Showing posts with label Penguin Random House. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Penguin Random House. Show all posts

 

"The simplest explanation, he said, was that Colombia, during the Spanish Conquest, saw a cornucopia of rare mutations from African, European, and Indigenous sources. It also suffered, during that same period, a number of genetic bottlenecks. In a bottleneck, a population shrinks due to some disaster—disease, war, genocide, or famine—leaving the surviving population with reduced genetic variation. If and when that population bounces back, rate variants that made it through the bottleneck are overrepresented."

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The Valley of Forgetting: Alzheimer's Families and the Search for a Cure by Jennie Erin Smith

 

"This is how deep I was lost, my darling, in a love so narcotic I possessed unimpaired splendour having no other want or wish."

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A Year of Last Things: Poems by Michael Ondaatje

 

"She was left breathless, drenched in icy sweat, but she appealed to her primal instincts to not feel inferior or let herself feel less than him, and they threw themselves into the inconceivable pleasure of brute force subjugated by tenderness."

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Until August by Gabriel García Márquez

 

"By the end, people around you will be dying off, and they will be thinking about their own deaths and the deaths of their partners so entirely that they won't have time to notice what you have accomplished, or how you managed to live such a faultless life, they're just going to be thinking about how their wife is dying, or how their husband has died, or about how there's nobody in the world who will love them as much or understand them so well, while you will be sitting here all alone with your great pride over the life you have crafted, and the work you have made, and everything you did to make yourself so perfect and good. By which I mean, not having children, being with the wrong man, having no love in the end, and being sort of penniless and maybe ignored."

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Alphabetical Diaries by Sheila Heti

 

"First, we exploit them...Second, we prioritize the subsidization of affluence over the alleviation of poverty. The United States could effectively end poverty in America tomorrow without increasing the deficit if it cracked down on corporations and families who cheat on their taxes, reallocating the newfound revenue to those most in need of it." 

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Poverty, By America by Matthew Desmond

 


"The world is falling to pieces and everything almost always goes to shit and we almost always hurt the people we love or they hurt us irreparably and there doesn't seem to be a reason to harbor any kind of hope, but at least this story ends well, ends here, with the scene of these two Chilean poets who look each other in the eye and burst out laughing and don't want to leave that bar for anything, so they order another round of beers."

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Chilean Poet by Alejandro Zambra

 

"When Julio fell in love with Emilia, all the fun and all the suffering that came before the fun and suffering that Emilia brought him became mere imitation of true fun and suffering."

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Bonsai by Alejandro Zambra

 

"'We believe that clouds are unjustly maligned and that life would be immeasurably poorer without them'"

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Serious Face by Jon Mooallem

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