The Collector Collector

8 best books like The Collector Collector (Tibor Fischer): A Night in the Lonesome October, Tales from Outer Suburbia, White Egrets, The Death of the Heart, The Number 73304-23-4153-6-96-8, The Enemy Within: The Secret War Against the Miners, Fata care citea în metrou, Le Djihad et la mort (DEBATS)

A Night in the Lonesome October

Author	Roger Zelazny
ISBN	0380771411

Review updated yet again (and again) on November 1, 2018

A group read with some of my greatest friends: OhWell, Sarah, and Tadiana.

First a disclaimer: I lost count to the number of times I read the book. Seriously. I still find something new with each reread. I would also like to welcome...

Tales from Outer Suburbia

Author	Shaun Tan
ISBN	0771084021

Breathtakingly illustrated and hauntingly written, Tales from Outer Suburbia is by turns hilarious and poignant, perceptive and goofy. Through a series of captivating and sophisticated illustrated stories, Tan explores the precious strangeness of our existence. He gives us a portrait of modern...

White Egrets

Author	Derek Walcott
ISBN	0374289298

A DAZZLING NEW COLLECTION FROM ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT POETS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

In White Egrets, Derek Walcott treats the characteristic subjects of his career--the Caribbean's complex colonial legacy, his love of the Western literary tradition, the wisdom that comes through the...

The Death of the Heart

Author	Elizabeth Bowen
ISBN	0385720173

The Death of the Heart is perhaps Elizabeth Bowen's best-known book. As she deftly and delicately exposes the cruelty that lurks behind the polished surfaces of conventional society, Bowen reveals herself as a masterful novelist who combines a sense of humor with a devastating gift for divining human...

The Number 73304-23-4153-6-96-8

Author	Thomas Ott
ISBN	1560978759

Swiss horror master Thomas Ott returns with the first full-length, wordless graphic novel of his career. When clearing up the cell of a prisoner who has been sentenced to death and subsequently executed, a prison guard finds a small piece of paper with a combination of numbers on it. On the spur of the...

The Enemy Within: The Secret War Against the Miners

Author	Seumas Milne
ISBN	1844675084

Margaret Thatcher branded the leaders of the 1984-85 miners strike “the enemy within.” With the publication of this book, the full irony of that accusation became clear. Seumas Milne revealed for the first time the astonishing lengths to which the government and its intelligence machine were...

Fata care citea în metrou

Author

Christine Féret-Fleury

Juliette merge cu metroul din Paris în fiecare zi, la aceeaşi oră. Cea mai mare plăcere a ei este să vadă ce citesc cei din jur: doamna în vârstă, colecţionarul de ediţii rare, studenta la matematică sau fata care plânge la pagina 247. Îi priveşte pe toţi cu tandreţe şi curiozitate,...

Le Djihad et la mort (DEBATS)

Author

Olivier Roy

De Khaled Kelkal en 1995 à l’attentat de Nice en 2016, pratiquement tous les terroristes se font exploser eux-mêmes ou tuer par la police, sans vraiment chercher à fuir et sans que leur mort soit nécessaire à la réalisation de leur action. Mohammed Merah reprendra la phrase attribuée à Oussama...