The Longshot
10 best books like The Longshot (Katie Kitamura): Foucault's Pendulum, House of Stone, Territory of Light, This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments, Tschick, Dissident Gardens, The Kreutzer Sonata, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, Laughter in the Dark
Foucault's Pendulum is divided into ten segments represented by the ten Sefiroth. The novel is full of esoteric references to the Kabbalah. The title of the book refers to an actual pendulum designed by the French physicist Léon Foucault to demonstrate the rotation of the earth, which has symbolic...
| Author | Novuyo Rosa Tshuma |
| ISBN | 0393635422 |
In the chronic turmoil of Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe, Abednego and Agnes Mlambo’s teenage son, Bukhosi, has gone missing. Erudite, enigmatic Zamani, their lodger, seems to be their last, best hope for finding him. In his eagerness to help, Zamani is almost a part of the family— but almost isn’t...
| 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...
This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
| Author | David Foster Wallace |
| ISBN | 0316068225 |
Only once did David Foster Wallace give a public talk on his views on life, during a commencement address given in 2005 at Kenyon College. The speech is reprinted for the first time in book form in THIS IS WATER. How does one keep from going through their comfortable, prosperous adult life unconsciously?...
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
| Author | David Foster Wallace |
| ISBN | 0316925284 |
In this exuberantly praised book — a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television to tennis, from the Illinois State Fair to the films of David Lynch, from postmodern literary theory to the supposed fun of traveling aboard a Caribbean luxury cruiseliner — David Foster Wallace...
| Author | Wolfgang Herrndorf |
| ISBN | 3871347108 |
Mutter in der Entzugsklinik, Vater mit Assistentin auf Geschäftsreise: Maik Klingenberg wird die großen Ferien allein am Pool der elterlichen Villa verbringen. Doch dann kreuzt Tschick auf. Tschick, eigentlich Andrej Tschichatschow, kommt aus einem der Asi-Hochhäuser in Hellersdorf, hat...
| Author | Jonathan Lethem |
| ISBN | 0224093959 |
A dazzling novel from one of our finest writers—an epic yet intimate family saga about three generations of all-American radicals
At the center of Jonathan Lethem’s superb new novel stand two extraordinary women. Rose Zimmer, the aptly nicknamed Red Queen of Sunnyside, Queens, is an...
| Author | Leo Tolstoy |
| ISBN | 0812968239 |
When Marshal of the Nobility Pozdnyshev suspects his wife of having an affair with her music partner, his jealousy consumes him and drives him to murder. Controversial upon publication in 1890, The Kreutzer Sonata illuminates Tolstoy’s then-feverish Christian ideals, his conflicts with lust...
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
| Author | Alex Ross |
| ISBN | 0374249393 |
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century is a voyage into the labyrinth of modern music, which remains an obscure world for most people. While paintings of Picasso and Jackson Pollock sell for a hundred million dollars or more, and lines from T. S. Eliot are quoted on the yearbook pages of...
| Author | Vladimir Nabokov |
| ISBN | 0811216748 |
"Once upon a time there lived in Berlin, Germany, a man called Albinus. He was rich, respectable, happy; one day he abandoned his wife for the sake of a youthful mistress; he loved; was not loved; and his life ended in disaster." Thus begins Vladimir Nabokov's Laughter in the Dark; this, the author tells...
| Author | Philip K. Dick |
| ISBN | 1608867846 |
The definitive collection of the illustrated Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? It has inspired and expanded minds since its debut in 1968. It served as the source material for the classic sci-fi film Blade Runner. Now, collected for the first time in one comprehensive edition, Philip K. Dick’s...
De dood is een zware klus
De oude Syriër Abd al-Latief heeft een laatste wens: hij wil begraven worden in zijn geboortedorp. Op zijn sterfbed vraagt hij zijn zoon Boelboel hem daarheen te brengen. Voor Boelboel zit er niets anders op: samen met zijn broer Hoessein en zijn zus Fatima gaat hij na hun vaders dood op weg. In een busje,...
| Author | Wolfgang Hohlbein |
| ISBN | 3453137205 |
Nach einer Blinddarmoperation ist Kims kleine Schwester nicht mehr aus der Narkose aufgewacht, sie liegt im Koma. Die Stimmung in der Familie ist gedrückt, als Kim an diesem Abend ins Bett geht. Da sieht er in einer Ecke seines Zimmers plötzlich einen alten Mann.
Der Alte erklärt Kim, seine...
