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Call Me by Your Name is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents' cliffside mansion on the Italian Riviera. During the restless summer weeks, unrelenting but buried currents of obsession, fascination, and desire intensify their passion as they test the charged ground between them and verge toward the one thing both already fear they may never truly find again: total intimacy. André Aciman's critically acclaimed debut novel is a frank, unsentimental, heartrending elegy to human passion.
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Alan Hollinghurst
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Pan
Macmillan
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Omes
The Line Of Beauty
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This book could be a good read for anyone interested in exploring the complexities of gay life in 1980s London. With its gripping storyline and psychological depth, it vividly portrays the intertwining themes of class, family, society, politics, and sexuality. Dive into this remarkable work of fiction that challenges stereotypes and delves into the darker and more alluring aspects of an intriguing era.
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This book could be a good read for anyone who loves poetry and is open to exploring the beauty and fluidity of language. Parsetreeforestfire breaks free from the conventional idea of language learning books and offers a unique perspective by blending Singlish and English poems. It challenges readers to delve into the intense attention to language and invites them to question the boundaries of language itself. If you're looking for an unconventional and thought-provoking poetic experience, this book is for you.
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A daring, deeply affecting third novel by the author of A Home at the End of the World and Flesh and Blood. In The Hours, Michael Cunningham, widely praised as one of the most gifted writers of his generation, draws inventively on the life and work of Virginia Woolf to tell the story of a group of contemporary characters struggling with the conflicting claims of love and inheritance, hope and despair. The narrative of Woolf's last days before her suicide early in World War II counterpoints the fictional stories of Samuel, a famous poet whose life has been shadowed by his talented and troubled mother, and his lifelong friend Clarissa, who strives to forge a balanced and rewarding life in spite of the demands of friends, lovers, and family. Passionate, profound, and deeply moving, this is Cunningham's most remarkable achievement to date.
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Bella Pollen
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Pan
Macmillan
Daydream Girl
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Daydream Girl could be a great read for anyone who enjoys romantic comedies and appreciates the quirks of independent cinemas. The witty humor and relatable characters make for an engaging and fun read, while also touching on themes of family and finding oneself. Fans of light-hearted escapist literature with a dose of realism will appreciate this book.
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Siegfried Sassoon, who lived through World War One and who died in 1967, was, as the introduction to this book tells us, irritated in his later years at always being thought of as a "war poet". Understandable perhaps from the point of view of the poet: readers on the other hand might wish to demur. The poems gathered here and chronologically ordered, thereby tracing the course of the war, are an extraordinary testimony to the almost unimaginable experiences of a combatant in that bitter conflict. Moving from the patriotic optimism of the first few poems (" ... fighting for our freedom, we are free") to the anguish and anger of the later work (where "hope, with furtive eyes and grappling fists / Flounders in mud ... "), there comes a point when the reality of trench-warfare and its aftershocks move beyond comprehension: Sassoon knows this, and it becomes a powerful element in his art. As a book, the images have a cumulative relentlessness that make it almost impossible to read more than a few poems in one sitting. Unlike the avant-garde experiments developing in Europe in the first decades of this century, Sassoon's verse is formally conservative--but this was perhaps necessary, for as one reads the poems, one feels that the form, the classically inflected tropes, the metre and rhyme, apart from ironising the rhetoric of glory and battle were necessary techniques for containing the emotion (and indeed, a tone of barely controlled irony may have been the only means by which these angry observations would have been considered publishable at the time). When Sassoon's line begins to fragment, as it does in several of the later poems, it is under the extreme pressure to express the inexpressible. Compassion and sympathy are omnipresent here, in their full etymological sense of suffering with or alongside others--something the higher echelons of command (those " ... old men who died / Slow, natural deaths--old men with ugly souls") were never able or willing to contemplate. But Sassoon intuited the future of warfare, could sense that this was not "the war to end all wars": the mock-religious invocation of the final poem prefigures the vicious euphemisms of more recent conflicts: "Grant us the power to prove, by poison gases, / The needlessness of shedding human blood." Sassoon's bile-black irony signals a deep-felt pessimism: it was with good reason. --Burhan Tufail
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Girl meets boy. It's a story as old as time. But what happens when an old story meets a brand new set of circumstances?Ali Smith's re-mix of Ovid's most joyful metamorphosis is a story about the kind of fluidity that can't be bottled and sold.It is about girls and boys, girls and girls, love and transformation, a story of puns and doubles, reversals and revelations.Funny and fresh, poetic and political, Girl Meets Boy is a myth of metamorphosis for the modern world.
