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• The Betrayed

  Melvin, Reine Arcache,

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  Set during a time of political upheaval and civil unrest, The Betrayed tells a sensual and sprawling story about two sisters who love the same man. Passionately told, and portraying a Philippines rarely seen in fiction, Reine Archache Melvin’s…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Slowworm's Song

  Miller, Andrew, 1961-

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  A harmless-looking letter drops onto the doormat in Stephen Rose's Somerset home like an unexploded bomb. It is a summons to an inquiry in Belfast, asking him to give testimony about his participation in a disastrous event during the Troubles–one he…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Everything Calls for Salvation

  Mencarelli, Daniele, 1974-

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  June 1994. Twenty-year-old Daniele wakes up in a hospital room, confused and surrounded by strangers. Slowly, memories of the previous night return to him: a spiral of anxiety and anger, an explosion of violence so intense that it almost inflicted…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ghost Town

  a Novel in 45 Chapters

  Chen, Kevin,

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  Keith Chen, the second son of a traditional Taiwanese family of seven, runs away from the oppression of his village to Berlin in the hope of finding acceptance as a young gay man. The novel begins a decade later, when Chen has just been released…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Barbara Isn't Dying

  Bronsky, Alina, 1978-

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  A bittersweet and hilarious novel about a marriage whose decades-old routine is suddenly upended. Walter Schmidt has lived his whole life within the narrow, “comfortable” confines of traditional gender roles: he has made it to retirement without…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Trio

  Hedman, Johanna,

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  When Hugo takes a room in the house of one of Stockholm’s wealthiest families, he unwittingly invites himself into the lives of people he will be unable to forget: Thora, a beautiful descendant of old money, and her childhood best friend August, who…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Monument Maker

  Keenan, David, 1971-

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  Is it possible for books to dream? For books to dream within books? Is there a literary subterranea that would facilitate ingress and exit points through these dreams? These are some of the questions posed by David Keenan’s Monument Maker, an epic…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Dolphin House

  a Novel

  Schulman, Audrey, 1963-

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  Based on the true story of the 1965 “dolphin house” experiment, this spellbinding novel captures the tenor of the social experiments of the 1960s in award-winning author Audrey Schulman’s tightly paced and evocative style. It is 1965, and Cora, a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Daughters Beyond Command

  Olmi, Veronique,

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  An absorbing bildungsroman that tells the story of three sisters during a decade of radical societal transformation. Three sisters were born into a modest Catholic family in Aix-en-Provence. Sabine, the eldest, dreams of an artist’s life in Paris;…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mrs. S

  Patrick, K.,

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  In an elite English boarding school where the girls kiss the marble statue of the famous dead author who used to walk the halls, a young Australian woman arrives to take up the antiquated role of ‘matron’. Within this landscape of immense privilege,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The House on Via Gemito

  Starnone, Domenico, 1943-

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  A modest apartment in Via Gemito smelling of paint and turpentine. Its furniture pushed up against the wall to create a make-shift studio. Drying canvases moved from bed to floor each night. Federí, the father, a railway clerk, is convinced that he…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hourglass

  Goddard, Keiran,

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  The second time you came, we went from bar to bar to bar. It made the city feel smaller. Like a map we were folding to the size of a stamp. We were good at that. We could have fit an entire universe inside a matchbox. Exquisitely crafted, richly…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Pet

  a Novel

  Chidgey, Catherine, 1970-

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  Like every other girl in her class, twelve-year-old Justine is drawn to her glamorous, charismatic new teacher and longs to be her pet. However, when a thief begins to target the school, Justine’s sense that something isn’t quite right grows ever…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• My Father's House

  O'Connor, Joseph,

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  September 1943: German forces have Rome under their control. Gestapo boss Paul Hauptmann rules over the Eternal City with vicious efficiency. Hunger is widespread. Rumors fester. The war’s outcome is far from certain. Diplomats, refugees, Jews, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Postcard

  Berest, Anne, 1979-

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  A vivid portrait of twentieth-century Parisian intellectual and artistic life, an enthralling investigation into family secrets, and poignant tale of a Jewish family devastated by the Holocaust and partly restored through the power of storytelling.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lesser Islands

  Pieri, Lorenza,

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  An absorbing family saga taking place over four decades and centered on the Tuscan island of Giglio—a seemingly idyllic place where the story of two sisters and the history of Italy meet in unexpected, transformative ways. A tiny island in the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Story of a New Name

  Ferrante, Elena

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  Lila has recently married and made her entrée into the family business; Elena, meanwhile, continues her studies and her exploration of the world beyond the neighborhood that she so often finds stifling. Marriage appears to have imprisoned Lila, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Breasts and Eggs

  Kawakami, Mieko, 1976-

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  Challenging every preconception about storytelling and prose style, mixing wry humor and riveting emotional depth, Kawakami is today one of Japan’s most important and best-selling writers. She exploded onto the cultural scene first as a musician,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mr. Wilder and Me

  Coe, Jonathan,

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  In the heady summer of 1977, a naïve young woman called Calista sets out from Athens to venture into the wider world. On a Greek island that has been turned into a film set, she finds herself working for the famed Hollywood director Billy Wilder,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• All the Lovers in the Night

  Kawakami, Mieko, 1976-

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  Fuyuko Irie is a freelance copy editor in her mid-thirties. Working and living alone in a city where it is not easy to form new relationships, she has little regular contact with anyone other than her editor, Hijiri, a woman of the same age but with…Read moreRead more of this annotation