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I’m Not Scared

I’m Not Scared

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

One Hundred Years of Solitude

One Hundred Years of Solitude

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Now on Netflix 'Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to...

The Sicilian Method

The Sicilian Method

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In The Sicilian Method, Andrea Camilleri's twenty-sixth novel in the Inspector Montalbano mystery...

The Master and Margarita

The Master and Margarita

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A classic of Stalin-era Russian literature. The devil makes a personal appearance in Moscow. His...

The True Deceiver

The True Deceiver

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From the New York Review of Books Edition: Deception—the lies we tell ourselves and the lies we...

Lucky Breaks

Lucky Breaks

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

Disoriental

Disoriental

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Spanning five generations, this novel blends family and historical drama to absolute perfection....

How The Soldier Repairs The Gramophone

How The Soldier Repairs The Gramophone

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Saša Stanišić was born in 1978 in the Bosnian town of Višegrad, and has been living in Germany...

Bruges-la-Morte

Bruges-la-Morte

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"One of the greatest novels ever written about grief, loneliness and isolation...Richly, almost...

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1937 Japan government railway poster

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

Ears of wheat from below with a bright blue sky and clouds

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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