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An unforgettable love story about a searing affair between an American woman and an African man in 1970s America and an unflinching novel about the fragmentation of lives that straddle countries and histories. All Our Names is the story of two young men who come of age during an African revolution, drawn from the safe confines of the university campus into the intensifying clamor of the streets outside. But as the line between idealism and violence...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"In this spiky and hilarious 21st century reboot of the iconic film Taxi Driver, a ride share driver is barely holding it together on the hunt for love, dignity and a living wage . . . until she decides she's done waiting. Damani is tired. Her father just passed away and now she lives paycheck to paycheck in the basement of her parents' old house, caring for her mom, and driving for an app to (not even) pay the bills. Protests are all the rage--everybody's...
3) Naked lunch
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English
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Bill Lee, an addict and hustler, travels to Mexico and then Tangier in order to find easy access to drugs, and ends up in the Interzone, a bizarre fantasy world, in an edition that features restored text, archival material, and an essay on psychoactive drugs.
4) Pajarito
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Series
Publisher
Almadía Ediciones
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
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"Pajarito funciona como el gabinete de un coleccionista, un muestrario de pequeños artefactos atesorados por la singularidad de sus detalles, reunidos según una taxonomía muy personal. Percheros que son hombre inmensos, palabras que caen como virutas en un aserradero, árboles que con su fuerza provocan la fuerza del tiempo, un mar contenido en una botella de plástico, sabanas manchadas de secretos; con estos elementos son contadas las historias...
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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A collection of nineteen dark, wildly imaginative short stories from the author of the award-winning TikTok sensation Tender Is the Flesh. From celebrated author Agustina Bazterrica, this collection of nineteen brutal, darkly funny short stories takes into our deepest fears and through our most disturbing fantasies. Through stories about violence, alienation, and dystopia, Bazterrica's vision of the human experience emerges in complex, unexpected...
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