The Spoiler
6 best books like The Spoiler (Annalena McAfee): The Clown, Kitchen, Burning Bright, Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots, Der Verdacht, Behind the Mask: On Sexual Demons, Sacred Mothers, Transvestites, Gangsters, Drifters and other Japanese Cultural Heroes
Acclaimed entertainer Hans Schnier collapses when his beloved Marie leaves him because he won’t marry her within the Catholic Church. The desertion triggers a searing re-examination of his life—the loss of his sister during the war, the demands of his millionaire father and the hypocrisies...
| Author | Banana Yoshimoto |
| ISBN | 0802142443 |
Banana Yoshimoto's novels have made her a sensation in Japan and all over the world, and Kitchen, the dazzling English-language debut that is still her best-loved book, is an enchantingly original and deeply affecting book about mothers, love, tragedy, and the power of the kitchen and home in the lives...
| Author | Ron Rash |
| ISBN | 0061804118 |
New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Ron Rash is "a storyteller of the highest rank" (Jeffrey Lent) and has won comparisons to John Steinbeck, Cormac McCarthy, and Gabriel García Márquez. It is rare that an author can capture the complexities of a place as though it were a person, and...
Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots
| Author | Deborah Feldman |
| ISBN | 1439187010 |
The instant New York Times bestselling memoir of a young Jewish woman’s escape from a religious sect, in the tradition of Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Infidel and Carolyn Jessop’s Escape, featuring a new epilogue by the author.
As a member of the strictly religious Satmar sect of Hasidic Judaism,...
| Author | Friedrich Dürrenmatt |
Der Verdacht = Suspicion (The Inspector Bärlach Mysteries #2), Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Suspicion is a detective novel by the Swiss writer Friedrich Durrenmatt in 1950 featuring the Inspector Barlach. It has also been published as The Quarry. It is the sequel to Dürrenmatt's The Judge and His...
Behind the Mask: On Sexual Demons, Sacred Mothers, Transvestites, Gangsters, Drifters and other Japanese Cultural Heroes
| Author | Ian Buruma |
| ISBN | 0394537750 |
Ian Buruma's nonfiction tends to be wonderful, and this book is no exception.
In one sense, this is an attempt to do something fairly standard: understand a people and their culture through the stories they tell about themselves. In another sense, this is an extremely unique work, however,...
