The Hare

7 best books like The Hare (César Aira): The Late Mattia Pascal, Nazi Literature in the Americas, The Conquering Family, The Crusades Through Arab Eyes, Empires and Barbarians: The Fall of Rome and the Birth of Europe, The First Crusade: A New History, Holy War: The Crusades and Their Impact on Today's World

The Late Mattia Pascal

Author	Luigi Pirandello
ISBN	1590171152

Mattia Pascal endures a life of drudgery in a provincial town. Then, providentially, he discovers that he has been declared dead. Realizing he has a chance to start over, to do it right this time, he moves to a new city, adopts a new name, and a new course of life—only to find that this new existence is as...

Nazi Literature in the Americas

Author	Roberto Bolaño
ISBN	0811217051

Nazi Literature in the Americas was the first of Roberto Bolaño's books to reach a wide public. When it was published by Seix Barral in 1996, critics in Spain were quick to recognize the arrival of an important new talent. The book presents itself as a biographical dictionary of American writers who...

The Conquering Family

Author

Thomas B. Costain

Thomas B. Costain's four-volume history of the Plantagenets begins with THE CONQUERING FAMILY and the conquest of England by William the Conqueror in 1066, closing with the reign of John in 1216.The troubled period after the Norman Conquest, when the foundations of government were hammered out between...

The Crusades Through Arab Eyes

Author	Amin Maalouf
ISBN	0805208984

In our society the word crusade has been largely divorced from its origins in a European invasion of the Middle East, so much so that our previous president probably didn't recognize how inflammatory this statement was.

This book is a solid reminder that there were two sides, and often more,...

Empires and Barbarians: The Fall of Rome and the Birth of Europe

Author	Peter Heather
ISBN	0199752729

Here is a fresh, provocative look at how a recognizable Europe came into being in the first millennium AD. With sharp analytic insight, Peter Heather explores the dynamics of migration and social and economic interaction that changed two vastly different worlds—the undeveloped barbarian world...

The First Crusade: A New History

Author	Thomas Asbridge
ISBN	0195189051

On the last Tuesday of November 1095, Pope Urban II delivered an electrifying speech that launched the First Crusade. His words set Christendom afire. Some 100,000 men, from knights to paupers, took up the call--the largest mobilization of manpower since the fall of the Roman Empire.
Now, in The...

Holy War: The Crusades and Their Impact on Today's World

Author	Karen Armstrong
ISBN	0385721404

Karen Armstrong, bestselling author of A History of God, skillfully narrates this history of the Crusades with a view toward their profound and continuing influence.

In 1095 Pope Urban II summoned Christian warriors to take up the cross and reconquer the Holy Land. Thus began the holy wars...