The Day of the Owl by Leonardo Sciascia
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Category: Fiction | Series: New York Review Books Classics
A man is shot dead as he runs to catch the bus in the piazza of a small Sicilian town. Captain Bellodi, the detective on the case, is new to his job and determined to prove himself. Bellodi suspects the Mafia, and his suspicions grow when he finds himself up against an apparently unbreachable wall of si ...Show more
Never Mind: A Patrick Melrose Novel 1 by Edward St Aubyn
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Category: Fiction | Series: The\Patrick Melrose Novels Ser. | Reading Level: 16
Winner of the Betty Trask Award, Never Mind is the first in Edward St Aubyn's semi-autobiographical Patrick Melrose novels, adapted for TV for Sky Atlantic and starring Benedict Cumberbatch as aristocratic addict, Patrick.At his mother's family house in the south of France, Patrick Melrose has the run o ...Show more
Mother's Milk: Patrick Melrose Novels # 4 by Edward St. Aubyn
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Category: Fiction | Series: Patrick Melrose Novels | Reading Level: 16
THE FOURTH PATRICK MELROSE NOVEL The once illustrious, once wealthy Melroses are in peril. Caught up in the wreckage of broken promises, child-rearing, adultery and assisted suicide, Patrick finds his wife Mary consumed by motherhood, his mother in thrall to a New Age foundation, and his young son Rober ...Show more
Some Hope: Patrick Melrose Novels # 3 by Edward St. Aubyn
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Category: Fiction | Series: The Patrick Melrose Novels | Reading Level: 16
THE THIRD PATRICK MELROSE NOVEL. Patrick Melrose, cleaned-up and world-weary, is a reluctant guest at a glittering party deep in the English countryside. Amid a crowd of flitting social dragonflies, he finds his search for redemption and capacity for forgiveness challenged by his observation of the crue ...Show more
Bad News: Patrick Melrose Novels # 2 by Edward St. Aubyn
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Category: Fiction | Series: The\Patrick Melrose Novels Ser. | Reading Level: 16
Bad News is the second of Edward St Aubyn's semi-autobiographical Patrick Melrose novels, adapted for TV for Sky Atlantic and starring Benedict Cumberbatch as aristocratic addict, Patrick.Twenty-two years old and in the grip of a massive addiction, Patrick Melrose is forced to fly to New York to collect ...Show more
At Last by Edward St. Aubyn
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Category: Fiction | Series: The Patrick Melrose Novels 5 | Reading Level: very good
A New York Times Notable Book of 2012One of The Telegraph's Best Fiction Books 2011One of Esquire's Best Books of 2012One of TIME's Top 10 Fiction Books of 2012 Here, from the writer described by The Guardian as "our purest living prose stylist" and whom Alan Hollinghurst has called "the most brilliant ...Show more
China in Ten Words by Yu Hua
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Category: Fiction
From one of China's most acclaimed writers, his first work of non-fiction to appear in English: a unique, intimate look at the Chinese experience over the last several decades, told through personal stories and astute analysis that sharply illuminate the country's meteoric economic and social transforma ...Show more
To the Island by Meaghan Delahunt
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Category: Fiction
He disappeared. That's all she really knew. In search of her father Andreas, whom she has never met, Lena travels with her small son from Australia to Greece. On the island of Naxos she finds him, a wary, tormented man living in self-imposed exile and haunted by what happened to him under the rule of t ...Show more
The War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa
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Category: Fiction
The "War of the End of the World" is one of the great modern historical novels. Inspired by a real episode in Brazilian history, Mario Vargas Llosa tells the story of an apocalyptic movement, led by a mysterious prophet, in which prostitutes, beggars and bandits establish Canudos, a new republic, a libe ...Show more
Villa Pacifica by Kapka Kassabova
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Category: Fiction
As Ute and her husband Jerry travel to a remote area on the west coast of South America, they decide to visit a recently established eco retreat called Villa Pacifica. The resort, run by a group of eccentric expatriates, offers a luxuriant refuge - in the middle of an arid and poverty-stricken region - ...Show more
The Black Book by Lawrence Durrell
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Category: Fiction
First published in Paris in 1938, Durrell's third novel is the story, told from the inside, of the lives and loves of a group of struggling writers and artists in a seedly London hotel. Controversial at the time because of its sexual frankness, the book was finally published in its complete form only th ...Show more
The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa
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Category: Fiction
Urania Cabral, a New York lawyer, returns to the Dominican Republic after a lifelong self-imposed exile. Once she is back in her homeland, the elusive feeling of terror that has overshadowed her whole life suddenly takes shape. Urania's own story alternates with the powerful climax of dictator Rafael Tr ...Show more