The Future of Nostalgia
8 best books like The Future of Nostalgia (Svetlana Boym): Akira, Vol. 1, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails, Beauty, Godshaper, After The Wall, Megg & Mogg In Amsterdam, Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine, 1921-1933, Exquisite Corpse
| Author | Katsuhiro Otomo |
| ISBN | 1569714983 |
Akira: And A Boy Shall Rule Them All... Badly. A Boy Whose Head Contains A Supernova
'Akira' and 'Lone Wolf and Cub' were among the first complete manga masterpieces to be published in English, and despite the mirror-imaging, were very similar to their original tankobon incarnations....
At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails
| Author | Sarah Bakewell |
| ISBN | 0701186585 |
Paris, near the turn of 1933. Three young friends meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. They are Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and their friend Raymond Aron, who opens their eyes to a radical new way of thinking. Pointing to his drink, he says, 'You can make...
| Author | Kerascoët |
| ISBN | 1561638943 |
When the repulsively ugly Coddie unintentionally saves a fairy from a spell, she does not understand the poisonous nature of the wish granted her by the fairy. The village folk no longer see her as repulsive and stinking of fish—they now perceive her as magnetically beautiful—which does not help...
| Author | Simon Spurrier |
| ISBN | 1608869393 |
Ennay is a man without a god. Bud is a god without a human. Together, they might just survive.
In 1958, the laws of physics stopped working: ignition, electricity, and combustion. But an alternative was provided, and people found themselves each accompanied by their own personal god, the...
| Author | Jana Hensel |
| ISBN | 1586482661 |
Jana Hensel was thirteen on November 9, 1989, the night the Berlin Wall fell. In all the euphoria over German reunification, no one stopped to think what it would mean for Jana and her generation of East Germans. These were the kids of the seventies, who had grown up in the shadow of Communism with all its...
Megg the witch, Mogg the cat, their friend Owl, and Werewolf Jones struggle unsuccessfully with their depression, drug use, sexuality, poverty, lack of ambition, and their complex feelings about each other. It’s a laff riot! Megg and Mogg decide to take a trip to Amsterdam for some quality couple...
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine, 1921-1933
| Author | Anne Applebaum |
| ISBN | 0771009305 |
The momentous new book from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag and Iron Curtain. In 1932-33, nearly four million Ukrainians died of starvation, having been deliberately deprived of food. It is one of the most devastating episodes in the history of the twentieth century. With unprecedented...
| Author | Pénélope Bagieu |
| ISBN | 1626720827 |
Zoe isn't exactly the intellectual type, which is why she doesn't recognize world-famous author Thomas Rocher when she stumbles into his apartment...and into his life. It's also why she doesn't know that Rocher is supposed to be dead. Turns out, Rocher faked his death years ago to escape his critics,...
