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Boulder

Baltasar, Eva2022
Books, Manuscripts
Working as a cook on a merchant ship, a woman comes to know and love Samsa, a woman who gives her the nickname 'Boulder'. When Samsa gets a job in Reykjavik and the couple decides to move there together, Samsa decides that she wants to have a child. She is already forty and can't bear to let the ...
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Bound to violence

Ouologuem, Yambo, 1940-2024
Books, Manuscripts
Envisioned as a criticism of and insider's guide to African history, this dark, pugancious epic, spanning the thirteenth to the twentieth centuries, recounts the fate of the imaginary empire of Nakem. With its acerbic pen portraits of the dynasty of devious, asp-wielding Saifs who reign in Nakem;...
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The box man

Abe, Kobo, 1924-19932020
Books, Manuscripts
A nameless protagonist gives up his identity & the trappings of normal life to live in a large cardboard box he wears over his head. Wandering the streets of Tokyo & scribbling on the inside walls of the box, he describes the world outside as he sees it.
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The boy and the dog

Hase, Seishu, 1965-2022
Books, Manuscripts
Following a devastating earthquake and tsunami, a young man in Japan finds a stray dog outside a convenience store. The dog's tag says 'Tamon', a name evocative of the guardian deity of the north. The man decides to keep Tamon, becoming the first in a series of owners as the dog journeys south to...
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Boys who hurt

Eva Bjorg AEgisdottir, 1988-2024
Books, Manuscripts
Fresh from maternity leave, Detective Elma finds herself confronted with a complex case, when a man is found murdered in a holiday cottage in the depths of the Icelandic countryside - the victim of a frenzied knife attack, with a shocking message scrawled on the wall above him. At home with their...
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Breaking point

Norek, Olivier2023
Books, Manuscripts
When a routine kidnapping case goes badly wrong, Capitaine Vincent Coste breaks his golden rule: he starts to take things personally. And with his career hanging by a thread - his resignation letter parked in his superior's desk draw - he is plunged into his most testing ordeal yet. A raid on the...
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Breasts and eggs

Kawakami, Mieko, 1976-2021
Books, Manuscripts
On a hot summer's day in a poor suburb of Tokyo we meet three women: thirty-year-old Natsuko, her older sister Makiko, and Makiko's teenage daughter Midoriko. Makiko, an ageing hostess despairing the loss of her looks, has travelled to Tokyo in search of breast enhancement surgery. She's accompan...
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Breasts and eggs

Kawakami, Mieko, 1976-2020
Books, Manuscripts
A strange and beguiling novel about three women struggling to determine their own lives in contemporary Tokyo, from Japan's most exciting young writer, Mieko Kawakami.
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A bucket list to die for

Fouchet, Lorraine2021
Books, Manuscripts
Lou suffers from a rare type of dementia and dies in her fifties. She leaves behind a message in a bottle, charging her husband with a challenging task: he has two months to reunite their patchwork family whose members have fallen out with each other. Joe can't wait to get his hands on the bottle...
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Burning secret

Zweig, Stefan, 1881-19422017
Books, Manuscripts
'Burning Secret' is set in an Austrian sanatorium in the 1920s where a lonely 12-year-old is befriended and is infatuated by a suave, mysterious baron. When his adored friend heartlessly brushes him aside and turns his seductive attentions to his mother, the boy's jealousy and feelings of betraya...
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