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"By day Ogata Shingo is troubled by small failures of memory. At night he hears a distant rumble from the nearby mountain, a sound he associates with death. In between......
"Everyone in Shaker Heights was talking about it that summer: how Isabelle, the last of the Richardson children, had finally gone around the bend and burned the house down. In......
"A compulsively readable and touching novel about misplaced genius and a mother and daughter's role in an absurd world. Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she's a fearlessly......
"One of the most important and controversial writers of the 20th century, Knut Hamsun made literary history with the publication in 1890 of this powerful, autobiographical novel recounting the abject......
"Do you know your desert-island, all-time, top five most memorable split-ups? Rob does. He keeps a list, in fact. But Laura isn't on it - even though she's just become......
"The classic love-triangle, Husband-Wife-Mistress, is masterfully built, decoded, and deconstructed in Carmen Firan’s writing. This story, divided in 3 parts, gives each character the chance to have his/her own say......