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Futrono: A Novel Explores Debt, Family Dysfunction, and Self-Deception
Paulina, the protagonist of Futrono, faces multiple crises including a divorce, extreme debt (over 50 million pesos), and a dysfunctional family, forcing her to live in a shed in her parents' backyard while grappling with substance abuse and an inability to reject social pressures.
Futrono: A Novel Explores Debt, Family Dysfunction, and Self-Deception
Paulina, the protagonist of Futrono, faces multiple crises including a divorce, extreme debt (over 50 million pesos), and a dysfunctional family, forcing her to live in a shed in her parents' backyard while grappling with substance abuse and an inability to reject social pressures.
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48% Bias Score
Makropoulos's Novella: Sand as a Symbol of Mortality
Michalis Makropoulos's new novella, published by Kichli in 2025, uses a persistent south wind and sand as symbolic representations of illness and death within a family, culminating in a humorous yet poignant final scene.
Makropoulos's Novella: Sand as a Symbol of Mortality
Michalis Makropoulos's new novella, published by Kichli in 2025, uses a persistent south wind and sand as symbolic representations of illness and death within a family, culminating in a humorous yet poignant final scene.
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12% Bias Score
Safran Foer's "Hier ben ik": Marriage, War, and the Power of Words
Jonathan Safran Foer's 2016 novel, "Hier ben ik," set in the Angelslo neighborhood of Emmen, Netherlands, examines a failing marriage through small details and a fictional war sparked by an earthquake in Israel, highlighting the relationship between personal struggles and global events.
Safran Foer's "Hier ben ik": Marriage, War, and the Power of Words
Jonathan Safran Foer's 2016 novel, "Hier ben ik," set in the Angelslo neighborhood of Emmen, Netherlands, examines a failing marriage through small details and a fictional war sparked by an earthquake in Israel, highlighting the relationship between personal struggles and global events.
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40% Bias Score
Soft Core": A San Francisco Dominatrix's Story
Brittany Newell's second novel, "Soft Core," follows Ruth, a San Francisco dominatrix, as she navigates her professional and personal life, grappling with a vanished ex-boyfriend, while exploring themes of loneliness, desire, and the complexities of the city's sex industry.
Soft Core": A San Francisco Dominatrix's Story
Brittany Newell's second novel, "Soft Core," follows Ruth, a San Francisco dominatrix, as she navigates her professional and personal life, grappling with a vanished ex-boyfriend, while exploring themes of loneliness, desire, and the complexities of the city's sex industry.
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20% Bias Score
Seethaler's "Café With No Name": A Viennese Microcosm
Robert Seethaler's "The Café With No Name" portrays the lives of a diverse group of Viennese residents who frequent a small, unassuming cafe in 1966, subtly reflecting broader societal changes in post-war Austria through their interconnected stories.
Seethaler's "Café With No Name": A Viennese Microcosm
Robert Seethaler's "The Café With No Name" portrays the lives of a diverse group of Viennese residents who frequent a small, unassuming cafe in 1966, subtly reflecting broader societal changes in post-war Austria through their interconnected stories.
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36% Bias Score
Mothers and Sons": A Novel Exploring Family Conflict and Reconciliation
Adam Haslett's "Mothers and Sons" examines the complex relationship between a lawyer and his mother, who runs a women's retreat in Vermont, highlighting their alienation stemming from past family conflicts and their parallel attempts at self-discovery.
Mothers and Sons": A Novel Exploring Family Conflict and Reconciliation
Adam Haslett's "Mothers and Sons" examines the complex relationship between a lawyer and his mother, who runs a women's retreat in Vermont, highlighting their alienation stemming from past family conflicts and their parallel attempts at self-discovery.
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36% Bias Score
Supernatural Encounters in a Polish Apartment Building
In Tomasz Rozycki's "Les Voleurs d'ampoules", a young boy named Tadeusz navigates a mysterious Polish apartment building where supernatural entities coexist with families, leading him on a suspenseful journey to grind coffee beans in a dark, lightbulb-less hallway.
Supernatural Encounters in a Polish Apartment Building
In Tomasz Rozycki's "Les Voleurs d'ampoules", a young boy named Tadeusz navigates a mysterious Polish apartment building where supernatural entities coexist with families, leading him on a suspenseful journey to grind coffee beans in a dark, lightbulb-less hallway.
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8% Bias Score
When the Wolf Comes Home": A Character-Driven Werewolf Novel
Nat Cassidy's "When the Wolf Comes Home" follows Jess, a struggling actress, who, after a self-inflicted injury, encounters a runaway child and becomes involved in a deadly chase with a shapeshifting "wolf-bear-thing", challenging werewolf novel tropes by focusing on complex characters and emotional...
When the Wolf Comes Home": A Character-Driven Werewolf Novel
Nat Cassidy's "When the Wolf Comes Home" follows Jess, a struggling actress, who, after a self-inflicted injury, encounters a runaway child and becomes involved in a deadly chase with a shapeshifting "wolf-bear-thing", challenging werewolf novel tropes by focusing on complex characters and emotional...
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28% Bias Score
Adichie's "Dream Count": A Novel Exploring Female Experiences in a Global Context
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's new novel, "Dream Count," published by 4th Estate, follows three middle-aged Nigerian women living in the US and Nigeria as they navigate complex relationships and life challenges against the backdrop of the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, offering a nuanced p...
Adichie's "Dream Count": A Novel Exploring Female Experiences in a Global Context
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's new novel, "Dream Count," published by 4th Estate, follows three middle-aged Nigerian women living in the US and Nigeria as they navigate complex relationships and life challenges against the backdrop of the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, offering a nuanced p...
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20% Bias Score
Goldsmith's "The Buried Life": Exploring Mortality and Meaning in Melbourne
Andrea Goldsmith's "The Buried Life" examines the lives of four Melbourne residentsâAdrian, a death scholar; Laura, a social scientist; Keziah, escaping religious constraints; and Tony, a narcissistic academicâintertwining their experiences with themes of mortality, relationships, and life transitio...
Goldsmith's "The Buried Life": Exploring Mortality and Meaning in Melbourne
Andrea Goldsmith's "The Buried Life" examines the lives of four Melbourne residentsâAdrian, a death scholar; Laura, a social scientist; Keziah, escaping religious constraints; and Tony, a narcissistic academicâintertwining their experiences with themes of mortality, relationships, and life transitio...
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40% Bias Score
Dublin Housing Crisis Exposes Challenges Faced by Domestic Abuse Survivor
Pregnant Ciara Fay flees her emotionally abusive husband in Dublin, Ireland, and faces the stark realities of homelessness and a broken social care system while battling the legal and psychological impacts of emotional abuse in a compelling debut novel, "Nesting.
Dublin Housing Crisis Exposes Challenges Faced by Domestic Abuse Survivor
Pregnant Ciara Fay flees her emotionally abusive husband in Dublin, Ireland, and faces the stark realities of homelessness and a broken social care system while battling the legal and psychological impacts of emotional abuse in a compelling debut novel, "Nesting.
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28% Bias Score
Dark Academia and Occult Manipulation in "And He Shall Appear
Kate van der Borgh's "And He Shall Appear" follows a nameless music student at an unspecified Cambridge college who becomes involved with the occult practices of his manipulative classmate, Bryn Cavendish, leading to unsettling events and blurred realities years later.
Dark Academia and Occult Manipulation in "And He Shall Appear
Kate van der Borgh's "And He Shall Appear" follows a nameless music student at an unspecified Cambridge college who becomes involved with the occult practices of his manipulative classmate, Bryn Cavendish, leading to unsettling events and blurred realities years later.
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48% Bias Score
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