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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...

Katalin Street

Katalin Street

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WINNER OF THE 2018 PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE Katalin Street is a heartwrenching tale about a group of...

The Snack Thief

The Snack Thief

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When an elderly man is stabbed to death in the lift of his apartment block and a crewman on an...

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...

Ward No. 6 and Other Stories

Ward No. 6 and Other Stories

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Ward No. 6 and Other Stories (1892-1895) collects stories which show Anton Chekhov beginning to...

The Oxford Brotherhood

The Oxford Brotherhood

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Mathematics student G is trying to resurrect his studies, which is proving difficult as he finds...

The Defenceless

The Defenceless

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When an old man is run over and killed by a Hungarian au pair, Finnish police investigator Anna...

Betty Boo

Betty Boo

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When a Buenos Aires industrialist is found dead at his home in an exclusive gated community, the...

The Elegance of the Hedgehog

The Elegance of the Hedgehog

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The Elegance of the Hedgehog is a novel by the French novelist and philosophy teacher Muriel...

Detective story

Detective story

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"A dark, disturbing novel, from a writer with a profound understanding of a dictatorship's inner...

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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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