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The Gospel According to Jesus Christ

The Gospel According to Jesus Christ

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Saramago's Jesus is the son not of God but of Joseph. Mary Magdalene is his lover not his convert....

The Disappearance of Josef Mengele: A Novel

The Disappearance of Josef Mengele: A Novel

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An extraordinary novel about one of history’s most reviled figures For three decades, until the...

Tomorrow They Won’t Dare to Murder Us

Tomorrow They Won’t Dare to Murder Us

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Lyrical and radical, a debut novel that created a sensation in France 1956. A young revolutionary...

When We Cease to Understand the World

When We Cease to Understand the World

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When We Cease to Understand the World shows us great minds striking out into dangerous, uncharted...

Fergus of Galloway, Knight of King Arthur

Fergus of Galloway, Knight of King Arthur

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The popular Arthurian legends, such as the grail quests of Perceval and Galahad, and the love of...

The Way to Paradise

The Way to Paradise

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The Way to Paradise interweaves the story of the painter Paul Gauguin with that of his...

The Plague-Spreader’s Tale

The Plague-Spreader’s Tale

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Bufalino's first novel, written in 1950 but not published until 1981 after encouragement from...

A Musical Offering

A Musical Offering

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More an experience than a narrative, Luis Sagasti weaves a web of music and storytelling in this...

The Book of Mother

The Book of Mother

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Violaine Huisman’s remarkable debut novel is an exquisitely wrought story about a daughter’s...

Lucky Breaks

Lucky Breaks

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Out of the impoverished Ukrainian coal regions, where Russian secret military intervention mixes...

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Tokyo Express

Author: Seichō Matsumoto

In a rocky cove in the bay of Hakata, the bodies of a young and beautiful couple are discovered. Sta

Night Train to Lisbon

Night Train to Lisbon

Author: Pascal Mercier

Night Train to Lisbon follows Raimund Gregorius, a 57-year-old Classics scholar, on a journey that t

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I'm Not Scared

Author: Niccolò Ammaniti

One relentlessly hot summer, six children explore the scorched wheat fields that enclose their tiny

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