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Tarantula

by Eduardo Halfon ...

Translated by Daniel Hahn ...

Dark lessons from a childhood sleepaway camp reverberate in the presentIn 1984, Eduardo and his younger brother, living in exile for several years in the United States, travel back to their native Guatemala to participate in a Jewish children’s camp in a remote forest of the highland mountains. They no longer know their homeland. They barely speak the language. Their parents had insisted that they ... Read more

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Dark lessons from a childhood sleepaway camp reverberate in the presentIn 1984, Eduardo and his younger brother, living in exile for several years in the United States, travel back to their native Guatemala to participate in a Jewish children’s camp in a remote forest of the highland mountains. They no longer know their homeland. They barely speak the language. Their parents had insisted that they
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The Polish Boxer

by Eduardo Halfon ...

Translated by Ollie Brock, Thomas Bunstead, Lisa Dillman, Daniel Hahn, Anne McLean ...

The nomadic odyssey of Eduardo Halfon begins as he searches for information about his Polish grandfather’s imprisonment at AuschwitzNew York Times Editors’ Choice * International Latino Book Award FinalistThe Polish Boxer covers a vast landscape of human experience while enfolding a search for origins: a grandson tries to make sense of his Polish grandfather’s past and the story behind his ... Read more

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The nomadic odyssey of Eduardo Halfon begins as he searches for information about his Polish grandfather’s imprisonment at AuschwitzNew York Times Editors’ Choice * International Latino Book Award FinalistThe Polish Boxer covers a vast landscape of human experience while enfolding a search for origins: a grandson tries to make sense of his Polish grandfather’s past and the story behind his
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Monastery

by Eduardo Halfon ...

Translated by Lisa Dillman, Daniel Hahn ...

The nomadic odyssey of Eduardo Halfon continues as he searches for clues about his identity across Central America and Europe, New York and JerusalemIn Monastery, Eduardo Halfon’s eponymous wanderer travels from Guatemalan cities, villages, coffee plantations, and border towns to a private jazz concert in Harlem, a former German U-Boat base on the French Breton coast, and Israel, where he escapes ... Read more

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The nomadic odyssey of Eduardo Halfon continues as he searches for clues about his identity across Central America and Europe, New York and JerusalemIn Monastery, Eduardo Halfon’s eponymous wanderer travels from Guatemalan cities, villages, coffee plantations, and border towns to a private jazz concert in Harlem, a former German U-Boat base on the French Breton coast, and Israel, where he escapes
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Tomorrow We Never Did Talk About It

by Eduardo Halfon, Anne McLean (translator) ...

Series Book 3 - Working Titles
Eduardo Halfon's "Tomorrow We Never Did Talk About It" follows closely the departure of a well-off industrialist Jewish family from Guatemala in the early 1980s. The events are seen from the point of view of the naive, inquisitive ten-year-old son. In Anne McLean's vivid translation, the wrenching upheaval of the family's departure emerges as a microcosm of the country's descent into hell. ... Read more

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Eduardo Halfon's "Tomorrow We Never Did Talk About It" follows closely the departure of a well-off industrialist Jewish family from Guatemala in the early 1980s. The events are seen from the point of view of the naive, inquisitive ten-year-old son. In Anne McLean's vivid translation, the wrenching upheaval of the family's departure emerges as a microcosm of the country's descent into hell.
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Canción

by Eduardo Halfon ...

Translated by Lisa Dillman, Daniel Hahn ...

The nomadic odyssey of Eduardo Halfon continues as he searches for answers surrounding his grandfather’s abduction during the Guatemalan Civil WarBerman Literature Prize Winner * Cálamo Extraordinary Prize WinnerIn Canción, Eduardo Halfon’s eponymous wanderer is invited to a Lebanese writers’ conference in Japan, where he reflects on his Jewish grandfather’s multifaceted identity. To understand ... Read more

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The nomadic odyssey of Eduardo Halfon continues as he searches for answers surrounding his grandfather’s abduction during the Guatemalan Civil WarBerman Literature Prize Winner * Cálamo Extraordinary Prize WinnerIn Canción, Eduardo Halfon’s eponymous wanderer is invited to a Lebanese writers’ conference in Japan, where he reflects on his Jewish grandfather’s multifaceted identity. To understand
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Mourning

by Eduardo Halfon ...

Translated by Lisa Dillman, Daniel Hahn ...

The nomadic odyssey of Eduardo Halfon continues as he searches for his roots through tangled childhood memories of a haunting family tragedyInternational Latino Book Award Winner * Edward Lewis Wallant Award WinnerIn Mourning, Eduardo Halfon’s eponymous wanderer travels to Poland, Italy, the U.S., and the Guatemalan countryside in search of secrets he can barely name. He follows memory’s strands ... Read more

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The nomadic odyssey of Eduardo Halfon continues as he searches for his roots through tangled childhood memories of a haunting family tragedyInternational Latino Book Award Winner * Edward Lewis Wallant Award WinnerIn Mourning, Eduardo Halfon’s eponymous wanderer travels to Poland, Italy, the U.S., and the Guatemalan countryside in search of secrets he can barely name. He follows memory’s strands
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The Polish Boxer

by Eduardo Halfon ...

