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“daniel guebel”

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  • The Jewish Son

    A Novel

    by Daniel Guebel ...
    Translated by Jessica Sequeira ...
    A breathtaking short novel about the complicated feelings of hate and pity in familial love by an acknowledged Latin American master.A brilliant and dark tour de force, Jewish Son presents the delicate archeology of the stubbornness of a boy who demands his parents’ attention. It is a brutal confession of the lies necessary to win a space of approval in a troubled family, a treatise on the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Absolute

    by Daniel Guebel ...
    Translated by Jessica Sequeira ...
    Winner....Premio Municipal de la Novela 2021Premio Nacional de Literatura Argentina 2018Premio Literario de la Academia Argentina de Letras 2017Best Novel Award by La Nación 2016A provocative multigenerational exploration of creative genius, madness, and family relationships. With the ambition and density of style of Vladimir Nabokov or Olga Tokarczuk, this is a story bo... ... Read more

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    Essays

    by Leslie Jamison ...
    From personal loss to phantom diseases, The Empathy Exams is a bold and brilliant collection, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction PrizeA Publishers Weekly Top Ten Essay Collection of Spring 2014Beginning with her experience as a medical actor who was paid to act out symptoms for medical students to diagnose, Leslie Jamison's visceral and revealing essays ask essential questions about our basic ... Read more

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  • When We Cease to Understand the World

    by Benjamin Labatut ...
    Translated by Adrian Nathan West ...
    **One of The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of 2021Shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize and the 2021 National Book Award for Translated LiteratureA fictional examination of the lives of real-life scientists and thinkers whose discoveries resulted in moral consequences beyond their imagining.**When We Cease to Understand the World is a book about the complicated links ... Read more

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  • My Bright Abyss

    Meditation of a Modern Believer

    by Christian Wiman ...
    Seven years ago, Christian Wiman, a well-known poet and the editor of Poetry magazine, wrote a now-famous essay about having faith in the face of death. My Bright Abyss, composed in the difficult years since and completed in the wake of a bone marrow transplant, is a moving meditation on what a viable contemporary faith—responsive not only to modern thought and science but also to religious ... Read more

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  • If On A Winter's Night A Traveler

    by Italo Calvino ...
    "You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel...Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. Let the world around you fade." —from If On A Winter's Night a TravelerItalo Calvino's stunning classic imagines a novel capable of endless possibilities in an intricately crafted, spellbinding story about writing and reading.If on a Winter's Night a Traveler is a feat of striking ingenuity ... Read more

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  • Beauty is Convulsive: The Passion of Frida Kahlo

    by Carole Maso ...
    Beauty is Convulsive is a biographical meditation on one of the twentieth century's most compelling and famous artists, Frida Kahlo (1907-1954). At the age of nineteen, Kahlo's life was transformed when the bus in which she was riding was hit by a trolley car. Pierced by a steel handrail and broken in many places, she entered a long period of convalescence during which she began to paint self ... Read more

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  • How to Travel with a Salmon

    And Other Essays

    by Umberto Eco ...
    "Impishly witty and ingeniously irreverent" essays on topics from cell phones to librarians, by the author of The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum ( The Atlantic Monthly).A cosmopolitan curmudgeon the Los Angeles Times called "the Andy Rooney of academia"—known for both nonfiction and novels that have become blockbuster New York Times bestsellers—Umberto Eco takes readers on "a delightful ... Read more

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  • Comemadre

    by Roque Larraquy ...
    Translated by Heather Cleary ...
    Literary Latin American Flatliners: a smart, engrossing, and darkly funny novel experimenting with where life and love begin and end.On the outskirts of Buenos Aires in 1907, Doctor Quintana pines for head nurse Menéndez while he and his colleagues embark on a grisly series of experiments to investigate the line between life and death. One hundred years later, a celebrated artist goes to extremes ... Read more

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  • Lost in Translation

    A Life in a New Language

    by Eva Hoffman ...
    Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language by Eva Hoffman (107,000 words)The late poet and memoirist Czeslaw Milosz wrote, "I am enchanted. This book is graceful and profound."Since its publication in 1989, many other readers across the world have been enchanted by Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language, a classic of exile and immigrant literature, as well as a girl’s coming-of-age ... Read more

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  • A Luminous Republic

    by Andrés Barba ...
    Translated by Lisa Dillman ...
    A literary novel about the arrival of feral children to a tropical city in Argentina, and the quest to stop them from pulling the place into chaos.San Cristóbal was an unremarkable city—small, newly prosperous, contained by rain forest and river. But then the children arrived.No one knew where they came from: thirty-two kids, seemingly born of the jungle, speaking an unknown language. At first ... Read more

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  • We

    by Yevgeny Zamyatin, Clarence Brown ...
    Translated by Clarence Brown ...
    The exhilarating dystopian novel that inspired George Orwell's 1984 and foreshadowed the worst excesses of Soviet RussiaYevgeny Zamyatin's We is a powerfully inventive vision that has influenced writers from George Orwell to Ayn Rand. In a glass-enclosed city of absolute straight lines, ruled over by the all-powerful 'Benefactor', the citizens of the totalitarian society of OneState live out lives ... Read more

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