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Epitome of the absurdist existentialism of mid century Italian literature that I love.

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Written in three linked parts, The Four Spent the Day Together explores the histories of three generations of American lives and the patterns that repeat over lifetimes, and is a piercing commentary on the pressures of lives lived on the edge.

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So here we have all the strange and seemingly impossible dualities that make up real life—and pretty ugly it can be, as well as beautiful, hopeful, bleak, difficult, exhilarating. But never, ever dull.

RECOMMENDED BY BEN

Another brilliant 'constellation novel' in the mode of her International Booker Prize-winning Flights, House of Day, House of Night reminds us that the story of any place, no matter how humble, is boundless.

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In thirteen iconoclastic essays, Slavoj Zizek disrupts the death-grip that neoliberalists, Trumpian populists, toxic self-improvement industries and accelerationists alike have established on the idea of progress.

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An interpreter has come to The Hague to escape New York and work at the International Court. A woman of many languages and identities, she is looking for a place to finally call home.

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Flann O'Brien's first novel is a brilliant impressionistic jumble of ideas, mythology and nonsense.

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Tallent hurls you into an absolute mess of a man's life as we search for the mercy he does not want.

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Schrauwen’s brilliant comic timing and formal mastery transcends the quotidian nature of the plot.