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A Chapter of Hats and Other Stories
By Joachim Maria Machado de Assis
These stories are beautiful vignettes of nineteenth-century Brazilian life.
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Brodeck's Report
By Philippe Claudel
The Anderer’s murder plays out in the wake of a much, much larger crime against twentieth-century European humanity
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Dreams from the Endz
By Faiza Guene
An engaging snapshot of a rarely seen part of the city, through the eyes of an angry and inspiring young heroine.
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Homesick
By Eshkol Nevo
Noa and Amir share a tiny flat in a remote village, emptied of its Arab inhabitants in 1948 and now the home of Jewish immigrants from Kurdistan.
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The Informers
By Juan Gabriel Vasquez
What secrets does a father's vicious review of his son's book hide?
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The Last Brother
By Natacha Appanah
The Last Brother is a powerful, poetic novel that sheds new light on a little-explored aspect of 20th-century history- Vichy French-occupied Madagascar.
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Our Circus Presents...
By Lucian Dan Teodorovici
A novel of black humour, absurd, self-referential irony, and great sadness from Romanian author Lucian Dan Teodorovici.
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Homage to Czerny
By Gert Jonke
The siblings commission paintings of the garden, which they hang in the exact space represented by them.
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The Twin
By Gerbrand Bakker
An ode to the platteland, the flat and bleak Dutch countryside with its ditches and its cows and its endless grey skies.
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Each month (or thereabouts!) we recommend several novels that we have enjoyed and think you will enjoy as well.
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