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“celine curiol”

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  • Voice Over

    A Novel

    by Celine Curiol ...
    Translated by Sam Richard ...
    Finalist for Best Translated Book of 2008 by the Hermeneutic CircleFrench Voices AwardA lonely young woman works as an announcer in Paris's gare du Nord train station. Obsessed with a man attached to another woman, she wanders through the world of dinner parties, shopping excursions, and chance sexual encounters with a sense of haunting expectation. As something begins to happen between her and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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    by Anais Barbeau-Lavalette ...
    Translated by Rhonda Mullins ...
    SHORTLISTED FOR CBC CANADA READS 2019WINNER OF THE BEST TRANSLATED BOOK AWARDEighty-five years of art and history through the eyes of a woman who fled her family – as re-imagined by her granddaughter.Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette never knew her mother’s mother. Curious to understand why her grandmother, Suzanne, a sometime painter and poet associated with Les Automatistes, a movement of dissident ... Read more

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  • Whatever

    by Michel Houellebecq, Won Prix Goncourt in 2010 for The Map and the Territory ...
    Series series Serpent's Tail Classics
    Just thirty, with a well-paid job, depression and no love life, the narrator and anti-hero par excellence of this grim, funny and clever novel smokes four packs of cigarettes a day and writes weird animal stories in his spare time. A computer programmer by day, he is tolerably content, until, that is, he's packed off with a colleague - the unimaginably ugly, sexually-frustrated virgin Raphael ... Read more

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  • Swann

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    Carol Shields's award-winning and critically acclaimed "literary mystery," first published in 1987.Swann is the story of four individuals who become entwined in the life of Mary Swann, a rural Canadian poet whose authentic and unique voice is discovered only hours before her husband hacks her to pieces.Who is Mary Swann? And how could she have produced these works of genius in almost complete ... Read more

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  • The Heart

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    by Maylis de Kerangal ...
    Translated by Sam Taylor ...
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  • Collected Love Poems

    by Brian Patten ...
    Brian Patten is renowned as an accessible and popular poet. Now his love poems, old and new, are collected together in his single volume.Widely acknowledged as one of Europe’s foremost writers, Brian Patten’s love poems earned him recognition far and wide. Truthful and tender, profoundly aware of the possibility of magic and the miraculous, these poems are beautiful, informed and, even at their ... Read more

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  • The House on Mill Street

    by Henrietta Smethurst-McIntyre ...
    THE HOUSE ON MILL STREET is cursed.There is madness running through it, infecting the bricks, the beams, the joists. A century’s worth of unlucky inhabitants have fallen prey, one by one, to an ancient evil that lurks high up in the abandoned attic.But now the house has a new owner, one with plans and schemes and twisted intentions. The unusual Miles is planning a very special afternoon. He is ... Read more

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  • The Moment Before Drowning

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    by James Brydon ...
    "A stunning and intelligent debut novel; powerful, intense and raw . . . an insightful psychological portrait of a man on the edge." — NB MagazineDecember 1959: A furious anticolonial war rages in Algeria. Captain Jacques le Garrec, a former detective and French Resistance hero, returns to France in disgrace. Traumatized after two years of working in the army intelligence services, he's now ... Read more

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  • Maybe This Time

    by Alois Hotschnig ...
    Translated by Tess Lewis ...
    A spellbinding short story collection by one of Austria's most critically acclaimed authors.A man becomes obsessed with observing his neighbours. A large family gathers for Christmas only to wait for the one member who never turns up. An old woman lures a man into her house where he finds dolls resembling himself as a boy. Mesmerizing and haunting stories about loss of identity in the modern world ... Read more

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    Notes on the eccentricities of modern life

    by Daniel Tammet ...
    Series Book 5 - Little Ways to Live a Big Life
    An eye-opening short book by the international bestselling writer of Born on a Blue Day and Thinking in Numbers.Have you ever wondered how neurotypicals - so called 'normal' people - come across to those who are on the autistic spectrum? What would an instruction manual about being an average human being look like to them? And actually, would it be that different, fundamentally, to a field guide ... Read more

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  • Exteriors

    by Annie Ernaux ...
    Translated by Tanya Leslie ...
    WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURETaking the form of random journal entries over seven years, Exteriors captures the feeling of contemporary living on the outskirts of Paris. Poignantly lyrical, chaotic, and strangely alive. ... Read more

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    by Evelyn Wright ...
    From turmoil inside a young girl’s head to emotional perspectives from each side of a couple, this collection of short stories explores human reactions to a variety of life moments. ... Read more

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