A Fairy Tale of New York

5 best books like A Fairy Tale of New York (J.P. Donleavy): Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont, Serotonin, The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie: Three Novels, A Far Cry from Kensington, Die Tuchvilla

Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont

Author

Elizabeth Taylor

On a rainy Sunday in January, the recently widowed Mrs. Palfrey arrives at the Claremont Hotel where she will spend her remaining days. Her fellow residents are magnificently eccentric and endlessly curious, living off crumbs of affection and snippets of gossip. Together, upper lips stiffened,...

Serotonin

Author

Michel Houellebecq

Michel Houellebecq’s Serotonin is a caustic, frightening, hilarious, raunchy, offensive, and politically incorrect novel about the decline of Europe, Western civilization, and humanity in general. Enter to win a hardcover copy!

Deeply depressed by his romantic and professional...

The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie: Three Novels

Author	Ágota Kristóf
ISBN	0802135064

These three internationally acclaimed novels have confirmed Agota Kristof's reputation as one of the most provocative exponents of new-wave European fiction. With all the stark simplicity of a fractured fairy tale, the trilogy tells the story of twin brothers, Claus and Lucas, locked in an agonizing...

A Far Cry from Kensington

Author	Muriel Spark
ISBN	0811214575

Set on the crazier fringes of 1950s literary London, A Far Cry from Kensington is a delight, hilariously portraying love, fraud, death, evil, and transformation. Mrs. Hawkins, the majestic narrator of A Far Cry from Kensington, takes us well in hand and leads us back to her threadbare years in postwar...

Die Tuchvilla

Author

Anne Jacobs

Ein Herrenhaus. Eine mächtige Familie. Ein dunkles Geheimnis …

Augsburg, 1913. Die junge Marie tritt eine Anstellung als Küchenmagd in der imposanten Tuchvilla an, dem Wohnsitz der Industriellenfamilie Melzer. Während das Mädchen aus dem Waisenhaus seinen Platz unter den Dienstboten...