The Butcher's Wife
8 best books like The Butcher's Wife (Li Ang): The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, The Lover, Woman at Point Zero, I Am a Cat, Chronicle of a Blood Merchant, Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee, The Importance of Being Aisling: Country Roads, Take Her Home, Gypsy Boy
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
| Author | Naomi Klein |
| ISBN | 0805079831 |
In her ground-breaking reporting from Iraq, Naomi Klein exposed how the trauma of invasion was being exploited to remake the country in the interest of foreign corporations. She called it "disaster capitalism." Covering Sri Lanka in the wake of the tsunami, and New Orleans post-Katrina, she witnessed...
| Author | Marguerite Duras |
| ISBN | 0375700528 |
***AWARDED THE 1984 PRIX GONCOURT***
“The story of my life doesn’t exist. Does not exist. There’s never any centre to it. No path, no line. There are great spaces where you pretend there used to be someone, but it’s not true, there was no one.”
The young Marguerite...
| Author | Nawal El Saadawi |
| ISBN | 0862321107 |
“A new world was opening up in front of my eyes, a world which for me had not existed before. Maybe it had always been there, always existed, but I had never seen it, never realized it had been there all the time. How was it that I had been blind to its existence all these years?”- Nawal El Saadawi, Woman...
I am a cat. As yet I have no name.
So begins one of the most original and unforgettable works in Japanese literature.
Richly allegorical and delightfully readable, I Am a Cat is the chronicle of an unloved, unwanted, wandering kitten who spends all his time observing human nature - from...
Chronicle of a Blood Merchant
| Author | Yu Hua |
| ISBN | 1400031850 |
One of the last decade's ten most influential books in China, this internationally acclaimed novel by one of the mainland's most important contemporary writers provides an unflinching portrait of life under Chairman Mao.
A cart-pusher in a silk mill, Xu Sanguan augments his meager salary...
Meera Syal has created an indelible portrait of a close-knit group of Indian women living in London. Caught between two cultures, three childhood friends—Chila, Sunita, and Tania—are expected to revert to being obedient mothers and wives. But their world explodes when Tania makes a documentary,...
The Importance of Being Aisling: Country Roads, Take Her Home
Aisling is 29 and she’s still a complete Aisling.After a tough year, things between herself and John are back on track, and life with Sadhbh and Elaine in their notiony Dublin apartment is more craic than ever.
But when a shock change means moving Down Home might be her only option, Aisling...
| Author | Mikey Walsh |
| ISBN | 0340977965 |
Mikey was born into a Romany Gypsy family. They live in a closeted community, and little is known about their way of life. After centuries of persecution Gypsies are wary of outsiders and if you choose to leave you can never come back.
This is something Mikey knows only too well.
Growing...
