18 Top fiction books like Singulariteten by Balsam Karam

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Singulariteten

By: Balsam Karam

3.81

Format: 234 pages, Hardcover

En kvinna letar efter sitt barn. Hon letar längs cornichen där dottern brukade arbeta. Hon letar ti…

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Cover of The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild by Mathias Énard

1. The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild

By: Mathias Énard

3.59

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

To research his thesis on contemporary agrarian life, anthropology student David Mazon moves from P… read more

Similar categories in Mathias Énard's The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild book and Balsam Karam's Singulariteten

  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
Cover of Vladivostok Circus by Elisa Shua Dusapin

2. Vladivostok Circus

By: Elisa Shua Dusapin

3.49

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

A Vladivostok, dans l'enceinte désertée d'un cirque entre deux saisons, un trio s'entraîne à la bar… read more

Similar categories in Elisa Shua Dusapin's Vladivostok Circus book and Balsam Karam's Singulariteten

  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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3. 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

Similar categories in Jenny Erpenbeck's Kairos book and Balsam Karam's Singulariteten

  • 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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4. Stone Yard Devotional

By: Charlotte Wood

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

A deeply moving novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be 'good', from the award-winn… read more

Similar categories in Charlotte Wood's Stone Yard Devotional book and Balsam Karam's Singulariteten

  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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5. Nipponia Nippon

By: Kazushige Abe

3.31

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Il diciassettenne protagonista Haruo vive in cittadina di provincia nel nord del Giappone. È un ado… read more

Similar categories in Kazushige Abe's Nipponia Nippon book and Balsam Karam's Singulariteten

  • literature
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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6. The Details

By: Ia Genberg

3.90

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

An acclaimed Swedish author makes her English language debut with this intoxicating novel in the ve… read more

Similar categories in Ia Genberg's The Details book and Balsam Karam's Singulariteten

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • sweden
  • scandinavian literature
  • audiobook
"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

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7. No es un río

By: Selva Almada

3.95

Format: 104 pages, Kindle Edition

Enero y el Negro llevan de pesca a Tilo, hijo adolescente de Eusebio, el amigo muerto. Mientras beb… read more

Similar categories in Selva Almada's No es un río book and Balsam Karam's Singulariteten

  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
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8. Minor Detail

By: Adania Shibli

4.20

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn a… read more

Similar categories in Adania Shibli's Minor Detail book and Balsam Karam's Singulariteten

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"Man, not the tank, shall prevail."

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Não há como descartar a probabilidade de uma conexão entre os dois fatos, ou alguma ligação oculta entre eles, por analogia às relações que os seres humanos encontram entre as plantas, por exemplo, q…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Desde que tive ciência da minha incapacidade consumada de me mover de acordo com os limites, resolvi, finalmente, permanecer dentro dos limites da minha casa, tanto quanto possível. Agora, uma vez qu…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Toch zijn er mensen die in die logica − dus dat je je concentreert op de meest futiele details zoals stof op een bureau of vliegenpoepjes op een schilderij − de enige manier zien om de waarheid te do…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

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9. Orbital

By: Samantha Harvey

3.73

Format: 207 pages, Hardcover

A slender novel of epic power, Orbital  deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more

Similar categories in Samantha Harvey's Orbital book and Balsam Karam's Singulariteten

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"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

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10. Białe noce

By: Urszula Honek

3.77

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Z pozoru nic się nie dzieje: mała podgórska miejscowość, kilka osób, nieuchwytny czas. A jednak świ… read more

Similar categories in Urszula Honek's Białe noce book and Balsam Karam's Singulariteten

  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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11. Alphabetical Diaries

By: Sheila Heti

4.02

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling confessional from the award-winning, beloved author of Pure Colour. Sheila Heti kept a… read more

Similar categories in Sheila Heti's Alphabetical Diaries book and Balsam Karam's Singulariteten

