Mikhail and Margarita
7 best books like Mikhail and Margarita (Julie Lekstrom Himes): Ribbons of Scarlet: A Novel of the French Revolution, Sing to It: New Stories, The Widow of Pale Harbor, Wittgenstein's Mistress, Victoria, Lands of Lost Borders: Out of Bounds on the Silk Road, Désorientale
Ribbons of Scarlet: A Novel of the French Revolution
Six bestselling and award-winning authors bring to life a breathtaking epic novel illuminating the hopes, desires, and destinies of princesses and peasants, harlots and wives, fanatics and philosophers—six unforgettable women whose paths cross during one of the most tumultuous and transformative...
| Author | Amy Hempel |
| ISBN | 1982109114 |
“All the tawdry details I’m dying for are in these stories, but they’re given out like old sweaters—without shame, without guile. Amy Hempel is the writer who makes me feel most affiliated with other humans; we are all living this way—hiding, alone, obsessed—and that’s ok.” —Miranda...
| Author | Hester Fox |
| ISBN | 1488036624 |
A town gripped by fear. A woman accused of witchcraft. Who can save Pale Harbor from itself?
Maine, 1846. Gabriel Stone is desperate to escape the ghosts that haunt him in Massachusetts after his wife’s death, so he moves to Maine, taking a position as a minister in the remote village of Pale...
| Author | David Markson |
| ISBN | 1564782115 |
Wittgenstein's Mistress is a novel unlike anything David Markson - or anyone else - has ever written before. It is the story of a woman who is convinced, and, astonishingly, will ultimately convince the reader as well, that she is the only person left on earth. Presumably she is mad. And yet so appealing...
| Author | Knut Hamsun |
| ISBN | 0285647598 |
you would think i would have sopped this thing up with a hunk of bread: doomed lovers, the impossibility of communication, the way we hurt the ones we love? that should have karen's stamp of approval all over it.
but it's like hamsun took a great idea for literary exploration and then constructed...
Lands of Lost Borders: Out of Bounds on the Silk Road
| Author | Kate Harris |
| ISBN | 0345816781 |
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"Every day on a bike trip is like the one before--but it is also completely different, or perhaps you are different, woken up in new ways by the mile."
As a teenager,...
Si nous étions en Iran, cette salle d’attente d’hôpital ressemblerait à un caravansérail, songe Kimiâ. Un joyeux foutoir où s’enchaîneraient bavardages, confidences et anecdotes en cascade. Née à Téhéran, exilée à Paris depuis ses dix ans, Kimiâ a toujours essayé de tenir...
