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French Fiction

Proust, Roman Familial by Laure Murat (2023)

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Laure Murat, a historian, essayist, and professor of literature in Los Angeles, has crafted a unique hybrid text that combines elements of a literary essay, tribute, and an intimate familial…

French Fiction

Sarah, Susanne et l’écrivain by Eric Reinhardt (2023)

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In this book, the author embarks on a unique narrative journey intertwined with the confidences of a reader named Sarah, who has endured a harrowing experience due to her husband.…

Russian Fiction

Bobo by Linor Goralik (2022)

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The novel, written from the perspective of a teenage elephant named Bobo, is set in 2022, opening just after the invasion of Ukraine by Russian troops on February 24. Interlacing…

Hebrew Fiction

Rosenfeld by Maya Kessler (2022)

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Noa Simon is an aspiring filmmaker who meets businessmen Richard Harrington and Teddy Rosenfeld, both in their 50s, at her friend’s wedding. They are impressed with her filmmaking skills and…

Korean Fiction

Healing Season of Pottery by Yeon Somin (2022)

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A book about self-discovery at thirty years old, it is a simple story about a woman who quits an unsatisfying job as a junior TV screenwriter, joins a ceramics studio,…

Danish Fiction

Penge på lommen (Money To Burn) by Asta Olivia Nordenhof (2020)

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Money To Burn is the first novel in a series of seven volumes currently in progress, all revolving around the murder case on the ship Scandinavian Star in 1990, which…

UK Fiction

Universality by Natasha Brown (2024)

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The novel opens with a journalistic account of a crime. One evening at a countryside farmhouse in the lockdown of 2020, a young man, Jake, bludgeoned another, Pegasus, with a…

Italian Fiction

Cuore Nero (Black Heart) by Silvia Avallone (2024)

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In this novel the reader is transported into a captivating narrative that gracefully alternates between the past and the present, unfolding the life of Emilia, a woman who has endured…

UK Fiction

Open, Heaven by Seán Hewitt (2024)

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The book opens with a middle-aged librarian coming across an advertisement for the sale of a farm in the north of England where he grew up and he decides to…

German Fiction

Echtzeitalter (Realtimes) by Tonio Schachinger (2023)

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The Marianum in Vienna has been one of Austria’s elite boarding schools for as long as anyone can remember. Till Kokorda doesn’t expect much from the school when he starts…

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