The Torturer's Apprentice: Stories

6 best books like The Torturer's Apprentice: Stories (John Biguenet): Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Pedro Páramo, The Emigrants, Bobcat and Other Stories, American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment, Orion You Came and You Took All My Marbles

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Author	Olga Tokarczuk
ISBN	0525541330

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake, and taking care of the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw residents. Her reputation as a crank and a recluse is amplified by her...

Pedro Páramo

Author	Juan Rulfo
ISBN	0802133908

A classic of Mexican modern literature about a haunted village.

As one enters Juan Rulfo's legendary novel, one follows a dusty road to a town of death. Time shifts from one consciousness to another in a hypnotic flow of dreams, desires, and memories, a world of ghosts dominated by the figure...

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...

Bobcat and Other Stories

Author	Rebecca Lee
ISBN	1616201738

Rebecca Lee, one of our most gifted and original short story writers, guides readers into a range of landscapes, both foreign and domestic, crafting stories as rich as novels. A student plagiarizes a paper and holds fast to her alibi until she finds herself complicit in the resurrection of one professor's...

American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment

Author	Shane Bauer
ISBN	0735223580

A groundbreaking and brave inside reckoning with the nexus of prison and profit in America in one Louisiana prison and over the course of our country's history.

In 2014, Shane Bauer was hired for $9 an hour to work as an entry-level prison guard at a private prison in Winnfield, Louisiana. An...

Orion You Came and You Took All My Marbles

Author	Kira Henehan
ISBN	1571310754

Immediately captivating, Orion You Came and You Took All My Marbles introduces readers to Finley, an investigator of indiscernible origins and prowess who is assigned to a mysterious Professor Uppal and his puppets. The nature of the investigation isn’t clear, but Finley nonetheless forges ahead,...