carey b Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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This Blinding Absence of Light
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Tahar Ben Jelloun — This Blinding Absence of Light https://t.co/aAqUqL10zt
Hardcover, 2002
$23.95$11.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov
Nabokov, one of literature’s greatest stylists, is at the height of his powers in Lolita ... In Nabokov’s tightening, glittering web, Humbert is seducing the reader in the same way he’s working to abuse Dolores: gaining trust through charm, in pursuit of disgusting designs.
Paperback, 1989
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
William Finnegan
The New Yorker writer ... understands that he adores something that has the capacity to both save his life and kill him; the ocean is at once “the object of your deepest desire and adoration,” he writes, and “like an uncaring God, endlessly dangerous, powerful beyond measure.”
Paperback, 2016
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Fever Pitch
Nick Hornby
the book unfolds scene after scene of agony, each funnier and more morose than the last. Being a sports fan in Hornby’s world is essentially an exercise in despondency—any league or tournament is set up so that only one team can ever really win.
Paperback, 1998
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The House of Rust
Khadija Abdalla Bajaber
In the new (fiftieth!) issue of the @JoburgReview, I write about Khadija Bajaber’s The House of Rust, and explore what her Mombasa means to her, and what her writing means to us, Kenyan writers & readers https://johannesburgreviewofbooks.com/2022/05/02/tales-from-mombasa-carey-baraka-speaks-to-khadija-abdalla-bajaber-about-her-award-winning-debut-novel-the-house-of-rust/
Paperback, 2021
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Stranger
Albert Camus
And if Gigi Hadid wants to carry around a copy of Albert Camus’s “The Stranger” (1942) during Milan Fashion Week, why shouldn’t she? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/18/t-magazine/book-stylists-instagram-influencers.html
Paperback, 1989
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Stranger: (Annotated Edition)
Albert Camus
And if Gigi Hadid wants to carry around a copy of Albert Camus’s “The Stranger” (1942) during Milan Fashion Week, why shouldn’t she? https://t.co/Gtit68m0R2
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