The Furies

9 best books like The Furies (Janet Hobhouse): Lost Children Archive, Turbulence, Pond, The Maid's Version, The Liar, Evening in Paradise: More Stories, Fedeltà, The Florios of Sicily, La straniera

Lost Children Archive
AuthorValeria Luiselli
ISBN0525520619
From the two-time NBCC Finalist, an emotionally resonant, fiercely imaginative new novel about a family whose road trip across America collides with an immigration crisis at the southwestern border--an indelible journey told with breathtaking imagery, spare lyricism, and profound humanity.

A...
Turbulence
AuthorDavid Szalay
ISBN1982122730
From the acclaimed, Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author of All That Man Is, a stunning, virtuosic novel about twelve people, mostly strangers, and the surprising ripple effect each one has on the life of the next as they cross paths while in transit around the world.

A woman strikes up a conversation...
Pond
AuthorClaire-Louise Bennett
Feverish and forthright, Pond is an absorbing chronicle of the pitfalls and pleasures of a solitudinous life told by an unnamed woman living on the cusp of a coastal town. Broken bowls, belligerent cows, swanky aubergines, trembling moonrises and horrifying sunsets, the physical world depicted...
AuthorDaniel Woodrell
ISBN0316205850
Alma DeGeer Dunahew, the mother of three young boys, works as the maid for a prominent citizen and his family in West Table, Missouri. Her husband is mostly absent, and, in 1929, her scandalous, beloved younger sister is one of the 42 killed in an explosion at the local dance hall. Who is to blame? Mobsters...
The Liar
AuthorAyelet Gundar-Goshen
ISBN0316445398
From the award-winning author of Waking Lions, a provocative novel about how one mistake can have a thousand consequences
Nofar is an average teenage girl---so average, in fact, that she's almost invisible. Serving customers ice cream all summer long, she is desperate for some kind of escape.

But...
Evening in Paradise: More Stories
AuthorLucia Berlin
ISBN0374279489
A collection of previously uncompiled stories from the short-story master and literary sensation Lucia Berlin.

In 2015, FSG published A Manual for Cleaning Women, a posthumous story collection by a relatively unknown writer, to wild, widespread acclaim. It was a New York Times bestseller;...
Fedeltà
AuthorMarco Missiroli
«Il malinteso», così Carlo e Margherita chiamano il dubbio che ha incrinato la superficie del loro matrimonio. Carlo è stato visto nel bagno dell'università insieme a una studentessa: «si è sentita male, l'ho soccorsa», racconta al rettore, ai colleghi, alla moglie, e Sofia conferma la...
The Florios of Sicily
AuthorStefania Auci
ISBN0062931679
A grand, sweeping international bestseller that captures the many lives of Italy's most notorious family, the Florios, from their humble origins as impoverished shopkeepers to becoming the uncrowned kings of Sicily.


Vincenzo, who lost his father at eight, builds an empire...
La straniera
AuthorClaudia Durastanti
ISBN8893447754
"La storia di una famiglia somiglia più a una cartina topografica che a un romanzo, e una biografia è la somma di tutte le ere geologiche che hai attraversato". Come si racconta una vita se non esplorandone i luoghi simbolici e geografici, ricostruendo una mappa di sé e del mondo vissuto? Tra la Basilicata...
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