A Visit to Don Otavio
10 best books like A Visit to Don Otavio (Sybille Bedford): Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Pedro Páramo, The Age of Revolution, 1789-1848, Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe, Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea, Lolly Willowes, Camino Real, Five Modern No Plays, More Than Enough: Claiming Space for Who You Are (No Matter What They Say), We Are Displaced
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
| Author | Olga Tokarczuk |
| ISBN | 0525541330 |
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake, and taking care of the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw residents. Her reputation as a crank and a recluse is amplified by her...
| Author | Juan Rulfo |
| ISBN | 0802133908 |
A classic of Mexican modern literature about a haunted village.
As one enters Juan Rulfo's legendary novel, one follows a dusty road to a town of death. Time shifts from one consciousness to another in a hypnotic flow of dreams, desires, and memories, a world of ghosts dominated by the figure...
The Age of Revolution, 1789-1848
| Author | Eric Hobsbawm |
| ISBN | 0679772537 |
Having read this first in 2011, I decided to read it again. I've learned a fair bit about the period since then, and so better appreciate the virtues and limits of this volume.
It contains a great deal of condensed analysis - hence it is rich, but often dry. It is also very British -- not only in its...
Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe
| Author | Kapka Kassabova |
| ISBN | 1555977863 |
In this extraordinary work of narrative reportage, Kapka Kassabova returns to Bulgaria, from where she emigrated as a girl twenty-five years previously, to explore the border it shares with Turkey and Greece. When she was a child, the border zone was rumored to be an easier crossing point into the West...
Considered Teffi’s single greatest work, Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea is a deeply personal account of the author’s last months in Russia and Ukraine, suffused with her acute awareness of the political currents churning around her, many of which have now resurfaced.
In 1918,...
| Author | Sylvia Townsend Warner |
| ISBN | 0940322161 |
This is a book about witches. But when I finally put this book down last night, I mostly just thought about my father.
I don’t think it is controversial to say that duty is a bit of an old fashioned word these days. Like honor. It’s one of those words you hear someone say and squirm uncomfortably,...
| Author | Tennessee Williams |
| ISBN | 0811202186 |
In this phantasmagorical play, the Camino Real is a dead end, a police state in a vaguely Latin American country, and an inescapable condition. Characters from history and literature—Don Quixote, Casanova, Camille, Lord Byron—inhabit a place where corruption and indifference have immobilized...
| Author | Yukio Mishima |
| ISBN | 0804813809 |
Japanese No drama is one of the great art forms that has fascinated people throughout the world. The late Yukio Mishima, one of Japan's outstanding post-war writers, infused new life into the form by using it for plays that preserve the style and inner spirit of No and are at the same time so modern, so direct,...
More Than Enough: Claiming Space for Who You Are (No Matter What They Say)
| Author | Elaine Welteroth |
| ISBN | 0525561587 |
“Elaine gifts us all with a beautifully intimate and powerful retelling of her ever-unfolding journey. In sharing her joys, pitfalls, adventures, self-doubt, and successes, she reminds us that through uncovering and discovering the many facets of ourselves, we are more than enough.”
—Yara...
Nobel Peace Prize-winner Malala Yousafzai will start with her own story of displacement as an Internally Displaced Person to show what it means to lose your home, your community, and the only world you've ever known. She will also share the personal stories of some of the girls she has met on her various...
