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9 best books like The Miracle Cures of Dr. Aira (César Aira): The Night Fire, Quichotte, The Passion According to G.H., Antwerp, The Unknown University, The Body Artist, The McDonaldization of Society, Donde habitan los ángeles, چنين گذشت بر من

The Night Fire
AuthorMichael Connelly
ISBN0316485616
Harry Bosch and LAPD Detective Renee Ballard come together again on the murder case that obsessed Bosch's mentor, the man who trained him -- new from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly

Back when Harry Bosch was just a rookie homicide detective, he had an inspiring mentor...
Quichotte
AuthorSalman Rushdie
In a tour-de-force that is both an homage to an immortal work of literature and a modern masterpiece about the quest for love and family, Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie has created a dazzling Don Quixote for the modern age.

Inspired by the Cervantes...
The Passion According to G.H.
AuthorClarice Lispector
ISBN0816617120
Aficionados of South American fiction as well as literary critics will welcome this posthumous translation of a nearly plotless novel by one of Brazil's foremost writers. Availing herself of a single character, Lispector transforms a banal situation—a woman at home, alone—into an amphitheater...
Antwerp
AuthorRoberto Bolaño
ISBN0811217175
As Bolano’s friend and literary executor, Ignacio Echevarría, once suggested, Antwerp can be viewed as the Big Bang of Roberto Bolano’s fictional universe. Reading this novel, the reader is present at the birth of Bolano’s enterprise in prose: all the elements are here, highly compressed,...
The Unknown University
AuthorRoberto Bolaño
ISBN0811219283
A deluxe edition of Bolaño's collected poetry

Perhaps surprisingly to some of his fiction fans, Roberto Bolaño touted poetry as the superior art form, able to approach an infinity in which "you become infinitely small without disappearing." When asked, "What makes you believe you're...
The Body Artist
AuthorDon DeLillo
ISBN0743203968
The Barnes & Noble Review
In whatever form Don DeLillo chooses to write, there is simply no other American author who has so consistently pushed the boundaries of fiction in his effort to capture the zeitgeist. In The Body Artist, DeLillo tells the hallucinatory tale of performance artist...
The McDonaldization of Society
AuthorGeorge Ritzer
ISBN0761988122
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Well, the main idea of the book is to show the effects of fast-food chains on society. Given an extremely famous example which is MacDonald, the author explains how such a fast-food chain could influence people's values, perceptions, behaviors and lifestyles. Other examples...
Donde habitan los ángeles
AuthorClaudia Celis
ISBN9706889051
¿Por qué todos aquellos que amamos en la vida tienen que desaparecer?, se pregunta Pancho, el protagonista. Esta novela recoge sus memorias y recuerdos desde la perspectiva de su juventud. Durante las vacaciones, Pancho y otros sobrinos de Tacho y Chabela llenan de alegría la casa de San Miguel....
چنين گذشت بر من
AuthorNatalia Ginzburg
ISBN9649210644
E' la storia di un amore disperato e geloso, rivissuto a ritroso da una moglie assassina. E' una confessione di dolorosa chiarezza che racconta un matrimonio di solitudine dove una donna, schiacciata da un diffuso senso d'inferiorità, sopporta per anni la stramba relazione extraconiugale del marito....
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