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The Saddest Pleasure

A Journey on Two Rivers

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Abruptly expelled from his farm in Ecuador at the age of sixty-two, Moritz Thomsen indulges in that saddest of pleasures – travel – taking a trip to Brazil and ultimately a journey up the great Amazon River by boat.Assaulted by ghosts and memories at every turn, as his journey unfolds he re-examines his life to understand how he came to be living a life of self-imposed poverty and hardship. ... Read more

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Abruptly expelled from his farm in Ecuador at the age of sixty-two, Moritz Thomsen indulges in that saddest of pleasures – travel – taking a trip to Brazil and ultimately a journey up the great Amazon River by boat.Assaulted by ghosts and memories at every turn, as his journey unfolds he re-examines his life to understand how he came to be living a life of self-imposed poverty and hardship.
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On The Plain Of Snakes

A Mexican Journey

by Paul Theroux ...

The legendary travel writer drives the entire length of the US–Mexico border, then takes the back roads of Chiapas and Oaxaca, to uncover the rich, layered world behind the everyday headlines. Paul Theroux has spent his life crisscrossing the globe in search of the histories and peoples that give life to the places they call home. Now, as immigration debates boil around the world, Theroux has set ... Read more

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The legendary travel writer drives the entire length of the US–Mexico border, then takes the back roads of Chiapas and Oaxaca, to uncover the rich, layered world behind the everyday headlines. Paul Theroux has spent his life crisscrossing the globe in search of the histories and peoples that give life to the places they call home. Now, as immigration debates boil around the world, Theroux has set
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Only to Sleep

A Philip Marlowe Novel

by Lawrence Osborne ...

Lawrence Osborne brings one of literature’s most enduring detectives back to life—as Private Investigator Philip Marlowe returns for one last adventure.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND NPR • NOMINATED FOR THE EDGAR AND SHAMUS AWARDSThe year is 1988. The place, Baja California. And Philip Marlowe—now in his seventy-second year—is living out his ... Read more

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Lawrence Osborne brings one of literature’s most enduring detectives back to life—as Private Investigator Philip Marlowe returns for one last adventure.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND NPR • NOMINATED FOR THE EDGAR AND SHAMUS AWARDSThe year is 1988. The place, Baja California. And Philip Marlowe—now in his seventy-second year—is living out his
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Havana Fever

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Translated by Peter Bush ...

Series series Mario Conde Investigates
Padura’s best novel. Assured in pace and style. A suspenseful mystery, a cruel family saga and an ode to literature and his beloved island, all rolled into one. 2. The titles in the Havana Quartet, Havana Red, Havana Black, Havana Blue and Havana Gold were widely praised in the US and the UK and are in their third reprints. They are Bitter Lemon’s best selling titles with sales of over 70,000. 3. ... Read more

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Padura’s best novel. Assured in pace and style. A suspenseful mystery, a cruel family saga and an ode to literature and his beloved island, all rolled into one. 2. The titles in the Havana Quartet, Havana Red, Havana Black, Havana Blue and Havana Gold were widely praised in the US and the UK and are in their third reprints. They are Bitter Lemon’s best selling titles with sales of over 70,000. 3.
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In the Night of Time

A Novel

by Antonio Muñoz Molina ...

Translated by Edith Grossman ...

A Washington Post Best Book of the Year: A "hypnotic" novel of the Spanish Civil War and one man's quest to escape it (Colm Tóibín, The New York Review of Books).October 1936. Spanish architect Ignacio Abel arrives at Penn Station, the final stop on his journey from war-torn Madrid, where he has left behind his wife and children, abandoning them to uncertainty. Crossing the fragile borders of ... Read more

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A Washington Post Best Book of the Year: A "hypnotic" novel of the Spanish Civil War and one man's quest to escape it (Colm Tóibín, The New York Review of Books).October 1936. Spanish architect Ignacio Abel arrives at Penn Station, the final stop on his journey from war-torn Madrid, where he has left behind his wife and children, abandoning them to uncertainty. Crossing the fragile borders of
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Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure

by Michael Palin ...

A winning combination of No.1 travel writer Michael Palin and one of the great literary figures of the century.When Michael Palin was researching for his novel HEMINGWAY'S CHAIR his interest was stimulated by Hemingway's appetite for travel and 'Papa's' evocations of the places he knew. Hemingway remains a compelling figure, and Palin's goal was to revisit Hemingway's world.This book includes the ... Read more

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A winning combination of No.1 travel writer Michael Palin and one of the great literary figures of the century.When Michael Palin was researching for his novel HEMINGWAY'S CHAIR his interest was stimulated by Hemingway's appetite for travel and 'Papa's' evocations of the places he knew. Hemingway remains a compelling figure, and Palin's goal was to revisit Hemingway's world.This book includes the
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Havana Gold

The Havana Quartet

by Leonardo Padura ...

