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Of love and other demons
1,500 LNobel Prize winner and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez blends the natural with supernatural in Of Love and Other Demons – a novel which explores community, superstition and collective hysteria.
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The rebel
1,650 LA philosophical exploration of the idea of ‘rebellion’ by one of the leading existentialist thinkers, Albert Camus’ The Rebel looks at artistic and political rebels throughout history, from Epicurus to the Marquis de Sade. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is translated by Anthony Bower with an introduction by Oliver Todd.
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Pale fire
1,650 LA novel constructed around the last great poem of a fictional American poet, John Shade, and an account of his death. The poem appears in full and the narrative develops through the lengthy, and increasingly eccentric, notes by his posthumous editor.
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A happy death
2,000 LIs it possible to die a happy death? This is the central question of Camus’s astonishing early novel, published posthumously and greeted as a major literary event. It tells the story of a young Algerian, Mersault, who defies society’s rules by committing a murder and escaping punishment, then experimenting with different ways of life and finally dying a happy man.
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The first man
1,700 LThe incomplete manuscript of The First Man, which Camus had referred to as “the novel of my maturity,” was found in a mud-spattered briefcase near the wreckage of the car in which Camus died in January of 1960, when he was forty-six. Partly a novel of childhood and partly an epic narrative of his beloved Algeria, The First Man was intended to re-create Camus’s homeland– then still a colony in a traumatic struggle for independence– for the mainland French.
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What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
1,600 LIn 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Murakami began running to keep fit.
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The Fall
1,500 LA philosophical novel described by fellow existentialist Sartre as ‘perhaps the most beautiful and the least understood’ of his novels, Albert Camus’ The Fall is translated by Robin Buss in Penguin Modern Classics.
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Spring Flowers, Spring Frost
1,650 LFrom behind the closed door, the man shouts, Be on your way – you have no business hereOpen up, I am the messenger of Death.
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Concert
1,750 LIt’s the 1970s and cracks are starting to appear in the alliance between China and its Communist cohort Albania.
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Before we say goodbye
1,800 LIn the hauntingly beautiful Before We Say Goodbye, Kawaguchi invites us to join his characters as they embark on a journey to revisit one crucial moment in time
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Before your memory fades
1,650 LCatch up on the rest of the series set in the charming Tokyo cafe Funiculi Funicula, with Before the Coffee Gets Cold, Tales from the Cafe and Before We Say Goodbye.
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Before the coffee gets cold-Tales from café
1,600 LThis beautiful, simple tale tells the story of people who must face up to their past, in order to move on with their lives. Kawaguchi once again invites the reader to ask themselves: what would you change if you could travel back in time?
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Before the coffee gets cold
1,800 LToshikazu Kawaguchi’s beautiful, moving story – translated from Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot – explores the age-old question: what would you change if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe for one last time?
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Catch 22
1,650 LCatch-22 is a satirical war novel by American author Joseph Heller. It is his debut novel. He began writing it in 1953; the novel was first published in 1961.
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