One More Year
9 best books like One More Year (Sana Krasikov): Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall, A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal, The Balkan Trilogy, The Year of the Hare, Come Closer, The Finkler Question, A Multitude of Sins, Salem Witch Judge: The Life and Repentance of Samuel Sewall, Ör
Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall
Author | Kazuo Ishiguro |
ISBN | 0307397874 |
One of the most celebrated writers of our time gives us his first cycle of short fiction: five brilliantly etched, interconnected stories in which music is a vivid and essential character.
A once-popular singer, desperate to make a comeback, turning from the one certainty in his life . . . A...
A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
Author | Ben Macintyre |
ISBN | 0804136637 |
Master storyteller Ben Macintyre’s most ambitious work to date brings to life the twentieth century’s greatest spy story.
Kim Philby was the greatest spy in history, a brilliant and charming man who rose to head Britain’s counterintelligence against the Soviet Union during the height...
Author | Olivia Manning |
ISBN | 0099427486 |
Yes, but first a few words about how I'm an idiot:
Since you're here reading this you probably understand that it's no problem to wait.
"Yes, we can do your car service on Friday. Do you want to leave your car or would you like to wait?"
"Oh, I can wait."
I can wait, because...
Author | Arto Paasilinna |
ISBN | 0720612772 |
ENGLISH (The Year of the Hare) / ITALIANO
Vatanen, a Finnish journalist, is in conflict with his life. The dissatisfaction comes out one day after hitting a hare. After rescue the wild animal, inexplicably Vatanen running through the woods together with his new friend. He starts down a path...
Author | Sara Gran |
ISBN | 0425210316 |
this is short and anything but sweet, somehow managing to pack a whole lot of creepiness into just under 200 pages.
it’s a story of a woman’s disintegration as she is invaded by a demonic presence that insinuates itself into her body and mind, slowly and irrevocably supplanting her free...
Author | Howard Jacobson |
ISBN | 1408808870 |
Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular and disappointed BBC worker, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer and television personality, are old school friends. Despite a prickly relationship and very different lives, they've never quite lost touch with each other - or...
One of the most celebrated and unflinching chroniclers of modern life now explores, in this masterful collection of short stories, the grand theme of intimacy, love, and their failures.
With remarkable insight and honesty, Richard Ford examines liaisons in and out and to the sides of marriage....
Salem Witch Judge: The Life and Repentance of Samuel Sewall
Author | Eve LaPlante |
ISBN | 0060786612 |
In 1692 Puritan Samuel Sewall sent twenty people to their deaths on trumped-up witchcraft charges. The nefarious witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts represent a low point of American history, made famous in works by Longfellow, Nathaniel Hawthorne (himself a descendant of one of the judges), and...
Author | Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir |
Jónas Ebeneser er 49 ára fráskilinn, valdalaus og gagnkynhneigður karlmaður sem hefur ekki haldið utan um bert kvenmannshold – alla vega ekki viljandi – í átta ár og fimm mánuði. En hann er handlaginn. Hann hefur flísalagt sjö baðherbergi og þegar hann leggur af stað í ferðalag...