Maybe This Time
10 best books like Maybe This Time (Alois Hotschnig): Tail of the Blue Bird, The Barnum Museum, Agamemnon's Daughter: A Novella and Stories, The Oxford Book of Irish Short Stories, Thirst, Stained Glass Elegies, Short Treatise on the Joys of Morphinism, Stevenson Under the Palm Trees, Seven Houses in France, Die Nacht, die Lichter: Stories
| Author | Nii Ayikwei Parkes |
| ISBN | 0224085743 |
Sonokrom, a village in the Ghanaian hinterland, has not changed for thousands of years. Here, the men and women speak the language of the forest, drink aphrodisiacs with their palm wine and walk alongside the spirits of their ancestors. The discovery of sinister remains; possibly human, definitely...
| Author | Steven Millhauser |
| ISBN | 1564781798 |
The Barnum Museum is a combination waxworks, masked ball, and circus sideshow masquerading as a collection of short stories. Within its pages, note such sights as: a study of the motives and strategies used by the participants in the game of Clue, including the seduction of Miss Scarlet by Colonel Mustard;...
| Author | Ismail Kadare |
| ISBN | 1559707887 |
In this spellbinding novel, written in Albania and smuggled into France a few pages at a time in the 1980s, Ismail Kadare denounces with rare force the machinery of a dictatorial regime, drawing us back to the ancient roots of tyranny in Western Civilization. During the waning years of Communism, a young...
| Author | William Trevor |
| ISBN | 0192801937 |
What began simply in Ireland as entertainment and communication through the spoken word soon grew into an extraordinary literary form unmatched in any other country. The Oxford Book of Irish Short Stories triumphantly demonstrates the development of the short story in Ireland--from the early folk...
| Author | Ken Kalfus |
| ISBN | 1571310185 |
A few quite good stories, reminiscent of Calvino and Borges, surrounded by some okay stories. And then I remembered, Calvino and Borges do a pretty good Calvino and Borges as well--so I'll read them instead. If you only read one story from this collection, though read "Night And Day You Are The One"
I'll...
| Author | Shūsaku Endō |
| ISBN | 0811211428 |
The arresting beauty of Shusaku Endo's fiction is best known in the West through his highly acclaimed novels The Samurai and Silence. His consummately wrought short stories, with their worlds of deep shadows and achieved clarity, are less familiar. The dozen stories of Stained Glass Elegies, selected...
| Author | Hans Fallada |
| ISBN | 0141195800 |
'...I stare at the coffee I poured myself, and I think: caffeine is a poison that stimulates the heart. There are plenty of instances of people killing themselves with coffee, hundreds and thousands of them. Caffeine is a deadly poison, maybe almost as deadly as morphine. Why didn't it ever occur to me...
| Author | Alberto Manguel |
| ISBN | 1841954497 |
'Stevenson Under the Palm Trees' is a vivid novella with Robert Louis Stevenson at its centre. Drawing on works produced by Stevenson at the end of his life, Manguel weaves a story about his life on Samoa, a philosophical investigation into morality, storytelling and reality. Manguel's story is filled...
| Author | Bernardo Atxaga |
| ISBN | 1555976239 |
A brooding novel of colonial intrigue in the Congo, from the author of The Accordionist's Son and Obabakoak
The year is 1903, and the garrison of Yangambi on the banks of the Congo is under the command of Captain Lalande Biran. The captain is also a poet whose ambition is to amass a fortune and return...
| Author | Clemens Meyer |
| ISBN | 3100486013 |
Er setzt alles auf eine Karte, der Hundebesitzer, der auf der Rennbahn sein Geld verwettet, um eine teure OP zahlen zu können. Sie will es allen zeigen, die junge Frau, und sich vom Flüchtlingsschiff in die erste Liga hochboxen. Clemens Meyers Geschichten spielen in der stillen Wohnung, in der Lagerhalle...
Translated from the Finnish by Emily Jeremiah and Fleur Jeremiah
"I sensed that motherhood was terrible, perhaps sweet at times, but above all terrible. Not because one human child would be more horrendous than another, nor is it so that offspring cannot bring joy when little and be useful...
| Author | Matthias Politycki |
| ISBN | 0956284035 |
Germany's master of wit and irony now for the first time in English.
