Hermit in Paris: Autobiographical Writings

9 best books like Hermit in Paris: Autobiographical Writings (Italo Calvino): Pale Fire, That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana, Deaf Republic: Poems, Jumper, X-Men: The Dark Phoenix Saga, Jacques the Fatalist, The Flavor Bible: The Essential Guide to Culinary Creativity, Based on the Wisdom of America's Most Imaginative Chefs, Travels in the Scriptorium, Os Livros Que Devoraram o Meu Pai

Pale Fire

Author	Vladimir Nabokov
ISBN	0141185260

The American poet John Shade is dead. His last poem, 'Pale Fire', is put into a book, together with a preface, a lengthy commentary and notes by Shade's editor, Charles Kinbote. Known on campus as the 'Great Beaver', Kinbote is haughty, inquisitive, intolerant, but is he also mad, bad - and even dangerous?...

That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana

Author	Carlo Emilio Gadda
ISBN	1590172221

In a large apartment house in the center of Rome, two crimes are committed within a matter of days: a burglary, in which a good deal of money and precious jewels are taken, and a murder, as a young woman whose husband is out of town is found with her throat cut. Called in to investigate, melancholy Detective...

Deaf Republic: Poems

Author	Ilya Kaminsky
ISBN	1555978312

Finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry
Finalist for the T. S. Eliot Prize
Finalist for the Forward Prize for Best Collection

Ilya Kaminsky’s astonishing parable in poems asks us, What is silence?

Deaf Republic opens in an occupied country in a time of political...

Jumper

Author	Steven Gould
ISBN	0765342286

Davy lives alone with his father. But the truth is, it isn't much of a home. When things get so bad that Davy decides to run away, his big question is, Where? And how will he live?

The magical answer: anywhere Davy wants!

Davy discovers he has the power to "jump" from one place to another....

X-Men: The Dark Phoenix Saga

Author	Chris Claremont
ISBN	0785122133

Gathered together by Professor Charles Xavier to protect a world that fears and hates them, the X-Men had fought many battles, been on adventures that spanned galaxies, grappled enemies of limitless might, but none of this could prepare them for the most shocking struggle they would ever face. One...

Jacques the Fatalist

Author	Denis Diderot
ISBN	0192838741

Jacques le Fataliste et son maître = Jacques the Fatalist, Denis Diderot (1713 - 1784)
Jacques the Fatalist and his Master (French: Jacques le fataliste et son maître) is a novel by Denis Diderot, written during the period 1765–1780. The first French edition was published posthumously in...

The Flavor Bible: The Essential Guide to Culinary Creativity, Based on the Wisdom of America's Most Imaginative Chefs

Author	Karen Page
ISBN	0316118400

Winner of the 2009 James Beard Book Award for Best Book: Reference and Scholarship

Great cooking goes beyond following a recipe--it's knowing how to season ingredients to coax the greatest possible flavor from them. Drawing on dozens of leading chefs' combined experience in top restaurants...

Travels in the Scriptorium

Author	Paul Auster
ISBN	0805081453

A man pieces together clues to his past--and the identity of his captors--in this fantastic, labyrinthine novel
An old man awakens, disoriented, in an unfamiliar chamber. With no memory of who he is or how he has arrived there, he pores over the relics on the desk, examining the circumstances...

Os Livros Que Devoraram o Meu Pai

Author	Afonso Cruz
ISBN	9722120956

Vivaldo Bonfim é um escriturário entediado que leva romances e novelas para a repartição de finanças onde está empregado. Um dia, enquanto finge trabalhar, perde-se na leitura e desaparece deste mundo.
Esta é a sua verdadeira história - contada na primeira pessoa pelo filho, Elias Bonfim,...