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Anna's bookshelf: all en-US Fri, 22 Mar 2024 06:50:40 -0700 60 Anna's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[Something Strange, Like Hunger: Short Stories]]> 60152560
Something Strange, Like Hunger presents Moustadraf’s collected short fiction: haunting, visceral stories by a master of the genre. Here, we tune into Casablanca’s unheard: a sex worker struggling to keep warm on the streets; a housewife flirting with strangers online; a kidney patient, priced-out of treatment, facing the harsh reality of his condition; and a mother scheming to ensure her daughter passes a virginity test.

Something Strange, Like Hunger is a sharp provocation to patriarchal power, and a celebration of the life and genius of one of Morocco’s preeminent writers.

*Translated from Arabic*]]> 160 Malika Moustadraf 0863569161 Anna 0 3.87 2022 Something Strange, Like Hunger: Short Stories

Something Strange, Like Hunger: Short Stories

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]]> Kitchen 12507661
When Kitchen was first published in Japan in 1987 it won two of Japan's most prestigious literary prizes, climbed its way to the top of the bestseller lists, then remained there for over a year and sold millions of copies. Banana Yoshimoto was hailed as a young writer of great talent and great passion whose work has quickly earned a place among the best of modern literature, and has been described as 'the voice of young Japan' by the Independent on Sunday.]]> 0 Banana Yoshimoto Anna 0 4.06 1988 Kitchen

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]]> <![CDATA[My Brother's Husband, Volume 1 (Otouto no Otto, #1-2)]]> 32337897
(Please note: This book is a traditional work of manga, and reads back to front and right to left.)]]> 352 Gengoroh Tagame 1101871512 Anna 0 4.32 2015 My Brother's Husband, Volume 1 (Otouto no Otto, #1-2)

My Brother's Husband, Volume 1 (Otouto no Otto, #1-2)

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]]> The Waiting 56269286 The story begins with a mother's confession... sisters permanently separated by a border during the Korean War.

Keum Suk Gendry-Kim was an adult when her mother revealed a family secret: She had been separated from her sister during the Korean War. It's not an uncommon story—the peninsula was split across the 38th parallel, dividing one country into two. As many fled violence in the north, not everyone was able to make it south. Her mother's story inspired Gendry-Kim to begin interviewing her and other Koreans separated by the war; that research fueled a deeply resonant graphic novel.

The Waiting is the fictional story of Gwija, told by her novelist daughter Jina. When Gwija was 17 years old, after hearing that the Japanese were seizing unmarried girls, her family married her in a hurry to a man she didn't know. Japan fell, Korea gained its independence, and the couple started a family. But peace didn't come. The young family of four fled south. On the road, while breastfeeding and changing her daughter, Gwija was separated from her husband and son.

Then seventy years passed. Seventy years of waiting. Gwija is now an elderly woman and Jina can't stop thinking about the promise she made to help find her brother.

Expertly translated from the Korean by the award-winning translator Janet Hong, The Waiting is the devastating followup to Gendry-Kim's Grass, which appeared on best of the year lists from the New York Times, The Guardian, Library Journal, and more.]]> 248 Keum Suk Gendry-Kim 1770464573 Anna 0 4.37 2020 The Waiting

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]]> Katedry 58415641 Bezkompromisowa i przejmująca wiwisekcja rodzinnych więzi, społecznych przesądów i ślepego fanatyzmu religijnego

Prawda, której się nam odmawia, boli aż do ostatniego dnia.

Na śmietnisku zostaje odnalezione zwęglone i poćwiartowane ciało siedemnastolatki. Trzydzieści lat później zbrodnia nadal pozostaje niewyjaśniona, a bliscy ofiary �� każdy na swój sposób �� próbują ułożyć sobie życie na nowo.

Każdy człowiek ukrywa jakiś sekret, który pewnego dnia przyniesie mu hańbę.

Jednak nie wszyscy członkowie rodziny radzą sobie z tym balastem. Dzięki uporowi ojca ofiary prawda w końcu wychodzi na jaw.

W Boga nie wierzę od trzydziestu lat. A dokładniej mówiąc, trzydzieści lat temu odważyłam się do tego przyznać. Być może nie wierzyłam już znacznie wcześniej. Człowiek nie traci „wiary�� z dnia na dzień.

Prawda ta odsłania koszmar dotąd skrywany za fasadą pozorów: okrucieństwo, do którego mogą doprowadzić religijny fanatyzm i bezmyślne posłuszeństwo, współudział tych, którzy się bali, i tych, którzy pozostali obojętni, wreszcie zaś �� samotność i rozpacz nielicznych, którzy ośmielają się podążać swoją drogą, nie przyjmując narzuconych norm.]]> 360 Claudia Piñeiro 8382301908 Anna 0 3.96 2020 Katedry

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]]> Empuzjon 60792305 Najnowsza powieść Olgi Tokarczuk �� pierwsza po otrzymaniu Literackiej Nagrody Nobla!

Najciekawsze pozostaje zawsze w cieniu, w tym, co niewidoczne.

Wrzesień 1913 roku, uzdrowisko Görbersdorf (dzisiejsze Sokołowsko na Dolnym Śląsku). Właśnie tutaj, u podnóża gór, od przeszło pół wieku działa jedno z pierwszych na świecie i słynne w całej Europie specjalistyczne sanatorium leczące choroby "piersiowe i gardlane".

Mieczysław Wojnicz, student ze Lwowa, przyjeżdża do uzdrowiska z nadzieją, że nowatorskie metody i krystalicznie czyste powietrze powstrzymają rozwój jego choroby, a może nawet całkowicie go uleczą. Diagnoza nie pozostawia jednak złudzeń �� tuberculosis. Gruźlica.

W Pensjonacie dla Panów, gdzie zamieszkuje, poznaje innych kuracjuszy. Chorzy z Wiednia, Królewca, Breslau i Berlina przy nalewce Schwärmerei niestrudzenie omawiają najważniejsze sprawy tego świata. Czy Europie grozi wojna? Monarchia czy demokracja? Czy demony istnieją? Czy oddając się lekturze, da się rozpoznać, czyją ręką tekst został napisany �� kobiety czy mężczyzny?

Ale nie tylko te pytania zajmują pensjonariuszy. Do Wojnicza docierają też przerażające historie o tragicznych wydarzeniach w górskich okolicach sanatorium. Choć on sam zajęty jest ukrywaniem prawdy o sobie, zagadka budzących grozę wypadków fascynuje go coraz bardziej. Nie wie jednak, że mroczne siły już wzięły go sobie na cel.

Olga Tokarczuk w Empuzjonie odsłania przed czytelnikami prawdy o świecie, których albo nie zauważamy, albo za wszelką cenę nie chcemy do siebie dopuścić.]]> 400 Olga Tokarczuk 8308075770 Anna 0 4.05 2022

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]]> <![CDATA[The Girl Who Played With Fire: Part 1 (Millennium, #3)]]> 36189861 68 Sylvain Runberg 1785863754 Anna 0 4.38 2014

The Girl Who Played With Fire: Part 1 (Millennium, #3)

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]]> <![CDATA[The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Millennium, #5-6)]]> 38090693
Lisbeth Salander is in critical condition, and facing trial for a triple murder, and the only one who can save her is her friend, journalist Mikael Blomkvist.
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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Millennium, #5-6)

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]]> <![CDATA[Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China]]> 37861785 How the Feminist Five and the rise of China's feminist movement threatens China's authoritarian government

On the eve of International Women’s Day in 2015, the Chinese government arrested five feminist activists and jailed them for 37 days. The Feminist Five became a global cause célèbre, with Hillary Clinton speaking out on their behalf, and activists inundating social media with #FreetheFive messages. But the Feminist Five are only symbols of a much larger feminist movement of civil rights lawyers, labor activists, performance artists and online warriors that is prompting an unprecedented awakening among China’s urban, educated women. In Betraying Big Brother, journalist and scholar Leta Hong Fincher argues that the popular, broad-based movement poses the greatest threat to China’s authoritarian regime today.

Through interviews with the Feminist Five and other leading Chinese activists, Hong Fincher illuminates both the challenges they face and their “joy of betraying Big Brother,�� as Wei Tingting—one of the Feminist Five—wrote of the defiance she felt during her detention. Tracing the rise of a new feminist consciousness through online campaigns resembling #MeToo, and describing how the Communist regime has suppressed the history of its own feminist struggles, Betraying Big Brother is a story of how the movement against patriarchy could reconfigure China and the world.]]> 240 Leta Hong Fincher 1786633647 Anna 0 4.18 2018 Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China

Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China

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]]> Strange Weather in Tokyo 18283207 176 Hiromi Kawakami 1846275083 Anna 0 3.63 2001

author: Hiromi Kawakami
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]]> Palmares 58572479 Gayl Jones' long-awaited novel about the last of the seven fugitive slave settlements in colonial Brazil in the 17th century.

This extraordinarily powerful narrative is Gayl Jones' long-awaited fifth novel. Intricate and compelling, Palmares is set in the 17th century on the last of the seven fugitive slave settlements in colonial Brazil. Combining her mastery of language with her unique brand of mythology and magical realism, Jones reimagines the historical novel.

Gayl Jones has been described as one of the great literary writers of the 20th century; the best American novelist whose name you may not know. Originally discovered & championed by Toni Morrison, Jones published several novels in the 1980s and 1990s before personal tragedy caused her to close herself off from the world. Now, for the first time in 21 years, Jones is ready to publish again.]]> 0 Gayl Jones 0349015252 Anna 0 3.07 2021 Palmares

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]]> On a Sunbeam 41433658
Throughout the deepest reaches of space, a crew rebuilds beautiful and broken-down structures, painstakingly putting the past together. As Mia, the newest member, gets to know her team, the story flashes back to her pivotal year in boarding school, where she fell in love with a mysterious new student. When Mia grows close to her new friends, she reveals her true purpose for joining their ship—to track down her long-lost love.