  • audiobook
Cover of What I'd Rather Not Think About by Jente Posthuma

12. What I'd Rather Not Think About

By: Jente Posthuma

3.77

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

What if one half of a pair of twins no longer wants to live? What if the other can’t live without t… read more

Similar categories in Jente Posthuma's What I'd Rather Not Think About book and Balsam Karam's Singulariteten

  • 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

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13. It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

By: Anne de Marcken

3.82

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, this incredible life-after-death novel asks us to consider how m… read more

Similar categories in Anne de Marcken's It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over book and Balsam Karam's Singulariteten

  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Fasting makes sense of the hunger. The constant internal grasping. The only sensible answer to this is to always withdraw the thing after which I grasp. To subvert. To thwart. To deny. It closes the …"

-Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

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14. Intervals

By: Marianne Brooker

4.38

Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition

What makes a good death? A good daughter? In 2009, with her forties and a harsh wave of austerity o… read more

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15. Mild Vertigo

By: Mieko Kanai

3.55

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Housewife Natsumi leads a small, unremarkable life in a modern Tokyo apartment with her husband and… read more

Similar categories in Mieko Kanai's Mild Vertigo book and Balsam Karam's Singulariteten

  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
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16. Tell

By: Jonathan Buckley

3.17

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, Tell is an exuberant, intensely fluid, and probing examination o… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Buckley's Tell book and Balsam Karam's Singulariteten

  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Book of All Loves by Agustín Fernández Mallo

17. The Book of All Loves

By: Agustín Fernández Mallo

3.51

Format: 178 pages, Kindle Edition

In the wake of the Great Blackout, faced with the near-extinction of humanity, a pair of lovers spe… read more

Similar categories in Agustín Fernández Mallo's The Book of All Loves book and Balsam Karam's Singulariteten

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Observable Universe: An Investigation by Heather McCalden

18. The Observable Universe: An Investigation

By: Heather McCalden

3.96

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A moving memoir of a young woman's reckoning with her parents' absence, the virus that took them, a… read more

Similar categories in Heather McCalden's The Observable Universe: An Investigation book and Balsam Karam's Singulariteten

  • audiobook
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19. Ædnan

By: Linnea Axelsson

4.23

Format: 762 pages, Hardcover

Ædnan är ett mäktigt epos som på en ordknapp vers berättar om två samiska familjer. I deras öden sp… read more

Similar categories in Linnea Axelsson's Ædnan book and Balsam Karam's Singulariteten

  • literary fiction
  • sweden
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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20. The Singularity

By: Balsam Karam

3.81

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Lyrical and devastating, The Singularity is a breathtaking study of grief, migration, and motherhoo… read more

Similar categories in Balsam Karam's The Singularity book and Balsam Karam's Singulariteten

  • literary fiction
  • sweden
  • literature
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • iran
  • scandinavian literature
  • audiobook
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21. Living Things

By: Munir Hachemi

3.82

Format: 116 pages, Kindle Edition

Living Things follows four recent graduates – Munir, G, Ernesto and Álex – who travel from Madrid t… read more

Similar categories in Munir Hachemi's Living Things book and Balsam Karam's Singulariteten

  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels

17 Top contemporary books like Singulariteten by Balsam Karam

Transform Your Habits

The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild

Mathias Énard

3.59

Transform Your Habits

Vladivostok Circus

Elisa Shua Dusapin

3.49

Transform Your Habits

Kairos

Jenny Erpenbeck

3.46

Transform Your Habits

Stone Yard Devotional

Charlotte Wood

3.68

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19 must-read fiction books like Nipponia Nippon by Kazushige Abe

Transform Your Habits

Vladivostok Circus

Elisa Shua Dusapin

3.49

Transform Your Habits

This is Amiko, Do You Copy?

Natsuko Imamura

3.63

Transform Your Habits

Nipponia Nippon

Kazushige Abe

3.31

Transform Your Habits

Dragon Palace

Hiromi Kawakami

3.31

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