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Ramadan Ramsey
Louis Edwards
The Guggenheim Fellowship and Whiting Award-winning author Louis Edwards makes his long-awaited comeback with this epic tale of a New...
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Vertigo
Winfried Georg Sebald
A unnamed narrator, beset by nervous ailments, is again the readers' guide on a hair-raising journey through the past and...
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An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
César Aira
A brief and dramatic visit to the pampas gives him the chance to fulfill his ambition but a strange episode...
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Christie Malry's Own Double-entry
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Mothers and Sons
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With dazzling brilliance and empathy, Colm Tóibín's collection of stories wrestles with complicated themes of emotional restraint, the long reach...
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Works
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An Archipelago in a Landlocked Country
Elisa Taber
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The Novelist
Jordan Castro
Brisk and shockingly witty, exuberantly scatological as well as deeply wise, The Novelist is a delight. Jordan Castro is a...
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