An inventive world, a breathtaking love story, and stunning art come together in this new work by award-winning artist Tillie Walden.]]> 544 Tillie Walden 1910395374 Anna 0 4.36 2018 On a Sunbeam

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]]> Who Killed My Father 43842414 Who Killed My Father is the story of a tough guy �� the story of the little boy I never was. The story of my father.

In Who Killed My Father, Édouard Louis explores key moments in his father’s life, and the tenderness and disconnects in their relationship.

Told with the fire of a writer determined on social justice, and with the compassion of a loving son, the book urgently and brilliantly engages with issues surrounding masculinity, class, homophobia, shame and social poverty.

It unflinchingly takes aim at systems that disadvantage those they seek to exclude �� those who have their expectations, hopes and passions crushed by a society which gives them little thought.

]]> 82 Édouard Louis 1473562937 Anna 0 4.27 2018 Who Killed My Father

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]]> Ms Ice Sandwich 52147406
But life keeps getting in the way �� there’s his beloved grandmother’s illness, and a faltering friendship with his classmate Tutti, who she invites him into her private world. Wry, intimate and wonderfully skewed, Ms Ice Sandwich is a poignant depiction of the naivety and wisdom of youth, just as it is passing.]]> 96 Mieko Kawakami 1782276726 Anna 0 3.81 2013

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]]> Open Water 53414230
At once an achingly beautiful love story and a potent insight into race and masculinity, Open Water asks what it means to be a person in a world that sees you only as a Black body, to be vulnerable when you are only respected for strength, to find safety in love, only to lose it. With gorgeous, soulful intensity, Caleb Azumah Nelson has written the most essential British debut of recent years.]]> 145 Caleb Azumah Nelson 0241448778 Anna 0 4.03 2021 Open Water

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]]> Rejwach 34939928 Oskarżam Auschwitz, tym razem ukazuje nam się jako twórca fabuł, trzydziestu opowieści o losie Żydów we współczesnej Polsce. Nie jest są to, jak znamy Grynberga, opowieści ani optymistyczne, ani wesołe, bo część jego bohaterów neguje swoją tożsamość, część ją ukrywa, część opowiada antysemickie żarty. Pamięć drugiego i trzeciego pokolenia powraca u niego w całkowicie nowych formach, Grynberg przyzwyczaił nas już do tego, że mówi rzeczy, których wolelibyśmy nie słyszeć, pokazuje, że pamięć żydowska wciąż może zaskakiwać.]]> 132 Mikołaj Grynberg 8362795506 Anna 0 4.47 2017 Rejwach

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]]> <![CDATA[My Brother's Husband, Volume 2 (Otouto no Otto, #3-4)]]> 37824476 The concluding volume in the story of Yaichi, his daughter Kana, and how their meeting Mike Flanagan--Yaichi's brother-in-law--changes their lives and perceptions of acceptance of homosexuality in their contemporary Japanese culture.

As Mike continues his journey of discovery concerning Ryoji's past, Yaichi gradually comes to understand that being gay is just another way of being human. And that, in many ways, remains a radical concept in Japan even today. In the meantime, the bond between Mike and young Kana grows ever stronger, and yet he is going to have to return to Canada soon--a fact that fills them both with impending heartbreak. But not before more than a few revelations come to light.]]> 352 Gengoroh Tagame 1101871539 Anna 0 4.54 2018 My Brother's Husband, Volume 2 (Otouto no Otto, #3-4)

My Brother's Husband, Volume 2 (Otouto no Otto, #3-4)

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]]> What Strange Paradise 58285266
In alternating chapters, we learn the story of Amir’s life and of how he came to be on the boat; and we follow the duo as they make their way towards a vision of safety. But as the novel unfurls, we begin to understand that this is not merely the story of two children finding their way through a hostile world. Omar El Akkad's What Strange Paradise is the story of our collective moment in this time: of empathy and indifference, of hope and despair �� and of the way each of those things can blind us to reality, or guide us to a better one.]]> 256 Omar El Akkad 1529069475 Anna 0 3.94 2021 What Strange Paradise

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]]> <![CDATA[Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts]]> 55711552 Part graphic novel, part memoir, Wake is an imaginative tour-de-force that tells the story of women-led slave revolts and chronicles scholar Rebecca Hall’s efforts to uncover the truth about these women warriors who, until now, have been left out of the historical record.

Women warriors planned and led slave revolts on slave ships during the Middle Passage. They fought their enslavers throughout the Americas. And then they were erased from history.

Wake tells the story of Dr. Rebecca Hall, a historian, granddaughter of slaves, and a woman haunted by the legacy of slavery. The accepted history of slave revolts has always told her that enslaved women took a back seat. But Rebecca decides to look deeper, and her journey takes her through old court records, slave ship captain’s logs, crumbling correspondence, and even the forensic evidence from the bones of enslaved women from the “negro burying ground�� uncovered in Manhattan. She finds women warriors everywhere.

Using in-depth archival research and a measured use of historical imagination, Rebecca constructs the likely pasts of Adono and Alele, women rebels who fought for freedom during the Middle Passage, as well as the stories of women who led slave revolts in Colonial New York. We also follow Rebecca’s own story as the legacy of slavery shapes life, both during her time as a successful attorney and later as a historian seeking the past that haunts her.

Illustrated beautifully in black and white, Wake will take its place alongside classics of the graphic novel genre, like Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis and Art Spiegelman’s Maus. The story of both a personal and national legacy, it is a powerful reminder that while the past is gone, we still live in its wake.]]> 208 Rebecca Hall 1982115181 Anna 0 4.28 2021 Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts

Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts

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]]> Normal People 41086877 Librarian note: See an alternate cover edition here.

Connell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in the west of Ireland, but the similarities end there. In school, Connell is popular and well-liked, while Marianne is a loner. But when the two strike up a conversation �� awkward but electrifying �� something life-changing begins.

Normal People is a story of mutual fascination, friendship and love. It takes us from that first conversation to the years beyond, in the company of two people who try to stay apart but find they can’t.]]> 266 Sally Rooney Anna 0 3.84 2018 Normal People

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]]> <![CDATA[Drobiazg. Miłość w czasach genetyki]]> 48557738
Powieść, która zdobyła tytuł Czeskiej Książki Roku 2015. Tomáš �� główny bohater, który był w dzieciństwie adoptowany �� szuka swoich biologicznych rodziców. W ten sposób wpada w uzależnienie od wiedzy o genetyce. Zaczyna traktować każdego człowieka jak maszynę �� nosiciela DNA. Zamiast ludzi, dostrzega jedynie zestawy genów. Nawet ciało ukochanej staje się dla niego przede wszystkim „workiem na geny��.

Autorka, rocznik 1969, jest artystką z dziedziny net-artu i popularyzatorką wiedzy naukowej w formie powieści. Powieściowy romans Baňkovej jest z jednej strony książką popularno-naukową, z drugiej �� pisarka przyprawia go czarnym humorem, tak charakterystycznym dla literatury czeskiej.]]> 195 Markéta Baňková 8365970368 Anna 0 3.34 2015 Drobiazg. Miłość w czasach genetyki

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]]> Beasts of a Little Land 58974159
Meanwhile, in the north of Korea, a young girl named Jade is sold by her family to Miss Silver's courtesan school in the glamorous city of Pyongyang. When she befriends an orphan boy named JungHo, they form a deep friendship. But before long, JungHo will be swept up in the revolutionary fight for independence, while Jade becomes a celebrated performer pursued by a wealthy romantic prospect.

From the perfumed chambers of a courtesan school in Pyongyang to the chic cafes of a modernising Seoul and the thick forests of Manchuria, Juhea Kim's unforgettable characters forge their own destinies as they shape the future of their nation. Immersive and elegant, firmly rooted in Korean folklore and legend, Beasts of a Little Land unveils a world where friends become enemies, enemies become saviours, and beasts take many shapes.]]> 416 Juhea Kim 086154322X Anna 0 3.92 2021

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]]> <![CDATA[The Final Revival of Opal & Nev]]> 54304125 An electrifying novel about the meteoric rise of an iconic interracial rock duo in the 1970s, their sensational breakup, and the dark secrets unearthed when they try to reunite decades later for one last tour.

Opal is a fiercely independent young woman pushing against the grain in her style and attitude, Afro-punk before that term existed. Coming of age in Detroit, she can’t imagine settling for a 9-to-5 job—despite her unusual looks, Opal believes she can be a star. So when the aspiring British singer/songwriter Neville Charles discovers her at a bar’s amateur night, she takes him up on his offer to make rock music together for the fledgling Rivington Records.

In early seventies New York City, just as she’s finding her niche as part of a flamboyant and funky creative scene, a rival band signed to her label brandishes a Confederate flag at a promotional concert. Opal’s bold protest and the violence that ensues set off a chain of events that will not only change the lives of those she loves, but also be a deadly reminder that repercussions are always harsher for women, especially black women, who dare to speak their truth.

Decades later, as Opal considers a 2016 reunion with Nev, music journalist S. Sunny Shelton seizes the chance to curate an oral history about her idols. Sunny thought she knew most of the stories leading up to the cult duo’s most politicized chapter. But as her interviews dig deeper, a nasty new allegation from an unexpected source threatens to blow up everything.

