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Tom Rachman
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The Imperfectionists
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2010
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83 editions
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Doctor Glas
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1905
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142 editions
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The Italian Teacher
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2018
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6 editions
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The Rise & Fall of Great Powers
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2014
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47 editions
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The Imposters
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2023
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13 editions
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The Bathtub Spy
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2011
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Basket of Deplorables
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2017
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6 editions
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Die Gesichter: Roman
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The Imposters
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"Like a set of nesting dolls the characters in "The Imposters" are revealed one at a time, each with their own story but tied together by one character, Dora Frenhofer. Dora is an aging novelist, not very well known, but in her later years trying to s"
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"(thank you to NetGalley for my advanced copy of this book)
Something tells me The Imposters is going to be the kind of book people either love or hate. You can count me in the camp that LOVED it. It's so cleverly written and engaging and it acted as a" Read more of this review » |
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“What I really fear is time. That's the devil: whipping us on when we'd rather loll, so the present sprints by, impossible to grasp, and all is suddenly past, a past that won't hold still, that slides into these inauthentic tales. My past- it doesn't feel real in the slightest. The person who inhabited it is not me. It's as if the present me is constantly dissolving. There's that line from Heraclitus: 'No man steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man.' That's quite right. We enjoy this illusion of continuity, and we call it memory. Which explains, perhaps, why our worst fear isn't the end of life but the end of memories.”
― The Imperfectionists
― The Imperfectionists
“Books," he said, "are like mushrooms. They grow when you are not looking. Books increase by rule of compound interest: one interest leads to another interest, and this compounds into third. Next, you have so much interest there is no space in closet.”
― The Rise & Fall of Great Powers
― The Rise & Fall of Great Powers
“You know, there's that silly saying 'We're born alone and we die alone' -it's nonsense. We're surrounded at birth and surrounded at death. It is in between that we're alone.”
― The Imperfectionists
― The Imperfectionists
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