The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld; Michele Hutchison (Translator)
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Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2020. The sensational Dutch bestseller: Marieke Lucas Rijneveld's extraordinary portrait of a farming family distorted by grief. I asked God if he please couldn't take my brother Matthies instead of my rabbit. 'Amen.' Ten-year-old Jas has a unique way of ex ...Show more
The Long Take by Robin Robertson
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**Shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize** From the award-winning British author--a poet's noir narrative that tells the story of a D-Day veteran in postwar America: a good man, brutalized by war, haunted by violence and apparently doomed to return to it, yet resolved to find kindness again, in the w ...Show more
The Absolutist by John Boyne
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September 1919-20 year-old Tristan Sadler takes a train from London to Norwich to deliver a clutch of letters to Marian Bancroft. Tristan fought alongside Marian's brother Will during the Great War. They trained together. They fought together.But in 1917, Will laid down his guns on the battlefield, decl ...Show more
Mara and Dann - An Adventure by Doris Lessing
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A visionary novel from Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. It is sooner than you might think. And the Earth's climate is much changed - it's colder than ever before in the north, and unbearably dry and hot in the south. Mara, who is seven, and her four-year-old brother Dann find the ...Show more
Winter in July by Doris Lessing
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Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007, Doris Lessing grew up in Africa - and returns to that troubled, misunderstood continent in this searing collection of short stories. 'I believe that the chief gift from Africa to writers, white and black, is the continent itself, its presence which for some ...Show more
The Sweetest Dream by DORIS LESSING
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The story of a family spanning the 20th century.Its fulcrum is in the 60s, a decade about which argument becomes louder everyday.Julia and Frances,grandmother and mother fight for the "kids" against obstacles,the worst being Comrade Johnny.The revolution comes before personal matters as he deposits disc ...Show more
Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Rushdie Salman
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Heroin's father is the greatest of all storytellers. His magical stories bring laughter to the sad city of Alifbay. But one day something goes wrong and his father runs out of stories to tell. Haroun is determined to return the storyteller's gift to his father. So he flies off on the back of the Hoopie ...Show more
The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike
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It's the marvelous story of three ambitious witches living in a small New England town in the late 1960s, who find themselves quite under the spell of the new man in town, Darryl Van Horne, whose hot tub is the scene of some rather bewitching delights.
Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin
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Category: Literary Fiction
Fans of Exciting Times and Convenience Store Woman will devour this funny and original literary debut about the unintentional consequences of anxiety and the relentless pressures of modern life, starring the most unforgettable literary creation since Eleanor Oliphant and Fleabag. Gilda cannot stop think ...Show more