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8 best books like Slow Homecoming (Peter Handke): Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Flights, A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles, Pensées, After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory, The Half-Finished Heaven, Vinternoveller, Black Rednecks and White Liberals

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
AuthorOlga Tokarczuk
ISBN0525541330
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake, and taking care of the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw residents. Her reputation as a crank and a recluse is amplified by her...
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...
A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles
AuthorThomas Sowell
ISBN0465081428
Controversies in politics arise from many sources, but the conflicts that endure for generations or centuries show a remarkably consistent pattern. In this classic work, Thomas Sowell analyzes this pattern. He describes the two competing visions that shape our debates about the nature of reason,...
Pensées
AuthorBlaise Pascal
ISBN0140446451
Blaise Pascal, the precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes, was a gifted mathematician and physicist, but it is his unfinished apologia for the Christian religion upon which his reputation now rests. The Penseés is a collection of philosohical fragments, notes and essays in which Pascal...
After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory
AuthorAlasdair MacIntyre
ISBN0268006113
When After Virtue first appeared in 1981, it was recognized as a significant and potentially controversial critique of contemporary moral philosophy. Newsweek called it “a stunning new study of ethics by one of the foremost moral philosophers in the English-speaking world.” Since that time,...
The Half-Finished Heaven
AuthorTomas Tranströmer
ISBN1555973515
From the Winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature

The contemporary Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer is a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature and has a prestigious worldwide reputation. Robert Bly, a longtime friend and confidant of Tranströmer's, as well as one of his first translators,...
Vinternoveller
AuthorIngvild H. Rishøi
ISBN8205461309
Ingvild H. Rishøis bøker kan ikke unngå å berøre leseren, og mer enn noen annen klarer hun å fremstille hvor skjørt og sårbart mennesket kan være, hvor uberegnelig hverdagen er. Novellene hennes er både bevegende og litterært kresne, og dypt innsiktsfulle i sitt blikk på menneskene.

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Black Rednecks and White Liberals
AuthorThomas Sowell
ISBN1594030863
This book presents the kind of eye-opening insights into the history and culture of race for which Sowell has become famous. As late as the 1940s and 1950s, he argues, poor Southern rednecks were regarded by Northern employers and law enforcement officials as lazy, lawless, and sexually immoral. This...
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