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Kairos is a 2021 novel by German author Jenny Erpenbeck.It received Germany's Uwe Johnson Prize in 2022. [1] The English translation, by Michael Hofmann, published in the U.S. by New Directions and in the U.K. by Granta Books, was shortlisted for the U.S. National Book Award for Translated Literature in 2023 [2] and won the International Booker Prize in 2024.
Every Day is about the story of A, a genderless person who wakes up occupying a different body each day of a sixteen-year-old living in the East Coast. As described by Frank Bruni of The New York Times, "A. doesn't have a real name, presumably because they don't have a real existence: they're not a person, at least not in any conventional sense, but they have a spirit, switching without choice ...
With six or seven articles each day, the total number of articles, which are in the form of erudite essays, runs to around 2,000. The book has frequently been quoted in other reference books. Chambers carried out his research for the book in 1860 and 1861, primarily in the British Museum in London. He then spent 1862 and 1863 organising the ...
Other Words for Home is a 2019 free verse children's book by Jasmine Warga. The story is about a family of Syrian refugees with Jude, a 12-year-old girl, as protagonist. [ 1 ] The book won a 2020 Newbery Honor .
A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever was inspired by the friendship of Marla Frazee's youngest son and the son of her editor. The two boys stayed at the editor's parents' house in Malibu for a week while attending a nature day camp. After the boys returned, the editor suggested writing a thank-you note to the grandparents in the form of a book.
Every Day Fiction (ISSN 1918-1000) is a Canadian flash fiction magazine founded in 2007 and published by Every Day Publishing Ltd. It is typically published on a daily schedule. Every Day Fiction publishes flash fiction stories of all genres, and podcasts
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Miguel de Cervantes, author of Don Quixote (the first part of which was published in 1605), is frequently cited as the first significant European novelist of the modern era. [17] Literary historian Ian Watt , in The Rise of the Novel (1957), argued that the modern novel was born in the early 18th century.