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10 best books like No Laughing Matter (Angus Wilson): Kristin Lavransdatter, Reasons to Live, A Question of Power, Parade's End, Half of Man Is Woman, The Man With the Golden Arm, Transit, The Making of Americans, The Trusting and the Maimed, The Invention of Curried Sausage

Kristin Lavransdatter
AuthorSigrid Undset
ISBN0143039164
In her great historical epic Kristin Lavransdatter, set in fourteenth-century Norway, Nobel laureate Sigrid Undset tells the life story of one passionate and headstrong woman. Painting a richly detailed backdrop, Undset immerses readers in the day-to-day life, social conventions, and political...
Reasons to Live
AuthorAmy Hempel
ISBN0060976721
It is always "earthquake weather" in Amy Hempel's California, a landscape where everything can change without warning. Traditional resources—home, parents, lovers, friends, even willpower—are not dependable. And so the characters in these short, compelling stories have learned to depend...
A Question of Power
AuthorBessie Head
ISBN0435907204
"Your mother was insane. If you're not careful you'll get insane just like your mother. Your mother was a white woman. They had to lock her up, as she was having a child by the stable boy who was a native." It is never clear to Elizabeth whether the mission school principal's cruel revelation of her origins...
Parade's End
AuthorFord Madox Ford
ISBN0141186615
In creating his acclaimed masterpiece Parade's End, Ford Madox Ford wanted the Novelist in fact to appear in his really proud position as historian of his own time . . . The 'subject' was the world as it culminated in the war. Published in four parts between 1924 and 1928, his extraordinary novel centers...
Half of Man Is Woman
AuthorZhang Xianliang
ISBN0393025861
Poet Zhang Yonglin is sentenced to a labor camp he ironically describes as a haven amidst the hysteria of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. After he marries a woman he had seen eight years earlier, the story becomes, on one level, an analogy between his temporary sexual impotence and the position of intellectuals....
The Man With the Golden Arm
AuthorNelson Algren
ISBN1583220089
Nelson Algren's devastating of that savage, subterranean world go gamblers, junkies, alcoholics, prostitutes, thieves, and degenerates remains unsurpassed as an authentic portrait of human depravity.

Only a master like Algren could create such a passionate and dramatic novel of so...
Transit
AuthorAnna Seghers
ISBN3746651530
“Transit” is the perfect title for this masterpiece of refugee fiction!

There are so many layers of meaning in that short word, all symbolically integrated in the straightforward, realistic story, mirroring Anna Seghers’ own odyssey during the Second World War.

The most...
The Making of Americans
AuthorGertrude Stein
ISBN1564780880

"I am all unhappy in this writing. I know very much of the meaning of the being in men and women. I know it and feel it and I am always learning more of it and now I am telling it and I am nervous and driving and unhappy in it. Sometimes I will be all happy in it." p348

This is not the novel I thought it...
The Trusting and the Maimed
AuthorJames Plunkett
ISBN0815969090
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The Invention of Curried Sausage
AuthorUwe Timm
ISBN0811213684
The Invention of Curried Sausage is an ingenious, revealing, and delightful novel about the invention of a popular German sidewalk food. Uwe Timm has heard claims that currywurst first appeared in Berlin in the 1950s, but he seems to recall having eaten it much earlier, as a boy in his native Hamburg,...
Stone Junction
AuthorJim Dodge
ISBN0802135854
Introitus lapidis, que arranca con el derechazo propinado en la mandíbula a una monja, es una odisea moderna sobre la búsqueda del conocimiento y de la comprensión, simbolizados por una extraña esfera de diamante, supuestamente la Piedra Filosofal, custodiada por el gobierno de los EEUU. Daniel...
The Guiltless
AuthorHermann Broch
ISBN0810160781
Murder, lust, shame, hypocrisy, and suicide are at the center of The Guiltless, Hermann Broch's novel about the disintegration of European society in the first three decades of the twentieth century. Broch's characters—an apathetic man who can barely remember his own name (Broch mostly refers...
Tiempo de silencio
AuthorLuis Martín-Santos
ISBN8432203777
La primera edición de Tiempo de silencio apareció en Biblioteca Formentor, Seix Barral, en 1961 y alcanzó casi inmediatamente una extraordinaria resonancia crítica. Ha sido traducido al ingles, al francés, al italiano, al alemán, al holandés, al portugués, al sueco, al checo, al rumano,...
The Parable Of The Blind
AuthorGert Hofmann
ISBN0880641134
Inspired by Parabel der Blinden (1568), a painting by Netherlandish artist Pieter Bruegel, the novel tells the story of the work's creation from the point of view of the six blind men depicted in the painting. The story is recounted in the present tense, first person plural. The "we" that comprises the...
The Apes of God
AuthorWyndham Lewis
ISBN0140087028
2001-06-06
the Planet of the Apes of God

Wyndham Lewis's ( founder of VORTICISM= the only British Avant-Garde movement of the 20th century)Apes of God is a vicious satire exposing the posture and posuers of the art world then (circa 1920's London/Paris/New York et.al.)and's wholly applicable...
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