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The Shape of the Ruins: A Novel

Juan Gabriel Va?squez · Riverhead Books
Pages: 560
Format: Hardcover

A sweeping tale of conspiracy theories, assassinations, and twisted obsessions -- the much anticipated masterpiece from Juan Gabriel Vásquez.The Shape of the Ruins is a masterly story of conspiracy, political obsession, and literary investigation. When a man is arrested at a museum for attempting...
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Romeo and Juliet

William Shakespeare · Penguin Books
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback

The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series, now in a dazzling new series designWinner of the 2016 AIGA Design Observer 50 Books | 50 Covers competitionGold Medal Winner of the 3x3 Illustration Annual No. 14This edition of Romeo and Juliet is edited with an introduction by Peter Holland...
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The Feral Detective: A Novel

JONATHAN LETHEM · Ecco
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Jonathan Lethem's first detective novel since Motherless Brooklyn"One of America's greatest storytellers." - Washington PostPhoebe Siegler first meets Charles Heist in a shabby trailer on the eastern edge of Los Angeles. She's looking for her friend's missing...
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Heart of Darkness

Joseph Conrad · Everyman's Library
Pages: 110
Format: Hardcover

In a novella which remains highly controversial to this day, Conrad explores the relations between Africa and Europe. On the surface, this is a horrifying tale of colonial exploitation. The narrator, Marlowe journeys on business deep into the heart of Africa. But there he encounters Kurtz,...
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The Parade: A novel

Dave Eggers · Knopf
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

From the best-selling author of The Monk of Mokha, a spare, powerful story of two men, Western contractors sent to work far from home, tasked with paving a road to the capital in a dangerous and largely lawless country.Four and Five are partners, working for the same company, sent without...
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Still Lives: A Novel

Maria Hummel · Counterpoint LLC
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

A young editor at a Los Angeles art museum finds herself pulled into the strange and disturbing world of a famous artist who goes missing on the opening night of her exhibition Kim Lord is a giant in the Los Angeles art scene: avant garde figure, feminist icon, and agent provocateur. And her new exhibition...
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A Terrible Country: A Novel

KEITH GESSEN · Viking
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

"A cause for celebration: big-hearted, witty, warm, compulsively readable, earnest, funny, full of that kind of joyful sadness I associate with Russia and its writers." - George Saunders, Man Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the BardoA literary triumph about Russia,...
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