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“gerty dambury”

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  • The Restless

    Translated by Judith G. Miller ...
    by Gerty Dambury ...
    This lyrical novel, structured like a Creole quadrille, is a rich ethnography bearing witness to police violence in French Guadeloupe. Narrators both living and dead recount the racial and class stratification that led to a protest-turned-massacre. Dambury’s English debut is a vibrant memorial to a largely forgotten atrocity, coinciding with the government’s declassification of documents ... Read more

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    by James Salter ...
    Series series Vintage International
    **A brilliant portrait of a marriage from the PEN/Faulkner Award-winner and author of A Sport and a Pastime, with an introduction by Richard Ford.“Light Years is a novel of almost holy radiance to me. It is great in every sense of the word: vast, and timeless, and enduring.”—Lauren Groff, bestselling author of Fates and Furies**“Remarkable. An unexpectedly moving ode to beautiful lives frayed by ... Read more

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  • Whereabouts

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    by Jhumpa Lahiri ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A marvelous new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Lowland and Interpreter of Maladies about a woman questioning her place in the world, wavering between stasis and movement, between the need to belong and the refusal to form lasting ties.“Another masterstroke in a career already filled with them.” —O, the Oprah Magazine**Exuberance and dread, ... Read more

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  • Stolen Time

    by Chloé Duval ...
    A decades-late letter inspires a young French woman to try to reunite two star-crossed lovers in this novel by the author of The Chateau by the River.Middle school teacher by day, romance writer by night, and group knitter on Tuesday evenings, Flavie Richalet leads a fairly uneventful life—until she receives a long-delayed letter meant for a total stranger. Postmarked 1971, the yellowed envelope, ... Read more

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  • Arvida

    by Samuel Archibald ...
    Series Book 15 - Biblioasis International Translation Series
    Samuel Archibald is the hottest young writer in Quebec. In a region where short story collections might sell worse than anywhere else in North America, Arvida sold through 25,000 copies.Arvida fits in naturally with "country noir" authors like Donald Ray Pollock and Daniel Woodrell, but with a sharp and humorous French-Canadian twist.The collection explores topical subjects, including the collapse ... Read more

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  • The Beach at Night

    by Elena Ferrante ...
    Translated by Ann Goldstein ...
    A "beautifully written" dark fable from a doll's point of view—by the New York Times–bestselling author of The Lost Daughter and the Neapolitan Novels ( The Washington Post).One of NPR's Best Books of the Year.Readers of Elena Ferrante's The Lost Daughter may recall the little doll—lost or stolen—around which that novel revolves. Here, Ferrante retells the tale from the doll's perspective.Celina i ... Read more

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  • The Belly of Paris

    by Emile Zola ...
    Translated by Mark Kurlansky ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    Part of Emile Zola’s multigenerational Rougon-Macquart saga, The Belly of Paris is the story of Florent Quenu, a wrongly accused man who escapes imprisonment on Devil’s Island. Returning to his native Paris, Florent finds a city he barely recognizes, with its working classes displaced to make way for broad boulevards and bourgeois flats. Living with his brother’s family in the newly rebuilt Les ... Read more

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  • The Book of Mother

    A Novel

    by Violaine Huisman ...
    Translated by Leslie Camhi ...
    Longlisted for the 2022 International Booker PrizeA New York Times Notable BookA Library Journal Best Book of 2021A “marvelous…superbly effective” (The New Yorker) debut novel about a young woman coming of age with a dazzling yet damaged mother who lived and loved in extremes.Met by rave reviews in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and more, this ... ... Read more

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  • The Bad Mother

    by Marguerite Anderson ...
    Translated by Donald Winkler ...
    The Trillium Award-winning autobiographical novel "La mauvaise mere" by Marguerite Andersen is now in English. Prolific author Marguerite Andersen traces the important moments of her life in this honest and harrowing examination of motherhood. She gives an unflinching account of her relationship with her three children and her years spent following her caprices and lovers, trying to regain the ... Read more

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  • Death on the Installment Plan

    by Louis-Ferdinand Céline ...
    Translated by Ralph Manheim ...
    Death on the Installment Plan is a companion volume to Louis-Ferinand Céline's earlier novel Journey to the End of Night.Death on the Installment Plan is a companion volume to Louis-Ferdinand Céline’s earlier novel, Journey to the End of the Night. Published in rapid succession in the middle 1930s, these two books shocked European literature and world consciousness. Nominally fiction but more ... Read more

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  • The 6:41 to Paris

    by Jean-Philippe Blondel ...
    After decades, former lovers come face to face in a novel filled with a "suspenseful dread that makes you want to turn every page at locomotive pace" ( St. Louis Post-Dispatch).Cécile, a stylish forty-seven-year-old, has spent the weekend visiting her parents in a provincial town southeast of Paris. By early Monday morning, she's exhausted. These trips back home are always stressful, and she ... Read more

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  • Brussels Noir

    by Michel Dufranne ...
    Series series Akashic Noir
    "Brussels, Belgium's cosmopolitan, multilingual capital, has it[s] criminal underside, as shown in the 13 dark—and sometimes darkly humorous—stories" ( Publishers Weekly).From the historic city center to the Palais de Justice to the pubs, this collection contains crime fiction tales, often with a touch of the surreal and the dystopian, that reveal the stranger and seamier side of the city known as ... Read more

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