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The Girls Of Slender Means

by Muriel Spark

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 "Long ago in 1945 all the nice people in England were poor, allowing for exceptions," begins The Girls of Slender Means, Dame Muriel Spark's tragic and rapier-witted portrait of a London ladies' hostel just emerging from the shadow of World War II. Like the May of Teck Club itself—"three times window shattered since 1940 but never directly hit"—its lady inhabitants do their best to act as if the world were back to normal: practicing elocution, and jostling over suitors and a single Schiaparelli gown. The novel's harrowing ending reveals that the girls' giddy literary and amorous peregrinations are hiding some tragically painful war wounds. Chosen by Anthony Burgess as one of the Best Modern Novels in the Sunday Times of London, The Girls of Slender Means is a taut and eerily perfect novel by an author The New York Times has called "one of this century's finest creators of comic-metaphysical entertainment."
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I Served The King Of England

by Bohumil Hrabal

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 In a comic masterpiece following the misadventures of a simple but hugely ambitious waiter in pre-World War II Prague, who rises to wealth only to lose everything with the onset of Communism, Bohumil Hrabal takes us on a tremendously funny and satirical trip through 20th-century Czechoslovakia. First published in 1971 in a typewritten edition, then finally printed in book form in 1989, I Served the King of England is "an extraordinary and subtly tragicomic novel" (The New York Times), telling the tale of Ditie, a hugely ambitious but simple waiter in a deluxe Prague hotel in the years before World War II. Ditie is called upon to serve not the King of England, but Haile Selassie. It is one of the great moments in his life. Eventually, he falls in love with a Nazi woman athlete as the Germans are invading Czechoslovakia. After the war, through the sale of valuable stamps confiscated from the Jews, he reaches the heights of his ambition, building a hotel. He becomes a millionaire, but with the institution of communism, he loses everything and is sent to inspect mountain roads. Living in dreary circumstances, Ditie comes to terms with the inevitability of his death, and with his place in history.
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Cronopios And Famas

by Julio Cortázar

14,55€ + 10% CARD

 Cronopios and Famas is one of the best-loved books by Julio Cortázar, one of the greatest of Latin American novelists. "The Instruction Manual," the first chapter, is an absurd assortment of tasks and items dissected in an instruction-manual format. "Unusual Occupations," the second chapter, describes the obsessions and predilections of the narrator's family, including the lodging of a tiger-just one tiger- "for the sole purpose of seeing the mechanism at work in all its complexity." Finally, the "Cronopios and Famas" section delightfully characterizes, in the words of Carlos Fuentes, "those enemies of pomposity, academic rigor mortis and cardboard celebrity-a band of literary Marx Brothers." As the Saturday Review remarked: "Each page of Cronopios and Famas sparkles with vivid satire that goes to the heart of human character and, in the best pieces, to the essence of the human condition."
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62 - A Model Kit

by Julio Cortázar

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 First published in English in 1972 and long out of print, 62: A Model Kit is Julio Cortázar's brilliant, intricate blueprint for life in the so-called "City." As one of the main characters, the intellectual Juan, puts it: to one person the City might appear as Paris, to another it might be where one goes upon getting out of bed in Barcelona; to another it might appear as a beer hall in Oslo. This cityscape, as Carlos Fuentes describes it, "seems drawn up by the Marx Brothers with an assist from Bela Lugosi!" It is the meeting place for a wild assortment of bohemians in a novel described by The New York Times as "Deeply touching, enjoyable, beautifully written and fascinatingly mysterious." Library Journal has said 62: A Model Kit is "a highly satisfying work by one of the most extraordinary writers of our time."
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Da Vinci'S Bicycle

by Guy Davenport

15,46€ + 10% CARD

 Esteemed writer and translator Guy Davenport's brilliant story collectionfirst published in 1979is recognized today as a classic of American fiction. Written with tremendous wit, intelligence, and verve, the stories are based on historical figures whose endeavors were too early, too late, or went against the grain of their time.
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The Bachelors: Novel

by Muriel Spark

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The Memoirs Of A Shy Pornographer: Novel

by Kenneth Patchen

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 The saga of Alfred Budd of Bivalve, New Jersey, a Candide-like innocent and part-time pornographer.
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All Souls

by Javier Marías

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The Governesses

by Anne (New Directions) Serre

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The Armies

by Evelio Rosero

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The Real Life Of Sebastian Knight

by Vladimir Nabokov

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Against The Forgetting

by Hans Faverey

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Denise Levertov - Selected Poems

by Denise Levertov

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The Accompanist

by Marian Schwartz e Nina Berbérova

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Journal And Letters Of Philip Vickers Fithian, 1773-74, A Plantation Tutor Of The Old Dominion

by Philip Vickers Fithian

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Ghosts

by Chris Andrews e César Aira

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Cat On A Hot Tin Roof

by Tennessee Williams

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Conversations In Sicily

by Élio Vittorini

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The Tattered Cloak And Other Stories

by Marian Schwartz e Nina Berbérova

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Crossings

by Chuang Hua

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 A powerful story of one womanâ€™s displacement between cultures and traditions â€" a landmark in Asian-American literature.

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