Book type: fiction (6199)
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Kristin Lavransdatter : (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Sigrid Undset EN
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“[Sigrid Undset] should be the next Elena Ferrante.” —Slate The turbulent historical masterpiece of Norway’s literary master A Penguin Classic In her great historical epic Kristin Lavransdatter, set in fourteenth-century Norway, Nobel laureate Sigrid Undset tells the life story of one passionate and headstrong woman. Painting a richly detailed backdrop, Undset immerses readers in the day-to-day life, social conventions, and political and religious undercurrents of the period. Now in one volume, Tiina Nunnally’s award-winning definitive translation brings this remarkable work to life with clari... continue
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Kumukanda by Kayombo Chingonyi EN
ZambiaDescription:
*Winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize 2018* *Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award 2018* 'A brilliant debut - a tender, nostalgic and, at times, darkly hilarious exploration of black boyhood, masculinity and grief. A gorgeous and necessary collection from one of my favourite writers' Warsan Shire Translating as 'initiation', kumukanda is the name given to the rites a young boy from the Luvale tribe must pass through before he is considered a man. The poems of Kayo Chingonyi's remarkable debut explore this passage: between two worlds, ancestral and contemporary; between the living and the dead; betw... continue
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Kundo Wakes Up by Saad Z. Hossain EN
Country: Asia / 
Bangladesh
Bangladesh
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Saad Z. Hossain's Kundo Wakes Up is a companion to the Ignyte and Locus Award-Nominated novella The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday. Hundreds of miles away from the techno-utopia of Kathmandu, the all-powerful, all-seeing AI known as Karma has gone silent, leaving the dying city of Chittagong—along with all its remaining residents—to continue its inexorable fall into the sea. Kundo, once a famous artist with the Karma points to prove it, goes searching for his missing wife, only to uncover more inexplicable disappearances. And so Kundo and a group of motley companions embark on a tumultuous jou... continue
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Kurangaituku by Whiti Hereaka EN
Country: Oceania / 
New Zealand
New Zealand
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"In the void of time, Kurangaituku, the bird-woman, tells the story of her extraordinary Life - the birds who first sang her into being, the arrival of the Song Makers and the change they brought to her world, her life with the young man Hatupatu, and her death. But death does not end a creature of imagination like Kurangaituku. In the underworlds of Rarohenga, she continues to live in the many stories she collects as she pursues what eluded her in life. This is a story of love - but is this love something that creates or destroys? Kurangaituku is a contemporary retelling of the story of Hatup... continue
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Kvachi by Mixeil Javaxišvili EN
GeorgiaDescription:
This is, in brief, the story of a swindler, a Georgian Felix Krull, or perhaps a cynical Don Quixote, named Kvachi Kvachantiradze: womanizer, cheat, perpetrator of insurance fraud, bank-robber, associate of Rasputin, filmmaker, revolutionary, and pimp. Though originally denounced as pornographic, Kvachi's tale is one of the great classics of twentieth-century Georgian literature--and a hilarious romp to boot.
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Kwaidan : Stories and Studies of Strange Things by Lafcadio Hearn EN
GreeceDescription:
Annotation "Kwaidan" translates from the Japanese as weird tales, which perfectly describes these haunting stories. This collection of supernatural tales includes a musician called upon to perform for the dead, man-eating goblins, and insects who uncannily mimic human behavior. A perfect treat for fans of the strange and otherworldly.
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L'âge de fer by J. M. Coetzee FR
Country: Africa / 
South Africa
South Africa
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En 1986, au Cap, Elizabeth Curren se meurt d'un cancer, et elle est brutalement confrontée à l'explosion de rage que le système de l'Apartheid a engendrée. Dans une longue lettre à sa fille exilée en Amérique, Elizabeth relate les événements qui ponctuent ses derniers jours. Témoin de l'émeute et de la répression dans un township voisin, elle découvre le corps criblé de balles du fils de sa domestique noire, et assiste à l'exécution par la police d'un autre adolescent... Parvenue au terme de son existence, avec pour ange de la mort et confident un clochard réfugié chez elle, Elizabeth tentera ... continue