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Yuri Herrera, Lisa Dillman: Silent Fury (2020, And Other Stories)
On March 10, 1920, in Pachuca, Mexico, the Compañía de Santa Gertrudis -- the largest employer in the region, and …
This novel takes what could be rightly described as a stream-of-consciousness narrative and gives it substance, even something close to order. Concerned very much with the perception and passage of time, 'Autumn' may be mistakenly described as a novel without much of a plot, but I firmly believe that is exactly what Smith intended with it.
A novel about a fifteen-year-old prostitute who is actually a 2,000-year old werefox who seduces …
I was completely enamoured with this book for the first one hundred pages or so. I adored the cold yet philosophical musings of our narrator as she went about her rather squalid life, but at times I struggled to sympathise with A-Hu Li. I feel that Pelevin tries too hard at times to come off as Nabokov, the author that clearly inspired this novel, and ends up just writing in an overly vulgar manner with no redeeming features. Overall, my experience with this book was positive. I just wish that he has focused a little more on the bhuddist themes that he writes about so fluently in the last fifty pages.
A superb comic masterpiece and fierce parable of the Russian Revolution by the author of The Master and Margarita. WITH …
This account of the effects of pesticides on the environment launched the environmental movement in America.
"George Monbiot explores a new, positive environmentalism that shows how damaged ecosystems on land and at sea can be restored, …
The Hobbit is a tale of high adventure, undertaken by a company of dwarves in search of dragon-guarded gold. A …
Byzantine and claustrophobic novel of a man arrested by the secret police and charged with an unspecified crime. Unable to …
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This collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafka's works that he thought worthy of publication. It …
