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10 best books like Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather (Gao Xingjian): The Christmas Books, Volume 1: A Christmas Carol/The Chimes, Fanny Owen, The Noodle Maker, The Song of Everlasting Sorrow: A Novel of Shanghai, Serve the People!, The Garlic Ballads, Half of Man Is Woman, I Love Dollars And Other Stories of China, Brothers, O Senhor Ventura

The Christmas Books, Volume 1: A Christmas Carol/The Chimes
AuthorCharles Dickens
ISBN0140430687
From the rear covers of these two volumes: "Dickens's 'Christmas Books' were all written for the Christmas market and published in the same format. Apart from this they have little in common; unless it is the emphasis they lay on family love and the delights of home, and the beneficial effects of memory....
Fanny Owen
AuthorAgustina Bessa-Luís
ISBN8496075591
Fanny Owen é uma história verídica passada em 1850 entre José Augusto Pinto de Magalhães (proprietário da quinta do Lodeiro, poeta rapaz triste e desinteressado da vida), Fanny Owen (filha do coronel Owen, auxiliar e conselheiro militar de D. Pedro aquando das lutas liberais) e o próprio Camilo...
The Noodle Maker
AuthorMa Jian
ISBN0312424795
From Mi Jian, the highly acclaimed Chinese dissident, comes a satirical novel about the absurdities of life in a post-Tiananmen China.

Two men meet for dinner each week. Over the course of one of these drunken evenings, the writer recounts the stories he would write, had he the courage: a young...
The Song of Everlasting Sorrow: A Novel of Shanghai
AuthorWang Anyi
ISBN0231143427
Set in post-World War II Shanghai, "The Song of Everlasting Sorrow" follows the adventures of Wang Qiyao, a girl born of the "longtong," the crowded, labyrinthine alleys of Shanghai's working-class neighborhoods.

Infatuated with the glitz and glamour of 1940s Hollywood, Wang Qiyao seeks...
Serve the People!
AuthorYan Lianke
ISBN0802170447
Set in 1967, at the peak of the Mao cult, Serve the People! is a beautifully told, wickedly daring story about the forbidden love affair between Liu Lian, the young, pretty wife of a powerful Division Commander in Communist China, and her household’s lowly servant, Wu Dawang. When Liu Lian establishes...
The Garlic Ballads
AuthorMo Yan
ISBN1559707755
The farmers of Paradise County have been leading a hardscrabble life unchanged for generations. The Communist government has encouraged them to plant garlic, but selling the crop is not as simple as they believed. Warehouses fill up, taxes skyrocket, and government officials maltreat even those...
Half of Man Is Woman
AuthorZhang Xianliang
ISBN0393025861
Poet Zhang Yonglin is sentenced to a labor camp he ironically describes as a haven amidst the hysteria of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. After he marries a woman he had seen eight years earlier, the story becomes, on one level, an analogy between his temporary sexual impotence and the position of intellectuals....
I Love Dollars And Other Stories of China
AuthorZhu Wen
ISBN0231136943
In five richly imaginative novellas and a short story, Zhu Wen depicts the violence, chaos, and dark comedy of China in the post-Mao era. A frank reflection of the seamier side of his nation's increasingly capitalist society, Zhu Wen's fiction offers an audaciously plainspoken account of the often...
Brothers
AuthorYu Hua
ISBN0375424997
A bestseller in China, recently short-listed for the Man Asian Literary Prize, and a winner of France’s Prix Courrier International, Brothers is an epic and wildly unhinged black comedy of modern Chinese society running amok.

Here is China as we’ve never seen it, in a sweeping, Rabelaisian...
O Senhor Ventura
AuthorMiguel Torga
«E que história a sua! - pícara, ingénua, maliciosa, safada, trágica, ao fim, porque em tragédia sempre morrem os mitos. […] E, no entanto, que mais português que o Ventura, na sua peregrinação, entre mortos e feridos, miséria e grandeza, amores e traições, fomes e febres, e alegrias...
A Costa dos Murmúrios
AuthorLídia Jorge
ISBN8493264512
A Costa dos Murmúrios, publicado em 1988, é o mais famoso romance de Lídia Jorge, tanto em Portugal como no estrangeiro. O seu aparecimento foi um êxito desde o primeiro momento, tendo chegado a vender cerca de 50.000 exemplares em menos de um ano. A obra é produto da experiência que a autora viveu...
Sinais de Fogo
AuthorJorge de Sena
Romance único de Jorge de Sena, parcela de um projecto romancesco de grande dimensão cuja designação genérica seria Monte Cativo, objectivando o recorte de uma geração nascida nos finais dos anos 10 do século XX, Sinais de Fogo abriga em si o despertar de um jovem, entre um grupo de amigos e familiares,...
Húmus
AuthorRaul Brandão
ISBN8496075605
Colecção Mil Folhas, #57