Provocative and chilling, The Final Revival of Opal & Nev features a backup chorus of unforgettable voices, a heroine the likes of which we’ve not seen in storytelling, and a daring structure, and introduces a bold new voice in contemporary fiction.]]> 368 Dawnie Walton 198214016X Anna 0 3.81 2021 The Final Revival of Opal & Nev

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]]> <![CDATA[Who Ate Up All the Shinga?: An Autobiographical Novel (Weatherhead Books on Asia)]]> 6332675
Park Wan-suh was born in 1931 in a small village near Kaesong, a protected hamlet of no more than twenty families. Park was raised believing that "no matter how many hills and brooks you crossed, the whole world was Korea and everyone in it was Korean." But then the tendrils of the Japanese occupation, which had already worked their way through much of Korean society before her birth, began to encroach on Park's idyll, complicating her day-to-day life.

With acerbic wit and brilliant insight, Park describes the characters and events that came to shape her young life, portraying the pervasive ways in which collaboration, assimilation, and resistance intertwined within the Korean social fabric before the outbreak of war. Most absorbing is Park's portrait of her mother, a sharp and resourceful widow who both resisted and conformed to stricture, becoming an enigmatic role model for her struggling daughter. Balancing period detail with universal themes, Park weaves a captivating tale that charms, moves, and wholly engrosses.]]> 264 Park Wan-Suh 0231148984 Anna 0 4.14 1992 Who Ate Up All the Shinga?: An Autobiographical Novel (Weatherhead Books on Asia)

Who Ate Up All the Shinga?: An Autobiographical Novel (Weatherhead Books on Asia)

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]]> Winter in Sokcho 52873922 As if Marguerite Duras wrote Convenience Store Woman - a beautiful, unexpected novel from a debut French Korean author

It’s winter in Sokcho, a tourist town on the border between South and North Korea. The cold slows everything down. Bodies are red and raw, the fish turn venomous, beyond the beach guns point out from the North’s watchtowers. A young French Korean woman works as a receptionist in a tired guesthouse. One evening, an unexpected guest arrives: a French cartoonist determined to find inspiration in this desolate landscape.

The two form an uneasy relationship. When she agrees to accompany him on trips to discover an ‘authentic�� Korea, they visit snowy mountaintops and dramatic waterfalls, and cross into North Korea. But he takes no interest in the Sokcho she knows �� the gaudy neon lights, the scars of war, the fish market where her mother works. As she’s pulled into his vision and taken in by his drawings, she strikes upon a way to finally be seen.

An exquisitely-crafted debut, which won the Prix Robert Walser, Winter in Sokcho is a novel about shared identities and divided selves, vision and blindness, intimacy and alienation. Elisa Shua Duspain’s voice is distinctive and unmistakable.]]> 154 Elisa Shua Dusapin 1911547542 Anna 0 3.55 2016 Winter in Sokcho

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]]> The Vegetarian 27191166 Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781846276033

Yeong-hye and her husband are ordinary people. He is an office worker with moderate ambitions and mild manners; she is an uninspired but dutiful wife. The acceptable flatline of their marriage is interrupted when Yeong-hye, seeking a more 'plant-like' existence, decides to become a vegetarian, prompted by grotesque recurring nightmares. In South Korea, where vegetarianism is almost unheard-of and societal mores are strictly obeyed, Yeong-hye's decision is a shocking act of subversion. Her passive rebellion manifests in ever more bizarre and frightening forms, leading her bland husband to self-justified acts of sexual sadism. His cruelties drive her towards attempted suicide and hospitalisation. She unknowingly captivates her sister's husband, a video artist. She becomes the focus of his increasingly erotic and unhinged artworks, while spiralling further and further into her fantasies of abandoning her fleshly prison and becoming - impossibly, ecstatically - a tree.

Fraught, disturbing and beautiful, The Vegetarian is a novel about modern day South Korea, but also a novel about shame, desire and our faltering attempts to understand others, from one imprisoned body to another.]]> 216 Han Kang Anna 0 3.64 2007

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]]> Matrix 49198597 Lauren Groff returns with her exhilarating first new novel since the groundbreaking Fates and Furies. Cast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn for marriage or courtly life, 17-year-old Marie de France is sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey, its nuns on the brink of starvation and beset by disease. At first taken aback by the severity of her new life, Marie finds focus and love in collective life with her singular and mercurial sisters. In this crucible, Marie steadily supplants her desire for family, for her homeland, for the passions of her youth with something new to her: devotion to her sisters, and a conviction in her own divine visions. Marie, born the last in a long line of women warriors and crusaders, is determined to chart a bold new course for the women she now leads and protects. But in a world that is shifting and corroding in frightening ways, one that can never reconcile itself with her existence, will the sheer force of Marie's vision be bulwark enough? Equally alive to the sacred and the profane, Matrix gathers currents of violence, sensuality, and religious ecstasy in a mesmerizing portrait of consuming passion, aberrant faith, and a woman that history moves both through and around. Lauren Groff's new novel, her first since Fates and Furies, is a defiant and timely exploration of the raw power of female creativity in a corrupted world.
]]> 260 Lauren Groff 1785151908 Anna 0 3.65 2021 Matrix

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]]> Uncomfortably Happily 29875903 Uncomfortably, Happily is the story of a young couple finding their way. Burdened by unmet comics deadlines and high rent, our narrator and his wife know they must make a change. Convinced the absence of traffic noise will ease his writer’s block, our pair welcomes the idea of building a life from scratch. Deciding on a home atop an uninhabited mountain, they excitedly embrace the charms of their new rural existence.

From tending to the land and attempting grocery runs through snow, to the complexities of fighting depression in seclusion, the move does not immediately prove to be the golden ticket they’d hoped for, and the silence of the mountain poses as much of an obstacle to output as the sirens of the city. Through it all, though, we see simple pleasures seep in and gain prominence over these commercial, and, often, comparatively trivial worries: the smell of the forest, the calming weight of enveloping snow, and the gratification of a stripped down life making art begin to muffle other concerns.

Originally published in Korean to great acclaim and winning the Manhwa Today award, Uncomfortably, Happily uniquely explores our narrator’s inner world. Hong propels the comic with gorgeously detailed yet simple art, sharing the story of two lives unfolding slowly, sometimes uncomfortably, yet ultimately, happily.]]> 576 Yeon-Sik Hong 1770462600 Anna 0 3.95 2012 Uncomfortably Happily

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]]> Salt Houses 31551206
On the eve of her daughter Alia’s wedding, Salma reads the girl’s future in a cup of coffee dregs.

Although she keeps her predictions to herself that day, they soon come to pass in the wake of the Six-Day War of 1967. Caught up in the resistance, Alia’s brother disappears, while Alia and her husband move from Nablus to Kuwait City. Reluctantly they build a life, torn between needing to remember and learning to forget.

When Saddam Hussein invades Kuwait, Alia and her family yet again lose their home, their land, and their story as they know it. Scattering to Beirut, Paris and Boston, Alia’s children begin families of their own, once more navigating the burdens and blessings of beginning again.]]> 320 Hala Alyan 1786330415 Anna 0 3.71 2017 Salt Houses

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]]> The Impossible Fairytale 35053087
The Impossible Fairytale tells the story of the nameless ‘Child��, who struggles to make a mark on the world, and her classmate Mia, whose spoiled life is everything the Child's is not.

At school, adults are nearly invisible, and the society the children create on their own is marked by soul-crushing hierarchies and an underlying menace. Then, one day after hours, the Child sneaks into the classroom to add ominous sentences to her classmates�� notebooks, setting in motion a series of cataclysmic events.

Praise for The Impossible Fairytale

‘The Impossible Fairytale is extraordinary. Disturbing and visceral in its depiction of the savagery of childhood, yet uplifting in its reinvention of literary form. A novel of hypnotic language, page-turning suspense and mind-bending metafictional twists, The Impossible Fairytale is the most eerie and fearlessly experimental work I have encountered in recent years.��
�� Susan Barker

‘A haunting, spellbinding tale about violent obsession and the immense and frightening force of an unquiet conscience.��
�� Sara Baume

‘Is this a horror story or a memoir, a work of theory or a riddle? No doubt about it, Han Yujoo is a brave and intelligent writer.��
�� Lara Pawson]]> 225 Han Yujoo 1911284088 Anna 0 3.48 2013 The Impossible Fairytale

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]]> If I Had Your Face 55818527 If I Had Your Face plunges us into the mesmerizing world of contemporary Seoul - a place where extreme plastic surgery is as routine as getting a haircut, where women compete for spots in secret 'room salons' to entertain wealthy businessmen after hours, where K-Pop stars are the object of all-consuming obsession, and ruthless social hierarchies dictate your every move.

Navigating this hyper-competitive city are four young women balancing on the razor-edge of survival: Kyuri, an exquisitely beautiful woman whose hard-won status at an exclusive 'room salon' is threatened by an impulsive mistake with a client; her flatmate Miho, an orphan who wins a scholarship to a prestigious art school in New York, where her life becomes tragically enmeshed with the super-wealthy offspring of the Korean elite; Wonna, their neighbour, pregnant with a child that she and her husband have no idea how they will afford to raise in a fiercely competitive economy; and Ara, a hair stylist living down the hall, whose infatuation with a fresh-faced K-Pop star drives her to violent extremes.]]> 320 Frances Cha 0241986354 Anna 0 3.71 2020 If I Had Your Face

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]]> <![CDATA[Nikt tak nie tańczył, jak mój dziadek]]> 58388955

"Wtedy wysoka dziewczynka mrugnęła rezolutnie i puściła rękę swojego sąsiada z ławki, który zdążył zapomnieć nawet o swoich wątpliwościach, na tyle wszystko to było dla niego nowe i niepojęte, i przesunęła cienkimi palcami po kołnierzyku Liliczki. Z kołnierzyka odpięła plastikową myszkę, błyszczącą, szarą broszkę z elementami różu, i podała ją na dłoni zapłakanemu chłopczykowi. �� To dla ciebie �� powiedziała. �� Prezent. Przestań płakać, proszę. Przestań natychmiast. I on, zdaje się, przestał. Może nie od razu, ale na pewno przestał".

