The Question of Bruno

10 best books like The Question of Bruno (Aleksandar Hemon): In the Forest, Thank You for Not Reading, The Museum of Unconditional Surrender, The Emigrants, The Lady with the Little Dog, The Loser, Karlsson on the Roof, Hidden Messages in Water, На дне, Safe Area Goražde: The War in Eastern Bosnia, 1992-1995

In the Forest

Author	Edna O'Brien
ISBN	0297607324

Based on a horrendous true crime, IN THE FOREST is the story of Mich O'Kane -- 'not all there in the head' it's said -- who shoots three people dead in the woods of Ireland. Edna O'Brien traces the events that lead to such horror. Mich O'Kane hears voices; he cannot stop mourning the death of his mother. Theft...

Thank You for Not Reading

Author	Dubravka Ugrešić
ISBN	1564782980

In this collection of acerbic essays, Ugresic dissects the nature of the contemporary book industry, which she argues is so infected with the need to create and promote literature that will appeal to the masses — literally to everyone — that if Thomas Mann were writing nowadays, his books wouldn't...

The Museum of Unconditional Surrender

Author	Dubravka Ugrešić
ISBN	0811214931

The Museum of Unconditional Surrender—by the renowned Yugoslavian writer Dubravka Ugresic—begins in the Berlin Zoo, with the contents of Roland the Walrus's stomach displayed beside his pool (Roland died in August, 1961). These objects—a cigarette lighter, lollipop sticks, a beer-bottle...

The Emigrants

Author	W.G. Sebald
ISBN	0099448882

At first The Emigrants appears simply to document the lives of four Jewish émigrés in the twentieth century. But gradually, as Sebald's precise, almost dreamlike prose begins to draw their stories, the four narrations merge into one overwhelming evocation of exile and loss.

Written with...

The Lady with the Little Dog

Author

Anton Chekhov

*Illustrated
*Includes Table of Contents

Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) may have suffered an untimely death, but he squeezed the most out of his 44 years of life. Chekhov was a Russian physician, dramatist and author who is considered to be one of the greatest writers in history, particularly...

The Loser

Author	Thomas Bernhard
ISBN	1400077540

Thomas Bernhard was one of the most original writers of the twentieth century. His formal innovation ranks with Beckett and Kafka, his outrageously cantankerous voice recalls Dostoevsky, but his gift for lacerating, lyrical, provocative prose is incomparably his own.
One of Bernhard's most...

Karlsson on the Roof

Author	Astrid Lindgren
ISBN	0749710373

Imagine Smidge's delight when, one day, a little man with a propeller on his back appears hovering at the window! It's Karlson and he lives in a house on the roof. Soon Smidge and Karlson are sharing all sorts of adventures, from tackling thieves and playing tricks to looping the loop and running across...

Hidden Messages in Water

Author	Masaru Emoto
ISBN	0743289803

In this New York Times bestseller, internationally renowned Japanese scientist Masaru Emoto shows how the influence of our thoughts, words and feelings on molecules of water can positively impact the earth and our personal health.

This book has the potential to profoundly transform your...

На дне

Author	Maxim Gorky
ISBN	5352016897

я всегда любила русский авторов, но начинала читать Горького только два года назад. Никогда не поздно начинать читать хорошего писателя. мне он очень...

Safe Area Goražde: The War in Eastern Bosnia, 1992-1995

Author

Joe Sacco

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781560974703

Safe Area Gorazde is the long-awaited and highly sought after 240-page look at war in the former Yugoslavia. Sacco (the critically-acclaimed author of Palestine) spent five months in Bosnia in 1996, immersing himself in the human side of life...

Min kamp 6

Author

Karl Ove Knausgård

I det anmelderroste selvbiografiske romanværk, Min kamp, udforsker Karl Ove Knausgård nådeløst og selvudleverende sit eget liv, sine ambitioner og svagheder, sin usikkerhed og tvivl, sine relationer til venner og kærester, kone og børn, mor og far.

Det er et værk, hvor livet beskrives...