Narrated by Armando Durán ...

Unabridged

6 hours 12 min

The Polish Boxer covers a vast landscape of human experience while enfolding a search for origins: a grandson tries to make sense of his grandfather's past and the story behind his numbered tattoo; a Serbian classical pianist longs for his forbidden heritage; a Mayan poet is torn between his studies and filial obligations; a striking young Israeli woman seeks answers in Central America; a ... Read more

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The Polish Boxer covers a vast landscape of human experience while enfolding a search for origins: a grandson tries to make sense of his grandfather's past and the story behind his numbered tattoo; a Serbian classical pianist longs for his forbidden heritage; a Mayan poet is torn between his studies and filial obligations; a striking young Israeli woman seeks answers in Central America; a
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The Friend (National Book Award Winner)

A Novel

by Sigrid Nunez ...

Narrated by Hillary Huber ...

Unabridged

5 hours 59 min

**WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTIONONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURYNOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING NAOMI WATTS“A beautiful book . . . a world of insight into death, grief, art, and love.” —Wall Street Journal“A penetrating, moving meditation on loss, comfort, memory . . . Nunez has a wry, withering wit.” —NPR“Dry, allusive and charming . . . the comedy ... Read more

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**WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTIONONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURYNOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING NAOMI WATTS“A beautiful book . . . a world of insight into death, grief, art, and love.” —Wall Street Journal“A penetrating, moving meditation on loss, comfort, memory . . . Nunez has a wry, withering wit.” —NPR“Dry, allusive and charming . . . the comedy
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The Hare with Amber Eyes

A Hidden Inheritance

by Edmund de Waal ...

Narrated by Micheal Maloney ...

Unabridged

10 hours 39 min

A New York Times BestsellerAn Economist Book of the YearCosta Book Award Winner for BiographyGalaxy National Book Award Winner (New Writer of the Year Award)Edmund de Waal is a world-famous ceramicist. Having spent thirty years making beautiful pots—which are then sold, collected, and handed on—he has a particular sense of the secret lives of objects. When he inherited a collection of 264 tiny ... Read more

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A New York Times BestsellerAn Economist Book of the YearCosta Book Award Winner for BiographyGalaxy National Book Award Winner (New Writer of the Year Award)Edmund de Waal is a world-famous ceramicist. Having spent thirty years making beautiful pots—which are then sold, collected, and handed on—he has a particular sense of the secret lives of objects. When he inherited a collection of 264 tiny
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Mayflies

A Novel

by Andrew O'Hagan ...

Narrated by Andrew O'Hagan ...

Unabridged

7 hours 26 min

An unforgettable coming-of-age novel that becomes a profound mediation on life, death, and lifelong friendship.Everyone has a Tully Dawson: the friend who defines your life.In the summer of 1986, in a small Scottish town, James and Tully ignite a brilliant friendship based on music, films and the rebel spirit. With school over and the locked world of their fathers before them, they rush towards ... Read more

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An unforgettable coming-of-age novel that becomes a profound mediation on life, death, and lifelong friendship.Everyone has a Tully Dawson: the friend who defines your life.In the summer of 1986, in a small Scottish town, James and Tully ignite a brilliant friendship based on music, films and the rebel spirit. With school over and the locked world of their fathers before them, they rush towards
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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

A Novel

by Ocean Vuong ...

Narrated by Ocean Vuong ...

Unabridged

7 hours 19 min

**A New York Times bestseller • Nominated for the National Book Award for Fiction • Ocean Vuong’s debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and the redemptive power of storytellingNew York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century“A lyrical work of self-discovery that’s shockingly intimate and insistently universal…Not so much briefly gorgeous as permanently ... Read more

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**A New York Times bestseller • Nominated for the National Book Award for Fiction • Ocean Vuong’s debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and the redemptive power of storytellingNew York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century“A lyrical work of self-discovery that’s shockingly intimate and insistently universal…Not so much briefly gorgeous as permanently
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My Brilliant Friend

by Elena Ferrante ...

Narrated by Hillary Huber ...

Series Audiobook 1 - The Neapolitan Novels
Unabridged

12 hours 38 min

Now an HBO series: the first volume in the New York Times bestselling “enduring masterpiece” (The Atlantic) about a lifelong friendship between two women from NaplesBeginning in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples, Elena Ferrante’s four-volume story spans almost sixty years, as its main characters, the fiery and unforgettable Lila and the bookish narrator, Elena ... Read more

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Now an HBO series: the first volume in the New York Times bestselling “enduring masterpiece” (The Atlantic) about a lifelong friendship between two women from NaplesBeginning in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples, Elena Ferrante’s four-volume story spans almost sixty years, as its main characters, the fiery and unforgettable Lila and the bookish narrator, Elena
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