Kateryna Babkina (ur. 1985 w Iwano-Frankowsku) �� ukraińska pisarka, dziennikarka, scenarzystka i menedżerka kultury. Autorka kilku tomików poezji (debiut „Ognie św. Elma��, 2002), powieści „Sonia�� (2013), zbiorów opowiadań, książek dla dzieci, a także scenariuszy filmowych oraz sztuki Hamlet Babylon, wystawianej w Kijowie, Genewie i Wiedniu. Jej twórczość tłumaczona jest na angielski, czeski, francuski, hiszpański, niemiecki, szwedzki, rumuński, rosyjski i hebrajski. Nakładem wydawnictwa Warsztatów Kultury ukazał się zbiór opowiadań „Szczęśliwi nadzy ludzie�� (2017) oraz powieść „Sonia�� (2018), obie książki w tłumaczeniu Bohdana Zadury.]]> 100 Kateryna Babkina 8364375458 Anna 0 4.11 2019 Nikt tak nie tańczył, jak mój dziadek

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]]> Deaf Republic 42447793
Deaf Republic opens in a time of political unrest in an occupied territory. It is uncertain where we are or when, in what country or during what conflict, but we come to recognise that these events are also happening here, right now. This astonishing parable in poems unfolds episodically like a play, its powerful narrative provoked by a tragic opening scene: when soldiers breaking up a protest kill a deaf boy, the gunshot becomes the last thing the citizens hear - in that moment, all have gone deaf. Inside this silence, their dissent becomes coordinated by sign language. The story then follows the private lives of townspeople encircled by public violence: a newly married couple, Alfonso and Sonya, expecting their child; the daring Momma Galya, instigating the insurgency from her puppet theatre; and Galya's puppeteers, covertly teaching signs by day and by night heroically luring soldiers one by one to their deaths behind the curtain. At once a love story, an elegy, and an urgent plea, Deaf Republic confronts our time's vicious atrocities and our collective silence in the face of them.]]> 96 Ilya Kaminsky 0571351417 Anna 0 4.31 2019

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]]> Paradais 58730652 Paradais explores the explosive fragility of Mexican society - with its racist, classist, hyperviolent tendencies - and how the myths, desires, and hardships of teenagers can tear life apart at the seams.]]> 118 Fernanda Melchor 1913097870 Anna 0 3.62 2021 Paradais

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]]> More Than I Love My Life 56155235 From the internationally best-selling author--and revered moral voice--a remarkable novel of suffering, love, and healing, the story of three generations of women and a secret that needs to be told.

More Than I Love My Life is the story of three strong women: Vera, age ninety; her daughter, Nina; and her granddaughter, Gili, who at thirty-nine is a filmmaker and a wary consumer of affection. A bitter secret divides each mother-and-daughter pair, though Gili--abandoned by Nina when she was just three--has always been close to her grandmother. With Gili making the arrangements, they travel together to Goli Otok, a barren island off the coast of Croatia, where Vera was imprisoned and tortured for three years as a young wife after she refused to betray her husband and denounce him as an enemy of the people. This unlikely journey--filtered through the lens of Gili's camera, as she seeks to make a film that might help explain her life--lays bare the intertwining of fear, love, and mercy, and the complex overlapping demands of romantic and parental passion.

More Than I Love My Life was inspired by the true story of one of David Grossman's longtime confidantes, a woman who, in the early 1950s, was held on the notorious Goli Otok (the Adriatic Alcatraz). With flashbacks to the stalwart Vera protecting what was most precious on the wretched rock where she was held, and Grossman's fearless examination of the human heart, this swift novel will thrill his many readers and bring new ones into the fold.]]> 288 David Grossman 1787332934 Anna 0 4.06 2019 More Than I Love My Life

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]]> Human Acts 31937963
From the award-winning author of The Vegetarian comes a riveting and poetic examination of humanity at its most appalling, and its most hopeful.]]> 224 Han Kang Anna 0 4.27 2014 Human Acts

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]]> <![CDATA[The Underground Girls of Kabul: The Hidden Lives of Afghan Girls Disguised as Boys]]> 23472513
Nordberg follows women such as Azita Rafaat, a parliamentarian who once lived as a Bacha Posh, the mother of seven-year-old Mehran, who she is raising as a Bacha Posh as well, but for different reasons than in the past. There's Zahra, a teenage student living as a boy who is about to display signs of womanhood as she enters puberty. And Skukria, a hospital nurse who remained in a Bacha Posh disguise until she was twenty, and who now has three children of her own.

Exploring the historical roots of this tradition, The Underground Girls of Kabul is a fascinating and moving investigation.]]> 351 Jenny Nordberg 1844087743 Anna 0 4.02 2014

The Underground Girls of Kabul: The Hidden Lives of Afghan Girls Disguised as Boys

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]]> Lemon 56773168
Seventeen years pass without any resolution for those who knew and loved Hae-on, and the grief and uncertainty take a cruel toll on her younger sister, Da-on, in particular. Unable to move on with her life, Da-on tries in her own twisted way to recover some of what she's lost, ultimately setting out to find the truth of what happened.

Told at different points in time from the perspectives of Da-on and two of Hae-on's classmates, Lemon loosely follows the structure of a detective novel. But finding the perpetrator is not the main objective here. Instead, the work explores grief and trauma, raising important questions about guilt, retribution, and the meaning of death and life.]]> 176 Kwon Yeo-Sun Anna 0 3.24 2019 Lemon

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]]> Shoko's Smile: Stories 59133852
In the tradition of Sally Rooney, Banana Yoshimoto, and Marilynne Robinson �� writers from different cultures who all take an unvarnished look at human relationships and the female experience �� Choi Eunyoung is a writer to watch.]]> 272 Choi Eun-young 1529376025 Anna 0 3.91 2016 Shoko's Smile: Stories

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]]> The Salt Path 38085814
They have almost no money for food or shelter and must carry only the essentials for survival on their backs as they live wild in the ancient, weathered landscape of cliffs, sea and sky. Yet through every step, every encounter, and every test along the way, their walk becomes a remarkable journey.

The Salt Path is an honest and life-affirming true story of coming to terms with grief and the healing power of the natural world. Ultimately, it is a portrayal of home, and how it can be lost, rebuilt, and rediscovered in the most unexpected ways.]]> 288 Raynor Winn 0241349648 Anna 0 3.97 2018 The Salt Path

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]]> Morele Donbasu 59582406 96 Любов Якимчук 8365772337 Anna 0 5.00 2015

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]]> Podbój Wschodu (Klezmerzy #1) 49091368
Wszyscy oni spotykają się na kartach komiksu Klezmerzy. Podbój wschodu, pierwszego tomu serii Joanna Sfara. Twórca słynnego Kota rabina tym razem umieszcza akcję przed II wojną światową w Europie Wschodniej. W brawurowym stylu snuje barwną, zabawną i wzruszającą opowieść o muzykach, którzy wędrują od jednego sztetla do drugiego. Nie bacząc na przeciwności losu, szukają kolejnego wesela, bar micwy bądź zwykłej popijawy, by grać i zarobić trochę grosza.

Sfar czerpiąc z opowiadań Isaaca Bashevisa Singera, żydowskich podań, a także z malarstwa Marca Chagalla, nie tylko odtwarza atmosferę świata, który już nie istnieje, ale także nieustannie zaskakuje. Jego Klezmerzy to komiks jednocześnie zabawny i pełen tragicznych wydarzeń, optymistyczny i smutny, czuły i okrutny. Jest tylko jeden twórca, który z takiej szalonej mozaiki nastrojów jest w stanie stworzyć spójną i wciągającą bez reszty opowieść. Jest nim Joann Sfar.]]> 144 Joann Sfar 8366128210 Anna 0 3.64 2005 Podbój Wschodu (Klezmerzy #1)

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]]> Bolla 58015189
Kosovo is a country on the cusp of a dreadful war. Arsim is twenty-two, newly married, cautious - an Albanian trying to keep his head down and finish his studies in an atmosphere of creeping threat. Until he encounters Milos, a Serb, and begins a life in secret.

Bolla is the story of what happens when passion and history collide - when a relationship, already forbidden and laced with danger, is ripped apart by war and migration, separated by nations and fate.

What happens when you are forced to live a life that is not yours, so far from your desires?

Can the human remain?]]> 240 Pajtim Statovci 0571361331 Anna 0 3.98 2019 Bolla

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]]> Antena 55442787 Antena. Ten poetycki reportaż z ostatnich lat, które dla Ukrainy okazały się bardzo trudne, przynosi niejedno zaskoczenie. Żadan, niegdysiejszy spadkobierca ruchów awangardowych, zmuszony jest przestroić się na nowe częstotliwości i mroczniejsze tonacje. I choć nigdy nie stronił od tematyki społeczno-politycznej i religijnej, to nowa "antena" wyczula jego wrażliwość, a tym samym poezję na wiele mniej oczywistych kwestii.

Książka wydana przy wsparciu programu translatorskiego Translate Ukraine.]]> 70 Serhiy Zhadan 836550281X Anna 0 4.36 2018 Antena

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]]> ��ó��𳦳��첹 60671177 320 Tamara Duda 8378932826 Anna 0 4.48 2019 ��ó��𳦳��첹

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]]> Companion Piece 58511594
It follows the unique achievement of her Seasonal cycle of novels - Autumn, Winter, Spring and Summer - written and published in as close as possible to real time, between 2016 and 2020, absorbing and refracting the times we are living through: the 'state-of-the-nation novels which understand that the nation is you, is me, is all of us' (New Statesman).

