7 Best novels books like Trick by Domenico Starnone

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Trick

By: Domenico Starnone

3.71

Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition

Imagine a duel. A face-off between a man and a boy. The same blood runs through their veins. One…

"...and just to evade confrontation, he opens a window on the fourth floor, ready to jump. The abyss, more and more often, is the way to save ourselves from ourselves."

-Domenico Starnone, Trick

"...and just to evade confrontation, he opens a window on the fourth floor, ready to jump. The abyss, more and more often, is the way to save ourselves from ourselves."

-Domenico Starnone, Trick

"...and just to evade confrontation, he opens a window on the fourth floor, ready to jump. The abyss, more and more often, is the way to save ourselves from ourselves."

-Domenico Starnone, Trick

"He stared at the first one, seeming to drink it up with his eyes, an antiquated metaphor that I’ve always loved: People and things dissolve, turn to liquid, and the eyes become mouth and throat, changing the irreducible world into a potion."

-Domenico Starnone, Trick

If you liked the novels plot in Trick by Domenico Starnone , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. La frantumaglia

By: Elena Ferrante

4.09

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

Questo libro ci porta nel laboratorio di Elena Ferrante, ci permette di lanciare uno sguardo dentro… read more

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  • italy
  • italian literature
"No lo sé, es difícil dar una respuesta tajante que sea cierta"

-Elena Ferrante, La frantumaglia

"Even Tolstoy is an insignificant shadow if he takes a stroll with Anna Karenina."

-Elena Ferrante, La frantumaglia

"I doubt that work ennobles man and I am absolutely certain that it does not ennoble woman."

-Elena Ferrante, La frantumaglia

"Only when we feel the story in each of its moments or places are we able to tell it properly."

-Elena Ferrante, La frantumaglia

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2. The Jolly Corner

By: Henry James

3.13

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

The Jolly Corner was first published in 1908 in The English Review. Henry James describes the adven… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
"...he felt the whole vision turn to darkness and his very feet give way. His head went round; he was going; he had gone."

-Henry James, The Jolly Corner

"He was a dim secondary social success -- and all with people who had truly not an idea of him. It was all mere surface sound, this murmur of their welcome, this popping of their corks -- just as his …"

-Henry James, The Jolly Corner

"The image of the "presence," whatever it was, waiting there for him to go--this image had not yet been so concrete for his nerves as when he stopped short of the point at which certainty would have c…"

-Henry James, The Jolly Corner

"I know at least what I am,' he simply went on; 'the other side of the medal's clear enough. I've not been edifying--I believe I'm thought in a hundred quarters to have been barely decent. I've follow…"

-Henry James, The Jolly Corner

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3. A Cabeça do Santo

By: Socorro Acioli

4.29

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Desenvolvido na oficina de Gabriel García Márquez, o romance de Socorro Acioli conta a história de … read more

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  • fiction
"A consciência da solidão doía mais que qualquer outra dor."

-Socorro Acioli, A Cabeça do Santo

"[...] porque às vezes nem Deus livra o homem de enlouquecer. O demônio é artista."

-Socorro Acioli, A Cabeça do Santo

"Era tudo tão lindo que nem coube nos seus pequenos sonhos. Ela precisou aprender a sonhar mais."

-Socorro Acioli, A Cabeça do Santo

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4. The Days of Abandonment

By: Elena Ferrante , Ann Goldstein

3.87

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

A national bestseller for almost an entire year, The Days of Abandonment shocked and captivated its… read more

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  • italy
  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • italian literature
  • contemporary
  • novels
"I'm dead, but I'm fine."

-Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment

"The hardest things to talk about are the ones we ourselves can't understand."

-Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment

"We don't know anything about people, even those with whom we share everything."

-Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment

"Success depends on the capacity to manipulate the obvious with calculated precision."

-Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment

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5. Aliss at the Fire

By: Jon Fosse , Damion Searls

3.99

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

In her old house by the fjord, Signe lies on a bench and sees a vision of herself as she was more t… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels

6. Kralın Laneti

By: None , None

4.44

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Cok genc yasta resme baslayan ama Mondrian'in resimleriyle tanisinca asla onun kadar iyi bir ressam… read more

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7. The Lost Daughter

By: Elena Ferrante

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Elena Ferrante will blow you away."-Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones From the author of Th… read more

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8. Kairos

By: Jenny Erpenbeck

3.46

Format: 379 pages, Hardcover

Die neunzehnjährige Katharina und Hans, ein verheirateter Mann Mitte fünfzig, begegnen sich Ende de… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
"She would like a shallow life, swift and shallow, till some day she can start again. Get through her time fast until then. And when will that be? Then."

-Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos

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9. Tangerinn

By: Emanuela Anechoum

3.92

Format: 245 pages, ebook

Il romanzo di una generazione che sa di dover partire ignorando la destinazione. In un mondo govern… read more

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  • fiction
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10. Forbidden Notebook

By: Alba de Céspedes

4.19

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

With a foreword by Jhumpa Lahiri, Quaderno Proibito is a classic domestic novel by the Italian-Cu… read more

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  • italy
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • italian literature
  • novels
  • audiobook
Cover of Oração para desaparecer by Socorro Acioli

11. Oração para desaparecer

By: Socorro Acioli

4.30

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Uma mulher nua, sem cabelos nem memória, é retirada da terra na pequena cidade de Almofala, frontei… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"A vida é feita de palavras, elas explicam e fazem nascer e morrer. Se ninguém pronuncia um nome este ser está morto, mesmo que respire e leve um coração batendo no peito. Estar vivo é ser palavra na …"

-Socorro Acioli, Oração para desaparecer

Cover of O Som do Rugido da Onça by Micheliny Verunschk

12. O Som do Rugido da Onça

By: Micheliny Verunschk

3.86

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Neste romance embebido de lirismo, Micheliny Verunschk joga luz sobre a história de duas crianças i… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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13. Não fossem as sílabas do sábado

By: Mariana Salomão Carrara

4.31

Format: 168 pages, Kindle Edition

Uma tragédia acaba com uma família, um amor, uma história. Mas outra história também pode começar n… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Como somos imbecis tentando aplicar a lógica patética dos vivos aos que não conseguem mais, qual a importância de um brigadeiro numa língua inteira amarga num estômago dobrado de desgosto."

-Mariana Salomão Carrara, Não fossem as sílabas do sábado

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14. O que é Meu

By: José Henrique Bortoluci

4.20

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Neste ensaio biográfico de rara sensibilidade, que já teve os direitos vendidos para dez editoras e… read more

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  • contemporary
Cover of Trick by Domenico Starnone

15. Trick

By: Domenico Starnone

3.71

Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition

Imagine a duel. A face-off between a man and a boy. The same blood runs through their veins. One… read more

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  • italy
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • italian literature
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"...and just to evade confrontation, he opens a window on the fourth floor, ready to jump. The abyss, more and more often, is the way to save ourselves from ourselves."

-Domenico Starnone, Trick

"He stared at the first one, seeming to drink it up with his eyes, an antiquated metaphor that I’ve always loved: People and things dissolve, turn to liquid, and the eyes become mouth and throat, chan…"

-Domenico Starnone, Trick

"I have enormous affection that grows rather than diminishes with time, for the I that I painfully cose from the many, my I. How we love—all of us—our chatty little imp. The toil begins when we toss h…"

-Domenico Starnone, Trick

"Sexual pleasure, uncoupled once and for all from reproduction, which was its original purpose, continuously leaked fluids all over the planet, in every season. And there was no controlling it, whatev…"

-Domenico Starnone, Trick

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16. Chuva de Papel

By: Martha Batalha

3.72

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Em Chuva de papel, acompanhamos a trajetória de um repórter policial decadente que precisa encontra… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Hospital by Sanya Rushdi

17. Hospital

By: Sanya Rushdi

3.70

Format: 132 pages, Hardcover

A strong and courageous novel that deftly tackles psychosis. In Melbourne, Australia, a woman in h… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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18. Diorama

By: Carol Bensimon

4.32

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

Inspirado em um crime real ocorrido na capital gaúcha, Diorama é um misto de coming of age e romanc… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Uma tristeza infinita by Antônio Xerxenesky

19. Uma tristeza infinita

By: Antônio Xerxenesky

3.91

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Nicolas, um jovem psiquiatra francês, é convidado para trabalhar na Suíça logo após o fim da Segund… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"E então a melancolia aparece, como uma revoada de gafanhotos no horizonte, cujas fronteiras se estendem por todo o globo, e de repente fica impossível se separar do mundo, o mundo está dentro da sua …"

-Antônio Xerxenesky, Uma tristeza infinita

"A imensa maioria da população apoiou Hitler e todos seus correligionários. Claro, ninguém o elegeu para invadir a Polônia do dia para a noite. Mas todos os seus eleitores sabiam muito bem das postura…"

-Antônio Xerxenesky, Uma tristeza infinita

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20. Cara pace (Italian Edition)

By: Lisa Ginzburg

3.00

Format: 181 pages, Kindle Edition

Maddalena, la maggiore, è timida, sobria, riservata. Nina, di poco minore, è bella e capricciosa, m… read more

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  • fiction
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21. Melhor não contar

By: Tatiana Salem Levy

4.22

Format: 242 pages, Kindle Edition

Melhor não contar abre com uma cena iniciá aos dez anos, a protagonista relaxa numa piscina, na com… read more

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The Jolly Corner

Henry James

3.13

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A Cabeça do Santo

Socorro Acioli

4.29

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The Days of Abandonment

Elena Ferrante , Ann Goldstein

3.87

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Aliss at the Fire

Jon Fosse , Damion Searls

3.99

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Paul Lynch

4.10

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Torto Arado

Itamar Vieira Junior

4.49

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Anne Enright

3.55

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Jenny Erpenbeck

3.46

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