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"Days Without End" is a unique historical fiction novel that will take you on an emotional rollercoaster. The story follows Thomas McNulty and John Cole as they navigate life during the Indian and Civil Wars, all while discovering love in unexpected places. Sebastian Barry's writing perfectly captures the horrors and wonders of this time period, making it a must-read for anyone who enjoys historical fiction.
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A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves.
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Ada has always been unusual. Her parents prayed her into existence, but something must have gone awry. Their troubled child begins to develop separate selves and is prone to fits of anger and grief. When Ada grows up and heads to college in America, a traumatic event crystallises the selves into something more powerful. As Ada fades into the background of her own mind, these 'alters' - now protective, now hedonistic - take control, shifting her life in a dangerous direction.
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The Line of Beauty is a captivating read for those interested in exploring themes of class, sex, and money during the 80s. Featuring distinct characters searching for their own sense of identity, the novel is at once a character study and a sweeping ode to its time period. Through Nick's relationships with Wani and Leo, Hollinghurst examines the intersections of privilege, ambition, and sexuality, resulting in a complex portrayal of human nature in all its contradictions.
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Amanda Lee Koe
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Bloomsbury
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Delayed Rays of a Star
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Amanda Lee Koe's DELAYED RAYS OF A STAR, following the lives of Hollywood icon Marlene Dietrich, Chinese-American star Anna May Wong, and infamous German director Leni Riefenstahl across the twentieth century, exploring questions of ego, art, sex, and performance.
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Alternate cover edition here."This new world weighs a yatto-gram.""But everything is trial-size; tread-on-me-tiny or blurred-out-offocus huge. There are leaves that have grown as big as cities, and there are birds that nest in cockleshells. On the white sand there are long-toed claw prints deep as nightmares, and there are rock pools in hand-hollows finned by invisible fish" . . .Mankind has rendered its planet unlivable and is beginning to colonize a new blue planet. Our heroine Billie Crusoe's flight to the future is also a return to the distant past--"Everything is imprinted forever with what once was." What begins as a witty, satirical futurist adventure deepens into a dazzling exploration of our relationship to environment, to power and technology, and to what defines us as humans.For over twenty years Jeanette Winterson has consistently been one of our most brilliant writers. Lyrical, visionary, by turns funny and devastating, The Stone Gods is fiction at its most provocative.
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Djuna Barnes
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Sun
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The Book Of Repulsive Women - 8 Rhythms And 5 Drawings
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"The Book of Repulsive Women" celebrates women who defy societal norms through bold poetry and evocative art, making it a must-read for those interested in exploring unconventional female sexuality and rebellion.
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Freshwater is a must-read for individuals who are intrigued with experimental and thought-provoking reads. This novel follows Ada, a young Nigerian woman, who struggles to understand herself and the powerful entities that exist within her. All narrated through the various perspectives of her selves, Freshwater seamlessly blends Igbo spirituality and existential philosophy to deliver a truly unique and captivating read.
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Walt Whitman, Malcolm Cowley |
Penguin
Classics
Leaves of Grass
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“I am large, I contain multitudes”A Penguin Classic When Walt Whitman self-published his Leaves of Grass in July 1855, he altered the course of literary history. One of the greatest masterpieces of American literature, it redefined the rules of poetry while describing the soul of the American character. Throughout his great career, Whitman continuously revised, expanded, and republished Leaves of Grass , but many critics believe that the book that matters most is the 1855 original. Penguin Classics proudly presents that text in its original and complete form, with an introductory essay by the writer and poet Malcolm Cowley.“I celebrate myself, and sing myself,And what I assume you shall assume,For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.”For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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Meet an over-the-hill Pop Yé-yé singer with a faulty heart, two conservative middle-aged women holding hands in the Galápagos, and the proprietor of a Laundromat with a penchant for Cantonese songs of heartbreak. Rehash national icons: the truth about racial riot fodder-girl Maria Hertogh living out her days as a chambermaid in Lake Tahoe, a mirage of the Merlion as a ladyboy working Orchard Towers, and a high-stakes fantasy starring the still-suave lead of the 1990s TV hit serial The Unbeatables.Heartfelt and sexy, the stories of Amanda Lee Koe encompass a skewed world fraught with prestige anxiety, moral relativism, sexual frankness, and the improbable necessity of human connection. Told in strikingly original prose, these are fictions that plough, relentlessly, the possibilities of understanding Singapore and her denizens discursively, off-centre. Ministry of Moral Panic is an extraordinary debut collection and the introduction of a revelatory new voice.