'Ali Smith is lighting us a path out of the nightmarish now' Observer]]> 230 Ali Smith 0241541344 Anna 0 3.82 2022 Companion Piece

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]]> <![CDATA[Fruit of Knowledge: The Vulva vs. the Patriarchy]]> 36321848 Dirty Plotte), Alison Bechdel (Dykes to Watch Out For), and Kate Beaton (Hark! A Vagrant), she uses the comics medium to reveal uncomfortable truths about how far we haven’t come.]]> 144 Liv Strömquist 1683961102 Anna 0 4.47 2014 Fruit of Knowledge: The Vulva vs. the Patriarchy

Fruit of Knowledge: The Vulva vs. the Patriarchy

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]]> <![CDATA[Wszystkiego najlepszego, Scyllo (Klezmerzy, #2)]]> 52836818 128 Joann Sfar 8366128229 Anna 0 4.36 2006

Wszystkiego najlepszego, Scyllo (Klezmerzy, #2)

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]]> Klezmerzy 3. Sami złodzieje! 59109301
Twórca słynnego Kota rabina tym razem umieszcza akcję przed II wojną światową w Europie Wschodniej. W brawurowym stylu snuje barwną, zabawną i wzruszającą opowieść o wędrownych muzykach. Nie bacząc na przeciwności losu, szukają kolejnego wesela, bar micwy bądź zwykłej popijawy, by grać i zarobić trochę grosza.

Sfar czerpiąc z opowiadań Isaaca Bashevisa Singera, żydowskich podań, a także z malarstwa Marca Chagalla, nie tylko odtwarza atmosferę świata, który już nie istnieje, ale także nieustannie zaskakuje. Jego Klezmerzy to komiks jednocześnie zabawny i pełen tragicznych wydarzeń, optymistyczny i smutny, czuły i okrutny. Jest tylko jeden twórca, który z takiej szalonej mozaiki nastrojów jest w stanie stworzyć spójną i wciągającą bez reszty opowieść. Jest nim Joann Sfar.]]> 158 Joann Sfar 8366128792 Anna 0 4.18 2007 Klezmerzy 3. Sami złodzieje!

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]]> Lucky Breaks 61129521 197 Yevgenia Belorusets 1782278729 Anna 0 3.19 2019

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]]> Great Circle 55151195 I was born to be a wanderer. I was shaped to the earth like a seabird to a wave

In 1920s Montana, wild-hearted Marian Graves spends her days roaming the rugged forests and mountains of her home. When she witnesses the roll, loop and dive of two barnstorming pilots, she is determined that one day, she too will take to the skies.

In 1940s London, after a series of reckless romances and a spell flying to aid the war effort, Marian embarks on a treacherous, epic flight in search of the freedom she has always craved. She is never seen again.

More than half a century later, Hadley Baxter, a troubled Hollywood starlet beset by scandal, is irresistibly drawn to play Marian Graves in her biopic, a role that will lead her to probe the deepest mysteries of the vanished pilot's life.

GREAT CIRCLE is an enthralling drama of struggle and submission, of scale and intimacy, of lives lived on the edge. At once a love letter to our fragile planet and a story of bending the world to our will, Maggie Shipstead has delivered an epic of extraordinary depth and beauty that marks her as one of the greatest storytellers of our time.
__________________________________________

Praise for Maggie Shipstead:

'Outrageously gifted' RICHARD RUSSO
'Ferociously clever' GUARDIAN
''Graceful and dazzling' MARIA SEMPLE
'Joyously good' DAILY MAIL
'impressive' JEFFREY EUGENIDES]]> 602 Maggie Shipstead 0857526804 Anna 0 4.11 2021 Great Circle

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]]> Phenotypes 57443695
As Federico’s fiftieth birthday looms, he joins a governmental committee in the capital. It is tasked with quelling the increasingly violent student protests rocking Brazil by overseeing the design of a piece of software that will adjudicate the degree to which each university applicant is sufficiently black to warrant admittance under new affirmative-action quotas. Before he can come to grips with his feelings about this initiative, not to mention a budding romance with one of his committee colleagues, Federico is called home: his niece has just been arrested at a protest carrying a concealed gun. And not just any gun. A stolen police service revolver that he and Lorenço hid for a friend decades before. A gun used in a killing.

Paulo Scott here probes the old wounds of race in Brazil, and in particular the loss of a black identity independent from the history of slavery. Exploratory rather than didactic, a story of crime, street-life and regret as much as a satirical novel of ideas, Phenotypes is a seething masterpiece of rage and reconciliation.]]> 232 Paulo Scott 1913505189 Anna 0 3.56 2019

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]]> Spit Three Times 50094723
Near Guido live the Stancic, a family of Romani who escaped the communist regime of Marshal Tito and settled there just after World War II. Running parallel to the protagonist's coming-of-age is the evolving relationship that the rural town has with this group of outsiders. The author is unsparing in his depiction of the townspeople's cruelty: there is a whole catalogue of ways in which Romani people are scapegoated and made victims of the most absurd prejudice. And yet, there are also many instances of solidarity between Guido's community and the Stancic.

Spit Three Times is unlike any conventional graphic novel. Its language is more poetic than narrative. The dialogue is deeply suggestive and fraught with resonances and multiple meanings. Add to this the beautiful artwork and its every page is lyrical and moving. Reviati's first book in English, Spit Three Times is an extraordinary story of young men, disillusioned and trying to find their way, caught in the breach between post-war exuberance and the stagnation of the early 21st century.]]> 568 Davide Reviati 1609809092 Anna 0 3.70 2016 Spit Three Times

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]]> Heaven 56927764 From the bestselling author of Breasts and Eggs and international literary sensation Mieko Kawakami, comes a sharp and illuminating novel about a fourteen-year-old boy subjected to relentless bullying.

In Heaven, a fourteen-year old boy is tormented for having a lazy eye. Instead of resisting, he chooses to suffer in silence. The only person who understands what he is going through is a female classmate, Kojima, who experiences similar treatment at the hands of her bullies. Providing each other with immeasurable consolation at a time in their lives when they need it most, the two young friends grow closer than ever. But what, ultimately, is the nature of a friendship when your shared bond is terror?

Unflinching yet tender, sharply observed, intimate and multi-layered, this simple yet profound novel stands as yet another dazzling testament to Mieko Kawakami’s uncontainable talent. There can be little doubt that it has cemented her reputation as one of the most important young authors at work today.]]> 167 Mieko Kawakami 1509898247 Anna 0 3.74 2009 Heaven

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]]> Life Without Air 55584643
Both compassionate and ecologically nuanced, this innovative collection bridges poetry and prose to interrogate the conditions necessary for survival.

Daisy Lafarge was born in Hastings and studied at the University of Edinburgh. Her debut novel, Paul, is forthcoming from Granta Books. She has published two pamphlets of poetry: understudies for air (Sad Press, 2017) and capriccio (SPAM Press, 2019), and her visual work has been exhibited in galleries such as Tate St. Ives and Talbot Rice Gallery. She has received an Eric Gregory Award and a Betty Trask Award, and was runner-up in the 2018 Edwin Morgan Poetry Award. Daisy is currently working on - a book about infection and intimacy - for a practice-based PhD at the University of Glasgow. Life Without Air is her first collection of poetry.]]> 89 Daisy Lafarge Anna 0 4.07 2020

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]]> Absolute Zero 53320213 208 Artem Chekh 1912894688 Anna 0 3.97 2017

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]]> Garage Band 650722 114 Gipi 1596432063 Anna 0 3.41 2005

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]]> Porodzina 62100455
Na przedmieściach średniej wielkości miasta w centralnej Polsce mieszkają rodziny do bólu zwyczajne, chociaż i tutaj trafiają się niekiedy barwne osobowości.

Rodzina Waszczyńskich jest idealna. Młode małżeństwo z dwójką dzieci jest niczym wycięte z folderu reklamowego. Są piękni, zamożni, lubiani i szanowani przez sąsiadów.

Pewnego dnia cała rodzina znika bez śladu.

Nic nie wskazuje na to, by małżeństwo planowało wyjazd. Dom wygląda, jakby mieszkańcy opuścili go jedynie na chwilę. Nikt z sąsiadów nie zauważył niczego podejrzanego, a duszna małomiasteczkowa atmosfera nie ułatwia śledztwa.

Jak to możliwe, że czteroosobowa rodzina rozpłynęła się w powietrzu?

Jakie sekrety kryją się za drzwiami zwyczajnych podmiejskich domów?]]> 300 Natalia Fiedorczuk 8382511929 Anna 0 3.31 2022 Porodzina

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]]> ��ǻ�Ƿ�ó�� 34374826
Ester Kreitman w swoich opowiadaniach odwołuje się do wątków autobiograficznych, które umożliwiają poznanie rodziny Singerów z kobiecej perspektywy. Mimo tego, że to Ester pierwsza w rodzinie zaczęła pisać, dorastała w cieniu młodszych braci. Marzyła o studiach, ale to synów rodzina postanowiła wykształcić. Czasy, w których żyła oraz obowiązujące wówczas normy społeczne nie sprzyjały rozkwitowi jej kariery.

