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“agneta pleijel”

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  • Sister and Brother

    A Family Story

    by Agneta Pleijel ...
    Translated by Harald Hille ...
    In this historical narrative, Swedish novelist Agneta Pleijel follows the lives of two ancestors, a sister and brother, each of whom played a role in the cultural life of Stockholm in the 19th century. Using old letters, records, and stories passed down through her family, Pleijel imagines the lives of her great-grandfather, Albert Berg (1832–1916), and his younger sister, Helena Berg Petre (1834 ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • A Fortune Foretold

    A Novel

    by Agneta Pleijel ...
    Agneta Pleijel writes a painful yet humorous autobiographical novel about childhood in the aftermath of World War II.A prophecy is received by a beloved aunt, a prophecy that her young niece eagerly waits to see fulfilled.The story takes place in the 1950s in the suburbs of Stockholm, in the university town of Lund, and in the United States. Neta’s childhood is in disarray. She reads—words give ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Tin Drum

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  • Someone's Uncle

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    by Alison Espach ...
    Alison Espach, acclaimed author of The Adults, brings her razor sharp insight and storytelling magic to bear in this entrancing tale. ... Read more

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  • Life: A User's Manual

    by Georges Perec ...
    Translated by David Bellos ...
    Series series Verba Mundi International Literature Series
    The renowned French author's modern masterpiece: "one of the great novels of the century . . . on the level of Joyce, Proust, Mann, Kafka, and Nabokov" ( Boston Globe).Structured around a single moment in time—8:00 p.m. on June 23, 1975—Georges Perec's "elaborate jigsaw puzzle of a novel" begins in an apartment block in Paris where, chapter by chapter, room by room, a rich cast of characters is ... Read more

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  • The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis

    by Lydia Davis ...
    The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis is an event in American letters.Lydia Davis is one of our most original and influential writers. She has been called "an American virtuoso of the short story form" (Salon) and "one of the quiet giants . . . of American fiction" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Now, for the first time, Davis's short stories are collected in one volume, from the groundbreaking ... Read more

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  • Green Girl

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    by Kate Zambreno ...
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    by Mary McCarthy ...
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    by Margaret Wild ...
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    by W. G. Sebald ...
    Translated by Michael Hulse ...
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  • Afflictions & Departures

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    Afflictions & Departures is a collection of first-person experiential essays by writer and academic Madeline Sonik. Although Sonik explores some of the salient personal experiences of her young life, the essays in Afflictions & Departures are not traditional memoir. In addition to incidents and feelings recaptured from memory, Sonik seeks out connections between the microcosm of of the daily ... Read more

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