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“luis chitarroni”

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  • No Variations

    Journal of an Unfinished Novel

    by Luis Chitarroni ...
    Translated by Darren Koolman ...
    A cryptic, self-negating series of notes for an unfinished work of fiction, this astonishing book is made up of ideas for characters and plot points, anecdotes and tales, literary references both real and invented, and populated by an array of fictional authors and their respective literary cliques, all of whom sport multiple pseudonyms, publish their own literary journals, and produce their own ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Ficciones

    by Jorge Luis Borges ...
    Translated by Anthony Bonner ...
    “These brief Ficciones have to be read one at a time, and slowly; then they throb with uncanny and haunting power.” —The Atlantic MonthlyThe seventeen pieces in Ficciones demonstrate the gargantuan powers of imagination, intelligence, and style of one of the greatest writers of this or any other century.Borges sends us on a journey into a compelling, bizarre, and profoundly resonant realm; we ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

    by Oscar Wilde ...
    Series series Penguin Little Black Classics
    'It would be unfair to expect other people to be as remarkable as oneself'Wilde's celebrated witticisms on the dangers of sincerity, duplicitous biographers, the stupidity of the English - and his own genius.One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

  • The Story of My Teeth

    by Valeria Luiselli ...
    Translated by Christina MacSweeney ...
    Bon vivant, world traveler, auctioneer—the story of Highway and his teeth is like Johnny Cash meets Robert Walser in Mexico.Highway is a late-in-life world traveller, yarn spinner, collector, and legendary auctioneer. His most precious possessions are the teeth of the ‘notorious infamous’ like Plato, Petrarch, and Virginia Woolf. Written in collaboration with the workers at a Jumex juice factory, ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Tunnel

    by Ernesto Sabato ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    Infamous for the murder of Maria Iribarne, the artist Juan Pablo Castel is now writing a detailed account of his relationship with the victim from his prison cell: obsessed from the first moment he saw her examining one of his paintings, Castel had become fixated on her over the next months and fantasized over how they might meet again. When he happened upon her one day, a relationship was formed ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

    You Must Read Before You Die

    by Peter Boxall ...
    Series series 1001
    Completely revised and updated to include the most up-to-date selections, this is a bold and bright reference book to the novels and the writers that have excited the world's imagination. This authoritative selection of novels, reviewed by an international team of writers, critics, academics, and journalists, provides a new take on world classics and a reliable guide to what's hot in contemporary ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • The Bridge of San Luis Rey

    A Novel

    by Thornton Wilder, Tappan Wilder ...
    Series series Perennial Classics
    The authorized, original edition of Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic with a foreword by acclaimed author Russell Banks and an afterword by Wilder's nephew, Tappan Wilder, with illuminating documentary material about the novel and its rich literary history."As close to perfect a moral fable as we are ever likely to get in American literature." —Russell Banks"There are books that ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Portrait of an Unknown Lady

    A Novel

    by Maria Gainza ...
    Translated by Thomas Bunstead ...
    A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceNew York Times Notable author María Gainza, who dazzled critics with Optic Nerve, returns with the captivating story of an auction house employee on the trail of an enigmatic master forgerIn the Buenos Aires art world, a master forger has achieved legendary status. Rumored to be a woman, she specializes in canvases by the painter Mariette Lydis, a ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • I Have More Souls Than One

    by Fernando Pessoa ...
    Series series Penguin Modern
    'But no, she's abstract, is a birdOf sound in the air of air soaring,And her soul sings unencumberedBecause the song's what makes her sing.'Dramatic, lyrical and ranging over four distinct personae, these poems by one of Portugal's greatest poets trace a mind shaken by intense suffering and a tireless search for meaning.Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

  • How to be Well Read

    A guide to 500 great novels and a handful of literary curiosities

    by John Sutherland ...
    'Generous, enjoyable and well informed.' Observer**'500 expertly potted plots and personal comments on a wide range of pop and proper prose fiction.' The Times___________________________________________________________Ranging all the way from Aaron's Rod to Zuleika Dobson, via The Devil Rides Out and Middlemarch, literary connoisseur and sleuth John Sutherland offers his very pers... ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • 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

    $11.19 CAD

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  • Short

    An International Anthology of Five Centuries of Short-Short Stories, Prose Poems, Brief Essays, and Other Short Prose Forms

    Edited by Alan Ziegler ...
    Short offers the tradition and glorious present of these popular forms that stretch and defy genre. From 1500 to present, hundreds of pieces. Inventive, entertaining, and addictive.Short prose forms are elusive to define--one writer's prose poem is another's flash fiction or brief essay. Rather than quibble, Short opts for inclusiveness. Here is a dazzling array: 100s of pieces (under 1250 words) ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD