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Baker & TaylorIn mid-century London, aspiring young writer Fleur Talbot becomes secretary to a motley group of egoists who are composing their memoirs in advance and uncovers material enough for any novelist, but is perplexed by the familiarity of...
Spanish Pubs LlcThis is an inventory of phobias and whims, delicious album of dates, frustrated projects and declarations of love -to photocopies, to drafts and to Chilean poetry. This is a passionate, strange, fun and melancholic book.Inventario...
"The internationally acclaimed author, heralded as one of the most important writers of his generation, returns with the most substantial work of his career: an emotionally captivating, very funny novel about fathers and sons, ambition and...
"An eye-opening and soul-nourishing journey through Chinese food around the world. From Cape Town, South Africa, to small-town Saskatchewan, family-run Chinese restaurants are global icons of immigration, community and delicious food. The cultural...
"A revelatory new biography of the writer-activist Frantz Fanon, who inspired today's movements for racial liberation"--