Salmonella Men on Planet Porno: Stories
8 best books like Salmonella Men on Planet Porno: Stories (Yasutaka Tsutsui): The Years of Rice and Salt, Hideous Kinky, Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race, Six Records of a Floating Life, Outlaws of the Marsh, The Lake, Naoko, Ricordi di un vicolo cieco
The Years of Rice and Salt
| Author | Kim Stanley Robinson |
| ISBN | 0553580078 |
It is the fourteenth century and one of the most apocalyptic events in human history is set to occur - the coming of the Black Death. History teaches us that a third of Europe's population was destroyed. But what if? What if the plague killed 99 percent of the population instead? How would the world have...
| Author | Esther Freud |
| ISBN | 0880016884 |
Quaint & beautiful. Why Kate Winslet played the mother in the film version after doing "Titanic" is obvious... this is an attractive role. The matriarch is positively enigmatic, & the little girls are total darlings. Morocco is a land of enchantment & magic (my one day spent there was one...
Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race
| Author | Thomas Chatterton Williams |
| ISBN | 0393608867 |
A meditation on race and identity from one of our most provocative cultural critics.
A reckoning with the way we choose to see and define ourselves, Self-Portrait in Black and White is the searching story of one American family’s multigenerational transformation from what is called black...
Six Records of a Floating Life
| Author | Shen Fu |
| ISBN | 0140444297 |
Six Records of a Floating Life (1809) is an extraordinary blend of autobiography, love story and social document written by a man who was educated as a scholar but earned his living as a civil servant and art dealer. In this intimate memoir, Shen Fu recounts the domestic and romantic joys of his marriage...
| Author | Shi Nai'an |
| ISBN | 7119016628 |
China's great classic novel Outlaws of the Marsh, written in the fourteenth century, is a fictional account of twelfth-century events during the Song Dynasty. One by one, over a hundred men and women are forced by the harsh feudal officialdom to take to the hills. They band together and defeat every...
| Author | Banana Yoshimoto |
| ISBN | 1933633778 |
A major literary sensation is back with a quietly stunning tour de force.
While The Lake shows off many of the features that have made Banana Yoshimoto famous—a cast of vivid and quirky characters, simple yet nuanced prose, a tight plot with an upbeat pace—it’s also one of the most darkly...
| Author | Keigo Higashino |
| ISBN | 1932234071 |
Winner of the Japan Mystery Writers Award, Naoko is a black comedy of hidden minds and lives. Navigating the interstices between the real and the unreal with perfect plot twists, this page-turner is also a critique of gender relations by a male Japanese writer, one of their best-sellng.
An...
Ricordi di un vicolo cieco
| Author | Banana Yoshimoto |
| ISBN | 8807701774 |
Cinque racconti per cinque personaggi che, in seguito a eventi improvvisi e dolorosi, si interrogano sul significato della propria vita e sulla possibilità di essere felici. Nel primo racconto, intitolato La casa degli spiriti, due compagni di università, Setsuko e Iwakura, sono legati da un...