Considerada a obra-prima de Raul Brandão, foi publicada em 1917. Trata-se de um romance-monólogo, centrado em dois monólogos interiores: um primeiro orador e o seu alter-ego, um filósofo lunático. Com a narração dominada por estes dois pontos de vista,...
Era Bom que Trocássemos umas Ideias sobre o Assunto
AuthorMário de Carvalho
ISBN9722110195
Mário de Carvalho convoca-nos a todos. A nós e aos nossos conhecidos. Faz humor com ilusões e desilusões, amores e desamores, graças e desgraças.

O Partido Comunista não escapa à ironia. Brilha a deslumbrante Lisboa, mas também outros locais e endereços. Eduarda Galvão é o protótipo...
Balada da Praia dos Cães
AuthorJosé Cardoso Pires
ISBN9722007165
O romance foi escrito no período pós-revolução de 25 de Abril de 1974. A acção situa-se no princípio dos anos 60, e retrata alguns aspectos da sociedade portuguesa em plena época da ditadura salazarista. Relata a investigação dum assassínio; e a história começa com o relatório da descoberta...
Gente Feliz com Lágrimas
AuthorJoão de Melo
ISBN8496075427
Colecção Mil Folhas, #29

Quando tinha 22 anos, em 1971, João de Melo foi enviado para a guerra que se travava entre Portugal e Angola, uma das suas colónias. Durante mais de dois anos, o romancista permaneceu em África como militar adstrito aos serviços militares de saúde. Dessa experiência...
O Caso Morel
AuthorRubem Fonseca
ISBN8497892550
Entre os escritores brasileiros contemporâneos, Rubem Fonseca foi um dos primeiros a encarar sem rodeios a violência urbana em todos os estratos sociais, do traficante ao empresário, da socialite à prostituta, do mendigo ao banqueiro.
Sempre com um estilo direto, coloquial, cortante,...
Blue Eyes, Black Hair
AuthorMarguerite Duras
ISBN0394563204
Not my sort of thing. Apologies to GR friends who love this book. (Though I've now noticed that some others friends' opinions of Duras' most famous book, The Lover (1984) are similar to mine about this one.)

It's the mood and sparseness that I didn't like, in this archetypally French, archetypally...
The Blood of Others
AuthorSimone de Beauvoir
ISBN0140183337
I’ve lately been reading Simone de Beauvoir’s novel The Blood of Others. In general I seem to be able to get a better feel for French existentialists from their fiction than their essays and lectures — at least where Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre are concerned. De Beauvoir is considerably...
Nação Crioula
AuthorJosé Eduardo Agualusa
Nação Crioula conta a história de um amor secreto: a misteriosa ligação entre o aventureiro português Carlos Fradique Mendes – cuja correspondência Eça de Queiroz recolheu – e Ana Olímpia Vaz de Caminha, que, tendo nascido escrava, foi uma das pessoas mais ricas e poderosas de Angola....
The Stories of Mary Gordon
AuthorMary Gordon
ISBN0375423168
The masterly stories of Mary Gordon return us to the pleasure of this writer's craft and to her monumental talent as an observer of character and of the ever-fading American Dream. These pieces encompass the pre- and postwar Irish American family life she circles in the early Temporary Shelter series,...
The Seven Minutes
AuthorIrving Wallace
In the stillness of the courtroom a bookseller stands accused of selling a book. Is it a work of sensitive genius or an execrable volume of pornography? Could it have driven a respectable college boy to commit brutal rape? And who is the author of the novel at the vortex of a storm of sensation and controversy?

"Michael...
The Prospector
AuthorJ.M.G. Le Clézio
ISBN1567923801
The Prospector is the crowning achievement from one of France's preeminent contemporary novelists and a work rich with sensuality and haunting resonance. It is the turn of the century on the island of Mauritius, and young Alexis L'Etang enjoys an idyllic existence with his parents and beloved sister:...
Wild Grass
AuthorXun Lu
ISBN9629961245
A towering figure in the literary history of twentieth-century China, Lu Xun has exerted significant and continuous influence through his short stories, which remain as powerful today as when first written. Echoes of these stories are audible in fiction from both sides of the Taiwan Strait.Like...
Little Hut of Leaping Fishes
AuthorChiew-Siah Tei
ISBN0330454382
Mingzhi is born to be a mandarin: as the formidable Master Chai's first grandson, his life is mapped from the moment of his birth. But times are changing in China, and as Mingzhi grows, he begins to question his privileged heritage and the secrets and shadows that lurk in the corners of the Chai mansion;...
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