Daunt Books - Böcker

Is there any other country in the world that so perplexes you with its names? Last time I was clear and things were clear. Now I am ambiguous and vague. Everything is ambiguous and vague. A fierce and moving memoir on returning to Palestine, the m...

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I can t make heads or tails of it, the goat on the corner of Union and Metropolitan. It is 2016 and Ezra has just lit themself on fire outside Trump Tower, New York. Their life suddenly flashes across time and geography, leaping from memories of c...

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From acclaimed poet and New Yorker writer Cynthia Zarin comes a deeply personal meditation on four Italian spaces. Here we encounter a writer deeply engaged with narrative in situ - a traveller moving through beloved streets, sometimes accompanied...

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Nathalie arrives at the circus in Vladivostok fresh out of fashion school in Geneva. She is there to design the costumes for a trio of artists who are due to perform one of the most dangerous acts of all - the Russian Bar act. What ensues is an in...

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In beautifully sparse prose, The Pachinko Parlour is a contemplation on language, history and trauma and how, in spite of the ineffable past, we eventually come to console one another.¿- Yan Ge, author of The Strange Beasts of China It is summer i...

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The story of the eight best teenage girl boxers in the United States, told over the two days of a championship tournament and structured as a series of face-offs. As the girls' pasts and futures collide, the specific joy and violence of the sport ...

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It is the summer of 1851 and Charlotte Morrison is on holiday in Germany with her brother and his wife. On the surface, Charlotte is an unmarried aunt with a sparse, unfulfilled life. But beneath that quiet respectability lie unsuspected depths hi...

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A story collection that contains ghosts, mediums, a lover obsessed with the sound of harps tuning, teenage girls who believe they are actually plants, gulag prisoners who outsmart a terrible warden, and carnivorous churches. Throughout these grote...

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