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10 best books like The Man Who Watched Trains Go By (Georges Simenon): The Day of the Owl, Sostiene Pereira, The Time of Indifference, To Each His Own, Reeds in the Wind, Asylum, The Blue Flowers, Diario di un killer sentimentale, La fata carabina, The Lover

The Day of the Owl
AuthorLeonardo Sciascia
A man is shot dead as he runs to catch the bus in the piazza of a small Sicilian town. Captain Bellodi, the detective on the case, is new to his job and determined to prove himself. Bellodi suspects the Mafia, and his suspicions grow when he finds himself up against an apparently unbreachable wall of silence....
Sostiene Pereira
AuthorAntonio Tabucchi
ISBN8433966324
Lisboa, 1938. En una Europa recorrida por el fantasma de los totalitarismos, Pereira, un periodista dedicado durante toda su vida a la sección de sucesos, recibe el encargo de dirigir la página cultural de un mediocre periódico. Pereira tiene un sentido un tanto fúnebre de la cultura y prefiere...
The Time of Indifference
AuthorAlberto Moravia
ISBN1586420054
In 1929, the fifth year of the Fascist era and the twenty-first year of Alberto Moravia's life, the Italian literary world was stunned by the appearance of his first novel, The Time of Indifference. It is a deceptively simple story – five characters, the events of a few days, the intrigues of families...
To Each His Own
AuthorLeonardo Sciascia
ISBN0940322528
This letter is your death sentence. To avenge what you have done you will die. But what has Manno the pharmacist done? Nothing that he can think of. The next day he and his hunting companion are both dead. The police investigation is inconclusive. However, a modest high school teacher with a literary bent...
Reeds in the Wind
AuthorGrazia Deledda
ISBN0934977631
The rugged landscape of Baronia on Sardinia sets the scene for this novel of crime, guilt, and retribution. Deledda presents the story of the Pintor sisters - from a family of noble landowners now in decline - their nephew Giacinto, and their servant Efix, who is trying to make up for a mysterious sin committed...
Asylum
AuthorPatrick McGrath
ISBN0679781382
In the summer of 1959 Stella Raphael joins her psychiatrist husband, Max, at his new posting--a maximum-security hospital for the criminally insane. Beautiful and headstrong, Stella soon falls under the spell of Edgar Stark, a brilliant and magnetic sculptor who has been confined to the hospital...
The Blue Flowers
AuthorRaymond Queneau
ISBN0811209458
At his death in 1976, Raymond Queneau was one of France's most eminent men of letters – novelist, poet, essayist, editor, scientist, mathematician, and, more to the point, pataphysician. And only a pataphysician nurtured lovingly on surrealist excess could have dreamed up The Blue Flowers, Queneau's...
Diario di un killer sentimentale
AuthorLuis Sepúlveda
ISBN8877469854
Un professionista è sempre un professionista, ma la giornata era iniziata male: faceva un caldo infernale a Madrid e la sua amichetta francese l'aveva piantato come un cretino per qualcuno incontrato a Veracruz. La compagnia di una buona bottiglia di whisky e di una mulatta che si portava dietro tutta...
La fata carabina
AuthorDaniel Pennac
ISBN8807812576
Intenta ad attraversare la strada con tutta la circospezione dovuta all'età avanzata, una vecchietta tremolante impugna improvvisamente una P38, prende la mira e fa secco un giovane commissario di polizia... È proprio attorno ai vecchietti che gira questo nerissimo romanzo di Pennac: vecchietti...
The Lover
AuthorA.B. Yehoshua
ISBN0156539128
“Elusive, haunting.”—New York Times Book Review

A husband’s search for his wife’s lover, lost amid the turbulence of the Yom Kippur War, is the heart of this dreamlike novel. Through five different perspectives, Yehoshua explores the realities and consequences of the affair...
La ragazza di Bube
AuthorCarlo Cassola
ISBN8817113506
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...
Una questione privata
AuthorBeppe Fenoglio
ISBN8806180754
Nelle Langhe, durante la guerra partigiana, Milton (quasi una controfigura di Fenoglio stesso), è un giovane studente universitario, ex ufficiale che milita nelle formazioni autonome. Eroe solitario, durante un'azione militare rivede la villa dove aveva abitato Fulvia, una ragazza che egli...
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