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41) Bariloche
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Demetrio Rota, a garbage collector from Buenos Aires, sleeps in the afternoons and assembles puzzles at night before leaving for work. His daily life is mediocre and he keeps his balance through sheer exhaustion. However, through the puzzles, Demetrio inspects and sorts through his own memories. At the end of the journey through his history, the present seems to devour him, until he's left with only the emptiness of himself and his daily misery. A...
42) The Longcut
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The narrator of The Longcut is an artist who doesn't know what her art is. As she gets lost on her way to a meeting in an art gallery, walking around in circles in a city she knows perfectly well, she finds herself endlessly sidetracked and distracted by the question of what her work is and how she'll know it when she sees it.
Her mental peregrinations take her through the elements that make up her life: her dull office job where she spends the...
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Wendy just wants to be a poet. So how comes she's on the run after an art heist?
An aspiring writer from the Southside of Glasgow, Wendy is in a rut. She tries to brighten her call-centre job by shoehorning as many long words as possible into conversations with customers. But her manager isn't amused by that and, after a public dressing-down, Wendy walks out. Jobless and depressed, she finds consolation in a surprise friendship with another disgruntled...
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Un recién nacido aparece abandonado en el último asiento del tranvía número catorce. Es Nochebuena y el vehículo surca cual cometa las vías hacia la periferia de una ciudad sin nombre. ¿Cómo ha llegado hasta allí? ¿Qué va a ser de él? Tal vez por caridad, por improvisación o por locura, alguien ha decidido confiar al niño a los brazos del mundo. Y el "mundo" que lo acompaña en ese primer viaje de su vida es esa parte de la existencia...
45) The Ride to Work
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An entire life compressed into a single hour.
For seven years, public servant Anthony Speed has commuted by bicycle to his inner-city office dreading the monotony and drudgery of his job. On an otherwise routine Monday morning, he sets out to do this one last time.
The ride forward to his destination coincides with a journey back through his past, as the people and places he crosses paths with draw him into recollections of the great traumas of his...
46) Mickey Collins
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Mickey Collins, son of a drug-dealer, relates his amazing tale from childhood to something approaching being an adult. The streets of Cork, Ireland, is where Mickey learns fine skills such as pre-teen drinking, shoplifting and breaking & entering. However, after Mickey disobeys his mother once too often, a lifetime of pain (or 'adventure' as Mickey would see it) descends upon him, as he bounces from one State service to another.
A kaleidoscopic tour...
47) On The Carousel
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ON THE CAROUSEL is the story of a young man's journey through the London of the 1980s, against the background of Thatcherism and Madonna and Cabbage Patch Dolls, as he enjoys the benefits of success, but then starts to re-assess his values and priorities.
In the early hours of New Year's Day 1980, Adam Gough, a recent graduate, whose career was put on hold following a traumatic event the previous year, is walking home through the deserted City of...
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El hombre que nos habla en este libro trata de ordenar sus recuerdos. Sin embargo, lejos de ser el suyo un acto de complacencia, intenta derribar las inercias de sus ideas, de sus juicios y de sus costumbres. La literatura le sirve de espejo en el que mirarse, y el reflejo que ésta le devuelve es unas veces alentador, y otras, deformante, pero siempre un fértil motor de pensamiento y de transformación.
Así pues, el protagonista vagabundea por...
49) Behind the Bid
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Behind the Bid opens a door to the secretive world, where class identity determines the rules. Outsider protagonist Enid is desperate to gain a foothold in this world of glitz and glamour as a graduate intern in an international auction house. Influenced by social media and suffering from It girl envy, Enid believes she will do anything it takes, from dating clients to using friendships. Along the way, she learns about the kind of person she really...
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1999. Winter. Bondi. Harry's been on the streets so long he could easily forget what time is. So Harry keeps an eye on it. Every morning. Then he heads to the beach to chat with the gulls. Or he wanders through the streets in search of food, clothes, Jules. When the girl on the bus sees him, lonely and cold in the bus shelter that he calls home, she thinks about how she can help. She decides to write a symphony for him. So begins a poignant and gritty...
