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Captains of the Sands by Jorge Amado
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsLiving by their wits in the steamy slums of Bahia, a gang of orphans and runaways, led by fifteen-year-old "Bullet," spend their time stealing from Brazil's rich and privileged until public outcry demands their capture...Categorized as:
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![Terms of Endearment by Larry McMurtry]()
Terms of Endearment by Larry McMurtry
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsAn Oscar-winning story of a memorable mother and her feisty daughter who find the courage and humor to live through life's hazards and to love each other as never before. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lonesome Dove created two characters who won the hearts of readers and moviegoers everywhere--Aurora Greenway and her daughter Emma...Categorized as:
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![The Truce by Mario Benedetti]()
The Truce by Mario Benedetti
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 26 ratings'Perhaps that moment had been exceptional, but still, I felt alive. That pressure on my chest means being alive.' Forty-nine, with a kind face, no serious ailments (apart from varicose veins on his ankles), a good salary, and three moody children, widowed accountant Martín Santomé is about to retire. He assumes he'll take up gardening, or the guitar, or whatever retired people generally do...Categorized as:
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![The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera]()
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 75 ratingsIn The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera tells the story of a young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing and one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover...Categorized as:
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Replay by Ken Grimwood
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 42 ratingsAt forty-three Jeff Winston is tired of his low-paid, unrewarding job, tired of the long silences at the breakfast table with his wife, saddened by the thought of no children to comfort his old age. But he hopes for better things, for happiness, maybe tomorrow ...But a sudden, fatal heart attack puts paid to that... -
![How the Penguins Saved Veronica by Hazel Prior]()
How the Penguins Saved Veronica by Hazel Prior
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsA curmudgeonly but charming old woman, her estranged grandson, and a colony of penguins proves it's never too late to be the person you want to be in this rich, heartwarming story from the acclaimed author of Ellie and the Harpmaker.Eighty-five-year-old Veronica McCreedy is estranged from her family and wants to find a worthwhile cause to leave her fortune to...Categorized as:
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![Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts]()
Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 42 ratingsTalk about unlucky sevens. An hour ago, seventeen-year-old, seven months pregnant Novalee Nation was heading for California with her boyfriend. Now she finds herself stranded at a Wal-Mart in Sequoyah, Oklahoma, with just $7.77 in change...Categorized as:
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![Spring Magic by D.E. Stevenson]()
Spring Magic by D.E. Stevenson
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTwenty-five year old Frances Field wanted desperately to get away from her guardians' dull London townhouse. Unforeseen circumstances finally gave her the chance to escape. She decided for the first time in her life to go off on her own, to a quiet fishing village in Scotland... -
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Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 53 ratings"Animals dream about the things they do in the day time just like people do. If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life." So says Loyd Peregrina, a handsome Apache trainman and latter-day philosopher. But when Codi Noline returns to her hometown, Loyd's advice is painfully out of her reach...Categorized as:
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![Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx]()
Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsAnnie Proulx has written some of the most original and brilliant short stories in contemporary literature, and for many readers and reviewers, "Brokeback Mountain" is her masterpiece. Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist, two ranch hands, come together when they're working as sheepherder and camp tender one summer on a range above the tree line...Categorized as:
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![Youth in Revolt: The Journals of Nick Twisp, Book One by C.D. Payne]()
Youth in Revolt: The Journals of Nick Twisp, Book One by C.D. Payne
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsSix months in the life of the world's most dangerous teenager.Youth in Revolt is the journals of Nick Twisp, California's most precocious diarist, whose ongoing struggles to make sense out of high school, deal with his divorced parents, and lose his virginity result in his transformation from an unassuming fourteen-year-old to a modern youth in open revolt...Categorized as:
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![Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands by Jorge Amado]()
Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands by Jorge Amado
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIt surprises no one that the charming but wayward Vadinho dos Guimaraes–a gambler notorious for never winning—dies during Carnival. His long suffering widow Dona Flor devotes herself to her cooking school and her friends, who urge her to remarry. She is soon drawn to a kind pharmacist who is everything Vadinho was not, and is altogether happy to marry him...Categorized as:
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![Sleepwalking Land by Mia Couto]()
Sleepwalking Land by Mia Couto
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAs the civil war rages in 1980s Mozambique, an old man and a young boy, refugees from the war, seek shelter in a burnt-out bus. Among the effects of a dead passenger, they come across a set of notebooks that tell of his life. As the boy reads the story to his elderly companion, this story and their own develop in tandem...Categorized as:
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![The Broken Wings by Kahlil Gibran, جبران خليل جبران]()
The Broken Wings by Kahlil Gibran, جبران خليل جبران
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsThis is the exquisitely tender story of love that beats desperately against the taboos of Oriental tradition. With great sensitivity, Gibran describes his passion as a youth for Selma Karamy, the girl of Beirut who first unfolded to him the secrets of love. But it is a love that is doomed by a social convention which forces Selma into marriage with another man...Categorized as:
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![Chocolat by Joanne Harris]()
Chocolat by Joanne Harris
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 67 ratingsWhen the exotic stranger Vianne Rocher arrives in the old French village of Lansquenet and opens a chocolate boutique called “La Celeste Praline” directly across the square from the church, Father Reynaud identifies her as a serious danger to his flock. It is the beginning of Lent: the traditional season of self-denial. The priest says she’ll be out of business by Easter...Categorized as:
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![Finding Henry Applebee by Celia Reynolds]()
Finding Henry Applebee by Celia Reynolds
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsHere Henry was, once again in a bustling train station, ready to resume where he had left off all those years ago…Finding Henry Applebee is a charming, tender and uplifting story about unlikely friendships, the power of love – and how it's never too late to change your life. Perfect for fans of The Single Ladies of the Jacaranda Retirement Village and The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry...Categorized as:
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![Tea with the Black Dragon by R.A. MacAvoy]()
Tea with the Black Dragon by R.A. MacAvoy
Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsMartha Macnamara knows that her daughter Elizabeth is in trouble, she just doesn't know what kind. Mysterious phone calls from San Francisco at odd hours of the night are the only contact she has had with Elizabeth for years. Now, Elizabeth has sent her a plane ticket and reserved a room for her at San Francisco's most luxurious hotel...Categorized as:
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![Bloodsucking Fiends by Christopher Moore]()
Bloodsucking Fiends by Christopher Moore
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 54 ratingsThere is an alternate cover edition here.Jody never asked to become a vampire. But when she wakes up under an alley dumpster with a badly burned arm, an aching neck, superhuman strength, and a distinctly Nosferatuan thirst, she realizes the decision has been made for her...Categorized as:
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![The High Flyer by Susan Howatch]()
The High Flyer by Susan Howatch
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSuccessful London lawyer Carter Graham has power, sex appeal, and a well-ordered life. Everything has gone according to plan, including her recent marriage to Kim Betz, an investment banker with the right combination of looks and position. On the surface it appears to be a match made in heaven. The only problem is Kim’s ex-wife...Categorized as:
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![The Old Man Who Read Love Stories by Luis Sepúlveda]()
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories by Luis Sepúlveda
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsIn a remote river town deep in the Ecuadoran jungle, Antonio José Bolívar seeks refuge in amorous novels. But tourists and opportunists are making inroads into the area, and the balance of nature is making a dangerous shift. Translated by Peter Bush... -
![Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami]()
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 80 ratingsToru, a quiet and preternaturally serious young college student in Tokyo, is devoted to Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young woman, but their mutual passion is marked by the tragic death of their best friend years before. Toru begins to adapt to campus life and the loneliness and isolation he faces there, but Naoko finds the pressures and responsibilities of life unbearable...Categorized as:
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![Bellwether by Connie Willis]()
Bellwether by Connie Willis
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsConnie Willis has won more Hugo and Nebula awards than any other science fiction author. Now, with her trademark wit and inventiveness, she explores the intimate relationship between science, pop culture, and the arcane secrets of the heart.Sandra Foster studies fads - from Barbie dolls to the grunge look - how they start and what they mean...Categorized as:
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![One by Richard Bach]()
One by Richard Bach
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsUnder the spell of quantum physics, Bach and his wife Leslie are catapulted into an alternate world, one in which they exist simultaneously in many different incarnations. First they encounter themselves as they were 16 years ago on the day they first met. In this version of their lives, they do not marry, and never achieve the happiness Bach assures us that their real union has produced...Categorized as:
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![Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa]()
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsMario Vargas Llosa's brilliant, multilayered novel is set in the Lima of the author's youth, where a young student named Marito is toiling away in the news department of a local radio station. His young life is disrupted by two arrivals.The first is his aunt Julia, recently divorced and thirteen years older, with whom he begins a secret affair...Categorized as:
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![Gigi, Julie de Carneilhan, and Chance Acquaintances: Three Short Novels by Colette]()
Gigi, Julie de Carneilhan, and Chance Acquaintances: Three Short Novels by Colette
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTwo volumes of Colette's most beloved works, with a new Introduction by Judith Thurman.Perhaps Colette's best-known work, Gigi is the story of a young girl being raised in a household more concerned with success and money than with the desires of the heart. But Gigi is uninterested in the dishonest society life she observes all around her and remains exasperatingly Gigi...Categorized as:
