/lit/ - Literature

ITT: Post the five books most recently added to your Amazon wishlist.

The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll by Alvaro Mutis
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
The Burning Plain and Other Stories by Juan Rulfo
The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño
The Unknown University by Roberto Bolaño

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You may not be ready. Language may not be the most complex but it's clearly not easy. Btw, your spanish is perfect.

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Without looking at each other now, rigidly fixed upon the task which awaited them, they separated at the cabin door. She was to follow the trail that led north. On the path leading in the opposite direction, he turned for a moment to watch her running with her hair let loose. He ran in turn, crouching among the trees and hedges until he could distinguish in the yellowish fog of dusk the avenue of trees leading up to the house. The dogs were not supposed to bark, and they did not bark. The estate manager would not be there at this hour, and he was not. He went up the three porch steps and entered. Through the blood galloping in his ears came the woman's words: first a blue parlor, then a gallery, then a carpeted stairway. At the top, two doors. No one in the first bedroom, no one in the second. The door of the salon, and then the knife in his hand, the light from the great windows, the high back of an armchair covered in green velvet, the head of the man in the chair reading a novel.