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Seth Whidden, Jean Nicholas Arthur Rimbaud, Wallace Fowlie |
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Rimbaud : Complete Works, Selected Letters, a Bilingual Edition
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Rimbaud's work is a must-read for anyone interested in modern poetry and the French symbolist movement. This bilingual edition is a faithful rendition of Rimbaud's complex verse, and also includes previously omitted versions of poems and letters, making it the best authoritative version of Rimbaud's work available. The book's unique feature is its side-by-side translation, which makes Rimbaud's poetry accessible to readers who are not fluent in French. Overall, this edition is a comprehensive, up-to-date resource for lovers of modern poetry.
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Binh, a Vietnamese cook, flees Saigon in 1929, disgracing his family to serve as a galley hand at sea. The taunts of his now-deceased father ringing in his ears, Binh answers an ad for a live-in cook at a Parisian household, and soon finds himself employed by Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas.Toklas and Stein hold court in their literary salon, for which the devoted yet acerbic Binh serves as chef, and as a keen observer of his "Mesdames" and their distinguished guests. But when the enigmatic literary ladies decide to journey back to America, Binh is faced with a monumental choice: will he, the self-imposed "exile," accompany them to yet another new country, return to his native Vietnam, or make Paris his home?
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Under the Udala Trees could be a good read for those interested in historical fiction that explores the intricacies of relationships and the complexities of love in a time of war. The novel is raw and heart-wrenching, exposing the realities of a conflict-ridden nation and the consequences of love in such a perilous environment. Okparanta's fluid writing style makes the novel an engaging and compelling read, with a message that lingers long after the final pages.
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In this spellbinding new exploration of the varieties of love, the author of Call Me by Your Name lets us back into his characters' lives years after their first meetingIn Find Me, Aciman shows us Elio's father, Samuel, on a trip from Florence to Rome to visit Elio, now a gifted classical pianist. A chance encounter on the train upends Sami's visit and changes his life forever.Elio soon moves to Paris, where he, too, has a consequential affair, while Oliver, a New England college professor with a family, suddenly finds himself contemplating a return trip across the Atlantic.Aciman is a master of sensibility, of the intimate details and the nuances of emotion that are the substance of passion. Find Me brings us back inside the world of one of our greatest contemporary romances to show us that in fact true love never dies.
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It begins with a painting won in a raffle: fifteen sunflowers, hung on the wall by a woman who believes that men and boys are capable of beautiful things.And then there are two boys, Ellis and Michael,who are inseparable. And the boys become men,and then Annie walks into their lives,and it changes nothing and everything.
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If you're drawn to the darker, more provocative undercurrents of human experience, Dennis Cooper's "Period" could captivate you. Closing his five-book cycle, Cooper doesn't shy away from the uncomfortable, intertwining themes of sex, mortality, and the rebellious pulse of youth culture. Feel the adrenaline of his narrative and the haunting questions he raises about the nature of desire and the shadows it casts.
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Larry Duplechan
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Arsenal
Pulp
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Got 'Til It's Gone
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This book offers a poignant yet uplifting exploration of the midlife experience, touching on themes of love, mortality, and personal growth. It is a great read for those seeking a relatable and heartwarming story about navigating life's challenges and finding hope in unexpected places.
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Hanna Bervoets
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Pan
Macmillan
We Had To Remove This Post
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We Had To Remove This Post is a thought-provoking book that delves into the world of content moderation. It explores the impact of this job on the mental health and morals of the workers, asking important questions about who decides what content is appropriate for social media platforms. This book would be a good read for anyone interested in technology, social media, and the impact of these platforms on society. The story is psychologically astute, emotionally affecting, and leaves a lasting impression on the reader.
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The Death of Vivek Oji is a powerful and emotional coming-of-age story exploring the complexities of identity and family relationships. Set in Nigeria, the novel offers a unique perspective into a country and culture seldom explored in literature. Emezi's writing is both poetic and vivid, bringing to life a cast of unforgettable characters, each struggling to understand themselves and their place in the world. This book will resonate with anyone who has questioned their identity or felt unseen and misunderstood by those closest to them.