Translated by Peter Bush ...

Series series Mario Conde Investigates
Scorching novel from a star of Cuban fiction. The fourth of the Havana Quartet series. ... Read more

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Scorching novel from a star of Cuban fiction. The fourth of the Havana Quartet series.
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The Motorcycle Diaries

Notes on a Latin American Journey

by Ernesto Che Guevara ...

Series series The Che Guevara Library
A New York Times bestsellerWith a new introduction by The Motorcyle Diaries filmmaker Walter Salles, and featuring 24 pages of photos taken by Che.The Motorcycle Diaries is Che Guevara's diary of his journey to discover the continent of Latin America while still a medical student, setting out in 1952 on a vintage Norton motorcycle together with his friend Alberto Granado, a biochemist. It captures ... Read more

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A New York Times bestsellerWith a new introduction by The Motorcyle Diaries filmmaker Walter Salles, and featuring 24 pages of photos taken by Che.The Motorcycle Diaries is Che Guevara's diary of his journey to discover the continent of Latin America while still a medical student, setting out in 1952 on a vintage Norton motorcycle together with his friend Alberto Granado, a biochemist. It captures
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Transparent City

by Ondjaki ...

Translated by Stephen Henighan ...

Series Book 22 - Biblioasis International Translation Series
NOMINATED FOR THE 2019 BEST TRANSLATED BOOK AWARDA VANITY FAIR HOT TYPE BOOK FOR APRIL 2018A VULTURE MUST-READ TRANSLATED BOOK FROM THE PAST 5 YEARSA GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF 2018A LIT HUB FAVOURITE BOOK OF THE YEARA WORLD LITERATURE TODAY NOTABLE TRANSLATION OF 2018In a crumbling apartment bloc... ... Read more

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NOMINATED FOR THE 2019 BEST TRANSLATED BOOK AWARDA VANITY FAIR HOT TYPE BOOK FOR APRIL 2018A VULTURE MUST-READ TRANSLATED BOOK FROM THE PAST 5 YEARSA GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF 2018A LIT HUB FAVOURITE BOOK OF THE YEARA WORLD LITERATURE TODAY NOTABLE TRANSLATION OF 2018In a crumbling apartment bloc...
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Riding the Rails with Paul Theroux

The Great Railway Bazaar, The Old Patagonian Express, and Ghost Train to the Eastern Star

by Paul Theroux ...

The international bestselling author records his many insights and adventures traversing the world by train in these 3 classic travel memoirs.The Great Railway BazaarIn 1973, Paul Theroux embarked on his now-legendary journey from the United Kingdom through Europe, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. Asia's fabled trains—the Orient Express, the Khyber Pass Local, the Frontier Mail, the Golden ... Read more

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The international bestselling author records his many insights and adventures traversing the world by train in these 3 classic travel memoirs.The Great Railway BazaarIn 1973, Paul Theroux embarked on his now-legendary journey from the United Kingdom through Europe, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. Asia's fabled trains—the Orient Express, the Khyber Pass Local, the Frontier Mail, the Golden
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In the Beginning Was the Sea

by Tomas Gonzalez ...

Translated by Frank Wynne ...

Series series Pushkin Collection
The first-ever English translation of the classic Latin American novel—dubbed ‘Sisyphus in the Caribbean’—for fans of Paul Theroux’s Mosquito Coast and Alex Garland’s The Beach.A couple experiences a downward spiral on the Caribbean coast in this “taut, uncompromising study of the fault lines in all of us,” hailed as “‘the best-kept secret of Colombian literature’” (The Guardian).The young ... Read more

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The first-ever English translation of the classic Latin American novel—dubbed ‘Sisyphus in the Caribbean’—for fans of Paul Theroux’s Mosquito Coast and Alex Garland’s The Beach.A couple experiences a downward spiral on the Caribbean coast in this “taut, uncompromising study of the fault lines in all of us,” hailed as “‘the best-kept secret of Colombian literature’” (The Guardian).The young
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Bibliolepsy

by Gina Apostol ...

Moving, sexy, and archly funny, Gina Apostol’s Philippine National Book Award-winning Bibliolepsy is a love letter to the written word and a brilliantly unorthodox look at the rebellion that brought down a dictatorshipGina Apostol’s debut novel, available for the first time in the US, tells of a young woman caught between a lifelong desire to escape into books and a real-world revolution.It is the ... Read more

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Moving, sexy, and archly funny, Gina Apostol’s Philippine National Book Award-winning Bibliolepsy is a love letter to the written word and a brilliantly unorthodox look at the rebellion that brought down a dictatorshipGina Apostol’s debut novel, available for the first time in the US, tells of a young woman caught between a lifelong desire to escape into books and a real-world revolution.It is the
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