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Convenience Store Woman

Convenience Store Woman

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Meet Keiko. She's 36 years old, has never had a boyfriend, and she's been working in the same...

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...

The Unwomanly Face of War

The Unwomanly Face of War

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"Why, having stood up for and held their own place in a once absolutely male world, have women not...

The Hunger of Women

The Hunger of Women

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Rosa is sick with anxiety and abandonment... To fill the void she begins to cook all sorts of...

The Rich Man of Pietermaritzburg

The Rich Man of Pietermaritzburg

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This is a charming tale about an elegant and smooth-talking city trickster who invites himself to...

The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis

The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis

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"An engaging, impressive and moving literary novel.The density and poise of its descriptions of...

The Leopard

The Leopard

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In the spring of 1860, Fabrizio, the charismatic Prince of Salina, still rules over thousands of...

Fontamara

Fontamara

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Fontamara is one of the Italian classics of the twentieth century. It was written in 1933 and was...

The Moro Affair

The Moro Affair

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On 16th March 1978 Aldo Moro, a former Prime Minister of Italy, was ambushed in Rome. Within three...

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...

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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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