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Victoria Cribb, Sjón |
Sceptre
Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was
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The mesmerising new novel by Iceland's internationally renowned writer Sjón - 'the trickster that makes the world, and he is achingly brilliant' Junot Díaz, 'an extraordinary and original writer' A.S. Byatt.Winner of the Icelandic Literary PrizeThe year is 1918 and in Iceland the erupting volcano Katla can be seen colouring the sky night and day from the streets of Reykjavik. Yet life in the small capital carries on as usual, despite the natural disaster, a shortage of coal and, in the outside world, the Great War grinding on.There, sixteen-year-old Máni Steinn lives for the new fashion - the movies. Asleep he dreams altered versions of them, their tapestry of events threaded with strands from his own life. Awake he hovers on the fringes of society. But then the Spanish flu epidemic comes ashore, killing hundreds and driving thousands into their sick beds. The shadows of existence deepen and for Máni everything changes.Capturing Iceland at a moment of profound transformation, this is the story of a misfit in a place where life and death, reality and imagination, secrets and revelations jostle for dominance. With not a word wasted, this mesmerising and original novel is the work of a major international writer.
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"The Snow Queen is a poignant tale of love, loss, and spirituality, perfect for those seeking a moving story of personal growth. Cunningham captures the complexity of human emotion with stunning prose and an unflinching look at mortality. The characters are flawed and relatable, each searching for their own path towards a greater understanding of the world and their place in it. Highly recommended for fans of literary fiction."
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A celebration of love in all its frailty, confusion and excess. Set on board the QE2, and in New York and Liverpool, Gut Symmetries explores parallel lives, loves and universes.
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My Mother - Demonology could be a great read for individuals looking to explore the complexities of feminism and sexuality, and how they intersect with personal experiences. Acker's writing style is raw and unapologetic, diving deep into the inner workings of the human psyche. The book's unique structure, a blend of memoir and fiction, allows for a fully immersive and engaging reading experience. Overall, My Mother - Demonology is a must-read for those who enjoy thought-provoking literature that challenges societal norms.
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Négar Djavadi, Tina Kover |
Europa
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Disoriental
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In this high-spirited, kaleidoscopic story, key moments of Iranian history, politics, and culture punctuate stories of family drama and triumph.Kimiâ Sadr fled Iran at the age of ten in the company of her mother and sisters to join her father in France. Now twenty-five and facing the future she has built for herself as well as the prospect of a new generation, Kimiâ is inundated by her own memories and the stories of her ancestors, which come to her in unstoppable, uncontainable waves. In the waiting room of a Parisian fertility clinic, generations of flamboyant Sadrs return to her, including her formidable great-grandfather Montazemolmolk, with his harem of fifty-two wives, and her parents, Darius and Sara, stalwart opponents of each regime that befalls them.It is Kimiâ herself––punk-rock aficionado, storyteller extraordinaire, a Scheherazade of our time, and above all a modern woman divided between family traditions and her own “disorientalization”––who forms the heart of this bestselling and beloved novel.
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Sylvia Townsend Warner, Adam Mars-Jones |
Nyrb
Mr. Fortune's Maggot
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After a decade in one South Seas mission, a London bank-clerk-turned-minister sets his heart on serving a remote volcanic island. Fanua contains neither cannibals nor Christians, but its citizens, his superior warns, are like children—immoral children. Still, Mr. Timothy Fortune lights out for Fanua. Yet after three years, he has made only one convert, and his devotion to the boy may prove more sensual than sacred.Five years after Mr. Fortune's Maggot, the novella The Salutation was published. Now adrift and starving on the Argentinian pampas, Mr. Fortune is rescued by an elderly widow, who delights in having an Englishman about the house. Her heir, however, may beg to differ.Mr. Fortune's Maggot and its sequel are now available for the first time ever in one volume.
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Gore Vidal
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Vintage
The City and the Pillar : A Novel
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The City and the Pillar could be a good read for someone looking for a groundbreaking exploration of same-sex relationships, as it was one of the first of its kind to appear in American literature. It offers a forthright and uncompromising portrayal of the unique emotional bonds that can form between men, and the struggles of accepting oneself in a society that may not yet be ready to do so. Readers have hailed the book for its bravery and deep insight into the gay experience.
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Jeanette Winterson
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Vintage
International
Written on the Body
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Written on the Body is a secret code only visible in certain lights: the accumulation of a lifetime gather there. In places the palimpsest is so heavily worked that the letters feel like braille. I like to keep my body rolled away from prying eyes, never unfold too much, tell the whole story. I didn't know that Louise would have reading hands. She has translated me into her own book.
