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Blitz

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by David Trueba ...

Translated by John Cullen ...

From the author of Learning to Lose, David Trueba's new novel about a young Spanish architect's affair with an older German woman.Blitz is a romantic tragicomedy that recounts the exploits of Beto, a young architect who heads to Munich with his girlfriend to take part in a landscape-planning competition. In an instant, a text message Beto wasn't meant to receive shatters him, leaving him ... Read more

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From the author of Learning to Lose, David Trueba's new novel about a young Spanish architect's affair with an older German woman.Blitz is a romantic tragicomedy that recounts the exploits of Beto, a young architect who heads to Munich with his girlfriend to take part in a landscape-planning competition. In an instant, a text message Beto wasn't meant to receive shatters him, leaving him
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Rolling Fields

by David Trueba ...

Translated by Rahul Bery ...

WINNER OF AN ENGLISH PEN AWARD**'Effortlessly readable and fizzing with energy, this novel is by turns quirky, funny and thoughtful' Mail on SundayDani Mosca is 40 and his father has just died.Fulfilling his father's last wishes, Dani embarks on a road trip back to his childhood village, a three-hour hearse journey from Madrid. Leaving behind the busy streets of the city for the deserted, archaic ... Read more

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WINNER OF AN ENGLISH PEN AWARD**'Effortlessly readable and fizzing with energy, this novel is by turns quirky, funny and thoughtful' Mail on SundayDani Mosca is 40 and his father has just died.Fulfilling his father's last wishes, Dani embarks on a road trip back to his childhood village, a three-hour hearse journey from Madrid. Leaving behind the busy streets of the city for the deserted, archaic
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Learning to Lose

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by David Trueba ...

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It is Sylvia’s sixteenth birthday, and her life as an adult is about to begin—not with the party she had been planning, but with a car accident and a broken leg. Behind the wheel is a talented young soccer player, just arrived from Buenos Aires and set for stardom on and off the field. As their destinies collide and a young romance is set in motion, across town, Sylvia’s father and grandfather are ... Read more

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It is Sylvia’s sixteenth birthday, and her life as an adult is about to begin—not with the party she had been planning, but with a car accident and a broken leg. Behind the wheel is a talented young soccer player, just arrived from Buenos Aires and set for stardom on and off the field. As their destinies collide and a young romance is set in motion, across town, Sylvia’s father and grandfather are
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Rolling Fields

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WINNER OF AN ENGLISH PEN AWARD**'Effortlessly readable and fizzing with energy, this novel is by turns quirky, funny and thoughtful' Mail on SundayDani Mosca is 40 and his father has just died.Fulfilling his father's last wishes, Dani embarks on a road trip back to his childhood village, a three-hour hearse journey from Madrid. Leaving behind the busy streets of the city for the deserted, archaic ... Read more

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WINNER OF AN ENGLISH PEN AWARD**'Effortlessly readable and fizzing with energy, this novel is by turns quirky, funny and thoughtful' Mail on SundayDani Mosca is 40 and his father has just died.Fulfilling his father's last wishes, Dani embarks on a road trip back to his childhood village, a three-hour hearse journey from Madrid. Leaving behind the busy streets of the city for the deserted, archaic
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**WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREA New York Times Notable Book**In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensnared in an all-consuming passion.Blurring the line between fact and fiction, an unnamed narrator attempts to plot the emotional and physical course of her 2 year relationship with a married foreigner where every word, event, ... Read more

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**WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREA New York Times Notable Book**In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensnared in an all-consuming passion.Blurring the line between fact and fiction, an unnamed narrator attempts to plot the emotional and physical course of her 2 year relationship with a married foreigner where every word, event,
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Six Shorts 2017

The finalists for the 2017 Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award

by Kathleen Alcott, Bret Anthony Johnston, Richard Lambert, Victor Lodato, Celeste Ng, Sally Rooney ...

