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La bofetada by Christos Tsiolkas ES
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En una barbacoa de un barrio residencial, un hombre abofetea a un niño que no es hijo suyo. Este acontecimiento tiene un asombroso efecto de rebote sobre un grupo de personas, amigos y parientes, que se ven influidos de manera directa o indirecta por la bofetada.
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Limberlost by Robbie Arnott EN
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The much-anticipated third novel by award-winning Australian author Robbie Arnott, Limberlost is a story of family and land, loss and hope, fate and the unknown, and love and kindness
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Love and Virtue by Diana Reid EN
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Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelist Winner of the ABIA Book of the Year Award Winner of the ABIA Award for Literary Fiction of the Year Winner ABA Booksellers Choice Award for Fiction Winner of the MUD Literary Prize Shortlisted for The Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction Shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year for Fiction Shortlisted Indie Book Award for Debut Fiction Shortlisted ABIA Matt Richell Award New Writer of the Year 'set to be one of the year's most talked about books' - Vogue Australia 'a great read that will become an Australian classic' - Sydney Morning He... continue
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Love Objects by Emily Maguire EN
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A stunning, simply told story of great compassion and insight, from the author of the Stella Prize-shortlisted An Isolated Incident.
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Lyrebird Hill by Anna Romer EN
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From the bestselling author of Thornwood House When all that you know comes crashing down, do you run? Or face the truth? Ruby Cardel has the semblance of a normal life – a loving boyfriend, a fulfilling career – but in one terrible moment, her life unravels. The discovery that the death of her sister, Jamie, was not an accident makes her question all she’s known about herself and her past. Travelling back home to Lyrebird Hill, Ruby begins to remember the year that has been forever blocked in her memory . . . Snatches of her childhood with beautiful Jamie, and Ruby’s only friendship with the ... continue
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Maestro by Peter Goldsworthy EN
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Against the backdrop of Darwin, that small, tropical hothouse of a port, half-outback, half-oriental, lying at the tip of northern Australia, a young and newly arrived southerner encounters the 'maestro', a Viennese refugee with a shadowed past. The occasion is a piano lesson, the first of many. 'I enjoyed Maestro enormously. Besides its thoughtfulness and bright sensuality, it has a playful quality, a love of jest, which appealed to me very much.' Helen Garner, SYDNEY REVIEW On release, MAEStRO was hailed 'a splendid achievement, a wise, deeply felt novel that continues to haunt well after on... continue
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Marching Powder : A True Story of Friendship, Cocaine, and South America's Strangest Jail by Rusty Young, Thomas McFadden EN
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An account of life inside one of the strangest and most notorious prisons in the world, San Pedro in Bolivia.