Is That All There Is?
10 best books like Is That All There Is? (Joost Swarte): Building Stories, Aya, Straight Man, Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life, The Playboy, PTSD, Sommerhaus, später, Girl Town, Grass Kings, Vol. 2, The Story of Life
| Author | Chris Ware |
| ISBN | 0375424334 |
After years of sporadic work on other books and projects and following the almost complete loss of his virility, it's here: a new graphic novel by Chris Ware.
Building Stories imagines the inhabitants of a three-story Chicago apartment building: a 30-something woman who has yet to find...
| Author | Marguerite Abouet |
| ISBN | 1894937902 |
"That's what I wanted to show in Aya: an Africa without the ... war and famine, an Africa that endures despite everything because, as we say back home, life goes on." --Marguerite Abouet
Ivory Coast, 1978. Family and friends gather at Aya's house every evening to watch the country's first...
| Author | Richard Russo |
| ISBN | 0375701907 |
In this uproarious new novel, Richard Russo performs his characteristic high-wire walk between hilarity and heartbreak. Russo's protagonist is William Henry Devereaux, Jr., the reluctant chairman of the English department of a badly underfunded college in the Pennsylvania rust belt. Devereaux's...
Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life
Back in 1984, a rebellious,17-year-old, punked-out Ulli Lust set out for a wild hitchhiking trip across Italy, from Naples through Verona and Rome and ending up in Sicily. Twenty-five years later, this talented Austrian cartoonist has looked back at that tumultuous summer and delivered a long, dense,...
| Author | Chester Brown |
| ISBN | 0969670117 |
read this in the bookstore and didn’t buy it shhhhhh don’t tell
I really like Chester Brown and the sort of uncomfortable honesty of his memoir-ish comics is way more appealing to me than that of R. Crumb, who feels more like an actual slime ball. That being said, this entire graphic novel...
| Author | Guillaume Singelin |
| ISBN | 1626723184 |
After returning home from an unpopular war, Jun becomes an outsider in an indifferent world. Alone, desperate, and suffering from wounds both mental and physical, she seeks relief in the illicit drugs she manages to purchase or steal. Jun’s tough exterior served her well in combat, but she’ll...
| Author | Judith Hermann |
| ISBN | 3596147700 |
Eine Menge Vorurteile werden mit Judith Hermanns Debütwerk beseitigt: Erstens, es gibt doch gute deutsche Nachwuchsautoren, zweitens, die Gattung der Erzählung ist nicht tot, und drittens, deutsches Schreiben ist per se nicht schwerfällig und grüblerisch, sondern kann, so zeigt Sommerhaus,...
| Author | Carolyn Nowak |
| ISBN | 1603094385 |
Multi-award-winning cartoonist Carolyn Nowak (Lumberjanes) finds powerful truths in fantasy worlds. Her stunning solo debut collection celebrates the ascent of a rising star in comics.
Diana got hurt—a lot—and she's decided to deal with this fact by purchasing a life-sized robot...
| Author | Matt Kindt |
| ISBN | 1684151813 |
Following a turf war with a rival town, the three brothers who rule a trailer park kingdom must turn their sights inward to find a killer amongst themselves.
The next chapter in the lives of the Grass Kings - three brothers who rule their own trailer park kingdom outside of the laws of man - begins...
| Author | Chris (Simpsons Artist) |
| ISBN | 1409175847 |
this book is a magical journey through life from the beginnings of time to the birth of a child and the adventure that we take on our way to the grave and beyond to the stars
it is a celebration of being human and all of the beautiful things that is in between.
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| Author | Ola Bauer |
| ISBN | 8270947776 |
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| Author | Ola Bauer |
| ISBN | 8270946966 |
Året er 1957. Kong Haakon ligger for døden, og Tommy gjør sin inntreden i det normale samfunnet - med Gene Vincent-lugg og Cooly i munnviken - etter fem år på internatskole for vanskeligstilte barn. Han får Flågvitet som lærer, Karivottens mor som arbeisgiver, og Døden og Livet som sine nye...
Der står et tomt hus i den jyske by Mørke, som manden Mos har arvet efter sin afdøde far. Da både Mos og kvinden Pelle får job i det jyske, flytter de fra det københavnske Vesterbro (hvor de lykkelige småbørnsfamilier griller i gården) til Mørke. Pelle ser det som en måde at slippe væk på, mens...
En kvinde går bare ud ad døren en dag. Tager en pause fra sin familie. Alene i sommerhuset ved kysten, hvor stormen lige har hærget, sover, drikker, raser hun. Hun får ikke badet, får ingen fred, klipper sit hår af og savner noget, som hun ikke ved, præcis hvad er. Hvem er hun egentlig, når hun kan...
| Author | Jacob Paludan |
| ISBN | 0299041719 |
Fantastisk roman, der virkelig rummer tankegods og er helt utroligt fremsynet. Tænk, at den er skrevet allerede i 1932-33! Så klog den er på sin egen tid og den tid, der fulgte, med endnu større katastrofer end 1. verdenskrig. Indimellem har "Jørgen Stein" sine længder, men jeg synes stadig,...
"Winner of Chile’s Literary Critics’ Award for Best Novel"
Now a Major Motion Picture
Hailed as a great Latin American literary event, this stylistically innovative, elliptically told tale of a young man and his love who mysteriously disappears is, as the narrator tells us,...
| Author | Mikkel Wallentin |
| ISBN | 8771249761 |
Sprog er alfa og omega. Det er ved hjælp af symboler som dem her i bogen, at vi kan finde ud af at leve sammen og forstå hinanden. Eller misforstå. Sprog er med andre ord skyld i både krig og kærlighed. Takket være sproget kan vi endda samle tankerne om en tænkepause. Sprog har gjort os til mennesker...