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![The Wind off the Small Isles by Mary Stewart]()
The Wind off the Small Isles by Mary Stewart
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMary Stewart’s new story is lit with the special magic of people and of place that are the hallmarks of a famous author’s best work. In a series of deft brushtrokes she brings her heroine, Perdita—a beautiful twenty-three year old—to vivid life...Categorized as:
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![The Class by Erich Segal]()
The Class by Erich Segal
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsFrom world-renowned author Erich Segal comes a powerful and moving saga of five extraordinary members of the Harvard class of 1958 and the women with whom their lives are intertwined...Categorized as:
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![The Silver Spoon by John Galsworthy]()
The Silver Spoon by John Galsworthy
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratings1926. English novelist and playwright, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932, Galsworthy became known for his portrayal of the British upper middle class and for his social satire, of which The Forsyte Saga is the most well-known. The Silver Spoon continues The Forsyte Saga... -
![Heartbreak Tango by Manuel Puig]()
Heartbreak Tango by Manuel Puig
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAwash in small-town gossip, petty jealousy, and intrigues, Manuel Puig’s Heartbreak Tango is a comedic assault on the fault lines between the disappointments of the everyday world, and the impossible promises of commercials, pop songs, and movies...Categorized as:
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![The Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko by Scott Stambach]()
The Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko by Scott Stambach
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn The Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko, Scott Stambach presents a hilarious, heart-wrenching, and powerful debut novel about an orphaned boy who finds love and hope in a Russian hospital.Seventeen-year-old Ivan Isaenko is a life-long resident of the Mazyr Hospital for Gravely Ill Children in Belarus...Categorized as:
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![Stone Angels by Helena Rho]()
Stone Angels by Helena Rho
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn this "riveting [and] unforgettable" novel, a forty-year-old woman journeys to her cultural homeland—and uncovers a harrowing secret that makes her rethink everything she thought she knew about her mother (Jimin Han, author of The Apology). Angelina Lee feels like she doesn’t belong...Categorized as:
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![Flowers For Mrs Harris by Paul Gallico]()
Flowers For Mrs Harris by Paul Gallico
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsLoving her employer's haute couture dresses, London cleaner Ada Harris decides to go to the Dior fashion house in Paris to buy one for herself.Flowers for Mrs Harris was the title given to the first UK edition of Mrs 'Arris Goes To Paris, published by Michael Joseph, and the first Penguin paperback published in the same year, 1958. More recent UK editions have tended to use the American title... -
![Among the Lemon Trees by Nadia Marks]()
Among the Lemon Trees by Nadia Marks
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFor fans of Victoria Hislop comes Among the Lemon Trees, the debut novel from Nadia Marks. Anna thought her marriage to Max would last forever. Having raised two happy children together, she looked forward to growing old with the man she loved. But when a revelation from her husband just before their wedding anniversary shakes her entire world, she's left uncertain of what the future holds... -
![All the Names by José Saramago]()
All the Names by José Saramago
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsSenhor José is a low-grade clerk in the city's Central Registry, where the living and the dead share the same shelf space. A middle-aged bachelor, he has no interest in anything beyond the certificates of birth, marriage, divorce, and death, that are his daily routine. But one day, when he comes across the records of an anonymous young woman, something happens to him...Categorized as:
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![Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto]()
Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsBanana Yoshimoto's novels have made her a sensation in Japan and all over the world, and Kitchen, the dazzling English-language debut that is still her best-loved book, is an enchantingly original and deeply affecting book about mothers, love, tragedy, and the power of the kitchen and home in the lives of a pair of free-spirited young women in contemporary Japan...Categorized as:
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![Troubling a Star by Madeleine L'Engle]()
Troubling a Star by Madeleine L'Engle
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFor her birthday, Vicky receives the gift of a trip to the Antarctic, where her friend Adam Eddington is working as a marine biologist. But as Vicky meets her fellow travelers, it quickly becomes clear that some of them are not what they seem. Vicki's trip into adventure becomes a journey into icy danger...Categorized as:
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![South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami]()
South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami
Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsFollowing the massive complexity of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle--Haruki Murakami's best-selling, award-winning novel--comes this deceptively simple love story, a contemporary rendering of the romance in which a boy finds and then loses a girl, only to meet her again years later.Hajime--"Beginning" in Japanese--was an atypical only child growing up in a conventional middle-class suburb...Categorized as:
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![Love in a Fallen City by Eileen Chang]()
Love in a Fallen City by Eileen Chang
