publish Date: April 25 2023
    • ISBN10: 0593594533
    • Language: English
  • Agony’s Lodestone

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    A grave could be visited. Ashes could be scattered. But vanishing? That ripped a hole in the world the size of a life, and through that hole sighed a terrible wind repeating a single note:

    Gone.

    For ye

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    • Author: Keating, Laura
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 116
    • Publish Date: April 14 2023
    • ISBN10: 9798985992366
    • Language: English
  • While We Were Dreaming

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    Rico, Mark, Paul and Daniel were 13 when the Berlin Wall fell in autumn 1989. Growing up in Leipzig at the time of reunification, they dream of a better life somewhere beyond the brewery quarter. Ever

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    • Author: Meyer, Clemens
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 528
    • Publish Date: September 19 2023
    • ISBN10: 1804270288
    • Language: English
  • Siblings

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    A New Yorker Best Book of 2023

    A story of sibling love ruptured by the Iron Curtain, by one of the most significant East German writers.

    “I will never forgive you,” Uli says to his sister Elisabeth. I

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    • Author: Reimann, Brigitte
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: March 07 2023
    • ISBN10: 194549266X
    • Language: English
  • Concerning My Daughter

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    Prize-winning Korean author Kim Hye-Jin’s debut confronts familial love, duty, mortality, and generational schism through the incendiary gaze of a tradition-bound mother faced with her daughter’s quee[more below]

    • Author: Hye-Jin, Kim
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 176
    • Publish Date: September 27 2022
    • ISBN10: 1632063492
    • Language: English
  • So Many People, Mariana

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    Long discounted by a literary culture that actively rejected women’s writing, Maria Judite de Carvalho’s biting and bitterly funny work has since exploded across the world. Collecting the entirety of … [more below]

    • Author: de Carvalho, Maria Judite
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 450
    • Publish Date: October 10 2023
    • ISBN10: 1949641511
    • Language: English
  • The Heart of Redness

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    A startling novel by the leading writer of the new South Africa

    In The Heart of Redness — shortlisted for the prestigious Commonwealth Writers Prize — Zakes Mda sets a story of South African village

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    • Author: Mda, Zakes
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 277
    • Publish Date: August 01 2003
    • ISBN10: 0312421745
    • Language: English
  • Territory of Light

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    From one of the most significant contemporary Japanese writers, a haunting, dazzling novel of loss and rebirth

    “Yuko Tsushima is one of the most important Japanese writers of her generation.” –Foumik

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    • Author: Tsushima, Yuko
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: March 31 2020
    • ISBN10: 1250251052
    • Language: English
  • The Theory of (Not Quite) Everything

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    With the offbeat charm of The Rosie Project and generous warmth of The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot, a wry, moving debut novel about a pair of unforgettable siblings and a love triangle of s

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    • Author: Gnodde, Kara
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 368
    • Publish Date: February 28 2023
    • ISBN10: 0063266016
    • Language: English
  • En Agosto Nos Vemos / Until August

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    Uno de los “25 libros más esperados de 2024” de la revista Time

    Un maravilloso regalo inesperado para los innumerables lectores de García Márquez

    Cada mes de agosto Ana Magdalena Bach toma el tran

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    • Author: García Márquez, Gabriel
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 144
    • Publish Date: March 06 2024
    • ISBN10: 9798890980588
    • Language: Spanish
  • American Daughters

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    In the vein of America’s First Daughter, Piper Huguley’s historical novel delves into the remarkable friendship of Portia Washington and Alice Roosevelt, the daughters of educator Booker T. Washington

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    • Author: Huguley, Piper
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 368
    • Publish Date: April 02 2024
    • ISBN10: 0063273705
    • Language: English
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