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10 best books like The Smile at the Foot of the Ladder (Henry Miller): The Christmas Books, Volume 1: A Christmas Carol/The Chimes, My Son's Story, Fanny Owen, Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather, Little Indiscretions, Her, The Smell of the Night, O Senhor Ventura, A Costa dos Murmúrios, Sinais de Fogo

The Christmas Books, Volume 1: A Christmas Carol/The Chimes
AuthorCharles Dickens
ISBN0140430687
From the rear covers of these two volumes: "Dickens's 'Christmas Books' were all written for the Christmas market and published in the same format. Apart from this they have little in common; unless it is the emphasis they lay on family love and the delights of home, and the beneficial effects of memory....
My Son's Story
AuthorNadine Gordimer
Will, playing truant, bumps into his father with a white woman at a movie theater. A narrative unfolds of reflections enmeshed with aggressive personal bitterness and the political upheaval of the times in South Africa. Nadine Gordimer’s 'My Son’s Story' becomes the story of the son, the father,...
Fanny Owen
AuthorAgustina Bessa-Luís
ISBN8496075591
Fanny Owen é uma história verídica passada em 1850 entre José Augusto Pinto de Magalhães (proprietário da quinta do Lodeiro, poeta rapaz triste e desinteressado da vida), Fanny Owen (filha do coronel Owen, auxiliar e conselheiro militar de D. Pedro aquando das lutas liberais) e o próprio Camilo...
Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather
AuthorGao Xingjian
ISBN0060575557
Novelist, playwright, essayist, and short-story writer Gao Xingjian is that rare breed of artist able to express himself with equal grace in almost any form of literature. In 2000 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in recognition of his astonishing talents. The collection Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather...
Little Indiscretions
AuthorCarmen Posadas
ISBN0812966317
A runaway international bestseller and winner of Spain’s top literary prize, Little Indiscretions is part ingeniously entertaining whodunit and part sparkling social satire.

Business is slow for Nestor Chaffino, pastry chef to the rich and famous, until he’s invited to cater a party...
Her
AuthorLawrence Ferlinghetti
ISBN0811200426
"To all those who have for several years sought to discredit the new American literature, Lawrence Ferlinghetti has just dealt a most powerful blow," wrote French critic Pierre Lepape in 1961 when Her was published in France as La Quatrieme Personne du Singulier. Calling it "a masterpiece of the young...
The Smell of the Night
AuthorAndrea Camilleri
ISBN0143036203
The number of Inspector Montalbano fans will continue to grow with this ingenious new novel featuring the earthy and urbane Sicilian detective. Half the retirees in Vigáta have invested their savings with a financial wizard who has disappeared, along with their money. As Montalbano investigates...
O Senhor Ventura
AuthorMiguel Torga
«E que história a sua! - pícara, ingénua, maliciosa, safada, trágica, ao fim, porque em tragédia sempre morrem os mitos. […] E, no entanto, que mais português que o Ventura, na sua peregrinação, entre mortos e feridos, miséria e grandeza, amores e traições, fomes e febres, e alegrias...
A Costa dos Murmúrios
AuthorLídia Jorge
ISBN8493264512
A Costa dos Murmúrios, publicado em 1988, é o mais famoso romance de Lídia Jorge, tanto em Portugal como no estrangeiro. O seu aparecimento foi um êxito desde o primeiro momento, tendo chegado a vender cerca de 50.000 exemplares em menos de um ano. A obra é produto da experiência que a autora viveu...
Sinais de Fogo
AuthorJorge de Sena
Romance único de Jorge de Sena, parcela de um projecto romancesco de grande dimensão cuja designação genérica seria Monte Cativo, objectivando o recorte de uma geração nascida nos finais dos anos 10 do século XX, Sinais de Fogo abriga em si o despertar de um jovem, entre um grupo de amigos e familiares,...
Húmus
AuthorRaul Brandão
ISBN8496075605
Colecção Mil Folhas, #57

Considerada a obra-prima de Raul Brandão, foi publicada em 1917. Trata-se de um romance-monólogo, centrado em dois monólogos interiores: um primeiro orador e o seu alter-ego, um filósofo lunático. Com a narração dominada por estes dois pontos de vista,...
Era Bom que Trocássemos umas Ideias sobre o Assunto
AuthorMário de Carvalho
ISBN9722110195
Mário de Carvalho convoca-nos a todos. A nós e aos nossos conhecidos. Faz humor com ilusões e desilusões, amores e desamores, graças e desgraças.