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsEileen Chang is one of the great writers of twentieth-century China, where she enjoys a passionate following both on the mainland and in Taiwan. At the heart of Chang's achievement is her short fiction—tales of love, longing, and the shifting and endlessly treacherous shoals of family life...Categorized as:
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Beauty and Sadness by Yasunari Kawabata
Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsBeauty and Sadness (Japanese: 美しさと哀しみと Utsukushisa to kanashimi to) is a 1964 novel by Japanese Nobel Prize winning author Yasunari Kawabata... -
![The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story by Richard Bach]()
The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story by Richard Bach
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsMore than one year on the New York Times bestseller list! Richard Bach's timeless and uplifting classic of hope and love"We're the bridge across forever, arching above the sea, adventuring for our pleasure, living mysteries for the fun of it, choosing disasters triumphs challenges impossible odds, testing ourselves over and again, learning love and love and love!""The opposite of loneliness,...Categorized as:
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![South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami]()
South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 65 ratingsGrowing up in the suburbs of post-war Japan, it seemed to Hajime that everyone but him had brothers and sisters. His sole companion was Shimamoto, also an only child. Together they spent long afternoons listening to her father's record collection. But when his family moved away, the two lost touch. Now Hajime is in his thirties...Categorized as:
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![Changes: A Love Story by Ama Ata Aidoo, Tuzyline Allan]()
Changes: A Love Story by Ama Ata Aidoo, Tuzyline Allan
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsEsi decides to divorce after enduring yet another morning's marital rape. Though her friends and family remain baffled by her decision (after all, he doesn't beat her!), Esi holds fast. When she falls in love with a married man—wealthy, and able to arrange a polygamous marriage—the modern woman finds herself trapped in a new set of problems... -
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Gigi & The Cat by Colette
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsGIGI TRANSLATED BY ROGER SENHOUSE, THE CAT TRANSLATED BY ANTONIA WHITE Gigi's days are filled with cigars, lobster, lace and superstitions: the education of a future courtesan. Bored and unconvinced by what she's taught, Gigi surprises all with her approach to love. In this classic turn-of-the-century novella, Colette unveils Gigi's journey into womanhood in rich and supple prose...Categorized as:
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![Thirst for Love by Yukio Mishima, Alfred H. Marks]()
Thirst for Love by Yukio Mishima, Alfred H. Marks
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn Thirst for Love , Japan's greatest modern writer created a portrait of sexual torment and corrosive jealousy that is as delicately nuanced as Madame Bovary and as remorseless as Justine . Yukio Mishima's protagonist is Etsuko, whose philandering husband has died horribly from typhoid...Categorized as:
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![The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans]()
The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans
Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars · 49 ratingsA forty-ton truck hurtles out of control on a snowy country road, a teenage girl on horseback in its path. In a few terrible seconds the life of a family is shattered. And a mother's quest beings - to save her maimed daughter and a horse driven mad by pain. It is an odyssey that will bring her to...THE HORSE WHISPERERHe is the stuff of legend...Categorized as:
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![Blackberry Wine by Joanne Harris]()
Blackberry Wine by Joanne Harris
Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsAs a boy, writer Jay Mackintosh spent three golden summers in the ramshackle home of "Jackapple Joe" Cox. A lonely child, he found solace in Old Joe's simple wisdom and folk charms. The magic was lost, however, when Joe disappeared without warning one fall. Years later, Jay's life is stalled with regret and ennui...Categorized as:
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![The Stone Raft by José Saramago]()
The Stone Raft by José Saramago
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsWhat if, one day, Europe was to crack along the length of the Pyrenees, separating the Iberian peninsula?In Saramago's lovely fable, the new island is sent spinning, like a great stone raft, towards the Azores. While the authorities panic and tourists and investors flee, three men, two women and a dog are drawn together by portents that burden them with a bemusing sense of responsibility...Categorized as:
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The Double Death of Quincas Water-Bray by Jorge Amado
Rated: 3.72 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWidely considered the greatest work by the foremost Brazilian author of the twentieth century, The Double Death of Quincas Water-Bray comes to Penguin Classics in a new translation by the dean of Portuguese-language translators, Gregory Rabassa...Categorized as:
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![Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata, Edward G. Seidensticker]()
Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata, Edward G. Seidensticker
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsWith a restraint that barely conceals the ferocity of his characters' passions, one of Japan's great postwar novelists tells the luminous story of Kikuji and the tea party he attends with Mrs. Ota, the rival of his dead father's mistress...Categorized as:
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A Widow for One Year by John Irving
Rated: 3.77 of 5 stars · 33 ratings“One night when she was four and sleeping in the bottom bunk of her bunk bed, Ruth Cole woke to the sound of lovemaking—it was coming from her parents’ bedroom.”This sentence opens John Irving’s ninth novel, A Widow for One Year, a story of a family marked by tragedy. Ruth Cole is a complex, often self-contradictory character—a “difficult” woman...Categorized as:
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