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"Pizza Girl" is a unique coming-of-age story that explores themes of grief, motherhood, and obsession in a fresh and funny way. The protagonist's charmingly dysfunctional personality and her complicated relationship with a customer make for a captivating read. The book is perfect for fans of audacious and wryly funny novels like "The Idiot" and "Convenience Store Woman".
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Andrew Sean Greer
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Lee
Boudreaux
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Less (Winner Of The Pulitzer Prize) - A Novel
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Less could be a good read for people who enjoy romantic comedies with a twist of wit. The protagonist is a lovable character who navigates through life's obstacles with his humorous yet charming personality. The book takes you on a journey around the world, allowing you to escape into different cultures and lifestyles while exploring the complexities of love and relationships. It is a delightful and heartwarming story that will leave you feeling fulfilled and content.
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Twelve-year-old Fee is a shy Korean American boy and a newly named section leader of the first sopranos in his local boys’ choir. But when Fee learns how the director treats his section leaders, he is so ashamed he says nothing of the abuse, not even when Peter, his best friend, is in line to be next. When the director is arrested, Fee tries to forgive himself for his silence. But when Peter takes his own life, Fee blames only himself. In the years that follow he slowly builds a new life, teaching near his hometown. There he meets a young student who is the picture of Peter and is forced to confront the past he believed was gone. Told with “the force of a dream and the heft of a life,”* Edinburgh marked Chee “as a major talent whose career will bear watching” (Publishers Weekly). “A coming-of-age tale in the grand Romantic tradition, where passions run high, Cupid stalks Psyche, and love shares the dance floor with death . . . A lovely, nuanced, never predictable portrait of a creative soul in the throes of becoming.” —Washington PostA Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year Winner of the James Michener/Copernicus Society Fellowship Prize Lambda Literary Foundation Editor’s Choice Award “[Chee] says volumes with just a few incendiary words.” —New York Times “Arresting . . . profound and poetic . . . Chee’s voice is worth listening to.” —San Francisco Chronicle “Alexander Chee gets my vote for the best new novelist I’ve read in some time. Edinburgh is moody, dramatic—and pure.” —Edmund White
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'The Hours' is a daring and deeply affecting novel inspired by the life and work of Virginia Woolf. It is a passionate, profound and haunting story of love and inheritance, hope and despair.
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André Aciman
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Faber
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Faber
Find Me : A TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
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In Find Me, Aciman shows us Elio's father, Samuel, on a trip from Florence to Rome to visit Elio, now a gifted classical pianist. A chance encounter on the train upends Sami's visit and changes his life forever.Elio soon moves to Paris, where he, too, has a consequential affair, while Oliver, a New England college professor with a family, suddenly finds himself contemplating a return trip across the Atlantic.Aciman is a master of sensibility, of the intimate details and the nuances of emotion that are the substance of passion. Find Me brings us back inside the world of one of our greatest contemporary romances to show us that in fact true love never dies.
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From André Aciman, the author of Call Me by Your Name (now a major motion picture) comes “a sensory masterclass, absorbing, intelligent, unforgettable” (Times Literary Supplement).Enigma Variations charts the life of a man named Paul, whose loves remain as consuming and as covetous throughout his adulthood as they were in his adolescence. Whether the setting is southern Italy, where as a boy he has a crush on his parents’ cabinetmaker, or a snowbound campus in New England, where his enduring passion for a girl he’ll meet again and again over the years is punctuated by anonymous encounters with men—whether he’s on a tennis court in Central Park or on a New York sidewalk in early spring. Paul’s attachments are ungraspable, transient, and forever underwritten by raw desire.Ahead of every step Paul takes, his hopes, denials, fears, and regrets are always ready to lay their traps. Yet the dream of love lingers. We may not always know what we want. We may remain enigmas to ourselves and to others. But sooner or later, we discover who we’ve always known we were.
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Truman Capote
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Doubleday
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Other Voices, Other Rooms
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If you're intrigued by the complexities of youth and the haunting beauty of the South, "Other Voices, Other Rooms" is a poignant read. Capote's prose weaves a dense tapestry of emotion and place, drawing you into Joel's search for connection amidst a backdrop of decay and eccentricity. This novel is a testament to Capote's ability to explore deep themes with lyrical finesse.
