An Ermine in Czernopol
10 best books like An Ermine in Czernopol (Gregor von Rezzori): Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Flights, Lost Children Archive, Exhalation: Stories, Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe, Aliss at the Fire, Omer Pacha Latas, Herkunft, Cristallisation Secrète, Viata si opiniile lui Zacharias Lichter
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 | Olga Tokarczuk |
| ISBN | 0525534199 |
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...
| Author | Valeria Luiselli |
| ISBN | 0525520619 |
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.
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From an award-winning science fiction writer (whose short story "The Story of Your Life" was the basis for the Academy Award-nominated movie Arrival), the long-awaited new collection of stunningly original, humane, and already...
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...
| Author | Jon Fosse |
| ISBN | 1564785734 |
In her old house by the fjord, Signe lies on a bench and sees a vision of herself as she was more than twenty years earlier: standing by the window waiting for her husband Asle, on that terrible late November day when he took his rowboat out onto the water and never returned. Her memories widen out to include...
| Author | Ivo Andrić |
| ISBN | 2842611470 |
Andric's final novel has moments of insight and beauty, but at times its incompleteness is obvious. In his introduction, Vollmann calls it a strange novel and I would have to agree. Ostensibly about the titular character, this novel is really a collection of stories about individuals within the Pasha's...
HERKUNFT ist ein Buch über den ersten Zufall unserer Biografie: irgendwo geboren werden. Und was danach kommt.
HERKUNFT ist ein Buch über meine Heimaten, in der Erinnerung und der Erfindung. Ein Buch über Sprache, Schwarzarbeit, die Stafette der Jugend und viele Sommer. Den Sommer,...
| Author | Yōko Ogawa |
| ISBN | 2742788298 |
L’île où se déroule cette histoire est depuis toujours soumise à un étrange phénomène : les choses et les êtres semblent promis à une sorte d’effacement diaboliquement orchestré. Quand un matin les oiseaux disparaissent à jamais, la jeune narratrice de ce livre ne s’épanche pas...
Viata si opiniile lui Zacharias Lichter
The best thing about this incredible book is the translation by the author’s widow, Adriana Calinescu, and the great German-to-English translator Breon Mitchell. The translation is pitch perfect, keeping the wildness under control while making the dryness enjoyable. Short chapters get across...
