Aetherial Worlds: Stories

10 best books like Aetherial Worlds: Stories (Tatyana Tolstaya): Flights, Lost Children Archive, Frankissstein: A Love Story, Hotel Savoy, Year of the Monkey, Claudine Married, Kjærlighet, Désorientale, The Boatbuilder, El mal de la taiga

Flights
AuthorOlga Tokarczuk
ISBN0525534199
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE

From the incomparably original Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, Flights interweaves reflections on travel with an in-depth exploration...
Lost Children Archive
AuthorValeria Luiselli
ISBN0525520619
From the two-time NBCC Finalist, an emotionally resonant, fiercely imaginative new novel about a family whose road trip across America collides with an immigration crisis at the southwestern border--an indelible journey told with breathtaking imagery, spare lyricism, and profound humanity.

A...
Frankissstein: A Love Story
AuthorJeanette Winterson
ISBN1473563259
From 'one of the most gifted writers working today' (New York Times) comes an audacious new novel about the bodies we live in and the bodies we desire

In Brexit Britain, a young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love – against their better judgement – with Victor Stein, a celebrated...
AuthorJoseph Roth
ISBN1585674478
Still bearing the scars from gulag experiences, a freed POW traverses Russia to arrive at the Polish town of Lodz. In its massive Hotel Savoy, he meets there a surreal cast of characters, each eagerly awaiting the return from America of a rich man named Bloomfield. Like Europe itself in 1932, the hotel...
Year of the Monkey
AuthorPatti Smith
ISBN0525657681
From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, a profound, beautifully realized memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one transformative year.

Following a run of New Year’s concerts at San Francisco’s legendary Fillmore, Patti...
AuthorColette
ISBN0099422492
The stories that inspired the film Colette, out Jan 2019.

The third book in Colette's enchanting Claudine series.

Following the excitement of a shared life in Paris, Claudine's marriage to Renaud has settled into a stale pattern of bickering conversations and mutual inattention....
Kjærlighet
AuthorHanne Ørstavik
ISBN8249504216
‘’A path into the forest, from a long-forgotten place.
Find the path and follow, its ribbon yours to trace.
Past trees and hillocks wander, to a splendid castle old,
In whose halls three ladies fine you shall at last behold.
The prince they there await, if ever he should come.
A...
Désorientale
AuthorNégar Djavadi
Si nous étions en Iran, cette salle d’attente d’hôpital ressemblerait à un caravansérail, songe Kimiâ. Un joyeux foutoir où s’enchaîneraient bavardages, confidences et anecdotes en cascade. Née à Téhéran, exilée à Paris depuis ses dix ans, Kimiâ a toujours essayé de tenir...
The Boatbuilder
AuthorDaniel Gumbiner
ISBN1944211551
At 28 years old, Eli "Berg" Koenigsberg has never encountered a challenge he couldn't push through, until a head injury leaves him with lingering headaches and a weakness for opiates. Berg moves to a remote Northern California town, seeking space and time to recover, but soon finds himself breaking...
El mal de la taiga
AuthorCristina Rivera Garza
ISBN6074213585
¿Es cierto que el desamor, como el amor, un buen día se va? ¿Qué hacen las fauces de un lobo en la historia de un hombre, una mujer y un bosque? Una detective reconvertida en escritora vuelve, después de mucho tiempo y bastantes fracasos, a aceptar un caso que puede resarcirla y que, en el fondo, la seduce:...
Sortie parc, gare d'Ueno
AuthorMiri Yū
Born in Fukushima in 1933, the same year as the Emperor, Kazu’s life is tied by a series of coincidences to Japan’s Imperial family and to one particular spot in Tokyo; the park near Ueno Station – the same place his unquiet spirit now haunts in death. It is here that Kazu’s life in Tokyo began, as...
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