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The Double

The Double

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Watching a rented video, Tertuliano Maximo Afonso is shocked to notice that one of the actors is...

The Magic Mountain

The Magic Mountain

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"The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann (1875−1955) is one of the premier works of fiction of the...

The Flanders Panel

The Flanders Panel

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The clue to a murder in the art world of contemporary Madrid lies hidden in a medieval painting 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...

Liquidation

Liquidation

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"Not since Kafka or Beckett has a writer packed so much metaphysics into so tight a space." -- New...

Detective story

Detective story

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

The Seville Communion

The Seville Communion

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Murderous goings-on in a tiny church draw the Vatican into the dark heart of Seville. A hacker...

The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana

The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana

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From the writer of The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum. Yambo, a rare book dealer, has...

Death and the Penguin

Death and the Penguin

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No one wants to publish Viktor's short stories, but one day he gets a call from a newspaper asking...

If on a winter’s night a  traveller

If on a winter’s night a traveller

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"The novel begins in a railway station, a locomotive huffs, steam from a piston covers the opening...

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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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