The Commandant
10 best books like The Commandant (Jessica Anderson): Het verboden rijk, Down Second Avenue: Growing Up in a South African Ghetto, The Twilight Years, Thomas Of Reading, Leaden Wings, Pavel's Letters, A Day in Spring, Professor Martens' Departure, Luka, Cataract
| Author | Jan Jacob Slauerhoff |
| ISBN | 9023652533 |
In "Het verboden rijk" (1932) van J. Slauerhoff raken twee verhalen bijna onontwarbaar verstrengeld. We bevinden ons beurtelings in de zestiende en in de twintigste eeuw. In het ene verhaal is de hoofdpersoon de romantische figuur Camoes, een 16e-eeuwse Portugese dichter, die vanwege zijn verboden...
Down Second Avenue: Growing Up in a South African Ghetto
Es’kia Mphahlele’s seminal memoir of life in apartheid South Africa—available for the first time in Penguin Classics
Nominated for the Nobel Prize in 1969, Es’kia Mphahlele is considered the Dean of African Letters and the father of black South African writing. Down Second Avenue...
| Author | Sawako Ariyoshi |
| ISBN | 0870118528 |
Tokyo, the seventies, years of affluence and social change in Japan. Through the eyes of the working mother Akiko we are confronted with the old age-problems of dementia and senility. Ariyoshi's way of writing is very descriptive and dry, and there's a lot of factual information on dementia and social...
| Author | Thomas Deloney |
| ISBN | 0854170928 |
Publisher: London: Printed by Eliz Allde for R. Bird, Edinburgh, Printed by J. Ballantyne and co. Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com...
| Author | Zhang Jie |
| ISBN | 0860687643 |
Published in 1980, Heavy Wings focuses on the Morning Light Auto Works in Beijing, a microcosm of the ongoing struggle between reformers who want to allow a measure of freedom and party hardliners clinging to the ideology that justifies their privilege and power. It provoked a storm of controversy...
Teasing her family's past out of the fog of oblivion and lies, one of Germany's greatest writers asks about the secrets families keep, about the fortitude of ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances, and about what becomes of the individual mind when the powers that be turn against it.
Born...
[narrator has returned home as WWII ends, after 15 years of fighting as a partisan; his aunt shows him the Latin verb study sheets still tacked to the ceiling of his bedroom where he studied as he lay in bed]
“Right you Are,” I smiled. “Amo--amas--amat…How odd!” I shook my head. “How odd…”
“Eh,...
| Author | Jaan Kross |
| ISBN | 1565841115 |
Widely read in Europe, the Estonian novelist Jaan Kross is considered one of the most important writers of the Baltic region, and is an often-named candidate for the Nobel Prize.
His new historical novel, Professor Martens’ Departure, is written in a classic elegiac style reminiscent...
Потрясающая книга, даже потрясающе безысходная книга! Гибрид "Замка" Кафки и "Чумы" сами знаете кого. Плюс вот эта вот восточная абсурдность, которая...
| Author | Mykhaylo Osadchy |
| ISBN | 0156155508 |
this book more than any deserves a new press run and some attention. the translation, to my ears, is already near-flawless.
it's ukrainian, but sits at the pinnacle of soviet literature, which is to say, soviet dissident literature. solzhenitsyn and shalamov and yermakov are...
| Author | Ciro Alegría |
| ISBN | 0850362822 |
La misma reseña en español e inglés.
Same review spanish and english.
Esta novela es fantástica!! no es solo un relato bien trabajado y logrado de la realidad indígena en latino-américa ,sino también del carácter firme y verdadero de los seres humanos que luchan por obtener paz...
| Author | Martin Walser |
| ISBN | 3518365940 |
Der 35-jährige Anselm Kristlein, verheiratet und Vater dreier Kinder, versucht sich seit dem Abbruch seines Studiums als Vertreter. Als ihm ein Bekannter das Abgebot unterbreitet, als Werbetexter zu arbeiten, steigt er innerhalb eines Jahres zum gefragten Experten auf. Diesen Karrieresprung...
