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Long-Winded Lady
Häftad, 2024
179 kr
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In these delightful, melancholy prose sketches Maeve Brennan goes in pursuit of the ordinary, taking us on a tour of the cheap hotels, unassuming restaurants, and crowded streets of New York City. Brennan presents herself as the long-winded lady, solitary wanderer and wry observer of the human …
Weird Fucks
Häftad, 2021
131 kr
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A young woman drifts through a series of one night stands and truncated love affairs. Finding herself in a series of increasingly bizarre situations, she turns her curious and savage eye out on the foibles of the world around her. The men of this world evade and simper, they prey, and preen, and …
Haunted Houses
Häftad, 2022
145 kr
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From the author of Weird Fucks, a witty, bleak, and outrageous account of American girlhood. Haunted Houses is the story of three young women. Jane’s occasionally violent father reads her the Gettysburg Address at bedtimes, while Emily’s parents are FDR Democrats who only privately concede she may …
Motion Sickness
Häftad, 2023
168 kr
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From the acclaimed cult writer of Weird FucksFor the narrator of Motion Sickness life is an unguided tour, populated with hotels and strangers, art, books, and films. Adrift in Europe, her life becomes a carousel of unusual encounters, where coincidences and luck shape la vita nuova. In London our …
Springs of Affection
Häftad, 2023
149 kr
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'And at last Min was released from the duty she had imposed on herself, to remain with him as long as he needed her.'In the stories that compose this collection, Maeve Brennan turns her anatomist's eye to the ugly feelings that teem just beneath the surface of family life - doing so, however, with …
Replace Me
Av Amber Husain
Häftad, 2026
145 kr
Kommande
An essay about capitalism, automation, and fear of being replacedFear of being replaced has come to define the late-capitalist psyche. In an age of gig work and AI, more and more workers are threatened with replacement; meanwhile dating apps present both limitless choice and limitless competition, …
We are Made of Diamond Stuff
Häftad, 2022
131 kr
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Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize and the Republic of Consciousness PrizePolar bears emerge from t-shirts. Reeboks come to life. Nothing is normal in the house of Mother Normal.In Isabel Waidner’s second novel, we follow an unnamed narrator who looks like Eleven from Stranger Things, but is in …
Oval
Av Elvia Wilk
Häftad, 2022
145 kr
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Berlin is changing. Economic inequality is spiralling out of control, the party is moving on. Anja and Louis live on the mountain - an eco-community built and run by the corporation Anja works for. It is an experiment in green living. But soon enough the mountain begins to malfunction. Across the …
Lovebug
Häftad, 2023
145 kr
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In Lovebug, Daisy Lafarge explores metaphors of love and disease as she seeks to understand human vulnerability and our intimacy with microbial life. Turning to microbiology, mysticism, and psychoanalysis – as well as the raw materials of love and life – Lafarge navigates the uncomfortable intimacy …
Hearing Test
Häftad, 2024
145 kr
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A young woman reorients her relationship to the world in the wake of sudden deafness in this mesmerizing debut novel for readers of Rachel Cusk, Clarice Lispector, and Fleur JaeggyWhen the narrator of The Hearing Test, an artist in her late twenties, awakens one morning to a deep drone in her right …
Paradise Burns
Av Pol Guasch
Häftad, 2026
168 kr
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In a world that is coming to an end, two friends pursue a future worth believing in When Rita and Líton meet at a party, they quickly form a bond that will indelibly shape their lives. Theirs is not an easy world: most wildlife is extinct and the earth is tormented by drought and floods; the last …
Riverwork
Häftad, 2026
168 kr
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A glittering and erudite new novel of Paris from the author of The Baudelaire Fractal.Lucy Frost is an insomniac cleaning woman in Paris. She writes in a notebook at night, documenting a series of interwoven disappearances from her adopted city.First, her great-aunt, who vanished in her old age, …
On Not Knowing
How to Love and Other Essays
Av Emily Ogden
Häftad, 2022
143 kr
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Moments of clarity are rare and fleeting; how can we become comfortable outside of them, in the more general condition of uncertainty within which we make our lives? Written by critic Emily Ogden while her children were small, On Not Knowing forays into this rich, ambivalent space. Each of her …
Centroeuropa
Häftad, 2023
143 kr
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'Our lives do not start entirely with our births.'Prussia, the early 19th century. As he attempts to bury his recently deceased wife, Redo Hauptshammer uncovers the frozen body of a uniformed soldier. As he continues to dig, the bodies start to pile up - all of them fallen cavalrymen bearing the …
Sterling Karat Gold
Häftad, 2021
131 kr
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Sterling is arrested one morning without having done anything wrong. Plunged into a terrifying and nonsensical world, Sterling – with the help of their three best friends – must defy bullfighters, football players and spaceships in order to exonerate themselves and to hold the powers that be to …