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Colección de treinta microrrelatos del autor conocido como PERICOYPICO. Hay algunos relatos temáticos que han sido presentados a diversos concursos y otros que fueron escritos ad hoc para servir como banda sonora original de sus guiones. El autor ha experimentado con el pequeño género, incluyendo aforismos, y jugado con las palabras y las extensiones reducidas del género "chico" que tan de moda está en la actualidad. Una incursión más en el...
52) The Art of Zen
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Fresh off another sold-out gallery show, New York City artist Tia Zen is on top of the world. Her work catches the eye of successful restaurateur Spencer Chadwick and his socialite girlfriend Ainsley Davenport. He wants her to paint a mural for his newest hot spot and she reluctantly accepts even though she feels they are polar opposites. Worlds collide immediately as the work progresses and tensions begin to mount. Tia and Spencer begin to feel that...
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Scenes of Bohemian Life (1851) is a novel by Henri Murger. Written at the beginning of his career as a popular French poet and novelist, Scenes of Bohemian Life is composed of vignettes inspired by the author's experience as a starving artist in Paris' Latin Quarter. Adapted countless times for theater and film, Murger's novel served as inspiration for Puccini's opera La bohème (1896) and for the hit musical Rent (1996). "The Bohemians know everything...
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After the politics of his prestigious law firm send Ben out on the street, he finds himself playing piano at a waterfront brothel. In his new life, Ben explores the underbelly of peoples' desires, fears, compulsions, and dreams. As Ben moves throughout this new life, he realizes that the women around him are trying to survive and thrive in a world that hasn't handed them anything. A story of failure, redemption, and human understanding, and featuring...
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As the economy collapses around her in 2008 New York City, recent art school graduate Binnie takes a job as a paralegal to pay the bills. As her art projects languish on the back burner, she begins to obsessively imagine her daily grind expressed in unsettling and sometimes violent dioramas. Somehow, someday, she'll find the time to construct them. In the meantime, she'll walk this unsatisfying tightrope between financial stability and the life of...
56) A Bach Concert
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One of the first successful novels written by a female author in Romania, Hortensia Papadat-Bengescu's A Bach Concert remains a classic work of Romanian literature. Originally published in 1927 in Romanian, the novel follows the life of the Hallipa family. The main plot revolves around a Bach concert organized by Elena Hallipa-Draganescu for the elite society of Bucharest. It's a story of high society intrigue, family tragedy, East European urban...
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De Quincey, Baudelaire, Poe, Joyce, Walter Benjamin, Melville, Lorca, Whitman...each a walker and city-dweller, each a collagist and chronicler, picking the detritus of their eras off the filthy streets and assembling it into something new, shocking, and beautiful. In To Walk Alone in the Crowd, Antonio Muñoz Molina emulates these classical inspirations, following their peregrinations as well as telling their stories, in a book that is part memoir,...
58) All Over the Map
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More Amusing Ways and Woes of Morgan McFinn - the World's Most Committed Leisure Activist.A year after the publication of his 'paradise journal' Out of the Loop, slacker extraordinaire Morgan McFinn finally relinquishes his hammock on the glorious shores of Koh Samui in the Gulf of Siam. In an attempt to widen his orbit of earthly experiences, McFinn sets off to other exotic locales around Southeast Asia and even further afield. Taking up residence...
59) A Precarious Man
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Nick Moran is one of that hapless tribe you hear about on occasion: an English PhD who can't find a job. Even when he does, years later and after a second career as a hack Hollywood screenwriter falls apart, the department at a university in Auckland, New Zealand, turns out to be a hornet's nest of paranoia, arbitrary power, and guilt by association. When his consensual relationship with a student leads not just to scandal and public disgrace but...
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As WWI ends, trauma and tragedy give way to a chance for new life and rekindled love in the third novel of the acclaimed Parade's End tetralogy.
Armistice Day, 1918. As fireworks proclaim the end of the Great War, Valentine Wannop learns that the man she loves, Christopher Tietjens, is back in London. He has survived the frontlines, but it has affected him profoundly. He is willing to give up everything to be with Valentine, but they are not yet free...
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