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| − | |author=Claire-Louise Bennett
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| − | |title=Big Kiss, Bye-Bye
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| − | |genre=Literary Fiction
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| − | |summary=Everything in this book, however sweet or seemingly innocent, is steeped in anguish and distortion. Even a kiss, usually a symbol of intimacy and closeness, becomes evidence of love lost. When the narrator cries out internally, ''come over here and kiss me,'' it is less an invitation than a desperate attempt to confirm her emotional numbness. The imagined recipient of this plea is Xavier, her ex-partner, a ghost she conjures to test her detachment.
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| − | |isbn=1804271934
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| − | |author=Thea Lenarduzzi
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| − | |title=The Tower
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| − | |genre=Literary Fiction
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| − | |summary= ''How unctuous are the fats of another's life, how dizzying their sugars in our bloodstream''.
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| − | In this compelling novel, Thea Lenarduzzi assumes the identity of T, the protagonist of this tale. Just as T's story is being told, the story of a second protagonist is unveiled: Annie, the daughter of a wealthy family in the 19th century, who died of tuberculosis after being locked in a tower, captures T's imagination. Annie's fate is, above all, an enticing story to T. It is a story which she consumes avariciously, both in a quest for truth and knowledge, and in service of myth, fable and fantasy.
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| − | |author=Jon Fosse and Damion Searls (translator)
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| − | |title=Vaim
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| − | |genre=Literary Fiction
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| − | |summary=''All was strange''... This haunting phrase encapsulates the pervading sense of otherworldliness which permeates this story set in Vaim, a fictional fishing village in Norway which paradoxically could not feel more real for Jatgeir and Eline, two of the protagonists caught in its melancholic current.
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