The Farm in the Green Mountains
10 best books like The Farm in the Green Mountains (Alice Herdan-Zuckmayer): Lessico famigliare, Territory of Light, Romancing the Inventor, In a Lonely Place, Forever Flowing, Det Lykkelige Arabien: En Dansk Ekspedition, 1761 67, Tell Me a Riddle, A Balcony in the Forest, The Light of the World, Basic Black with Pearls
| Author | Natalia Ginzburg |
| ISBN | 8806151681 |
Lessico famigliare è la storia di una famiglia ebrea, quella della stessa scrittrice, che si svolge a Torino fra gli anni Trenta e Cinquanta. Natalia, l'ultima dei cinque figli Levi, è la voce narrante. Con assoluto rispetto della verità, e, per certi versi, mantenendo l'incanto della fanciullezza,...
| Author | Yūko Tsushima |
| ISBN | 0241312191 |
Territory of Light is the luminous story of a young woman, living alone in Tokyo with her three-year-old daughter. Its twelve, stand-alone fragments follow the first year of her separation from her husband. The novel is full of light, sometimes comforting and sometimes dangerous: sunlight streaming...
Vampires are keeping an inventor in their potting shed. Imogene wants to seduce her.
Imogene Hale is a lowly parlourmaid with a soul-crushing secret. Seeking solace, she takes work at a local vampire hive, only to fall desperately in love with the amazing lady inventor imprisoned there.
Genevieve...
| Author | Dorothy B. Hughes |
| ISBN | 1558614559 |
Postwar Los Angeles is a lonely place where the American Dream is showing its seamy underside—and a stranger is preying on young women. The suggestively named Dix Steele, a cynical vet with a chip on his shoulder about the opposite sex, is the LAPD's top suspect. Dix knows enough to watch his step, especially...
| Author | Vasily Grossman |
| ISBN | 0810115034 |
Everything Flows is Vasily Grossman’s final testament, written after the Soviet authorities suppressed his masterpiece, Life and Fate. The main story is simple: released after thirty years in the Soviet camps, Ivan Grigoryevich must struggle to find a place for himself in an unfamiliar world....
| Author | Thorkild Hansen |
| ISBN | 8701234021 |
It was not for colonization nor for trade that six men left Copenhagen by sea in 1761. They were not charged with spreading Christianity; they wanted no slaves. The Age of Enlightenment had its moments, after all. It was an all-star team of scientists: a botanist, a philologist, an astronomer, a doctor,...
| Author | Tillie Olsen |
| ISBN | 0385290101 |
This collection of four stories, "I Stand Here Ironing," "Hey Sailor, what Ship?," "O Yes," and "Tell me a Riddle," had become an American classic. Since the title novella won the O. Henry Award in 1961, the stories have been anthologized over a hundred times, made into three films, translated into...
| Author | Julien Gracq |
| ISBN | 1860462944 |
In the Ardennes Forest on the Belgian border the French guns point north-east, awaiting the German onslaught. One reinforced-concrete blockhouse in the heart of the forest is manned, this winter of 1939/40, by Lieutenant Grange with three men, who live in a chalet built over it. Cut off from the rest...
| Author | Elizabeth Alexander |
| ISBN | 1455599875 |
In The Light of the World, Elizabeth Alexander finds herself at an existential crossroads after the sudden death of her husband. Channeling her poetic sensibilities into a rich, lucid prose, Alexander tells a love story that is, itself, a story of loss. As she reflects on the beauty of her married life,...
| Author | Helen Weinzweig |
| ISBN | 1487000472 |
A lost feminist classic — and winner of the Toronto Book Award — reissued to coincide with the 35th anniversary of publication.
In her yearning, elusive search for a lover, Shirley Kaszenbowski sheds her drab “basic black” existence together with torturous memories of guilt and...
