The Redemption of Galen Pike

5 best books like The Redemption of Galen Pike (Carys Davies): The Glass Bees, Faithful Ruslan, Seven Years, Shyness and Dignity, The Miner

The Glass Bees
AuthorErnst Jünger
ISBN0940322552
In The Glass Bees the celebrated German writer Ernst Jünger presents a disconcerting vision of the future. Zapparoni, a brilliant businessman, has turned his advanced understanding of technology and his strategic command of the information and entertainment industries into a discrete form of...
AuthorGeorgi Vladimov
ISBN1935554670
Unavailable for twenty years, this harrowing allegory of obedience to authority is esteemed as “one of the defining literary texts of the post-Stalin period.” (The Guardian)

Set in a remote Siberian depot immediately following the demolition of one of the gulag’s notorious camps...
Seven Years
AuthorPeter Stamm
ISBN1590513940
Alex has spent the majority of his adult life between two very different women--and he can't make up his mind. Sonia, his wife and business partner, is everything a man would want. Intelligent, gorgeous, charming, and ambitious, she worked tirelessly alongside him to open their architecture firm...
Shyness and Dignity
AuthorDag Solstad
ISBN1555974465
An Ibsen scholar falls desperately out of society—publication coinciding with Ibsen's 100th anniversary celebrations

In front of him, twenty-nine young men and women about the age of eighteen who looked at him and returned his greeting. He asked them to take out their school edition of...
The Miner
AuthorNatsume Sōseki
ISBN0804714606
Up front, I'll admit that I'd expected a completely different novel from what I'd read about it as a blurb. I'd expected a book of a darker and more poetic vein.

Instead I got a book that felt like Goethe's Werther had teamed up with Salinger's Holden Caulfield to write a shorter version of The Life...
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