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Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy

by Tim Burton

Recommendations from our site

Our most recommended books

Bamboo Shoots After the Rain: Contemporary Stories by Women Writers of Taiwan by Ann Carver (editor) & Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang (editor)

Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200 by R.S.A. Garcia

Bear and His Daughter by Robert Stone

Exiles at Home: Stories by Ch'en Ying-chen

Eyes of the Crocodile by Malena Salazar Maciá

Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson

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Bamboo Shoots After the Rain: Contemporary Stories by Women Writers of Taiwan
by Ann Carver (editor) & Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang (editor)

Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200
by R.S.A. Garcia

Bear and His Daughter
by Robert Stone

Exiles at Home: Stories
by Ch'en Ying-chen

Eyes of the Crocodile
by Malena Salazar Maciá

Jesus’ Son
by Denis Johnson