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"At the end of the fourth century, as the power of Rome faded and Constantinople became the seat of empire, a new capital city was rising in the West. Here, in Ravenna on the coast of Italy, Arian Goths and Catholic Romans competed to produce an...
"This book will change you. I did not need to take notes for my future book club discussion because every sad, painful and courageous detail is vividly etched in my memory. Holding this book was like a precious gift , and for days I felt the loss o..."
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Lydia Quixano Perez lives in the Mexican city of Acapulco. She runs a bookstore. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist. And while cracks are beginning to show in Acapulco because of the drug...
Random House, Inc.Winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize and #1 international bestseller, The Sense of an Ending is a masterpiece.The story of a man coming to terms with the mutable past, Julian Barnes's new novel is laced with his trademark...