Dissident Gardens
9 best books like Dissident Gardens (Jonathan Lethem): Territory of Light, Quichotte, Underworld, Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire, White Noise, Carry the One, San Miguel, The New Bloomsday Book: A Guide Through Ulysses, Märchenmond
| Author | Yūko Tsushima |
| ISBN | 0241312191 |
Territory of Light is the luminous story of a young woman, living alone in Tokyo with her three-year-old daughter. Its twelve, stand-alone fragments follow the first year of her separation from her husband. The novel is full of light, sometimes comforting and sometimes dangerous: sunlight streaming...
In a tour-de-force that is both an homage to an immortal work of literature and a modern masterpiece about the quest for love and family, Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie has created a dazzling Don Quixote for the modern age.
Inspired by the Cervantes...
| Author | Don DeLillo |
| ISBN | 0330369954 |
While Eisenstein documented the forces of totalitarianism and Stalinism upon the faces of the Russian peoples, DeLillo offers a stunning, at times overwhelming, document of the twin forces of the Cold War and American culture, compelling that "swerve from evenness" in which he finds events and people...
Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire
| Author | Judith Herrin |
| ISBN | 0713999977 |
Byzantium. The name evokes grandeur and exoticism - gold, cunning, and complexity. In this unique book, Judith Herrin unveils the riches of a quite different civilization. Avoiding a standard chronological account of the Byzantine Empire's millennium - long history, she identifies the fundamental...
| Author | Don DeLillo |
| ISBN | 0143129554 |
Part of the Penguin Orange Collection, a limited-run series of twelve influential and beloved American classics in a bold series design offering a modern take on the iconic Penguin paperback
For the seventieth anniversary of Penguin Classics, the Penguin Orange Collection celebrates...
| Author | Carol Anshaw |
| ISBN | 1451656939 |
“When you add us up, you always have to carry the one.”
Following a devastating moment in the hours after Carmen’s wedding, three siblings and their friends move through the next twenty-five years under its long shadow. Through friendships and love affairs; marriage and divorce; parenthood,...
| Author | T. Coraghessan Boyle |
| ISBN | 0670026247 |
On a tiny, desolate, windswept island off the coast of Southern California, two families, one in the 1880s and one in the 1930s, come to start new lives and pursue dreams of self-reliance and freedom. Their extraordinary stories, full of struggle and hope, are the subject of T. C. Boyle’s haunting...
| Author | Harry Blamires |
| ISBN | 0415138582 |
Since 1966 readers new to James Joyce have depended upon this essential guide to Ulysses. Harry Blamires helps readers to negotiate their way through this formidable, remarkable novel and gain an understanding of it which, without help, it might have take several readings to achieve. The New Bloomsday...
| Author | Wolfgang Hohlbein |
| ISBN | 3453137205 |
Nach einer Blinddarmoperation ist Kims kleine Schwester nicht mehr aus der Narkose aufgewacht, sie liegt im Koma. Die Stimmung in der Familie ist gedrückt, als Kim an diesem Abend ins Bett geht. Da sieht er in einer Ecke seines Zimmers plötzlich einen alten Mann.
Der Alte erklärt Kim, seine...