�� Rodzina Singerów to nie tylko dwóch utalentowanych braci. W trakcie moich lektur i poszukiwań przekonałam się, że jest to także rodzina, z której pochodzą niezwykłe kobiety. (��) Choć Ester Kreitman nie może się już cieszyć z tego, jakie zainteresowanie wzbudzają na nowo jej utwory w wielu krajach, postanowiłam zawalczyć o nią i w jej imieniu, nie tylko w obronie dobrej literatury, ale też w obronie kobiety, która nie doczekała się uznania, na które zasługuje �� pisze w przedmowie do książki tłumaczka Natalia Moskal, która zafascynowana twórczością Ester Kreitman, doprowadziła do wydania „Rodowodu�� na polskim rynku.]]> 189 Esther Singer Kreitman 8365444054 Anna 0 3.62 1950 ��ǻ�Ƿ�ó��

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]]> Fault Lines 58170287
One rainy night, she meets Kiyoshi. In him, she rediscovers freedom, friendship, a voice, and the neon, electric pulse of the city she has always loved. But the further she falls into their relationship, the clearer it becomes that she is living two lives - and in the end, we can choose only one.]]> 224 Emily Itami Anna 0 3.98 2021 Fault Lines

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]]> ��ŧ 59582161 WINNER OF THE JANN MEDLICOTT ACORN PRIZE FOR FICTION
WINNER OF THE MITOQ BEST FIRST BOOK OF FICTION
WINNER OF THE NGAIO MARSH AWARD FOR BEST CRIME NOVEL

��ŧ

1. (verb) to cry, howl, groan, wail, bawl.
2. (interjection) expression of astonishment or distress.

Taukiri was born into sorrow. ��ŧ can be heard in the sound of the sea he loves and hates, and in the music he draws out of the guitar that was his father’s. It spills out of the gang violence that killed his father and sent his mother into hiding, and the shame he feels about abandoning his eight-year-old brother to a violent home.

But Taukiri’s brother, Arama, is braver than he looks, and he has a friend, and his friend has a dog, and the three of them together might just be strong enough to turn back the tide of sadness.

This bestselling multi-award–winning novel is both raw and sublime, introducing a compelling new voice in New Zealand fiction.]]> 336 Becky Manawatu 1922585297 Anna 0 4.07 2019 ��ŧ

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]]> Stone Blind: Medusa's Story 60445291 'There is one question that devours me still. Why didn’t I close my eyes?'

Medusa is the only mortal in a family of gods. Growing up with her sisters, she quickly realizes that she is the only one who gets older, experiences change, feels weakness. Her mortal lifespan gives her an urgency that her family will never know.

When desire pushes a God to commit the unforgivable, Medusa’s mortal life is changed forever. Her punishment is to be turned into a Gorgon: sharp teeth, snakes for hair, and a gaze that will turn any living creature to stone. Appalled by her own reflection, Medusa can no longer look upon anything she loves without destroying it. She condemns herself to a life of solitude in the shadows to limit her murderous range.

That is, until Perseus embarks upon a fateful quest to fetch the head of a Gorgon . . .

This is the story of how a young woman became a monster. And how she was never really a monster at all.]]> 371 Natalie Haynes 1529061474 Anna 0 3.88 2022 Stone Blind: Medusa's Story

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]]> Lesie, ojcze mój 18746468 92 Papusza 8362795239 Anna 0 4.37 1990

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]]> A Blood Condition 53328331 A Blood Condition is one of the most arresting and beautiful set of poems of this or any year" Guardian, Books of the Year 2021

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA POETRY AWARD
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE T.S. ELIOT PRIZE*
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION

The moving, expansive, and dazzling second collection from award-winning poet Kayo Chingonyi

Kayo Chingonyi's remarkable second collection follows the course of a 'blood condition' as it finds its way to deeply personal grounds. From the banks of the Zambezi river to London and Leeds, these poems speak to how distance and time, nations and history, can collapse within a body.

With astonishing lyricism and musicality, this is a story of multiple inheritances -- of grief and survival, renewal and the painful process of letting go -- and a hymn to the people and places that run in our blood.]]> 80 Kayo Chingonyi 1784743909 Anna 0 3.96 2021 A Blood Condition

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]]> Clementine: Book One 58510980 Acclaimed author Tillie Walden enters the world of Robert Kirkman's THE WALKING DEAD as 17-year-old Clementine must learn the difference between living and surviving in this intimate, coming-of-age YA graphic novel trilogy.

FROM THE WORLD OF ROBERT KIRKMAN'S THE WALKING DEAD...
...CLEMENTINE LIVES!

Clementine is back on the road, looking to put her traumatic past behind her and forge new path all her own.

But when she comes across an Amish teenager named Amos with his head in the clouds, the unlikely pair journeys North to an abandoned ski resort in Vermont, where they meet up with a small group of teenagers attempting to build a new, walker-free settlement.

As friendship, rivalry, and romance begin to blossom amongst the group, the harsh winter soon reveals that the biggest threat to their survival...might be each other.

A coming-of-age tale of survival written and illustrated by two-time Eisner award-winner Tillie Walden (Spinning, On a Sunbeam).]]> 259 Tillie Walden Anna 0 3.56 2022 Clementine: Book One

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]]> Clap When You Land 52516332 In a novel-in-verse that brims with grief and love, National Book Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Acevedo writes about the devastation of loss, the difficulty of forgiveness, and the bittersweet bonds that shape our lives.

Camino Rios lives for the summers when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this time, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people��

In New York City, Yahaira Rios is called to the principal’s office, where her mother is waiting to tell her that her father, her hero, has died in a plane crash.

Separated by distance—and Papi’s secrets—the two girls are forced to face a new reality in which their father is dead and their lives are forever altered.

And then, when it seems like they’ve lost everything of their father, they learn of each other.]]> 432 Elizabeth Acevedo 0062882767 Anna 0 4.22 2020 Clap When You Land

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]]> The Birdcatcher 63220890
Gayl Jones has been described as one of the great literary writers of the 20th century. Now, for the first time in over 20 years, Jones is publishing again. In the wake of her long-awaited fifth novel, Palmares, The Birdcatcher is another singular achievement, a return to the worlds of her National Book Award finalist, The Healing.

Set in the 1970’s, the story is narrated by the writer Amanda Wordlaw, whose closest friend, a gifted sculptor named Catherine Shuger, is repeatedly institutionalized for trying to kill a husband who never leaves her. The three form a quirky triangle on the white-washed island of Ibiza.

A study in Black women’s creative expression, this latest work from Jones shows off her range and insight into the vicissitudes of all human nature - rewarding longtime fans and bringing her talent to a new generation of readers.]]> 218 Gayl Jones 0349016844 Anna 0 3.00 2022 The Birdcatcher

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]]> <![CDATA[Place Bewitched and Other Stories]]> 57845083
A wounded solider vanishes into notoriety.
A nose is found in a loaf of bread.
Places�� like the Nevesky Prospect�� are not what they seem.

Nikolai Gogol was one of the nineteenth century’s greatest and most influential Russian writers, a realist whose acerbic observations and taste for the absurd give his writing its strange, comic voice.

In this edition of A Place Bewitched and Other Stories , Natasha Randall presents a new, curated collection of Gogol’s short fiction, selected from the work of Constance Garnett, one of Gogol’s earliest translators. Randall has lightly revised Garnett’s essential translations and frames the collection with a new foreword. Full of the wit of Gogol’s work, this edition is the perfect introduction to a great writer and a must for the enthusiast.]]> 336 Nikolai Gogol 0374231478 Anna 0 3.68 Place Bewitched and Other Stories

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]]> ��á�ٲ� 60054154 W świecie, w którym przestraszeni i przestraszone widmem nadchodzącej katastrofy ekologicznej próbujemy ponownie, często niezdarnie nawiązać więź z naturą, Denisa Fulmeková przynosi nam opowieść z naszego słowiańskiego podwórka: z czasów, gdy kobiety praktykujące ziołolecznictwo, przygotowujące zdrowotne nalewki i napary, lub po prostu niezamężne były surowo dyscyplinowane i okrutnie karane.
Rozgrywająca się w XVII wieku powieść porusza wciąż aktualne kwestie lęku przed kobietami, ich siłą, wiedzą i samodzielnością. Oszczędna w środkach ��á�ٲ� to smutna i przerażająca historia ubogiej kobiety skazanej na śmierć „za czary��. Opowieść, która, pomimo tragicznego zakończenia, niesie jednak pewną nadzieję na wygraną w walce o prawo do naszego ciała i życia. Wystarczy, że nie pozwolimy sobie zapomnieć, cytując hasła z feministycznych transparentów, że to my jesteśmy wnuczkami tych wiedźm, których nie zdołaliście spalić.]]> 168 Denisa Fulmeková 8366505359 Anna 0 3.59 2020 ��á�ٲ�

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]]> The Manningtree Witches 59520676
In Manningtree, depleted of men since the wars began, the women are left to their own devices. At the margins of this diminished community are those who are barely tolerated by the affluent villagers - the old, the poor, the unmarried, the sharp-tongued. Rebecca West, daughter of the formidable Beldam West, fatherless and husbandless, chafes against the drudgery of her days, livened only by her infatuation with the clerk John Edes. But then newcomer Matthew Hopkins, a mysterious, pious figure dressed from head to toe in black, takes over The Thorn Inn and begins to ask questions about the women of the margins. When a child falls ill with a fever and starts to rave about covens and pacts, the questions take on a bladed edge.

The Manningtree Witches plunges its readers into the fever and menace of the English witch trials, where suspicion, mistrust and betrayal ran amok as the power of men went unchecked and the integrity of women went undefended. It is a visceral, thrilling book that announces a bold new talent.]]> 295 A.K. Blakemore 1783786442 Anna 0 3.66 2021 The Manningtree Witches

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]]> Briefly, A Delicious Life 60089777
In 1473, fourteen-year-old Blanca dies in a hilltop monastery in Mallorca. Nearly four hundred years later, when George Sand, her two children, and her lover Frederic Chopin arrive in the village, Blanca is still there: a spirited, funny, righteous ghost, she’s been hanging around the monastery since her accidental death, spying on the monks and the townspeople and keeping track of her descendants.

