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The Grief of Others
Leah Cohen
Is keeping a secret from a spouse an act of infidelity? And what cost does such a secret exact on a ...
The Ryries have suffered a loss: the death of a baby just fifty-seven hours after his birth. Without words to express their grief, the parents, John and Ricky, try to return to their previous lives. Struggling to regain a semblance of normalcy for themselves and for their two older ...
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Lost Memory of Skin
Russell Banks
A mature and masterful work of contemporary fiction from a great American writer.
Suspended in a strangely modern-day version of limbo, a young man must create a life for himself in the wake of incarceration. Known only as the Kid, and on probation after doing time for a liaison with an underage girl, he is shackled to a GPS monitoring device and forbidden to live within 2,500 feet of anywhere ...
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Disaster Was My God
Bruce Duffy
A skilfully imagined novel based on the scandalous and astonishing life of the pioneering, proto-...
In the space of one year, 1871, with a handful of startling poems, Arthur Rimbaud transformed himself from a teenaged bumpkin into the literary sensation of Paris. He was taken in, then taken up, by the older, married poet Paul Verlaine in a passionate affair. When Rimbaud ...
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Wall Of Days
Alastair Bruce
A stunning novel of guilt and loss and remembering
In a world all but drowned, a man called Bran has been living alone on an island for ten years. He was sent there in exile by those whose leader he was, and he tallies on the wall of his cave the days as they pass. Until the day when something happens that kindles in Bran such memories and longing that he persuades himself to return, even if it ...
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Ru
Kim Thuy
A book of rare beauty:Ruis a lullaby of Vietnam and a love letter to a new homeland - and now a ...
Ru: In Vietnamese it means lullaby; in French it is a small stream, but also signifies a flow - of tears, blood, money. Kim Thúy'sRuis literature at its most crystalline: the flow of a life on the tides of unrest and on to more peaceful waters. In ...
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The Grief of Others
Leah Cohen
Is keeping a secret from a spouse always an act of infidelity? And what cost does such a secret ...
The Ryries have suffered a loss: the death of a baby just fifty-seven hours after his birth. Without words to express their grief, the parents, John and Ricky, try to return to their previous lives. Struggling to regain a semblance of normalcy for themselves and ...
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Lost Memory of Skin
Russell Banks
A mature and masterful work of contemporary fiction from a great American writer
Suspended in a strangely modern-day version of limbo, a young man must create a life for himself in the wake of incarceration. Known only as the Kid, and on probation after doing time for a liaison with an underage girl, he is shackled to a GPS monitoring device and forbidden to live within 2,500 feet of anywhere ...
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Alice
Judith Hermann
A work of exceptional power and beauty from one of Europe's finest writers
When someone very close to you dies your whole life changes. Everything is different. Alice is the central figure in these five inter-connected narratives, which tell of her life at times of loss. Suddenly it is no longer possible to say what the person looked like, how he spoke, cursed, smiled, how he lived his life. ...
