Danube: A Sentimental Journey from the Source to the Black Sea
10 best books like Danube: A Sentimental Journey from the Source to the Black Sea (Claudio Magris): Flights, Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas, Berlin Alexanderplatz, Memoirs of Hadrian, Count Belisarius, Julian, A Ilustre Casa de Ramires, Diario notturno, In Europe's Shadow: Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond, 1913 - Der Sommer des Jahrhunderts
| 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...
Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas
| Author | Machado de Assis |
| ISBN | 0850515025 |
a sick chicken and the voluptuousness of misery
we read an author and wonder 'how is it possible that this genius is not known?'... yes, only a species as cretinous as ours could ignore machado. along with carpentier and mutis, he takes the top 'what the fuck' spot.
here are three reasons...
| Author | Alfred Döblin |
| ISBN | 3423002956 |
Biberkopf hat geschworen, er will anständig sein, und ihr habt gesehen, wie er wochenlang anständig ist, aber das war gewissermaßen nur eine Gnadenfrist. Das Leben findet das auf die Dauer zu fein und stellt ihm hinterlistig ein Bein. Die Geschichte des Transportarbeiters Franz Biberkopf, der,...
| Author | Marguerite Yourcenar |
| ISBN | 0374529264 |
Both an exploration of character and a reflection on the meaning of history, Memoirs of Hadrian has received international acclaim since its first publication in France in 1951. In it, Marguerite Yourcenar reimagines the Emperor Hadrian's arduous boyhood, his triumphs and reversals, and finally,...
| Author | Robert Graves |
| ISBN | 0374517398 |
Robert Graves's sources for Count Belisarius include some of the great historical works of classical antiquity: Livy, Thucydides, Herodotus, and certainly Xenophon in the Persian war sections. The novel is set in the sixth century of our era. Belisarius is perhaps the last loyal general the Roman...
The remarkable bestseller about the fourth-century Roman emperor who famously tried to halt the spread of Christianity, Julian is widely regarded as one of Gore Vidal’s finest historical novels.
Julian the Apostate, nephew of Constantine the Great, was one of the brightest yet briefest...
| Author | Eça de Queirós |
| ISBN | 0704301997 |
Bem-vindo ao maravilhoso mundo de Eça de Queirós. Nesta edição clássica do seu romance A Ilustre Casa de Ramires, trazemos até si a melhor edição esta admirável peça literária do final do século XIX e início do século XX.
A Ilustre Casa de Ramires é um romance realista da terceira...
| Author | Ennio Flaiano |
| ISBN | 8845911969 |
Nessun libro come il Diario notturno (1956) riesce a contenere in sé - finemente distillata nella sostanza e nella forma - l'intera opera di Ennio Flaiano. Vi ritroviamo infatti tutti i contenuti primari del suo modo di essere, psicologico e letterario: il pessimismo lucido e dolente; la coscienza...
In Europe's Shadow: Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond
From the New York Times bestselling author Robert D. Kaplan, named one of the world’s Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine, comes a riveting journey through one of Europe’s frontier countries—and a potent examination of the forces that will determine Europe’s fate in the postmodern...
1913 - Der Sommer des Jahrhunderts
| Author | Florian Illies |
| ISBN | 3100368010 |
1913 Die Geschichte eines ungeheuren Jahres
Virtuos entfaltet Florian Illies das Panorama eines unvergleichlichen Jahres, in dem unsere Gegenwart beginnt. In Literatur, Kunst und Musik werden die Extreme ausgereizt, als gäbe es kein Morgen. Proust sucht nach der verlorenen Zeit, Malewitsch...
| Author | Valerio Massimo Manfredi |
| ISBN | 8804468971 |
Conquistò imperi, toccando i confini del mondo allora conosciuto. La sua figura, ancora oggi divinizzata, è sinonimo di insuperabile grandezza. Questa trilogia ci porta nel cuore dell'epica di Alessandro il Grande: dall'infanzia, segnata dall'assassinio del padre Filippo, al patto di sangue...
