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21) The box: a novel
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In a dark and crooked lane in an unnamed city where it never ceases to snow, a small white box falls from a coat pocket. It is made of paper strips woven tightly together; there is no apparent way to open it without destroying it. What compels a passing witness, a self-described anthrophobe not inclined to engage with other people, to pick up the box and chase after the stranger who dropped it?"--
Author
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The Last Wolf, translated by George Szirtes, features a classic, obsessed Krasznahorkai narrator, a man hired to write (by mistake, by a glitch of fate) the true tale of the last wolf of Extremadura, a barren stretch of Spain. This miserable experience (being mistaken for another, dragged about a cold foreign place, appalled by a species end) is narrated all in a single sentence as a sad looping tale, a howl more or less, in a dreary wintry Berlin...
23) Final de juego
Author
Series
Publisher
Debolsillo
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
This book is basically a game, a game for the reader. The last story in the book "End of the Game" is simply the end of that joy that we feel when we read. Determined to go beyond the laws of conventional narrative, in these stories Julio Cortázar combines intertextuality, an unpublished use of the informal, and the never-ending game to make the reader enter a unique universe where nothing is what it seems. From the masterful Continuidad de los parques...
24) Jacob's room
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Woolf's first distinctly modernist novel follows an aloof yet beloved young man from his childhood through his student days to his too-early death during World War I.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
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Description
Years ago, when House of Leaves was first being passed around, it was nothing more than a badly bundled heap of paper, parts of which would occasionally surface on the Internet. No one could have anticipated the small but devoted following this terrifying story would soon command. Starting with an odd assortment of marginalized youth -- musicians, tattoo artists, programmers, strippers, environmentalists, and adrenaline junkies -- the book eventually...
26) Against the day
Author
Language
English
Description
A tale spanning the years between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the end of World War I features characters who are caught up in such events as the labor troubles of Colorado, the Mexican revolution, and the heyday of silent-movie Hollywood.
27) The delivery
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"A day in the life of the Delivery Boy, a recently arrived political refugee who must peddle his way to 5-star customer ratings-and, perhaps, freedom."--
28) The nature book
Author
Publisher
Coffee House Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"What does our nature writing say about us, and more urgently, what would it say without us? Tom Comitta investigates these questions and more in The Nature Book, a "literary supercut" that arranges writing about the natural world from three hundred works of fiction into a provocative re-envisioning of the novel. With fiction's traditional background of flora and fauna brought to the fore, people and their structures disappear, giving center stage...
29) Tauhou: a novel
Author
Publisher
Anansi
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Tauhou envisions a shared past between two Indigenous cultures, set on reimagined versions of Vancouver Island and Aotearoa that sit side by side in the ocean. Each chapter in this innovative hybrid novel is a fable, an autobiographical memory, a poem. A monster guards cultural objects in a museum, a woman uncovers her own grave, another woman remembers her estranged father. On rainforest beaches and grassy dunes, sisters and cousins contend with...
30) Motley stones
Author
Publisher
New York Review of Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"The first complete English translation of the nineteenth-century Austrian innovator's evocative, elemental cycle of novellas. For Kafka he was my fat brother ; Thomas Mann called him one of the most peculiar, enigmatic, secretly audacious and strangely gripping storytellers in world literature. Often misunderstood as an idyllic poet of beetles and buttercups, the 19th-century Austrian writer Adalbert Stifter has been rediscovered in recent years...
Author
Publisher
The Unnamed Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"For years, Samuel Emmer has monitored bacteria levels in drinking water for the small city of Guelph. He is content to focus on dangerous life-threatening single-celled organisms as his grasp on his own life recedes, and with it his with family and friends. No one is more surprised than Samuel when he is appointed to the city's Zoo Feasibility Committee. His assignment: travel to zoos around the world and gather information on the behavior of animals...
33) Finnegans wake
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents an experimental novel depicting a dream of world history, with characters from literature and history appearing and disappearing, written in a dream language that is a comical mixture of all the languages of Europe.
Author
Publisher
Red Hen Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Following the secrets and passions of young women, these stories and their narrators cross genres and rules to arrive at unforeseen lives. A subway rider remembers enacting the gods with her estranged twin, a concert usher discovers her tango-dancing boyfriend's lover, and a literacy worker confesses the gambles she and others have lost through the bluesy singers she admires. Told through semi-experimental play with nonlinear plots, plural narrators,...
Author
Publisher
Coffee House Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Extravagant, absurd, and self-aware, The Revolutionaries Try Again plays out against the lost decade of Ecuador's austerity and the stymied idealism of three childhood friends-an expat, a bureaucrat, and a playwright-who are as sure about the evils of dictatorship as they are unsure of everything else, including each other. Everyone thinks they're the chosen ones, Masha wrote on Antonio's manuscript. See About Schmidt with Jack Nicholson. Then she...
38) Forty stories
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Chablis -- On the deck -- The genius -- Opening -- Sindbad -- The explanation -- Concerning the bodyguard -- Rif -- The palace at four A.M. -- Jaws -- Conversations with Goethe -- Affection -- The new owner -- Paul Klee -- Terminus -- The educational experience -- Bluebeard -- Departures -- Visitors -- The wounds -- At the Tolstoy Museum -- The flight of pigeons from the palace -- A few moments of sleeping and waking -- The temptation of St. Anthony...
39) Xstabeth
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
A transcendent love letter to literature and music, Xstabeth is an exciting new work from a writer who, book-by-book, is rewriting the rules of contemporary fiction. Aneliya's father dreams of becoming a great musician but his naivete and his unfashionable music suggest he will never be taken seriously. Her father's best friend, on the other hand, has a penchant for vodka, strip clubs, and moral philosophy. Aneliya is torn between love of the former...
40) Tristram Shandy
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 7
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
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