So Much for That Winter
10 best books like So Much for That Winter (Dorthe Nors): The Other's Gold, Vacuum in the Dark, The Third Hotel, Écumes, Wittgenstein's Mistress, A Life of My Own, Knots: Stories, Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History, Reflections in a Golden Eye, Ör
| Author | Elizabeth Ames |
| ISBN | 1984878492 |
An insightful and sparkling novel that opens on a college campus and follows the friendship of four women across life-defining turning points
Assigned to the same suite during their freshman year at Quincy-Hawthorne College, Lainey, Ji Sun, Alice, and Margaret quickly become inseparable....
| Author | Jen Beagin |
| ISBN | 1501182145 |
From the Whiting Award-winning author of Pretend I’m Dead and one of the most exhilarating new voices in fiction, a new hilarious, edgy, and brilliant one-of-a-kind novel about a cleaning lady named Mona and her struggles to move forward in life.
Mona is twenty-six and cleans houses for...
| Author | Laura van den Berg |
| ISBN | 0374168350 |
In Havana, Cuba, a widow tries to come to terms with her husband’s death―and the truth about their marriage―in Laura van den Berg’s surreal, mystifying story of psychological reflection and metaphysical mystery.
Shortly after Clare arrives in Havana, Cuba, to attend the annual...
| Author | Ingrid Chabbert |
| ISBN | 2368460039 |
‘’Sometimes we drown drinking in the sea. A sea as red as a heart that’s stopped beating. We look up from an underwater crossroads - return to the surface or let go.’’
A young woman is trying to have a baby. Things don’t go as she planned, her wife is her rock, her loyal supporter, her...
| Author | David Markson |
| ISBN | 1564782115 |
Wittgenstein's Mistress is a novel unlike anything David Markson - or anyone else - has ever written before. It is the story of a woman who is convinced, and, astonishingly, will ultimately convince the reader as well, that she is the only person left on earth. Presumably she is mad. And yet so appealing...
Acclaimed biographer Claire Tomalin, the bestselling author of The Invisible Woman and Jane Austen, turns her critical eye to another fascinating literary life: her own.
In this intimate and insightful memoir, Claire remembers moments of national literary history as well as intense personal...
| Author | Gunnhild Øyehaug |
| ISBN | 0374181675 |
De Noorse Gunnhild Øyehaug is in eigen land al jaren een belangrijke literaire stem, maar breekt nu ook internationaal door. In haar lichtvoetige en precieze stijl schetst ze kwetsbare personages, die verstrikt raken in hun eigen tekortkomingen. Zo is er de vrouw die op de vooravond van haar negentigste...
Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History
| Author | Lewis Dartnell |
| ISBN | 1541617908 |
A New York Times-bestselling author explains how the physical world shaped the history of our species
When we talk about human history, we often focus on great leaders, population forces, and decisive wars. But how has the earth itself determined our destiny? Our planet wobbles, driving changes...
Reflections in a Golden Eye
| Author | Carson McCullers |
| ISBN | 0618084754 |
"… in a moment when a great but unknown shock is expected, the mind instinctively prepares itself by abandoning momentarily the faculty of surprise. In that vulnerable instant a kaleidoscope of half-guessed possibilities project themselves, and when the disaster has defined itself there is the...
| 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...
| Author | Natalia Ginzburg |
| ISBN | 9649210644 |
E' la storia di un amore disperato e geloso, rivissuto a ritroso da una moglie assassina. E' una confessione di dolorosa chiarezza che racconta un matrimonio di solitudine dove una donna, schiacciata da un diffuso senso d'inferiorità, sopporta per anni la stramba relazione extraconiugale del marito....
Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns
| Author | Kerry Hudson |
| ISBN | 1784742457 |
What does it really mean to be poor in Britain today? A prizewinning novelist revisits her childhood and some of the country's most deprived towns
'When every day of your life you have been told you have nothing of value to offer, that you are worth nothing to society, can you ever escape that sense...