Blanca is enchanted the moment she sees George, and the magical novel unfolds as a story of deeply felt, unrequited longing—a teenage ghost pining for a woman who can’t see her and doesn’t know she exists. As George and Chopin, who wear their unconventionality, in George’s case, literally on their sleeves, find themselves in deepening trouble with the provincial, 19th-century villagers, Blanca watches helplessly and reflects on the circumstances of her own death (which involved an ill-advised love affair with a monk-in-training).

Charming, original, and emotionally moving -- gorgeous and surprising exploration of artistry, desire, and life after death.]]> 336 Nell Stevens 1529083427 Anna 0 3.74 2022 Briefly, A Delicious Life

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]]> Tunnels 54785572 A race for the Ark of the Covenant finds an exploration into the ethics and world of the international antiquity trade

When a great antiquities collector is forced to donate his entire collection to the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Nili Broshi sees her last chance to finish an archaeological expedition begun decades earlier—a dig that could possibly yield the most important religious artifact in the Middle East. Motivated by the desire to reinstate her father’s legacy as a great archaeologist after he was marginalized by his rival, Nili enlists a ragtag crew—a religious nationalist and his band of hilltop youths, her traitorous brother, and her childhood Palestinian friend, now an archaeological smuggler. As Nili’s father slips deeper into dementia, warring factions close in on and fight over the Ark of the Covenant!

Backed by extensive research into this real-world treasure hunt, Rutu Modan sets her affecting novel at the center of a political crisis. She posits that the history of biblical Israel lies in one of the most disputed regions in the world, occupied by Israel and contested by Palestine. Often in direct competition, Palestinians and Israelis dig alongside one another, hoping to find the sacred artifact believed to be a conduit to God. Two time Eisner Award winner Rutu Modan’s third graphic novel, Tunnels, is her deepest and wildest yet. Potent and funny, Modan reveals the Middle East as no westerner could.]]> 284 Rutu Modan 1770464662 Anna 0 3.76 2020 Tunnels

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]]> <![CDATA[The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone]]> 33469012
When Olivia Laing moved to New York City in her mid-thirties, she found herself inhabiting loneliness on a daily basis. Increasingly fascinated by this most shameful of experiences, she began to explore the lonely city by way of art. Moving fluidly between works and lives -- from Edward Hopper's Nighthawks to Andy Warhol's Time Capsules, from Henry Darger's hoarding to the depredations of the AIDS crisis -- Laing conducts an electric, dazzling investigation into what it means to be alone, illuminating not only the causes of loneliness but also how it might be resisted and redeemed.]]> 315 Olivia Laing 1782111255 Anna 0 4.05 2016 The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone

The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone

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]]> Exit Wounds 535578
Exit Wounds is the North American graphic-novel debut from one of Israel’s best-known cartoonists. Modan has received several awards in Israel and abroad, including the Best Illustrated Children’s Book Award from the Israel Museum in Jerusalem four times and Young Artist of the Year by the Israel Ministry of Culture. She is a chosen artist of the Israel Cultural Excellence Foundation.]]> 168 Rutu Modan 1897299060 Anna 0 3.60 2006 Exit Wounds

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]]> Przemieszczenie 61047366
Przemieszczenie to historia Darii Kowalenko Petrowej, która wyemigrowała z rodzicami z Mariupola w Ukrainie do Hiszpanii. To opowieść o współczesnej miłości, problemach ekonomicznych, rodzinie naznaczonej emigracją, a zarazem świadectwo pokolenia, które żyje w trwałym kryzysie. To także historia dwóch rozczarowań �� Związkiem Radzieckim w XX wieku i społeczeństwem Zachodu w wieku XXI.

U Margaryty Jakowenko, hiszpańskiej pisarki ukraińskiego pochodzenia, można odnaleźć ślady prozy Zadie Smith, tekstów Anne Carson czy reportaży Swietłany Aleksijewicz, ale jej debiut wyróżnia przede wszystkim umiejętność wplecenia osobistej historii w złożony społeczno-polityczny krajobraz, a także wyjątkowa narratorka, która potrafi ująć czytelnika zarówno swą delikatnością, jak i siłą.]]> Margaryta Yakovenko 8396481253 Anna 0 4.05 2020 Przemieszczenie

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]]> The Swimmers 58468797 176 Otsuka Julie 0241543886 Anna 0 3.76 2022

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]]> Treacle Walker 58205835 Treacle Walker is a stunning fusion of myth and folklore and an exploration of the fluidity of time, vivid storytelling that brilliantly illuminates an introspective young mind trying to make sense of everything around him.

'Ragbone! Ragbone! Any rags! Pots for rags! Donkey stone!'

Joe looked up from his comic and lifted his eye patch. There was a white pony in the yard. It was harnessed to a cart, a flat cart, with a wooden chest on it. A man was sitting at a front corner of the cart, holding the reins. His face was creased. He wore a long coat and a floppy high-crowned hat, with hair straggling beneath, and a leather bag was slung from his shoulder across his hip.

Joe Coppock squints at the world with his lazy eye. He reads his comics, collects birds' eggs and treasures his marbles, particularly his prized dobbers. When Treacle Walker appears off the Cheshire moor one day - a wanderer, a healer - an unlikely friendship is forged and the young boy is introduced to a world he could never have imagined.]]> 152 Alan Garner 0008477795 Anna 0 3.10 2021 Treacle Walker

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]]> Notes for a War Story 666976
So recounts Giuliano, a loner among outsiders, one of three young drifters caught up in the whirlwind of a war in the Balkans. The three boys are like passing shadows; they live in abandoned houses, dodge the occasional bomb, and steal car parts for money. Meeting Felix—a powerful, fast-talking mercenary—changes everything for them. Felix is an expert manipulator; he speaks to their ambition and to their desires for power, wealth, and purpose. They're instantly hooked, especially the trio's unofficial leader, Stefano, and they soon escalate from petty crime to working on behalf of a mafia-style militia, bullying and extorting money in Felix's name. But as Giuliano comes to realize, they don't know what they're fighting for—if they're even fighting for anything.

Notes for a War Story is an astonishing look at life in a lawless, war-torn nation, heightened by the harsh, moving, pencil and watercolor artwork of Italy's best graphic novel author.]]> 128 Gipi 1596432616 Anna 0 3.90 2004 Notes for a War Story

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]]> Where You Come From 57356554 A story of family, immigration and belonging from the international bestseller and German Book Prize winner.

You find yourself in the strange, dimly lit cave of time. One passageway curves downward, the other leads upward. It occurs to you that the one leading down may go to the past and the one leading up may go to the future. Which one do you decide to take?

Saša Stanišic's Where You Come From is a novel about a village where only thirteen people remain, a country that no longer exists, a shattered family that is his own. Blending autofiction, fable, and choose-your-own-adventure, Stanišic explores a family's escape during the conflict in Yugoslavia, and the years that followed as they built a life in Germany. He examines what it means to learn a new language, to find new friends and new jobs, to build an identity between countries and cultures.

Translated by Damion Searls, Where You Come From is about homelands, both remembered and imagined. A book that bends form and genre with wit, heart, and exceptional craftsmanship to explore questions that lie inside all of us: about language and shame, about arrival and making it just in time, about luck and death, about what role our origins and memories play in our lives.]]> 368 Saša Stanišić 1473581982 Anna 0 4.06 2019 Where You Come From

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]]> One Two Three 42346406 In a town where nothing ever changes, suddenly everything does...

Everyone knows everyone in the tiny town of Bourne, but the Mitchell triplets are especially beloved. Mirabel is the smartest person anyone knows, and no one doubts it just because she can’t speak. Monday is the town’s purveyor of books now that the library’s closed―tell her the book you think you want, and she’ll pull the one you actually do from the microwave or her sock drawer. Mab’s job is hardest of all: get good grades, get into college, get out of Bourne.

For a few weeks seventeen years ago, Bourne was national news when its water turned green. The girls have come of age watching their mother’s endless fight for justice. But just when it seems life might go on the same forever, the first moving truck anyone’s seen in years pulls up and unloads new residents and old secrets. Soon, the Mitchell sisters are taking on a system stacked against them and uncovering mysteries buried longer than they’ve been alive. Because it's hard to let go of the past when the past won't let go of you.

Three unforgettable narrators join together here to tell a spellbinding story with wit, wonder, and deep affection. As she did in This Is How It Always Is, Laurie Frankel has written a laugh-out-loud-on-one-page-grab-a-tissue-the-next novel, as only she can, about how expanding our notions of normal makes the world a better place for everyone and how when days are darkest, it’s our daughters who will save us all.]]> 416 Laurie Frankel 1250236770 Anna 0 3.85 2021 One Two Three

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]]> The Trees 56269278 309 Percival Everett 164445064X Anna 0 4.06 2021

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]]> The Fell 57676664
But Kate's neighbour Alice sees her leaving and Matt, Kate's son, soon realizes she's missing. And Kate, who planned only a quick solitary walk - a breath of open air - falls and badly injures herself. What began as a furtive walk has turned into a mountain rescue operation . . .

Unbearably suspenseful, witty and wise, The Fell asks probing questions about the place the world has become since March 2020, and the place it was before. Sarah Moss's novel is a story about compassion and kindness and what we must do to survive, and it will move you to tears.]]> 192 Sarah Moss 1529083222 Anna 0 3.73 2021 The Fell

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]]> <![CDATA[Time on Rock: A Climber's Route into the Mountains]]> 58978033 Time on Rock Anna Fleming charts two parallel journeys: learning the craft of traditional rock climbing, and the new developing appreciation of the natural world it brings her. Through the story of her progress from terrified beginner to confident lead climber she shows us how placing hand and foot on rock becomes a profound new way into the landscape.

