A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman: Complete Short Stories

8 best books like A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman: Complete Short Stories (Margaret Drabble): The Return of the Soldier, Fierce Attachments: A Memoir, Ten Million Aliens: A Journey Through the Entire Animal Kingdom, Reasons to Be Cheerful, Lectura fácil, Double Fault, Hôzuki, The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories, Volume One: Where on Earth

The Return of the Soldier

Author	Rebecca West
ISBN	0812971221

"I heard, amazed, his step ring strong upon the stone, for I had felt his absence as a kind of death from which he would emerge ghostlike, impalpable."

Two women await the return of a soldier, Chris, from World War I. His wife, Kitty, is an upper-class woman, still mourning the death of their child....

Fierce Attachments: A Memoir

Author	Vivian Gornick
ISBN	0374529965

In this deeply etched and haunting memoir, Vivian Gornick tells the story of her lifelong battle with her mother for independence. There have been numerous books about mother and daughter, but none has dealt with this closest of filial relations as directly or as ruthlessly. Gornick's groundbreaking...

Ten Million Aliens: A Journey Through the Entire Animal Kingdom

Author	Simon Barnes
ISBN	1476730350

Life on planet earth is not weirder than we imagine. It's weirder than we are capable of imagining. And we're all in it together: humans, blue whales, rats, birds of paradise, ridiculous numbers of beetles, molluscs the size of a bus, the sexual gladiators of slugs, bdelliod rotifers who haven't had...

Reasons to Be Cheerful

Author	Nina Stibbe
ISBN	0241240522

'When people in the village heard I was about to start working in the city they tried to unsettle me with tales of woe. The sun, blotted out by the tall buildings, couldn't shine and the rain was poisoned by the toxic fumes that poured from the sock factories. My skin would be covered in pimples from the hell...

Lectura fácil

Author

Cristina Morales

Son cuatro: Nati, Patri, Marga y Àngels. Son parientas, tienen diversos grados de lo que la Administración y la medicina consideran «discapacidad intelectual» y comparten un piso tutelado. Han pasado buena parte de sus vidas en RUDIS y CRUDIS (residencias urbanas y rurales para personas con...

Double Fault

Author	Lionel Shriver
ISBN	1852429119

An ardent middle-ranked professional tennis player, Willy Novinsky meets her match in Eric Oberdorf, the handsome rogue she drubs in a pick-up game in Manhattan's Riverside Park. Eric is charmingly gracious in defeat, and his casual confidence takes her in. Low-ranked but untested, Eric, too, aims...

Hôzuki

Author	Aki Shimazaki
ISBN	2330057164

3,5 estrellas.

Una historia sensible e intimista sobre la maternidad. O más bien la elección de ser madre. O de no serlo. O de cambiar de opinión sobre serlo.

Es un poco como una película de Koreeda, en el sentido de que no pasa mucho en la trama. Sin embargo, hay un trasfondo que va...

The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories, Volume One: Where on Earth

Author	Ursula K. Le Guin
ISBN	1618730347

The Unreal and the Real is a major event not to be missed. In this two-volume selection of Ursula K. Le Guin's best short stories—as selected by the National Book Award winning author herself—the reader will be delighted, provoked, amused, and faced with the sharp, satirical voice of one of the best...