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“andres barba”

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  • Such Small Hands

    by Andrés Barba, Edmund White ...
    Translated by Lisa Dillman ...
    One of the Guardian Best Books of 2017Every once in a while a novel does not record reality but creates a whole new reality, one that casts a light on our darkest feelings. Kafka did that. Bruno Schulz did that. Now the Spanish writer Andrés Barba has done it with the terrifying Such Small Hands.”-Edmund WhiteLife changes at the orphanage the day seven-year-old Marina shows up. She is different ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Right Intention

    by Andrés Barba ...
    Translated by Lisa Dillman ...
    Kirkus Best Books of 2018"Barba is a master of the novella . . . A gorgeous, fully realized collection."—Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)Nothing is simple for the men and women in Andrés Barba's stories. As they go about their lives, they are each tested by a single, destructive obsession. A runner puts his marriage at risk while training for a marathon; a teenager can no longer stand the sight of ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Last Day of a Prior Life

    A Novel

    by Andrés Barba ...
    Translated by Lisa Dillman ...
    “A ghost story without ghosts that, beyond its formal elegance, explores loneliness, the cycles in which our lives revolve, and the immeasurable challenges of affection.”—Mariana Enríquez, author of Our Share of Night"Quiet, strange, and deeply reflective."—BooklistIn this contemporary ghost story, award-winning author Andrés Barba eerily explores how the past can hold us captive, as a woman ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Luminous Republic

    by Andrés Barba ...
    Translated by Lisa Dillman ...
    A literary novel about the arrival of feral children to a tropical city in Argentina, and the quest to stop them from pulling the place into chaos.San Cristóbal was an unremarkable city—small, newly prosperous, contained by rain forest and river. But then the children arrived.No one knew where they came from: thirty-two kids, seemingly born of the jungle, speaking an unknown language. At first ... Read more

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    Last Day of a Prior Life

    A Novel

    by Andrés Barba ...
    Narrated by Victoria Villarreal ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 24 min

    “A ghost story without ghosts that, beyond its formal elegance, explores loneliness, the cycles in which our lives revolve, and the immeasurable challenges of affection.”—Mariana Enríquez, author of Our Share of Night"Quiet, strange, and deeply reflective."—BooklistIn this contemporary ghost story, award-winning author Andrés Barba eerily explores how the past can hold us captive, as a woman ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

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    Also available as: eBook

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    A Luminous Republic

    by Andrés Barba ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Davis ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 42 min

    "Wholly compelling.” —Colm TóibínA new novel from a Spanish literary star about the arrival of feral children to a tropical city in Argentina, and the quest to stop them from pulling the place into chaos.San Cristóbal was an unremarkable city—small, newly prosperous, contained by rain forest and river. But then the children arrived.No one knew where they came from: thirty-two kids, seemingly born ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Christmas Island

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    Populista

    The Rise of Latin America's 21st Century Strongman

    by Will Grant ...
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    'An ambitious, riveting and essential book that has much to teach us about the recent history of this region, and about the human impulse towards populism that continues to shape the world' Ben Rhodes, bestselling author of The World As It Is'A REVOLUTION IS A STRUGGLE TO THE DEATH BETWEEN THE FUTURE AND THE PAST.' FIDEL CASTROFor more than six decades, Fidel Castro's words have echoed through the ... Read more

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