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10 best books like Half of Man Is Woman (Zhang Xianliang): Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, The Swarm, An Orchestra of Minorities, Max Havelaar, or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company, Foe, Loving, Professor Martens' Departure, The Guiltless, Tiempo de silencio, Akademia Pana Kleksa

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
AuthorOlga Tokarczuk
ISBN0525541330
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake, and taking care of the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw residents. Her reputation as a crank and a recluse is amplified by her...
The Swarm
AuthorFrank Schätzing
ISBN0060813261
For more than two years, one book has taken over Germany's hardcover and paperback bestseller lists, reaching number one in Der Spiegel and setting off a frenzy in bookstores: The Swarm.

Whales begin sinking ships. Toxic, eyeless crabs poison Long Island's water supply. The North Sea shelf...
An Orchestra of Minorities
AuthorChigozie Obioma
ISBN0316412392
A heart-breaking and mythic story about a Nigerian poultry farmer who sacrifices everything to win the woman he loves, by Man Booker Finalist and author of The Fishermen, Chigozie Obioma.

A contemporary twist on the Odyssey, An Orchestra of Minorities is narrated by the chi, or spirit of a...
Max Havelaar, or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company
AuthorMultatuli
ISBN0140445161
Max Havelaar - a Dutch civil servant in Java - burns with an insatiable desire to end the ill treatment and oppression inflicted on the native peoples by the colonial administration. Max is an inspirational figure, but he is also a flawed idealist whose vow to protect the Javanese from cruelty ends in...
Foe
AuthorJ.M. Coetzee
With the same electrical intensity of language and insight that he brought to Waiting for the Barbarians , J.M. Coetzee reinvents the story of Robinson Crusoe—and in so doing, directs our attention to the seduction and tyranny of storytelling itself

In 1720 the eminent man of letters...
Loving
AuthorHenry Green
ISBN0099285096
One of his most admired works, Loving describes life above and below stairs in an Irish country house during the Second World War. In the absence of their employers the Tennants, the servants enact their own battles and conflict amid rumours about the war in Europe, invading one another's provinces...
Professor Martens' Departure
AuthorJaan Kross
ISBN1565841115
Widely read in Europe, the Estonian novelist Jaan Kross is considered one of the most important writers of the Baltic region, and is an often-named candidate for the Nobel Prize.

His new historical novel, Professor Martens’ Departure, is written in a classic elegiac style reminiscent...
The Guiltless
AuthorHermann Broch
ISBN0810160781
Murder, lust, shame, hypocrisy, and suicide are at the center of The Guiltless, Hermann Broch's novel about the disintegration of European society in the first three decades of the twentieth century. Broch's characters—an apathetic man who can barely remember his own name (Broch mostly refers...
Tiempo de silencio
AuthorLuis Martín-Santos
ISBN8432203777
La primera edición de Tiempo de silencio apareció en Biblioteca Formentor, Seix Barral, en 1961 y alcanzó casi inmediatamente una extraordinaria resonancia crítica. Ha sido traducido al ingles, al francés, al italiano, al alemán, al holandés, al portugués, al sueco, al checo, al rumano,...
Akademia Pana Kleksa
AuthorJan Brzechwa
Jest to pierwsza część baśniowej trylogii Jana Brzechwy, arcydzieło, do przeczytania którego nikogo nie trzeba zachęcać. Tytułową Akademię, położoną w ogromnym parku pełnym jarów i wąwozów, otacza wysoki mur, w którym jedna obok drugiej mieszczą się żelazne furtki,...
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