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Every year, the booksellers at Powell’s submit their Top Fives: their five favorite books that were released in 2023. It’s a list that, when put together, shows just how varied and interesting the book tastes of Powell’s booksellers are. I highly recommend digging into the recommendations — we would never lead you astray — but today...
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Falls
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Joyce Carol Oates
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, June 21, 2007
This is one of the best family sagas I've ever read. After the suicide in the very first page of the novel, all the story is marked by Ariah's obsession with loneliness, that makes the reader be sorry for her and, at the same time, find her incredibly annoying. Ariah is a very interesting, real and original character, living in a world of normal people who make a strange contrast with her bizarre temper. The style is powerful and clear and focused on the action, even if it's always supported by a strong psychological research.
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Gold Rush
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Miri Yu
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, June 21, 2007
"Gold rush" is one of the cruelest portraits of the modern society. The main character, the 14-year-old Kazu, lives in a world where the only moral is money and rules are made by the strongest: trying to live with honesty puts you among the weak, making you a catch for the others. In this world and against this world, Kazu tries desperately to find his own way. A very good yet shocking novel, with a powerful style that leaves you half-way between scared and intrigued.
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If on a winter's night a traveler
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Italo Calvino
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, June 20, 2007
Calvino's style is always clear and powerful, but in this novel it reaches its highest level, depicting a surreal world in which readers, writers and stories live together on the same plan of existence. In the Reader's desperate search for the ending, any ending, of the story, we can find a metaphor of the neverending quest that is life.
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