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A half-Jewish schoolteacher and her young son struggle to survive in WWII Rome. Morante's epic novel insists that history—the grand narratives of wars and nations—happens to ordinary people, and their suffering is the true story.

Giants, bodily functions, and philosophical inquiry collide in Rabelais's uproarious 16th-century masterpiece. A book that celebrates laughter, wine, and the life of the mind with scandalous joy. 'Do what thou wilt'—because a virtuous person needs no external rules.

An aging Tokyo businessman hears a distant rumbling—the sound of the mountain—that signals his own mortality. Kawabata's quiet, devastating novel of family, memory, and the approach of death is Japanese literature at its most refined.

Bjartur of Summerhouses has spent his life buying his own land—and pays for it with everything else. Laxness's Nobel Prize-winning epic is a harsh, beautiful portrait of rural Iceland and the cost of refusing to bend.

The book that taught Western civilization how to tell stories. Ovid weaves 250 myths of transformation—Daphne into a laurel tree, Narcissus into a flower—into a single poem that inspired Shakespeare, Dante, and two millennia of art.

An epidemic of white blindness sweeps a city. The afflicted are quarantined, and civilization collapses into brutality. Saramago's terrifying allegory of what happens when society's veneer is stripped away.

A family, a summer house, a lighthouse across the bay. Woolf's most autobiographical novel transforms the ordinary into poetry. A luminous meditation on art, loss, and the passage of time.

A single day in post-WWI London. Clarissa Dalloway prepares for a party while Septimus Warren Smith hears birds speaking Greek. Woolf's stream-of-consciousness captures inner lives with unprecedented intimacy.

Someone must have been telling lies about Josef K. Kafka's nightmarish novel of a man arrested for an unspecified crime by an unreachable court is the definitive portrait of modern bureaucracy, alienation, and guilt without cause.

Few novels capture the full breadth of human experience quite like George Eliot's Middlemarch. Published in 1871-72, this sprawling masterpiece is a profound examination of marriage, ambition, idealism, and the quiet compromises that shape ordinary lives. Often called the greatest English novel ever written, it weaves together multiple storylines into a rich tapestry of provincial life.

WIRED Greece published an extensive article on the Greek state's PosoKanei platform, featuring our own experience with "Noikokyris" — the price comparison platform we developed at ATOMIC.

The philosopher who challenged the world to see injustice and imagine a fairer society. Imagine walking through a bustling industrial city in the 19th century. Smoke rises from factories, children work long hours, and the streets are alive with both opportunity and struggle. Into this world stepped Karl Marx, a thinker who refused to accept that suffering was inevitable. Marx taught that society could be understood, analyzed, and transformed—and that awareness of inequality is the first step toward change.