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• Snakes and Earrings

  Kanehara, Hitomi, 1983-

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  Snakes and Earrings won't get you arrested, but as you flip these pages, don't be surprised if you're looking over your shoulder. Hitomi Kanehara fearlessly takes us into a world as inexplicable as Narnia and conveys us with graceful tenacity into…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Apartment Women

  a Novel

  Ku, Pyŏng-mo, 1976-

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  Apartment Women traces the lives of four women in the apartments, all with different aspirations and beliefs. A trenchant social novel from an award-winning author, Apartment Women incisively illuminates the unspoken imbalance of women's parenting…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Invoice

  a Novel

  Karlsson, Jonas, 1971-

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  An unassuming, Swedish, part-time video store clerk receives an invoice in the amount of 5.7 million kronor to pay for every one of his life experiences.

• Dept. of Speculation

  Offill, Jenny, 1968-

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  Dept. of Speculation is a portrait of a marriage. It is also a beguiling rumination on the mysteries of intimacy, trust, faith, knowledge, and the condition of universal shipwreck that unites us all.

• The Vegetarian

  a Novel

  Han, Kang, 1970-

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  The Vegetarian is a novel about modern day South Korea, but also a novel about shame, desire and our faltering attempts to understand others, from one imprisoned body to another.

• A Pale View of Hills

  Ishiguro, Kazuo, 1954-

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  From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Here is the story of Etsuko, a Japanese woman now living alone in England, dwelling on the recent suicide of her daughter. In a novel where past and present confuse, she relives scenes of Japan's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fever Dream

  a Novel

  Schweblin, Samanta, 1978-

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  Fever Dream is a nightmare come to life, a ghost story for the real world, a love story and a cautionary tale.

• What Belongs to You

  Greenwell, Garth

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  What Belongs to You is a stunning debut about an American expat struggling with his own complicated inheritance while navigating a foreign culture.

• Margaret the First

  Dutton, Danielle, 1975-

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  Margaret the First dramatizes the life of Margaret Cavendish, the shy, gifted, and wildly unconventional 17th-century Duchess.

• SIGNS PRECEDING THE END OF THE WORLD

  Herrera, Yuri, 1970-

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  In this book, Yuri Herrera does not simply write about the border between Mexico and the United States and those who cross it. He explores the crossings and translations people make in their minds and language as they move from one country to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The House on Mango Street

  Cisneros, Sandra,

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  The set of vignettes charts the life of young Mexican-American girl Esperanza, as she grows during the year, both physically and emotionally.

• Mrs. Caliban

  Ingalls, Rachel

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  This is a deceptively simple tale of a housewife who falls in love with a mysterious creature who has escaped and is on the run from a government lab.

• Convenience Store Woman

  Murata, Sayaka, 1979-

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  Keiko Furukura had always been considered a strange child, and her parents always worried how she would get on in the real world, so when she takes on a job in a convenience store while at university, they are delighted for her.

• THE DAYS OF ABANDONMENT.

  Ferrante, Elena

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  Rarely have the foundations upon which our ideas of motherhood and womanhood rest been so candidly questioned. This compelling novel tells the story of one woman's headlong descent into what she calls an "absence of sense" after being abandoned by…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• SUCH SMALL HANDS

  Barba, Andrés, 1975-

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  Life changes at the orphanage the day seven-year-old Marina shows up. As Marina struggles to find her place, she invents a game whose rules are dictated by a haunting violence. Written in hypnotic, lyrical prose, alternating between Marina's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Buddha in the Attic

  Otsuka, Julie, 1962-

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  Presents the stories of six Japanese mail-order brides whose new lives in early twentieth-century San Francisco are marked by backbreaking migrant work, cultural struggles, children who reject their heritage, and the prospect of wartime internment.

• Sula

  Morrison, Toni

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  In clear, dark, resonant language, Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison brilliantly evokes not only a bond between two lives, but the harsh, loveless, ultimately mad world in which that bond is destroyed, the world of the Bottom and its people.

• Grief Is the Thing With Feathers

  Porter, Max,

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  In a London flat, two young boys face the unbearable sadness of their mother's sudden death.

• Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?

  Moore, Lorrie,

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  The summer Berie was fifteen, she and her best friend Sils had jobs at Storyland in upstate New York, where Berie sold tickets to see the beautiful Sils portray Cinderella in a strapless evening gown.

• The Bookshop

  Fitzgerald, Penelope

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  A middle-aged widow, Florence Green, decides to open a bookstore in a five-hundred-year-old house in her small English town. She makes a noble start but is thwarted by Violet Gamart, who wants to convert "Old House" into an arts centre.