Jigsaw: An Unsentimental Education
9 best books like Jigsaw: An Unsentimental Education (Sybille Bedford): Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, An Orchestra of Minorities, The Topeka School, A Voz dos Deuses, Blood Tie, Daisy Miller and Other Stories, You Deserve Nothing, Un roi sans divertissement, Professor Andersens natt
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
| Author | Olga Tokarczuk |
| ISBN | 0525541330 |
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...
An Orchestra of Minorities
| Author | Chigozie Obioma |
| ISBN | 0316412392 |
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...
| Author | Ben Lerner |
| ISBN | 0374277788 |
From the award-winning author of 10:04 and Leaving the Atocha Station, a tender and expansive family drama set in the American Midwest at the turn of the century: a tale of adolescence, transgression, and the conditions that have given rise to the trolls and tyrants of the new right
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| Author | João Aguiar |
| ISBN | 9724110729 |
«Em 147 a.C., alguns milhares de guerrilheiros lusitanos encontram-se cercados pelas tropas do pretor Caio Vetílio. Em princípio, trata-se apenas de mais um episódio da guerra que a República Romana trava há longos anos para se apoderar da Península Ibérica. Mas os Lusitanos, acossados...
| Author | Mary Lee Settle |
| ISBN | 1570030979 |
In a novel that begins with accidental death and ends with deliberate murder, Mary Lee Settle tells the story of an eclectic collection of American and European expatriates who take refuge in an ancient Turkish city and, once there, wreak havoc on the Aegean paradise. At first the characters appear...
| Author | Henry James |
| ISBN | 0192835432 |
Daisy Miller is a fascinating portrait of a young woman from Schenectady, New York, who, traveling in Europe, runs afoul of the socially pretentious American expatriate community in Rome. First published in 1878, the novella brought American novelist Henry James (1843-1916), then living in London,...
| Author | Alexander Maksik |
| ISBN | 1848545703 |
Set in an international high school in Paris, You Deserve Nothing is told in three voices: that of Will, a charismatic young teacher who brings ideas alive in the classroom in a way that profoundly affects his students; Gilad, one of Will's students who has grown up behind compound walls in places like...
Un roi sans divertissement
| Author | Jean Giono |
| ISBN | 2070362205 |
"Le livre est parti parfaitement au hasard, sans aucun personnage. Le personnage était l'Arbre, le Hêtre. Le départ, brusquement, c'est la découverte d'un crime, d'un cadavre qui se trouva dans les branches de cet arbre. Il y a eu d'abord l'Arbre, puis la victime, nous avons commencé par un être...
| Author | Dag Solstad |
| ISBN | 8270947644 |
An existential murder story. A master of Norwegian literature critiques contemporary society with wry wit.
It is Christmas Eve, and 55-year-old Professor Pål Andersen is alone, drinking coffee and cognac in his living room. Lost in thought, he looks out of the window and sees a man strangle...
