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**An intense friendship between 2 young girls turns tragic when one gets lost in a frozen waterfall’s ice chambers in this dreamlike Norwegian masterpieceFeatures a new introduction by Karl Ove Knausgaard**In rural Norway, 11-year-old Siss, socially at ease and popular among her peers, finds herself drawn to the new girl in class, Unn. Unn is shy and strange, but holds a magnetic power for her ... Read more

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**An intense friendship between 2 young girls turns tragic when one gets lost in a frozen waterfall’s ice chambers in this dreamlike Norwegian masterpieceFeatures a new introduction by Karl Ove Knausgaard**In rural Norway, 11-year-old Siss, socially at ease and popular among her peers, finds herself drawn to the new girl in class, Unn. Unn is shy and strange, but holds a magnetic power for her
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The Birds

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“Tarjei Vesaas has written the best Norwegian novel ever, The Birds— it is absolutely wonderful, the prose is so simple and so subtle, and the story is so moving that it would have been counted amongst the great classics from the last century if it had been written in one of the major languages.” — Karl Ove KnausgaardThe Birds tells the story of Mattis, a deeply sensitive, intellectually disabled ... Read more

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“Tarjei Vesaas has written the best Norwegian novel ever, The Birds— it is absolutely wonderful, the prose is so simple and so subtle, and the story is so moving that it would have been counted amongst the great classics from the last century if it had been written in one of the major languages.” — Karl Ove KnausgaardThe Birds tells the story of Mattis, a deeply sensitive, intellectually disabled
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An Oral History of Atlantis

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A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE • Gilt-edged stories that slice clean through the mundanity of modern life, from the author of Same Bed Different Dreams, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize“Ed Park is one of the funniest writers working today, and among the most humane.”—Kaveh Akbar, author of Martyr!A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Time, ... ... Read more

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A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE • Gilt-edged stories that slice clean through the mundanity of modern life, from the author of Same Bed Different Dreams, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize“Ed Park is one of the funniest writers working today, and among the most humane.”—Kaveh Akbar, author of Martyr!A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Time, ...
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“Now offered in translation for the first time, this collection featuring women navigating societal expectations (and their small rebellions) is a classic.” — Boston GlobeA spiky, edgy collection of five sly yet sensitive stories spotlighting clear-eyed and “difficult” women who are navigating their identities as workers and women in contemporary Japan—a feminist, anti-capitalist modern classic ... Read more

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The prize winning international bestseller - 800,000 copies sold in BrazilShortlisted for The International Booker Prize 2024Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award'I heard our grandmother asking what we were doing.'"Say something!" she demanded, threatening to tear out our tongues. Little did she know that one of us was holding her tongue in her hand.'Deep in Brazil's neglected Bahia hinterland,
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The Details

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Featured in The New Yorker's "Best Books of 2023" *Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize"The literal fever that begins the book mirrors the feverish beginnings and endings of these relationships, as well as the fever of reading — how it forces the reader inward, then leaves an invisible imprint in its wake. Genberg’s marvelous prose is also a kind of fever, mesmerizing and hot to the ... Read more

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Featured in The New Yorker's "Best Books of 2023" *Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize"The literal fever that begins the book mirrors the feverish beginnings and endings of these relationships, as well as the fever of reading — how it forces the reader inward, then leaves an invisible imprint in its wake. Genberg’s marvelous prose is also a kind of fever, mesmerizing and hot to the
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From the bestselling author of How Fascism Works, a global call to action that tells us “why the past is a frontline in the struggle for a future free of fascism” (Jeff Sharlet, New York Times bestselling author) as it reveals the far right’s efforts to rewrite history and undo a century of progress on race, gender, sexuality, and class.In the United States, democracy is under attack by an
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The Rainbow

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Available in English for the very first time, a powerful, poignant novel about three half sisters in post-war Japan, from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Snow Country.With the Second World War only a few years in the past, and Japan still reeling from its effects, two sisters—born to the same father but different mothers—struggle to make sense of the new world in which they are coming of age.
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Will and Testament

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