Hinrich takes his existence at face value. His wife, on the other hand, has always been more interested in the after-life. Or so it seemed. When she dies of a stroke, Hinrich goes through her papers, only to discover a totally...
| Author | Dumitru Țepeneag |
| ISBN | 1564784215 |
Clutching a bouquet of flowers, hurrying to catch his bus, and arguing with the driver once he's on, a man rushes to a train station platform to meet a woman. This sequence of events occurs and recurs in remarkably different variations in Vain Art of the Fugue.
In one version, the bus driver...
| Author | Amos Oz |
| ISBN | 0547483368 |
Strange things are happening in Tel Ilan, a century-old pioneer village. A disgruntled retired politician complains to his daughter that he hears the sound of digging at night. Could it be their tenant, that young Arab? But then the young Arab hears the digging sounds too. Where has the mayor's wife...
| Author | Friedrich Christian Delius |
| ISBN | 0956284000 |
Rome one January afternoon in 1943. A young German woman is on her way to listen to a Bach concert at the Lutheran church. Innocent and naïve, the war is for her little more than a day-dream, until she realizes that her husband might never return.
This is a mesmerizing psychological portrait...
| Author | Nihad Sirees |
| ISBN | 1590516451 |
Available in English for the first time, The Silence and the Roar is a funny, sexy, dystopian novel about the struggle of an individual over tyranny.
The Silence and the Roar follows a day in the life of Fathi Sheen, an author banned from publishing because he refuses to write propaganda...
| Author | Pia Juul |
| ISBN | 0956284078 |
”I recognized the handwriting. I couldn’t breathe. That’s enough. Secret pregnant nieces. Secret rooms. And what kind of secret was this? Maverick? I know what goes on in Halland’s mind. I fell in love with him, of course I know. I can read his slightest passing thought; I can sense him without...
| Author | Tristan Garcia |
| ISBN | 0865479119 |
In a controversial first novel that took the French literary world by storm and won the Prix de Flore, Tristan Garcia uses sex, friendships, and love affairs to show what happens to people when political ideals--Marxism, gay rights, sexual liberation, nationalism--come to an end. As Elizabeth Levallois,...
From the Fatherland, with Love is set in an alternative, dystopian present in which the dollar has collapsed and Japan's economy has fallen along with it. The North Korean government, sensing an opportunity, sends a fleet of rebels in the first land invasion that Japan has ever faced. Japan can't cope...
| Author | Wisława Szymborska |
| ISBN | 0544126025 |
A new collected volume from the Nobel Prize–winning poet that includes, for the first time in English, all of the poems from her last Polish collection
One of Europe’s greatest recent poets is also its wisest, wittiest, and most accessible. Nobel Prize–winner Wislawa Szymborska draws...
| Author | Hamid Ismailov |
| ISBN | 1908670142 |
A haunting Russian tale about the environmental legacy of the Cold War. Yerzhan grows up in a remote part of Kazakhstan where the Soviets tests atomic weapons. As a young boy he falls in love with the neighbour's daughter and one evening, to impress her, he dives into a forbidden lake. The radio-active...
| Author | Osamu Dazai |
| ISBN | 4902075407 |
Dazai Osamu wrote The Fairy Tale Book (Otogizōshi) in the last months of the Pacific War. The traditional tales upon which Dazai's retellings are based are well known to every Japanese schoolchild, but this is no children's book. In Dazai's hands such stock characters as the kindhearted Oji-san to...
| Author | Kenji Nakagami |
| ISBN | 1880656396 |
The fiction of Kenji Nakagami has no peer in contemporary Japan. Born into the burakumin -- an outcast class shunned in feudal Japan and still suffering discrimination today -- Nakagami depicts the lives of his people in powerful, sensual prose and stark, sometimes horrifying detail. The Cape is his...
| Author | Birgit Vanderbeke |
| ISBN | 3596137837 |
Angespannt wartet die Familie am gedeckten Tisch auf den Vater. Mutter, Tochter und Sohn sitzen vor einem Berg Muscheln, die allein das Oberhaupt der Familie gerne isst. Um die zähe Wartezeit zu überbrücken, beginnen sie miteinander zu reden. Je mehr sich der Vater verspätet, desto offener wird...
