The Musical Brain: And Other Stories

8 best books like The Musical Brain: And Other Stories (César Aira): A High Wind in Jamaica, Underland, Sabrina & Corina: Stories, Sing to It: New Stories, Get in Trouble, El núcleo del disturbio, El espíritu de la ciencia ficción, Cristallisation Secrète

AuthorRichard Hughes
ISBN0940322153
New edition of a classic adventure novel and one of the most startling, highly praised stories in English literature - a brilliant chronicle of two sensitive children's violent voyage from innocence to experience.

After a terrible hurricane levels their Jamaican estate, the Bas-Thorntons...
Underland
AuthorRobert Macfarlane
ISBN0393242145
An exploration of the Earth’s underworlds as they exist in myth, literature, memory, and the land itself.

In this sequel to The Old Ways, Macfarlane takes us on an journey into our relationship with darkness, burial, and what lies beneath the surface of both place and mind. Traveling through...
Sabrina & Corina: Stories
AuthorKali Fajardo-Anstine
A haunting debut story collection on friendship, mothers and daughters, and the deep-rooted truths of our homelands, centered on Latinas of indigenous ancestry that shines a new light on the American West.

Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s magnetic story collection breathes life into her Latina...
Sing to It: New Stories
AuthorAmy Hempel
ISBN1982109114
“All the tawdry details I’m dying for are in these stories, but they’re given out like old sweaters—without shame, without guile. Amy Hempel is the writer who makes me feel most affiliated with other humans; we are all living this way—hiding, alone, obsessed—and that’s ok.” —Miranda...
Get in Trouble
AuthorKelly Link
ISBN0804179689
She has been hailed by Michael Chabon as “the most darkly playful voice in American fiction” and by Neil Gaiman as “a national treasure.” Now Kelly Link’s eagerly awaited new collection--her first for adult readers in a decade--proves indelibly that this bewitchingly original writer...
El núcleo del disturbio
AuthorSamanta Schweblin
Trenes cuyo destino es seguir siempre de largo, perros que son el espejo de lo humano metamorfoseado, mujeres en cofradía al borde de una ruta, la muerte viajando en la valija de un asesino, un bar suburbano que desvela el sueño de sus parroquianos: historias donde los personajes intentan imposibles...
El espíritu de la ciencia ficción
AuthorRoberto Bolaño
ISBN8420423912
El espíritu de la ciencia ficción transcurre en México DF durante los años setenta y narra la vida de dos escritores jóvenes que intentan vivir de la literatura. Mientras Remo Morán busca incansablemente la manera de subsistir sin abandonar su sueño, Jan Schrella vive confinado en la pequeña...
Cristallisation Secrète
AuthorYōko Ogawa
ISBN2742788298
L’île où se déroule cette histoire est depuis toujours soumise à un étrange phénomène : les choses et les êtres semblent promis à une sorte d’effacement diaboliquement orchestré. Quand un matin les oiseaux disparaissent à jamais, la jeune narratrice de ce livre ne s’épanche pas...
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