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• Blood of the Old Kings

  Kim, Sŏng-il (Science fiction writer),

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  From award-winning Korean author Sung-il Kim & translated by the world-renowned Anton Hur, Blood of the Old Kings begins an epic journey unlike any other. There is no escaping the Empire. Even in death, you will serve. In an Empire run on…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Brightly Shining

  Rishøi, Ingvild H.,

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  Christmas is just around the corner, and Ronja and Melissa's dreamer of a father is out of work again. When ten-year-old Ronja hears about a job selling Christmas trees near where the family lives in central Oslo, she thinks it might be…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The City and Its Uncertain Walls

  Murakami, Haruki, 1949-

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  The long-awaited novel from Haruki Murakami visits a place where a Dream Reader reviews dreams and where our shadows become untethered from our selves. A love story, a quest, an ode to books and to the libraries that house them, and a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation

  Mo Dao Zu Shi. 1

  Moxiangtongxiu,

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  Wei Wuxian was once one of the most outstanding men of his generation, a talented and clever young cultivator who harnessed martial arts, knowledge, and spirituality into powerful abilities. But when the horrors of war led him to seek a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Holy Winter 20/21

  Stepanova, Marii︠a︡,

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  The outbreak of Covid-19 cut short Maria Stepanova's 2020 stay in Cambridge. Back in Russia, she spent the ensuing months in a state of torpor-the world had withdrawn from her, time had 'gone numb.' When she awoke from this state, she…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki

  Paek, Se-hŭi, 1990-

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  Baek Sehee is a successful young social media director at a publishing house when she begins seeing a psychiatrist about her - what to call it? - depression? She feels persistently low, anxious, endlessly self-doubting, but also highly…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Last Dream

  Almodóvar, Pedro,

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  Making his English language debut, the iconoclastic, two-time Academy award-winning writer and director reveals his singular mind as never before in this collection of twelve remarkable stories spanning memoir, comedy, autofiction, parody,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Muzzle for Witches

  Ugrešić, Dubravka,

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  As with the rest of her literary career, Dubravka Ugresic's final work, A Muzzle for Witches, is uncategorizable. On its surface, the book is a conversation with the literary critic Merima Omeragić, covering topics such as 'Women and the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• On the Calculation of Volume. I

  Balle, Solvej, 1962-

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  Tara Selter, the heroine of On the Calculation of Volume, has involuntarily stepped off the train of time: in her world, November 18th repeats itself endlessly. We meet Tara on her 122nd November 18th: she no longer experiences the changes…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Star of the Sea

  Khūrī, Ilyās,

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  Adam Dannoun's story is one of beginnings. Born in a war-torn Israel, Adam dreams of becoming a writer. He is just an infant when Jewish forces uproot and massacre thousands of Palestinians in the 1948 Nakba, including his own father.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• To the Kennels

  and Other Stories

  P'yŏn, Hye-yŏng, 1972-

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  Six elephants bolt from an amusement park and vanish; where they're found brings back memories of a forgotten dictator. A car ride on a foggy highway at night becomes a drive through hell for a young couple getting away for the weekend…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• What Happened to Belén

  the Unjust Imprisonment That Sparked a Women's Rights Movement

  Correa, Ana Elena,

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  The heartbreaking true story of a woman imprisoned for having a miscarriage-an injustice that galvanized a feminist movement and became a global rallying cry in the fight for reproductive rights.