9 Best historical books like Mater 2-10 by Hwang Sok-yong

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Similar categories in Itamar Vieira Junior's Torto Arado book and Hwang Sok-yong's Mater 2-10

• literary fiction
• literature
• fiction
• historical fiction
• contemporary

"Olha, dona"

-Itamar Vieira Junior, Torto Arado

"Durante algum tempo, pensei que pudesse haver uma ruptura entre nossas famílias, mas o perdão aflorava da bênção que poderia ser o retorno de alguém de qual somos parte."

-Itamar Vieira Junior, Torto Arado

"Você incutiu naquelas vidas um respeito grande por suas próprias histórias. Mas agora nem você conseguia mais se iluminar com a esperança de que a mudança fosse possível, muito menos acreditava que a…"

-Itamar Vieira Junior, Torto Arado

Similar categories in Jenny Erpenbeck's Kairos book and Hwang Sok-yong's Mater 2-10

• literary fiction
• literature
• historical
• fiction
• contemporary
• historical fiction

"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

Similar categories in Colin Barrett's Wild Houses book and Hwang Sok-yong's Mater 2-10

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary

"What you are in, Dev, is a holding pattern, only you're not holding out for anything."

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"All boys, all children, are capable of cruelty at the right juncture of opportunity and circumstance, but only a few become committed prodigies of sadism..."

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"In the dream, exactly as he had in real life, he sensed the slow, inexorable approach of the shapeless, prospectless days to come, days when there would be no need to get out of bed or brush his teet…"

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"He looked around the empty kitchen. A part of him wanted this of course. A part of him had always wanted this, to be alone, away from even the prospect of any demand upon him to talk, to interact, to…"

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

Similar categories in Ia Genberg's The Details book and Hwang Sok-yong's Mater 2-10

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary

"La fiducia resta lettera morta, se non la si sente nelle ossa."

-Ia Genberg, The Details

"L'io , o meglio, il cosidetto "io", non è altro che questo: ciò che resta delle persone a cui ci siamo stretti."

-Ia Genberg, The Details

"La vita mi ha regalato la mia buona dose di magia, e il più delle volte è successo all'incontro con gli altri. Lì c'è qualcosa. Lì, soltanto lì."

-Ia Genberg, The Details

"Per i morti la successione del tempo non ha importanza, l'unica cosa che conta sono i dettagli, la densità, il come e il cosa e tutto ciò che riguarda il chi."

-Ia Genberg, The Details

Similar categories in Andrey Kurkov's The Silver Bone (The Kyiv Mysteries, #1) book and Hwang Sok-yong's Mater 2-10

• historical
• fiction
• historical fiction

Similar categories in Selva Almada's No es un río book and Hwang Sok-yong's Mater 2-10

• literature
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary

Similar categories in Rita Bullwinkel's Headshot book and Hwang Sok-yong's Mater 2-10

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary

"The desire to please people is the desire to not be singular."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"Tanya Maw's sister is two years older, the perfect age gap for wisdom transmission."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"It can be intoxicating to play a sport that requires one to look in their opponent's eyes."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"It's a warmth that she'll feel again very few times in her life. It's almost like love, but it has a surer, less desperate edge to it."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

Similar categories in Rodrigo Blanco Calderón's Simpatía book and Hwang Sok-yong's Mater 2-10

• literature
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary

Similar categories in Sarah Perry's Enlightenment book and Hwang Sok-yong's Mater 2-10

• literary fiction
• historical
• fiction
• historical fiction
• contemporary

"Thomas [Hart] lived where he'd been born, and where (so he often thought without rancor) he'd very likely die; and if he lived alone he was not lonely, that being a condition not of solitude but of l…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"So I told her this: that it's true I've only rarely been happy, and perhaps more often been sad. But I have been content. I have lived. I have felt everything available to me: I've been faithless, de…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"I wish I could say, James, that we forgave each other in the end. I wish I could say: she put her head on my shoulder and I welcomed it and we laughed and said all was well. But in fact we were quiet…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"...in the ordinary way we love because we're loved, and give more or less what we're given. But to love without return is more strange and more wonderful, and not the humiliating thing I'd once taken…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

Similar categories in Gabriela Wiener's Huaco retrato book and Hwang Sok-yong's Mater 2-10

• literary fiction
• contemporary

Similar categories in Claire Messud's This Strange Eventful History book and Hwang Sok-yong's Mater 2-10

• literary fiction
• historical
• family
• fiction
• historical fiction

"Family life, like playing chess, involved always thinking several steps ahead."