Anna takes us from the gritstone rocks of the Peak District and Yorkshire to the gabbro pinnacles of the Cullin, the slate of North Wales and the high plateau of the Cairngorms. Each landscape, and each type of rock, brings its own challenges and unique pleasures. She also shows us how climbing invites us into the history of a place: geologically, of course, but also culturally.

This book is Anna's journey of self-discovery, but it is also a guide to losing oneself in the greater majesty of the natural world. With great lyricism she explores how it feels to climb as a woman, about the pleasures of the physical demands of climbing, about fear and challenge, but more than anything it is about a joyful connection to the mountains.]]> 260 Anna Fleming 1838851763 Anna 0 3.90 2022 Time on Rock: A Climber's Route into the Mountains

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]]> Nick Cave: Mercy on Me 34227681 327 Reinhard Kleist 1910593362 Anna 0 4.03 2016

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]]> Oh William! (Amgash, #3) 56776792 256 Strout Elizabeth 0241508177 Anna 0 3.95 2021

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]]> Mars 40093244 167 Asja Bakić 1936932482 Anna 0 3.86 2015 Mars

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]]> Milk Fed 54304105 The Pisces and So Sad Today.

Rachel is twenty-four, a lapsed Jew who has made calorie restriction her religion. By day, she maintains an illusion of existential control, by way of obsessive food rituals, while working as an underling at a Los Angeles talent management agency. At night, she pedals nowhere on the elliptical machine. Rachel is content to carry on subsisting—until her therapist encourages her to take a ninety-day communication detox from her mother, who raised her in the tradition of calorie counting.

Early in the detox, Rachel meets Miriam, a zaftig young Orthodox Jewish woman who works at her favorite frozen yogurt shop and is intent upon feeding her. Rachel is suddenly and powerfully entranced by Miriam—by her sundaes and her body, her faith and her family—and as the two grow closer, Rachel embarks on a journey marked by mirrors, mysticism, mothers, milk, and honey.

Pairing superlative emotional insight with unabashed vivid fantasy, Broder tells a tale of appetites: physical hunger, sexual desire, spiritual longing, and the ways that we as humans can compartmentalize these so often interdependent instincts. Milk Fed is a tender and riotously funny meditation on love, certitude, and the question of what we are all being fed, from one of our major writers on the psyche—both sacred and profane.]]> 304 Melissa Broder 1982142499 Anna 0 3.56 2021 Milk Fed

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]]> Glory 57951400 403 NoViolet Bulawayo 1784744298 Anna 0 3.64 2022 Glory

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]]> Ducks, Newburyport 52252839
A scorching indictment of America’s barbarity, past and present, and a lament for the way we are sleepwalking into environmental disaster, Ducks, Newburyport is a heresy, a wonder—and a revolution in the novel.

It’s also very, very funny.]]> 1030 Lucy Ellmann 1913111989 Anna 0 4.33 2019

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]]> After Sappho 59736782 “What did we want? To begin with, we wanted what half the population had got by just being born.��

IT’S 1895. Amid laundry and bruises, Rina Pierangeli Faccio gives birth to the child of the man who raped her �� and who she has also been forced to marry. Unbroken, she determines to change her name; and her life, alongside it.

1902. Romaine Brooks sails for Capri. She has barely enough money for the ferry, nothing for lunch; her paintbrushes are bald and clotted�� But she is sure she can sell a painting �� and is fervent in her belief that the island is detached from all fates she has previously suffered.

�� In 1923, Virginia Woolf writes: I want to make life fuller �� and fuller.

Told in a series of cascading vignettes, featuring a multitude of voices, After Sappho is Selby Wynn Schwartz’s joyous reimagining of the lives of a brilliant group of feminists, sapphists, artists and writers in the late 19th and early 20th century as they battle for control over their lives; for liberation and for justice.

Sarah Bernhard �� Colette �� Eleanora Duse �� Lina Poletti �� Josephine Baker �� Virginia Woolf�� these are just a few of the women (some famous, others hitherto unsung) sharing the pages of a novel as fierce as it is luminous. Lush and poetic; furious and funny; in After Sappho, Selby Wynn Schwartz has created a novel that celebrates the women and trailblazers of the past �� and also offers hope for our present, and our futures.]]> 288 Selby Wynn Schwartz 1913111245 Anna 0 3.70 2022 After Sappho

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]]> <![CDATA[The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida]]> 57224204
Ten years after his prize-winning novel Chinaman established him as one of Sri Lanka’s foremost authors, Shehan Karunatilaka is back with a “thrilling satire�� (Economist) and rip-roaring state-of-the-nation epic that offers equal parts mordant wit and disturbing, profound truths.]]> 386 Shehan Karunatilaka 1908745908 Anna 0 3.89 2022 The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

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]]> <![CDATA[Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood]]> 29780253
Trevor Noah’s unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishable by five years in prison. Living proof of his parents�� indiscretion, Trevor was kept mostly indoors for the earliest years of his life, bound by the extreme and often absurd measures his mother took to hide him from a government that could, at any moment, steal him away. Finally liberated by the end of South Africa’s tyrannical white rule, Trevor and his mother set forth on a grand adventure, living openly and freely and embracing the opportunities won by a centuries-long struggle.

Born a Crime is the story of a mischievous young boy who grows into a restless young man as he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist. It is also the story of that young man’s relationship with his fearless, rebellious, and fervently religious mother—his teammate, a woman determined to save her son from the cycle of poverty, violence, and abuse that would ultimately threaten her own life.]]> 289 Trevor Noah 0385689225 Anna 0 4.48 2016 Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood

Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood

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]]> Julia and the Shark 57951862 The shark was beneath my bed, growing large as the room, large as the lighthouse, rising from unfathomable depths until it ripped the whole island from its roots. The bed was a boat, the shark a tide, and it pulled me so far out to sea I was only a speck, a spot, a mote, a dying star in an unending sky��

Julia has followed her mum and dad to live on a remote island for the summer �� her dad, for work; her mother, on a determined mission to find the elusive Greenland shark. But when her mother’s obsession threatens to submerge them all, Julia finds herself on an adventure with dark depths and a lighthouse full of hope��

A beautiful, lyrical, uplifting story about a mother, a daughter, and love �� with timely themes of the importance of science and the environment.]]> 204 Kiran Millwood Hargrave 1510107789 Anna 0 4.33 2021 Julia and the Shark

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]]> The Summer We Turned Green 58086437
Luke is determined to save his dad, his sister AND his summer. So how does he find himself at the top of a tree refusing to leave until the bulldozers stand down?]]> 333 William Sutcliffe 1526632853 Anna 0 3.86 2023 The Summer We Turned Green

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]]> Small Things Like These 56943582
Small Things Like These is an unforgettable story of hope, quiet heroism and tenderness.]]> 116 Claire Keegan 0571368689 Anna 0 4.21 2021

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]]> <![CDATA[You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty]]> 58992374
Feyi is about to be given the chance to escape the City's blistering heat for a dream island holiday: poolside cocktails, beach sunsets, and elaborate meals. And as the sun goes down on her old life our heroine also might just be ready to open her heart to someone new.

The only problem is, she's falling for the one man she absolutely can't have.]]> 288 Akwaeke Emezi 057137266X Anna 0 3.47 2022 You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty

You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty

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]]> The Instant 58706211
Over the course of a year Amy makes space for something to happen, hoping for the unexpected. And it comes with an erotic jolt, in the form of a love affair that obsesses her.

The Instant is a frank and luscious look at the addictive power of love and lust. It is also an exploration of the cycles of the moon, the flight paths of migratory birds, the mesmerising power of Neolithic stonework and the trails followed behind by a generation who exist online.]]> 180 Amy Liptrot 1838854266 Anna 0 3.62 2022 The Instant

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]]> <![CDATA[Soundings: Journeys in the Company of Whales]]> 58674409 In this lyrical memoir of motherhood, love, and resilience, a woman and her toddler son follow the grey whale migration from Mexico to northernmost Alaska.

In this blend of nature writing, whale science, and memoir, Doreen Cunningham interweaves two stories: tracking the extraordinary northward migration of the grey whales with a mischievous toddler in tow and living with an Iñupiaq family in Alaska seven years earlier.

A story of courage and resilience, Soundings is about the migrating whales and all we can learn from them as they mother, adapt, and endure, their lives interrupted and threatened by global warming. It is also a riveting journey onto the Arctic Sea ice and into the changing world of Indigenous whale hunters, where Doreen becomes immersed in the ancient values of the Iñupiaq whale hunt and falls in love. Big-hearted, brave, and fearlessly honest, Soundings is an unforgettable journey.]]> 288 Doreen Cunningham 0349014957 Anna 0 4.12 2022 Soundings: Journeys in the Company of Whales

Soundings: Journeys in the Company of Whales

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]]> Our Wives Under the Sea 58659343
Moving through something that only resembles normal life, Miri comes to realize that the life that they had before might be gone. Though Leah is still there, Miri can feel the woman she loves slipping from her grasp.

Our Wives Under The Sea is the debut novel from Julia Armfield, the critically acclaimed author of Salt Slow. It’s a story of falling in love, loss, grief, and what life there is in the deep deep sea.]]> 240 Julia Armfield 152901722X Anna 0 3.75 2022 Our Wives Under the Sea

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]]> <![CDATA[Red Rosa: A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg]]> 25387808
This beautifully drawn graphic life gives “Red Rosa�� her due as an iconic radical, but also portrays a fascinating woman with a rich love life, struggles with physical disability and an abiding love of literature and theater. Rosa will contribute to the growing understanding of one of the twentieth century’s greatest revolutionaries.]]> 220 Kate Evans 1784780995 Anna 0 4.17 2015 Red Rosa: A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg

Red Rosa: A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg

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