Clarice Lispector was one of the most blistering and innovative twentieth century writers of the...
Near to the Wild Heart
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The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
Aristocratic, rich and seemingly aloof, the Finzi-Contini family fascinate the narrator of this...
Pereira Maintains
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The House of the Spirits
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Fateless
Budapest, March 1944. The Nazis invade and occupy Hungary and so begins the systematic deportation...
The Time of the Doves
The first time I have come across a book written originally in Catalan, this is a classic that...
If on a winter’s night a traveller
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Catastrophe and other stories
Dino Buzzati (1906 - 1972) is arguably the most loved and renowned Italian short story writer of...
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