Still Life
Av Zoe Wicomb
Häftad, 2022
145 kr
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Juggling with our perception of time and reality, Still Life tells the story of an author struggling to write a biography of Scottish poet and abolitionist Thomas Pringle. In her efforts to resurrect Pringle, the writer summons the spectre of Mary Prince, the West Indian slave whose History Pringle …
Cellist
Häftad, 2022
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
145 kr
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A piercing meditation on love and music, and the silence and inscrutability which underpins the performance of each. Luc has lived a long time as a soloist. She has not seen Billy for many years. A visit to a major show of his sculptures sends her arrowing back to a younger version of herself: to a …
Living Rooms
Häftad, 2022
145 kr
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"Today the ideal home remains a site of illusory ease, a space that can be wiped clean of the residues of living..." In this radical and elegiac essay, Sam Johnson-Schlee invites readers to consider the dreams and fantasies we have about our homes, and their underlying reality.Living Rooms blends …
Love, Leda
Av Mark Hyatt
Häftad, 2023
145 kr
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"It's mid morning. Cool. Not many coffee bars open. I, the brave one, god of any telephone kiosk, walk down Dean Street, see the man of the day; raincoat, shoulders round, hair black, falling out; heavenly blue eyes cast down into his own hell. Bold as brass I cross the road stopping dead in front …
Life is Everywhere
Av Lucy Ives
Häftad, 2023
168 kr
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Manhattan, 2014. Erin Adamo is locked out of her apartment. Her husband has just left her and her keys are at her parents' apartment, abandoned when she exited mid-dinner after her father-once again-lost control.Erin takes refuge in the library of the university where she is a grad student. Her bag …
Grimmish
Häftad, 2023
145 kr
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Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award Pain was Joe Grim’s self-expression, his livelihood and reason for being. He rarely won a fight, but in the early decades of the twentieth century Grim became a folk hero, distinguishing himself for his extraordinary ability to withstand physical punishment. …
Baudelaire Fractal
Häftad, 2023
145 kr
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‘Raised from babydom into doubt, I’m as feminine as Rousseau. I, Hazel Brown, eldest daughter of a disappearing class, penniless neophyte stunned by the glamour of literature, tradeless, clueless, yet with considerable moral stamina and luck, left my family at seventeen to seek a way to live. It …
Audition
Av Pip Adam
Häftad, 2023
145 kr
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'It would be better if we took a moment to be really grateful for this beautiful spacecraft which used to be so perfect for us. Which was built especially for us. When we got too big for Earth.'The spaceship Audition is hurtling towards an event horizon. Squashed immobile into its rooms are three …
Mother Naked
Häftad, 2024
145 kr
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The City of Durham, 1434. Out of a storm, an aging minstrel arrives at the cathedral to entertain the city’s most powerful men. Mother Naked is his name, and the story he’s come to tell is the Legend of the Fell Wraith: the gruesome ‘walking ghost’ some say slaughtered the nearby village of …
Body in the Library
Häftad, 2024
155 kr
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When Graham Caveney was a child the word 'cancer' was unspeakable, only uttered in jokes told by people too frightened to say the word in any other context. Now the boy with perpetual nervousness is a fifty-something man, and the oncologist in front of him is saying words evacuated of all meaning: …
American Genius, A Comedy
Häftad, 2024
168 kr
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A former historian is spending time in a residential home – but is it an artist’s retreat, a sanatorium, or a psychiatric hospital?In hypnotic and digressive prose, Tillman's narrator spins tales of her life while ruminating on her many and varied preoccupations: chair design, the Manson family, …
Attention-Seeking Behaviour
Inbunden, 2026
219 kr
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'I have never told anyone about this before. There is no way to prove that it happened, but why would I lie?' The narrator of Attention-Seeking Behaviour thinks you should know about the body she found in the park. She thinks you should know about her sex life, which is fulfilling and systematic. …
Thrilled to Death
Häftad, 2025
168 kr
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Over the last four decades, Lynne Tillman has established herself as one of America's most audacious writers, a tireless innovator whose shorter works have reimagined the story form. Thrilled to Death collects a bold, anarchic, and eclectic ensemble of Tillman's fictions. By turns outrageous and …
Postmuslim
Häftad, 2026
168 kr
Kommande
An intimate and expansive book exploring what it means to be Arab-Muslim in the twenty-first century'Postmuslim' is Youssef Rakha's term to describe an attitude that embraces the fullness of Muslim identity rather than its essentialized, idealized, or distorted versions. Impassioned, erudite, and …
Losers
Av Josh Cohen
Häftad, 2021
83 kr
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An essay about politics, humility, and lossYou are a loser. For psychoanalysis, this isn’t a personal slight, but an impersonal truth. So why have we come to fear losing?‘Loser’ was Donald Trump’s favourite insult within a hotly contested field. But while progressives disdain his divisive politics, …
