A Breath of Life
9 best books like A Breath of Life (Clarice Lispector): The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition, We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast, The Waves, Bluets, The Smile at the Foot of the Ladder, The Death of the Moth and Other Essays, Bear, La straniera, Benevolenza cosmica
The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition
Fernando Pessoa was many writers in one. He attributed his prolific writings to a wide range of alternate selves, each of which had a distinct biography, ideology. and horoscope. When he died in 1935, Pessoa left behind a trunk filled with unfinished and unpublished writings, among which were the remarkable...
We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast
| Author | Jonathan Safran Foer |
| ISBN | 0374280002 |
Some people reject the fact, overwhelmingly supported by scientists, that our planet is warming because of human activity. But do those of us who accept the reality of human-caused climate change truly believe it? If we did, surely we would be roused to act on what we know. Will future generations distinguish...
| Author | Virginia Woolf |
| ISBN | 0156949601 |
Set on the coast of England against the vivid background of the sea, The Waves introduces six characters—three men and three women—who are grappling with the death of a beloved friend, Percival. Instead of describing their outward expressions of grief, Virginia Woolf draws her characters from...
| Author | Maggie Nelson |
| ISBN | 1933517409 |
Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color...
A lyrical, philosophical, and often explicit exploration of personal suffering and the limitations of vision and love, as refracted through the color blue. With Bluets, Maggie Nelson has entered the pantheon of brilliant...
| Author | Henry Miller |
| ISBN | 0811205568 |
Das lachein am fusse der leiter = The Smile at the Foot of the Ladder, Henry Miller
First published in 1959, this touching fable tells of Auguste, a famous clown who could make people laugh but who sought to impart to his audiences a lasting joy. Originally inspired by a series of circus and clown drawings...
| Author | Virginia Woolf |
| ISBN | 0156252341 |
A highly acclaimed collection of twenty-eight essays, sketches, and short stories presenting nearly every facet of the author's work. "Up to the author's highest standard in a literary form that was most congenial to her" (Times Literary Supplement (London)). "Exquisitely written" (New Yorker);...
| Author | Marian Engel |
| ISBN | 0879236671 |
She f*cked a bear.
She literally f*cked a bear.
No. This isn't some euphemism for a beefy gay man.
She motherf*cking literally f*cked a literal bear.
What. The. Hell.
Okay. So. I'm not a cultured reader. I read mostly YA and...well...that's about it....
| Author | Claudia Durastanti |
| ISBN | 8893447754 |
"La storia di una famiglia somiglia più a una cartina topografica che a un romanzo, e una biografia è la somma di tutte le ere geologiche che hai attraversato". Come si racconta una vita se non esplorandone i luoghi simbolici e geografici, ricostruendo una mappa di sé e del mondo vissuto? Tra la Basilicata...
A Kurt O'Reilly non ne va bene una. Ma una, eh? Il medico cui si rivolge per un piccolo fastidio gli spiega, esterrefatto, che in tutti i casi conosciuti quel problema ha un esito nefasto – tranne che nel suo. Sul lettino di un tatuatore, una sensazionale pornostar gli lascia intravedere un paradiso...
