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Rupert : a confession
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ISBN: 9781934824092 1934824097 Year: 2009 Publisher: Rochester, NY : Open Letter,

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Confessing to a jury over the course of three hearings, Rupert delivers a rambling, ranting defense that begins with meeting the love of his life, Mira, and builds up to a sexual crime that may or may not have happened.


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La superba
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ISBN: 1941920225 9781941920220 Year: 2016 Publisher: Dallas (Tex.) : Deep Vellum Publishing,

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"Migration, legal and illegal, is at the center of this novel about a writer who becomes trapped in his walk on the wild side in mysterious and exotic Genoa, the labyrinthine port city nicknamed 'La Superba.'" --publisher's description


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The discomfort of evening : a novel
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ISBN: 9781644450345 Year: 2020 Publisher: Minneapolis (Minn.) : Graywolf press,

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"Ten-year-old Jas lives with her strictly religious parents and her siblings on a dairy farm where waste and frivolity are akin to sin. Despite the dreary routine of their days, Jas has a unique way of experiencing her world: her face soft like cheese under her mother's hands; the texture of green warts, like capers, on migrating toads in the village; the sound of "blush words" that aren't in the Bible. One icy morning, the disciplined rhythm of her family's life is ruptured by a tragic accident, and Jas is convinced she is to blame. As her parents' suffering makes them increasingly distant, Jas and her siblings develop a curiosity about death that leads them into disturbing rituals and fantasies. Cocooned in her red winter coat, Jas dreams of "the other side" and of salvation, not knowing where this dreaming will finally lead her. A best seller in the Netherlands, Marieke Lucas Rijneveld's radical debut novel offers readers a rare vision of rural and religious life in the Netherlands. In it, she asks: In the absence of comfort and care, what can the mind of a child invent to protect itself? And what happens when that is not enough? With stunning psychological acuity and images of haunting, violent beauty, Rijneveld has created a captivating world of language unlike any other"--

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