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Readers may be interested in the following books which have been added to stock at Galway City Library:

The Yellow Sofa and Three Portraits, by Eca De Queiros

Queiros is sad rather than indignant that every human being is compromised; indeed this enables him to present his characters from several points of view and to explore the unexpectedness of human nature. This is a novel about the moral tribulations of a betrayed husband ranging from a bloody revenge and terror to days sprinkled with ridicule and infamy, suicidal despondency, upset stomach and wondering 'why?' This novel belongs to a time when the author planned "short novels to be read in one night but whose impression remains all week". 


The Sleep-Over Artist, by Thomas Beller

Featuring a New York that is a vast hive of seductions and betrayals, Beller's carefully crafted novel charts the coming-of-age of Alex Fader. The title is apt, for Alex never seems quite at home anywhere but is always an outsider, crashing other people's homes and lives. With his mother's image as archetype, he dates a series of successful, competent, beautiful women. Finally, he meets Katrina, an upper-class Londoner with a young son, who succumbs to his charm against her better judgment. The vignettes of Alex's life coalesce into a moving portrait of a young man intuitively seeking a place he can call home.

Living Glimmering Lying, by Botho Strauss

Populated by characters who are searching for meaning in life and in one another - a hiker waiting for a train in a deserted station, a television journalist who meets an old lover he doesn't really recognize, mismatched lovers, couples married and casual, lost and lonely people - Botho Strauss's book is a melancholy collection of sketches and vignettes, a series of tableaux of post-reunification Berlin. His narrators are middle-aged people resigned to their fates and often undone by 'rare conjunctions' and 'borderline encounters.'

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