| Author | Heruy Wolde Selassie |
Blattengeta Heruy Welde Sellase (8 May 1878 – 19 September 1938; ብላቴን፡ጌታ፡ኅሩይ፡ወልደ፡ሥላሴ Blatten-Geta Həruy Wäldä-səllase) was a Foreign Minister of Ethiopia and a writer in Amharic..
| Author | Oles Honchar |
| ISBN | 0880541571 |
The Cathedral pits the utilitarian and filthy ore smelting plant against the dilapidated, but inspiring cathedral, ignored during the Soviet era and used as a grain store. "The plants covered the whole horizon with smoke. They had no days off. Day and night they smoked with epic calm. The cathedral...
| Author | Edmund Wilson |
| ISBN | 0877457697 |
It took me awhile before I got really interested on this book's story. The prose is in the first person and told by an unnamed narrator. He tells the reader not only the daily happenings in his life but also more importantly, about the two women that he just met at the beginning of the story. Their names are...
| Author | Xosé Neira Vilas |
| ISBN | 1412028922 |
We are in front of a masterpiece of galician literature,i obviously have read it in galician but have put the title in english with the goal of give to it more universality.
I think it is in some USA list of the 1000 book one have to read before die.
Tells in first person the memories written...
A ridiculously overheated melodrama set on a decaying southern plantation, featuring a prideful, spoiled young "aristocrat", his mother who encourages him in those traits, his neglected, weepy wife, their downtrodden servants and field hands, a "modern" cousin, an earthy lower-class tenant......
A finely nuanced exploration of responsibility, snobbery and culture clash from one of the twentieth centrury's finest novelists.
When Amy's husband dies on holiday in Istanbul, she is supported by the kindly but rather slovenly Martha, a young American novelist who lives in London. Upon...
| Author | Saunders Lewis |
| ISBN | 1854111957 |
Opinion on Monica has been deeply divided since its publication in 1930. Saunders Lewis's first novel was fiercely attacked by Welsh-speaking critics for its portrayal of sexual obsession and manipulation. For the first time the psychology which was such a feature of the work of contemporary authors...
| Author | Felix Timmermans |
| ISBN | 3458331301 |
Der lebensfrohe und naturverbundene Pallieter, über dessen Alter und bisheriges Leben der Leser nichts Genaueres erfährt, lebt auf einem kleinen Hof im Tal des Flüsschens Nethe zusammen mit seiner frommen Schwester Charlot, die ihm den Haushalt führt, sowie dem Pferd Beiaard, dem Hund Lubas...
| Author | Ward Ruyslinck |
| ISBN | 0720622255 |
This is the story of a married couple who have lived in semi-isolation in a tumbledown shack on the outskirts of a town. Theirs has become almost an animal existence. Silvester, the husband, does not believe in love, beauty, God, or even in himself. His wife Margriet lives in constant fear of war. Whatever...
| Author | S.Y. Agnon |
| ISBN | 0805206477 |
Shmuel Yosef Agnon (1888-1970) won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1966 "for his profoundly characteristic narrative art with motifs from the life of the Jewish people."
The book is basically about a group of Jewish men (rabbis mostly) from Poland who decides to go to a pilgrimage to Jerusalem....
Fool's Gold (Modern Greek Writers)
Myrsini Panayotou, an Athenian girl about to start university, learns of the coup d'etat that brought to power the infamous dictatorship of the "Colonels" in her country in the early hours of Friday, 21st April 1967. The child of a well-to-do family, Myrsini enthusiastically joins the underground...
| Author | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra |
| ISBN | 0520063155 |
So this is a love story supposedly, with innumerable sup-plots. Every time a new character shows up we get yet another tangent. Whats odd is that not only do the actual characters get bored with some of the sub-stories but the author apologises to the reader at least ten times about how repetitive it can...
| Author | Hermann Broch |
| ISBN | 0810160781 |
Murder, lust, shame, hypocrisy, and suicide are at the center of The Guiltless, Hermann Broch's novel about the disintegration of European society in the first three decades of the twentieth century. Broch's characters—an apathetic man who can barely remember his own name (Broch mostly refers...
