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8 best books like Flags in the Dust (William Faulkner): Spring, Sleeping Murder, The Bridegroom Was a Dog, Shell Shaker, Questa vita tuttavia mi pesa molto, The Peregrine: The Hill of Summer Diaries: The Complete Works of J. A. Baker, De dood is een zware klus, A Cidade Sitiada

Spring
AuthorAli Smith
ISBN0241207053
From the bestselling author of Autumn and Winter, as well as the Baileys Prize-winning How to be both, comes the next installment in the remarkable, once-in-a-generation masterpiece, the Seasonal Quartet

Spring will come. The leaves on its trees will open after blossom. Before it arrives,...
Sleeping Murder
AuthorAgatha Christie
ISBN0002317850
Miss Marple’s last case, Sleeping Murder, was written over 30 years before it was published and sees Miss Marple solve her final mystery.

Soon after Gwenda moved into her new home, odd things started to happen. Despite her best efforts to modernise the house, she only succeeded in dredging...
The Bridegroom Was a Dog
AuthorYōko Tawada
ISBN4770029403
In these three narratives, an ingenious story-teller has created a new kind of fantasy, playful yet vaguely sinister, laced with her own brand of humor, which reviewers have labeled variously as "funky," "mischievous," "weird," and "hilarious."

The author was in her early thirties when...
Shell Shaker
AuthorLeAnne Howe
ISBN1879960613
"A dangerous enemy has arrived on our shores with weapons of fire . . . He's a very different kind of Wasano, bloodsucker, he always hungers for more".—from Shell Shaker

The action in this debut novel alternates between 1738, as a Choctaw family prepares for war against the English, and the...
Questa vita tuttavia mi pesa molto
AuthorEdgardo Franzosini
ISBN8845930122
Ciò che fa di Edgardo Franzosini uno scrittore diverso da qualsiasi altro è la sua capacità di raccontarci storie vere di personaggi, generalmente poco noti, che sembrano inventati per quanto sono fuori del comune. In questo libro Franzosini ci regala un’altra delle sue ipnotiche «vite immaginarie»...
The Peregrine: The Hill of Summer Diaries: The Complete Works of J. A. Baker
AuthorJ.A. Baker
ISBN0007395906
Reissue of J. A. Baker’s extraordinary classic of British nature writing.

Despite the association of peregrines with the wild, outer reaches of the British Isles, The Peregrine is set on the flat marshes of the Essex coast, where J A Baker spent a long winter looking and writing about the...
De dood is een zware klus
AuthorKhaled Khalifa
De oude Syriër Abd al-Latief heeft een laatste wens: hij wil begraven worden in zijn geboortedorp. Op zijn sterfbed vraagt hij zijn zoon Boelboel hem daarheen te brengen. Voor Boelboel zit er niets anders op: samen met zijn broer Hoessein en zijn zus Fatima gaat hij na hun vaders dood op weg. In een busje,...
A Cidade Sitiada
AuthorClarice Lispector
ISBN8532508731
You can find the 'newer' cover edition with the same ISBN here.

A simplória personagem Lucrécia, de 'A cidade sitiada', docemente desprovida de raciocínio e/ou de consciência, é alma gêmea de Macabéa, que muitos já viram na versão cinematográfica 'A hora da estrela'. Lucrécia...
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