-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History

"Literature... Now, that's a religion I can believe in. That is perhaps my God."

-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History

"... she'd been a fool, enamored of a figment, had created the soul of a man who never existed -"

-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History

"All-U-Can Hi-way 4-Sale Thru. This American English thrilled him - its energy, its freedom, its carelessness."

-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History

Similar categories in Samantha Harvey's Orbital book and Hwang Sok-yong's Mater 2-10

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary

"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

Similar categories in Domenico Starnone's The House on Via Gemito book and Hwang Sok-yong's Mater 2-10

• literary fiction
• literature
• fiction
• historical fiction
• contemporary
• family

Similar categories in Hwang Sok-yong's Mater 2-10 book and Hwang Sok-yong's Mater 2-10

• literary fiction
• literature
• historical
• politics
• asia
• fiction
• contemporary
• asian literature
• historical fiction
• family

Similar categories in Ismail Kadare's A Dictator Calls book and Hwang Sok-yong's Mater 2-10

• literary fiction
• literature
• historical
• politics
• fiction
• historical fiction

"And a cursory glance at Karl Marx shows that a man who had dedicated his life to the violent overthrow of the world order never devoted half a page in any of his dozens of books to the trauma and rem…"

-Ismail Kadare, A Dictator Calls

Similar categories in Hisham Matar's My Friends book and Hwang Sok-yong's Mater 2-10

• literary fiction
• literature
• historical
• politics
• fiction
• contemporary
• historical fiction

"A vast distance exists between a protester and his slogan; the entire history of politics exists in that gap."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"For a writer, exile is prison, a severing from the source, and so, courageous or not, he dies in front of our eyes."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"She was older and all the more beautiful, had the weary tiredness of one who, in surrendering to her life, was ennobled by it."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"I walked off feeling an emptiness well up inside me. It seemed, for all the emptiness that it was, a presence. It made me want to run away, dive deeper into myself, into that cold desolation, to the …"

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

Similar categories in Urszula Honek's Białe noce book and Hwang Sok-yong's Mater 2-10

• literature
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary

Similar categories in Alexis Wright's Praiseworthy book and Hwang Sok-yong's Mater 2-10

• literary fiction
• literature
• politics
• fiction
• contemporary

Similar categories in Jente Posthuma's What I'd Rather Not Think About book and Hwang Sok-yong's Mater 2-10

• literary fiction
• literature
• family
• fiction
• contemporary

"Cracks in the ground aren't always visible to the naked eye. Every movement has the potential to take you down."

-Jente Posthuma, What I'd Rather Not Think About

"This was shocking to me, because if the oldest person I knew understood even less about the world than I did, then how was it possible that other adults had all the answers? And what was the point of…"

-Jente Posthuma, What I'd Rather Not Think About

"To be a natural presence, you shouldn't take up too much space, which I always found easy at the beginning of a friendship. It felt nice to reshape myself into precisely the right format until the mo…"

-Jente Posthuma, What I'd Rather Not Think About

Similar categories in Mirinae Lee's 8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster book and Hwang Sok-yong's Mater 2-10

• literary fiction
• historical
• asia
• fiction
• historical fiction
• asian literature

Similar categories in Anne Michaels's Held book and Hwang Sok-yong's Mater 2-10

• literary fiction
• literature
• historical
• fiction
• historical fiction

"Who can say what happens when we are remembered?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"Do we really need our own misery to teach us to be kind?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"Would he know the moment of his death or would it be like night falling."

-Anne Michaels, Held