Tiny Deaths
10 best books like Tiny Deaths (Robert Shearman): The City & the City, The Case of Comrade Tulayev, Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation, Justine, Mountolive, Clea, Balthazar, Empty Space: A Haunting, The Stone Thrower, The Last Man
| Author | China Miéville |
| ISBN | 0345497511 |
When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to be a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlú of the Extreme Crime Squad. But as he investigates, the evidence points to conspiracies far stranger and more deadly than anything he could have imagined.
Borlú...
| Author | Victor Serge |
| ISBN | 1590170644 |
One cold Moscow night, Comrade Tulayev, a high government official, is shot dead in the street, and the search for his killer begins. In this panoramic vision of the Soviet Great Terror, the investigation leads all over the world, netting a whole series of suspects whose only connection is their innocence—at...
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
| Author | Silvia Federici |
| ISBN | 1570270597 |
Caliban and the Witch is a history of the body in the transition to capitalism. Moving from the peasant revolts of the late Middle Ages to the witch-hunts and the rise of mechanical philosophy, Federici investigates the capitalist rationalization of social reproduction. She shows how the battle against...
| Author | Lawrence Durrell |
| ISBN | 0140153195 |
The time is the eve of the Second World War. The place is Alexandria, an Egyptian city that once housed the world's greatest library and whose inhabitants are still dedicated to knowledge. But for the obsessed and purblind characters in this mesmerizing first novel of the Alexandria Quartet, the pursuit...
| Author | Lawrence Durrell |
| ISBN | 0140153209 |
Past Diplomacy
When I was in secondary school, one of Gerald Durrell's books was all the rage. It might even have been on the syllabus. Looking through his bibliography, the only one I can think it might have been is "Beasts in My Belfry". It wasn't particularly demanding, so my English master...
| Author | Lawrence Durrell |
| ISBN | 0140153225 |
The magnificent final volume of one of the most widely acclaimed fictional masterpieces of the postwar era.
Few books have been awaited as eagerly as Clea, the sensuous and electrically suspenseful novel that resolves the enigmas of the Alexandria Quartet. Some years and one world war was...
| Author | Lawrence Durrell |
| ISBN | 1400000289 |
Balthazar, is the second volume of Durrell's The Alexandria Quartet, set in Alexandria, Egypt, during the 1940s. The events of each lush and sensuous novel are seen through the eyes of the central character L.G. Darley, who observes the interactions of his lovers, friends, and acquaintances. Balthazar,...
| Author | M. John Harrison |
| ISBN | 0575096306 |
This space adventure begins with the following dream: An alien research tool the size of a brown dwarf star hangs in the middle of nowhere, as a result of an attempt to place it equidistant from everything else in every possible universe. Somewhere in the fractal labyrinth beneath its surface,...
| Author | Adam Marek |
| ISBN | 1770411429 |
A bold voice in absurdist short fiction Intelligent clothing, superhero dictators, contagion-carrying computer games, cross-species reproduction. Welcome to the strange and startling world of Adam Marek; a menagerie of futuristic technology, sinister traditions, and scientifically grounded...
| Author | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley |
| ISBN | 0192838652 |
A futuristic story of tragic love and of the gradual extermination of the human race by plague, The Last Man is Mary Shelley's most important novel after Frankenstein. With intriguing portraits of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron, the novel offers a vision of the future that expresses a reaction...
