Prisoner's Dilemma

10 best books like Prisoner's Dilemma (Richard Powers): Flights, Everything Under, Restless, Spring, This Is Happiness, Kudos, The Emigrants, The Double, This Green and Pleasant Land, Songs of the Humpback Whale

Flights
AuthorOlga Tokarczuk
ISBN0525534199
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE

From the incomparably original Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, Flights interweaves reflections on travel with an in-depth exploration...
AuthorDaisy Johnson
An eerie, watery reimagining of the Oedipus myth set on the canals of Oxford, from the author of Fen

The dictionary doesn’t contain every word. Gretel, a lexicographer by trade, knows this better than most. She grew up on a houseboat with her mother, wandering the canals of Oxford and speaking...
Restless
AuthorWilliam Boyd
ISBN0747589372
“I am Eva Delectorskaya,” Sally Gilmartin announces, and so on a warm summer afternoon in 1976 her daughter, Ruth, learns that everything she ever knew about her mother was a carefully constructed lie. Sally Gilmartin is a respectable English widow living in picturesque Cotswold village; Eva...
Spring
AuthorAli Smith
ISBN0241207053
From the bestselling author of Autumn and Winter, as well as the Baileys Prize-winning How to be both, comes the next installment in the remarkable, once-in-a-generation masterpiece, the Seasonal Quartet

Spring will come. The leaves on its trees will open after blossom. Before it arrives,...
This Is Happiness
AuthorNiall Williams
About This Is Happiness
The most enchanting novel you'll read this year, from the acclaimed author of Man Booker-longlisted History of the Rain

Change is coming to Faha, a small Irish parish that hasn't changed in a thousand years.

For one thing, the rain is stopping. Nobody remembers...
Kudos
AuthorRachel Cusk
ISBN1473524334
Rachel Cusk, the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of Outline and Transit, completes the transcendent literary trilogy with Kudos, a novel of unsettling power.

A woman writer visits a Europe in flux, where questions of personal and political identity are rising to the surface...
The Emigrants
AuthorW.G. Sebald
ISBN0099448882
At first The Emigrants appears simply to document the lives of four Jewish émigrés in the twentieth century. But gradually, as Sebald's precise, almost dreamlike prose begins to draw their stories, the four narrations merge into one overwhelming evocation of exile and loss.

Written with...
The Double
AuthorJosé Saramago
ISBN0151010404
Tertuliano Maximo Afonso is a history teacher in a secondary school. He is divorced, involved in a rather one-sided relationship with a bank clerk, and he is depressed. To lift his depression, a colleague suggests he rent a certain video. Tertuliano watches the film and is unimpressed. During the night,...
This Green and Pleasant Land
AuthorAyisha Malik
ISBN1785767526
Accountant Bilal Hasham and his journalist wife, Mariam, plod along contentedly in the sleepy, chocolate box village they've lived in for eight years.

Then Bilal is summoned to his dying mother's bedside in Birmingham. Sakeena Hasham is not long for this world but refuses to leave it until...
Songs of the Humpback Whale
AuthorJodi Picoult
ISBN0743431014
Sometimes finding your own voice
is a matter of listening to the heart....
Jodi Picoult's powerful novel portrays an emotionally charged marriage that changes course in one explosive moment....For years, Jane Jones has lived in the shadow of her husband, renowned San Diego oceanographer...
The Cockroach
AuthorIan McEwan
That morning, Jim Sams, clever but by no means profound, woke from uneasy dreams to find himself transformed into a gigantic creature.

Jim Sams has undergone a metamorphosis. In his previous life he was ignored or loathed, but in his new incarnation he is the most powerful man in Britain –...
The River Capture
AuthorMary Costello
SHORTLISTED FOR EASON NOVEL OF THE YEAR, IRISH BOOK AWARDS

Luke O’Brien has left Dublin to live a quiet life on his family land on the bend of the River Sullane. Alone in his big house, he longs for a return to his family's heyday and turns to books for solace.

One morning a young woman...
Meet Me at the Museum
AuthorAnne Youngson
ISBN0857525522
Please be aware I am writing to you to make sense of myself ...

When the curator of a Danish museum responds to a query about ancient exhibits, he doesn’t expect a reply.

When Tina Hopgood first wrote it, nor did she …

Professor Anders Larsen, an urbane man of facts, has lost...
Extrait gratuit - L'enfant perdue (L'amie prodigieuse, Tome 4)
AuthorElena Ferrante
- EXTRAIT GRATUIT -

À la fin de Celle qui fuit et celle qui reste, Lila montait son entreprise d’informatique avec Enzo, et Elena réalisait enfin son rêve : aimer Nino et être aimée de lui, quitte à abandonner son mari et à mettre en danger sa carrière d’écrivain. Car elle s’affirme...
La conjuration des imbéciles
AuthorJohn Kennedy Toole
John Kennedy Toole was an American novelist from New Orleans, Louisiana, best known for his novel A Confederacy of Dunces.

Toole's novels remained unpublished during his lifetime. Some years after his death by suicide, Toole's mother brought the manuscript of A Confederacy of Dunces to...
Ces Extravagantes Soeurs Mitford
AuthorAnnick Le Floc'Hmoan
ISBN2290332224
Annick Le Floc'hmoan nous fait découvrir les six soeurs Mitford, issues d'une famille résolument victorienne de l'aristocratie anglaise. L'aînée, Nancy, écrivain reconnu à la plume ironique et parfois cruelle. Amoureuse de la France et de Gaston Palewski, gaulliste historique et grand...
Beyond Recall
AuthorRobert Goddard
ISBN0552142255
At a wedding party in Cornwall in the summer of 1981, Chris Napier is shocked to recognise a dishevelled intruder as his childhood friend Nicky Lanyon, whom he has not seen since his father, Michael Lanyon, was hanged for the murder of Chris's great-uncle, Joshua Carnoweth, in 1947.
It was the inheritance...
Les Sorcières de la République
AuthorChloé Delaume
Des choses, pas belles, se sont passées, en France, entre 2017 et 2020. Les femmes, par la main de déesses grecques surgies de l’Olympe, ont pris le pouvoir détenu par les hommes depuis des millénaires. L’Apocalypse, prédite pour décembre 2012, n’a pas eu lieu. Les déesses sont venues...
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