Faithful Ruslan
7 best books like Faithful Ruslan (Georgi Vladimov): A History of the World in 10½ Chapters, Chronicle of a Blood Merchant, The Glass Bees, The Family of Pascual Duarte, Pushkin Hills, Shyness and Dignity, The Miner
A History of the World in 10½ Chapters
| Author | Julian Barnes |
| ISBN | 0679731377 |
Beginning with an unlikely stowaway's account of life on board Noah's Ark, A History of the World in 10½ Chapters presents a surprising, subversive, fictional history of earth told from several kaleidoscopic perspectives. Noah disembarks from his ark but he and his Voyage are not forgotten: they...
Chronicle of a Blood Merchant
| Author | Yu Hua |
| ISBN | 1400031850 |
One of the last decade's ten most influential books in China, this internationally acclaimed novel by one of the mainland's most important contemporary writers provides an unflinching portrait of life under Chairman Mao.
A cart-pusher in a silk mill, Xu Sanguan augments his meager salary...
| Author | Ernst Jünger |
| ISBN | 0940322552 |
In The Glass Bees the celebrated German writer Ernst Jünger presents a disconcerting vision of the future. Zapparoni, a brilliant businessman, has turned his advanced understanding of technology and his strategic command of the information and entertainment industries into a discrete form of...
The Family of Pascual Duarte
| Author | Camilo José Cela |
| ISBN | 1564783596 |
For fans of Spanish miserablism set in a heartless deterministic universe (i.e. this one), Pascal Duarte is the brief novel for you. Duarte’s confession, written from prison, is a beautiful recounting of a life of violent poverty and aimless murder, told in simple and frequently moving prose. Cela’s...
An unsuccessful writer and an inveterate alcoholic, Boris Alikhanov has recently divorced his wife Tatyana, and he is running out of money. The prospect of a summer job as a tour guide at the Pushkin Hills Preserve offers him hope of regaining some balance in life as his wife makes plans to emigrate to...
| Author | Dag Solstad |
| ISBN | 1555974465 |
An Ibsen scholar falls desperately out of society—publication coinciding with Ibsen's 100th anniversary celebrations
In front of him, twenty-nine young men and women about the age of eighteen who looked at him and returned his greeting. He asked them to take out their school edition of...
| Author | Natsume Sōseki |
| ISBN | 0804714606 |
Up front, I'll admit that I'd expected a completely different novel from what I'd read about it as a blurb. I'd expected a book of a darker and more poetic vein.
Instead I got a book that felt like Goethe's Werther had teamed up with Salinger's Holden Caulfield to write a shorter version of The Life...