This year's six shortlisted stories for the world's richest short story prize, the £30,000 Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award.The Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award is the world's most prestigious and richest short story prize, worth £30,000 to the winner. Past winners and shortlisted authors have included the Pulitzer winners Junot Díaz, Anthony Doerr and Adam Johnson, plus Hilary Mantel, Ali ... Read more

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This year's six shortlisted stories for the world's richest short story prize, the £30,000 Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award.The Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award is the world's most prestigious and richest short story prize, worth £30,000 to the winner. Past winners and shortlisted authors have included the Pulitzer winners Junot Díaz, Anthony Doerr and Adam Johnson, plus Hilary Mantel, Ali
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A Man Called Ove: A Novel By Fredrik Backman | Digest & Review

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A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman | Digest & ReviewOve is a lonely soul with nothing left to live for. He has lost his wife and child to a horrific accident that leaves himcrippled mentally.What ends up happening in A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman is nothing less than magic. A grumpy, bitter man who believes it is him against the word warmsour hearts and invites us in.The plot is predictable ... Read more

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A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman | Digest & ReviewOve is a lonely soul with nothing left to live for. He has lost his wife and child to a horrific accident that leaves himcrippled mentally.What ends up happening in A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman is nothing less than magic. A grumpy, bitter man who believes it is him against the word warmsour hearts and invites us in.The plot is predictable
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Ways of Going Home

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Alejandro Zambra's Ways of Going Home begins with an earthquake, seen through the eyes of an unnamed nine-year-old boy who lives in an undistinguished middleclass housing development in a suburb of Santiago, Chile. When the neighbors camp out overnight, the protagonist gets his first glimpse of Claudia, an older girl who asks him to spy on her uncle Raúl.In the second section, the protagonist is ... Read more

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Alejandro Zambra's Ways of Going Home begins with an earthquake, seen through the eyes of an unnamed nine-year-old boy who lives in an undistinguished middleclass housing development in a suburb of Santiago, Chile. When the neighbors camp out overnight, the protagonist gets his first glimpse of Claudia, an older girl who asks him to spy on her uncle Raúl.In the second section, the protagonist is
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Adios Muchachos

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This Edgar Award–winning crime novel offers "pulp fiction in Castro's Cuba" (Martin Cruz Smith, author The Girl from Venice).Alicia is a smart, confident, and gorgeous prostitute in Havana. She is not a streetwalker. Rather, she displays her wares on bicycle, seducing men through the irresistible pull of her fine derrière.John King, her new client, is a Canadian businessman with a striking ... Read more

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This Edgar Award–winning crime novel offers "pulp fiction in Castro's Cuba" (Martin Cruz Smith, author The Girl from Venice).Alicia is a smart, confident, and gorgeous prostitute in Havana. She is not a streetwalker. Rather, she displays her wares on bicycle, seducing men through the irresistible pull of her fine derrière.John King, her new client, is a Canadian businessman with a striking
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The Body Where I was Born

by Guadalupe Nettel ...

Translated by J.T. Lichtenstein ...

The first novel to appear in English by one of the most talked-about and critically acclaimed writers of new Mexican fiction.From a psychoanalyst's couch, the narrator looks back on her bizarre childhood—in which she was born with an abnormality in her eye into a family intent on fixing it. In a world without the time and space for innocence, the narrator intimately recalls her younger self—a ... Read more

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The first novel to appear in English by one of the most talked-about and critically acclaimed writers of new Mexican fiction.From a psychoanalyst's couch, the narrator looks back on her bizarre childhood—in which she was born with an abnormality in her eye into a family intent on fixing it. In a world without the time and space for innocence, the narrator intimately recalls her younger self—a
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The Matter of Desire

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by Edmundo Paz Soldán ...

"A Bolivian professor probes the depths of his rebel father's past in this taut, gritty tale of two dramatically different Americas" ( Booklist).The Matter of Desire is the story of Pedro, a Bolivian-American political scientist who teaches at a university in upstate New York. Having become entangled in an erotically charged romance with Ashley, a beautiful red-headed graduate student, he returns ... Read more

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"A Bolivian professor probes the depths of his rebel father's past in this taut, gritty tale of two dramatically different Americas" ( Booklist).The Matter of Desire is the story of Pedro, a Bolivian-American political scientist who teaches at a university in upstate New York. Having become entangled in an erotically charged romance with Ashley, a beautiful red-headed graduate student, he returns
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Feast Days

by Ian MacKenzie ...

Intelligent and deeply felt, Feast Days follows a young wife who relocates with her financier husband to São Paulo -- a South American megacity that impresses and unsettles, conceals and erupts. Here in her new home, she reckons with the twenty-first century as she encounters crime, protests, refugees gentrification, and the collision of art and commerce, while confronting the crisis slowly ... Read more

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Intelligent and deeply felt, Feast Days follows a young wife who relocates with her financier husband to São Paulo -- a South American megacity that impresses and unsettles, conceals and erupts. Here in her new home, she reckons with the twenty-first century as she encounters crime, protests, refugees gentrification, and the collision of art and commerce, while confronting the crisis slowly
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