O Partido Comunista não escapa à ironia. Brilha a deslumbrante Lisboa, mas também outros locais e endereços. Eduarda Galvão é o protótipo...
Balada da Praia dos Cães
AuthorJosé Cardoso Pires
ISBN9722007165
O romance foi escrito no período pós-revolução de 25 de Abril de 1974. A acção situa-se no princípio dos anos 60, e retrata alguns aspectos da sociedade portuguesa em plena época da ditadura salazarista. Relata a investigação dum assassínio; e a história começa com o relatório da descoberta...
Gente Feliz com Lágrimas
AuthorJoão de Melo
ISBN8496075427
Colecção Mil Folhas, #29

Quando tinha 22 anos, em 1971, João de Melo foi enviado para a guerra que se travava entre Portugal e Angola, uma das suas colónias. Durante mais de dois anos, o romancista permaneceu em África como militar adstrito aos serviços militares de saúde. Dessa experiência...
O Caso Morel
AuthorRubem Fonseca
ISBN8497892550
Entre os escritores brasileiros contemporâneos, Rubem Fonseca foi um dos primeiros a encarar sem rodeios a violência urbana em todos os estratos sociais, do traficante ao empresário, da socialite à prostituta, do mendigo ao banqueiro.
Sempre com um estilo direto, coloquial, cortante,...
The Electronic Revolution
AuthorWilliam S. Burroughs
A newly issued and reformatted, beautifully designed larger version of this bilingual German/English work, published in Germany by Pociao's Expanded Media Editions, featuring a photo of the author by Brion Gysin. "I have described here a number of weapons and tactics in the war game. Weapons that...
Blue Eyes, Black Hair
AuthorMarguerite Duras
ISBN0394563204
Not my sort of thing. Apologies to GR friends who love this book. (Though I've now noticed that some others friends' opinions of Duras' most famous book, The Lover (1984) are similar to mine about this one.)

It's the mood and sparseness that I didn't like, in this archetypally French, archetypally...
The Blood of Others
AuthorSimone de Beauvoir
ISBN0140183337
I’ve lately been reading Simone de Beauvoir’s novel The Blood of Others. In general I seem to be able to get a better feel for French existentialists from their fiction than their essays and lectures — at least where Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre are concerned. De Beauvoir is considerably...
Nação Crioula
AuthorJosé Eduardo Agualusa
Nação Crioula conta a história de um amor secreto: a misteriosa ligação entre o aventureiro português Carlos Fradique Mendes – cuja correspondência Eça de Queiroz recolheu – e Ana Olímpia Vaz de Caminha, que, tendo nascido escrava, foi uma das pessoas mais ricas e poderosas de Angola....
Autumn in Peking
AuthorBoris Vian
ISBN0966234642
Boris Vian was a jack of all trades - although unfortunately his name was Boris and "Boris of all trades" never took off as a turn of phrase. But nevertheless Vian was a great songwriter, playwright, singer, jazz critic and, of course novelist so it should have been Boris instead of Jack. Vian's 1947 novel...
The Seven Minutes
AuthorIrving Wallace
In the stillness of the courtroom a bookseller stands accused of selling a book. Is it a work of sensitive genius or an execrable volume of pornography? Could it have driven a respectable college boy to commit brutal rape? And who is the author of the novel at the vortex of a storm of sensation and controversy?

"Michael...
The Devil at Large: Erica Jong on Henry Miller
AuthorErica Jong
ISBN0099449218
The book begins with a question: "Why Henry Miller?"

Miller remains among the most misunderstood of writers - seen either as a pornographer or a guru, a sexual enslaver or a sexual liberator, a prophet or a pervert. All the questions his life and oeuvre raise about the role of the writer in society,...
The Serial: A Year in the Life of Marin County
AuthorCyra McFadden
ISBN0394733614
"In Cyra McFadden's affluent San Francisco suburb, a health club is likely to be called a center for human potential. Her book The Serial: A Year in the Life of Marin County is a deadly satire on such pretensions.

The principal characters in this mock soap opera wander aimlessly from body to body...
The Season of the Witch
AuthorJames Leo Herlihy
ISBN0671209051
This almost read like a contemporary YA novel, albeit a YA novel written by Melanie. You forget how intense the late Sixties must have been, and how beautifully carried away people got, so many of them searching for a different system of living. Season Of The Witch is at times so dated that you feel both...
Mine-Haha
AuthorFrank Wedekind
ISBN1843914557
At once a dystopian fantasy and a critique of sexual norms, Mine-Haha describes a unique boarding institution for girls—part idyllic refuge, part prison—where pupils are trained only in the physical arts of movement, dance, and music, before issuing them into an adult world for which they...
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