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Sylvia Townsend Warner, Adam Mars-Jones |
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After a decade in one South Seas mission, a London bank-clerk-turned-minister sets his heart on serving a remote volcanic island. Fanua contains neither cannibals nor Christians, but its citizens, his superior warns, are like children—immoral children. Still, Mr. Timothy Fortune lights out for Fanua. Yet after three years, he has made only one convert, and his devotion to the boy may prove more sensual than sacred.Five years after Mr. Fortune's Maggot, the novella The Salutation was published. Now adrift and starving on the Argentinian pampas, Mr. Fortune is rescued by an elderly widow, who delights in having an Englishman about the house. Her heir, however, may beg to differ.Mr. Fortune's Maggot and its sequel are now available for the first time ever in one volume.
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Shehan Karunatilaka
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W.
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The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
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Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida—war photographer, gambler, and closet queen—has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office. His dismembered body is sinking in the serene Beira Lake and he has no idea who killed him. In a country where scores are settled by death squads, suicide bombers, and hired goons, the list of suspects is depressingly long, as the ghouls and ghosts with grudges who cluster round can attest. But even in the afterlife, time is running out for Maali. He has seven moons to contact the man and woman he loves most and lead them to the photos that will rock Sri Lanka.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.
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***JOINT WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019***This is Britain as you've never seen it.This is Britain as it has never been told.From Newcastle to Cornwall, from the birth of the twentieth century to the teens of the twenty-first, Girl Woman Other follows a cast of twelve characters on their personal journeys through this country and the last hundred years. They're each looking for something - a shared past, an unexpected future, a place to call home, somewhere to fit in, a lover, a missed mother, a lost father, even just a touch of hope . . .SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2019
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Three generations of Taiwanese American women are haunted by the myths of their homeland in this blazing debut about one family's queer desires, violent impulses, and buried secrets.One evening, Mother tells Daughter a story about a tiger spirit who lived in a woman's body. She was called Hu Gu Po, and she hungered to eat children, especially their toes. Soon afterwards, Daughter awakes with a tiger tail. And more mysterious events follow: Holes in the backyard spit up letters penned by her grandmother; a visiting aunt arrives with snakes in her belly; a brother tests the possibility of flight. All the while, Daughter is falling for Ben, a neighborhood girl with mysterious powers of her own. As the two young lovers translate the grandmother's letters, Daughter begins to understand that each woman in her family embodies a myth — and that she will have to bring her family's secrets to light in order to change their destiny. With a poetic voice of crackling electricity, K-Ming Chang is an explosive young writer who combines the wit and fabulism of Helen Oyeyemi with the subversive storytelling of Maxine Hong Kingston. Tracing one family's history from Taiwan to America, from Arkansas to California, Bestiary is a novel of migration, queer lineages, and girlhood.
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Adam Haslett
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You Are Not a Stranger Here
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"You Are Not a Stranger Here" is a compassionate dive into the depths of the human psyche. Adam Haslett's skill in conjuring empathy through narrative is a unifying force across distinct settings and complex issues, touching on mental illness, loneliness, and the search for identity. If you're drawn to stories that aren't afraid to confront emotional truths while maintaining a tender literary touch, this collection could resonate deeply with you.
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Hot Milk could be a good read for individuals who enjoy a surreal and evocative exploration of womanhood. The novel takes readers on a hypnotic journey through the complicated relationship between a mother and daughter, as they embark on a search for answers to a strange illness. Levy's writing is dreamlike and utterly compulsive, whisking readers away to a village on the Spanish coast where seductive people roam in the thick heat. The novel is a modern and timeless tale of feminine power.
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Adrienne Rich
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Company
Diving into the Wreck : Poems 1971-1972
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Goodreads rating: 4.24
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If you're drawn to poetry that digs deep into the exploration of self and society, Adrienne Rich's "Diving into the Wreck" shouldn't be missed. Rich's compelling use of the shipwreck as a metaphor takes you on a journey that's both personal and universal, questioning the wreckage beneath the surface of our lives. It's a testament to resilience and the quest for truth.
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Thin Girls could be a good read for those interested in exploring the complexities of sisterhood and the damaging effects of diet culture on young women. The unique feature of this book is its honest portrayal of the bond between twin sisters and how it can become both supportive and destructive. Users would appreciate the book's exploration of addiction, toxic relationships, and the power of true friendship.
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Bernardine Evaristo
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Hamish
Hamilton
Girl, Woman, Other : WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019
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Goodreads rating: 4.29
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Teeming with life and crackling with energy — a love song to modern Britain and black womanhoodGirl, Woman, Other follows the lives and struggles of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell the stories of their families, friends and lovers, across the country and through the years.Joyfully polyphonic and vibrantly contemporary, this is a gloriously new kind of history, a novel of our times: celebratory, ever-dynamic and utterly irresistible.