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**AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4** 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. She's drawn into simmering per...

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En ung kvinna har kommit överens med sin otrogne make att det är dags för dem att separera. Men trots att de sen ett halvår tillbaka inte längre lever tillsammans är det fortfarande en hemlighet. Hon har just påbörjat sitt nya liv med en ny man nä...

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Can you be a stranger in your own country? A Japanese-American raised in California, 24-year-old Katie Kitamura returns to Japan to discover the country she left behind. Travelling across this foreign landscape, she visits middle-class gambling ha...

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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK Named a best book of the year by the New York Times, NPR, Huffington Post, The A.V. Club, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Guardian, Refinery29, Town & Country, Harper's Bazaar, NYLON, BookRiot. "Kitamura's prose...

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A PBS NewsHour/New York Times Book Club PickA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKNamed a best book of the year by the New York Times, NPR, Huffington Post, The A.V. Club, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Guardian, Refinery29, Town &...

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A novel from the author of A Separation, a taut and electrifying story about a woman caught between many truths. An interpreter has come to The Hague to escape New York and work at the International Court. A woman of many languages and identities,...

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An electrifying novel about a woman caught between many truths, by the author of A Separation. "A perfect novel-taut and seductive." -Brandon Taylor, author of Real Life and Filthy Animals "Gripping and elegant. No one's work simmer...

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A novel from the author of A Separation, a taut and electrifying story about a woman caught between many truths. An interpreter has come to The Hague to escape New York and work at the International Court. A woman of many languages and identities,...

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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. She's drawn into simmering personal dramas: her lover, Adriaan,...

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A brilliant, spare debut novel that follows a former mixed martial arts star and his longtime coach over the course of three fraught days as they prepare for his momentous comeback match.

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From the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award finalist and critically acclaimed author of "The Longshot," a gripping, psychologically intense novel about the destruction of a family, a farm, and a country.

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FROM THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF THE LONGSHOT comes this gripping saga about the destruction of a family, a home, and a way of life. Set on a struggling farm in a colonial country teetering on the brink of civil war, Gone to the Forest is a...

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**AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4**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.She's drawn into simmering personal d...

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Brought to you by Penguin. From the author of A Separation , a taut and electrifying story about a woman caught between many truths. An interpreter has come to The Hague to escape New York and work at the International Court. A woman of many langu...

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A young woman has agreed with her faithless husband: it's time for them to separate. For the moment it's a private matter, a secret between the two of them. As she begins her new life, alone, she gets word that her ex-husband has gone mi...

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'An absolutely mesmerizing work of art' Rachel Kushner'A novel so seamless, that follows its path with such consequence, that even minor deviations seem loaded with meaning. Wonderful.' Karl Ove KnausgaardA young woman has agreed with her faithles...

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*A NEW STATESMAN AND OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021* **A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2021** From the author of A Separation, a taut and electrifying story about a woman caught between many truths. An interpreter has come to The Hague to escape ...

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Set on a struggling farm in a fiercely beautiful colonial country teetering on the brink of civil war, this second novel by one of international literature's rising young stars weaves a brilliant tale of family drama and political turmoil. Since h...

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'Dark, obsessive prose, punctuated by images of strange, surreal beauty. One thinks at times of both Coetzee and Gordimer, but Kitamura is very much her own writer' Salman Rushdie'Kitamura is in complete control, both of the prose and of the story...

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A GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, FINANCIAL TIMES, BBC, TIME, VOGUE, MARIE CLAIRE and ROLLING STONE BOOK TO READ IN 2025 'An original' RACHEL KUSHNER 'Gorgeously disquieting' HERNAN DIAZ 'One of our most brilliant writers' LAUREN...

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»Ich liebe diesen Roman.« Karl Ove Knausgård Ein Paar in Trennung. Plötzlich erreicht die junge Frau die Nachricht, dass ihr Ehemann vermisst wird. Pflichtbewusst reist sie in die kargen, verbrannten Landschaften der Peloponnes, wo er zuletzt gese...

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Über Sprache, Macht und deren Grenzen Die heimatlose Erzählerin verlässt New York, um am internationalen Gerichtshof in Den Haag als Dolmetscherin zu arbeiten. Als sie Adriaan kennenlernt, scheint die Stadt zur Antwort ihrer Sehnsucht nach einem A...

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Die elektrisierende Geschichte einer Frau, die gefangen ist zwischen vielen Wahrheiten. - "Ein so mitreißender wie verstörender Roman." Hilka Sinning, ARD tttWas braucht ein Ort, um zu einem Zuhause zu werden? Die heimatlose Erzählerin v...

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Lectura favorita a fostului presedinte Barack ObamaUnul dintre cele mai bune romane ale anului 2021."e; - New York TimesO carte extraordinara."e; - Elif ShafakProza lui Kitamura te tine in priza, imbinand tesatura complicata din stilul Ele...

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En ung kvinna har kommit överens med sin otrogne make att det är dags för dem att separera. Men trots att de sen ett halvår tillbaka intex längre lever tillsammans är det fortfarande en hemlighet. Hon har just påbörjat sitt nya liv med en ny man n...

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En nervkittlande kraftfull berättelse av författaren till Separationen En ung kvinna lämnar New York för att arbeta som tolk vid den internationella domstolen i Haag. Snart dras hon in i flera personliga dramer. Hennes älskare, Adriaan, har separe...

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En nervkittlande kraftfull berättelse av författaren till Separationen En ung kvinna lämnar New York för att arbeta som tolk vid den internationella domstolen i Haag. Snart dras hon in i flera personliga dramer. Hennes älskare, Adriaan, har separe...

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