The Guiltless
9 best books like The Guiltless (Hermann Broch): Kristin Lavransdatter, Fall on Your Knees, They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe, The Case of Comrade Tulayev, Half of Man Is Woman, Three Kingdoms: A Historical Novel. Abridged Edition, Journey to the Alcarria: Travels through the Spanish Countryside, La ragazza di Bube
| Author | Sigrid Undset |
| ISBN | 0143039164 |
In her great historical epic Kristin Lavransdatter, set in fourteenth-century Norway, Nobel laureate Sigrid Undset tells the life story of one passionate and headstrong woman. Painting a richly detailed backdrop, Undset immerses readers in the day-to-day life, social conventions, and political...
| Author | Ann-Marie MacDonald |
| ISBN | 0743466527 |
They are the Pipers of Cape Breton Island — a family steeped in lies and unspoken truths that reach out from the past, forever mindful of the tragic secret that could shatter the family to its foundations. Chronicling five generations of this eccentric clan, Fall on Your Knees follows four remarkable...
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
Horace McCoy’s 1935 novel They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? contains one of the bleakest lines in all of literature. It’s where Gloria, who dances in the marathon dance, asks without a trace of irony or black humor, ”Why are these high-powered scientists always screwing around trying...
Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe
| Author | Kapka Kassabova |
| ISBN | 1555977863 |
In this extraordinary work of narrative reportage, Kapka Kassabova returns to Bulgaria, from where she emigrated as a girl twenty-five years previously, to explore the border it shares with Turkey and Greece. When she was a child, the border zone was rumored to be an easier crossing point into the West...
| Author | Victor Serge |
| ISBN | 1590170644 |
One cold Moscow night, Comrade Tulayev, a high government official, is shot dead in the street, and the search for his killer begins. In this panoramic vision of the Soviet Great Terror, the investigation leads all over the world, netting a whole series of suspects whose only connection is their innocence—at...
| Author | Zhang Xianliang |
| ISBN | 0393025861 |
Poet Zhang Yonglin is sentenced to a labor camp he ironically describes as a haven amidst the hysteria of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. After he marries a woman he had seen eight years earlier, the story becomes, on one level, an analogy between his temporary sexual impotence and the position of intellectuals....
| Author | Luo Guanzhong |
| ISBN | 0520215850 |
Three Kingdoms tells the story of the fateful last reign of the Han dynasty (206 B.C.-A.D. 220) when the Chinese empire was divided into three warring kingdoms. Writing some twelve hundred years later, the Ming author Luo Guanzhong drew on histories, dramas, and poems portraying the crisis to fashion...
Journey to the Alcarria: Travels through the Spanish Countryside
| Author | Camilo José Cela |
| ISBN | 0871133792 |
Awarded the 1989 Nobel Prize for Literature, Camilo José Cela has long been recognized as one of the preeminent Spanish writers of the twentieth century. Journey to the Alcarria is the best known of his vagabundajes, Cela’s term for his books of travels, sketchbooks of regions or provinces. The...
| Author | Carlo Cassola |
| ISBN | 8817113506 |
Mara è una giovane di Monteguidi, piccolo paese della Val d'Elsa, che all'indomani della Liberazione conosce il partigiano Bube, eroe della Resistenza, e se ne innamora. Questi, tornato alla vita civile imbottito di precetti di violenza e vendetta, ha commesso un delitto e, dopo un periodo alla...
