The World as I Found It
10 best books like The World as I Found It (Bruce Duffy): The Tin Drum, Under the Sea Wind, Death and the Penguin, Embers, Moscow to the End of the Line, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah, Platform, Evening in Paradise: More Stories, Kom hier dat ik u kus
| Author | Günter Grass |
| ISBN | 0099483505 |
I had an intense reaction to this book. I friggin hated it. Or, rather, I loved to hate it, while I was reading it. It was an assignment in a Postmodern Lit. class, and everyone in the class liked the protagonist but me. I thought he was awful. I couldn't believe they enjoyed him, much less admitted to enjoying...
| Author | Rachel Carson |
| ISBN | 0143104969 |
Rachel Carson--pioneering environmentalist and author of Silent Spring--opens our eyes to the wonders of the natural world in her groundbreaking paean to the sea.
Celebrating the mystery and beauty of birds and sea creatures in their natural habitat, Under the Sea-Wind--Rachel Carson's...
| Author | Andrey Kurkov |
| ISBN | 1860469450 |
Viktor is an aspiring writer with only Misha, his pet penguin, for company. Although he would prefer to write short stories, he earns a living composing obituaries for a newspaper. He longs to see his work published, yet the subjects of his obituaries continue to cling to life. But when he opens the newspaper...
| Author | Sándor Márai |
| ISBN | 0375707425 |
Originally published in 1942 and now rediscovered to international acclaim, this taut and exquisitely structured novel by the Hungarian master Sandor Marai conjures the melancholy glamour of a decaying empire and the disillusioned wisdom of its last heirs.
In a secluded woodland castle...
| Author | Venedikt Erofeev |
| ISBN | 0810112000 |
Maybe the best book about Brezhnev's Russia imaginable. If you are the kind of person who has ever got drunk with friends, stormed a police station and then declared war on Norway then you will find much here that is familiar.
It's a book rich in allusion starting from the title (Moscow to Petushki)...
| Author | G.B. Edwards |
| ISBN | 1590172337 |
Ebenezer Le Page, cantankerous, opinionated, and charming, is one of the most compelling literary creations of the late twentieth century. Eighty years old, Ebenezer has lived his whole life on the Channel Island of Guernsey, a stony speck of a place caught between the coasts of England and France...
| Author | Richard Bach |
| ISBN | 0099427869 |
In the cloud-washed airspace between the cornfields of Illinois and blue infinity, a man puts his faith in the propeller of his biplane. For disillusioned writer and itinerant barnstormer Richard Bach, belief is as real as a full tank of gas and sparks firing in the cylinders...until he meets Donald...
| Author | Michel Houellebecq |
| ISBN | 1400030269 |
In his new work, Michel Houellebecq combines erotic provocation with a terrifying vision of a world teetering between satiety and fanaticism, to create one of the most shocking, hypnotic, and intelligent novels in years.
In his early forties, Michel Renault skims through his days with as...
Evening in Paradise: More Stories
| Author | Lucia Berlin |
| ISBN | 0374279489 |
A collection of previously uncompiled stories from the short-story master and literary sensation Lucia Berlin.
In 2015, FSG published A Manual for Cleaning Women, a posthumous story collection by a relatively unknown writer, to wild, widespread acclaim. It was a New York Times bestseller;...
| Author | Griet Op de Beeck |
| ISBN | 9044623109 |
Kom hier dat ik u kus is een roman over Mona, als kind, als vierentwintigjarige, en als vijfendertigjarige. Een verhaal over waarom we worden wie we zijn, geschreven met humor, scherpte en veel schaamteloze eerlijkheid. Over ouders en kinderen. Over kapotte mensen en hoe zij ongewild anderen ook kapotmaken....
