8 must-read contemporary books like Rombo by Esther Kinsky

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Rombo

By: Esther Kinsky

3.58

Format: 270 pages, Hardcover

Im Mai und im September 1976 erschüttern zwei schwere Erdbeben eine Landschaft und ihre Bevölkerung…

If you liked the contemporary plot in Rombo by Esther Kinsky , here is a list of 8 books like this:

Cover of The Recognitions by William H. Gass, William Gaddis

1. The Recognitions

By: William H. Gass , William Gaddis

4.20

Format: 976 pages, Paperback

The book Jonathan Franzen dubbed the "ur-text of postwar fiction" and the "first great cultural cri… read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • fiction
"Women get desperate, but they don't understand despair."

-William H. Gass, The Recognitions

"That fever had passed; but for the rest of his life it never left his eyes."

-William H. Gass, The Recognitions

"Reading Proust isn't just reading a book, it's an experience and you can't reject an experience."

-William H. Gass, The Recognitions

"Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest." William Gaddis, The Recognitions."

-William H. Gass, The Recognitions

Cover of Baumgartner by Paul Auster

2. Baumgartner

By: Paul Auster

3.78

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A taut yet expansive novel of love, memory, and grief from Paul Auster, best-selling, award-winning… read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Vivir es sentir dolor, y vivir con miedo al dolor es negarse a vivir"

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

"To live is to feel pain, he told himself, and to live in fear of pain is to refuse to live."

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

"at some point in the coming years, the two books should be combined and reconfigured into a large, one-volume collected poems—a monument of singing pages that will overwhelm the silence of Anna’s gra…"

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

"the story turns out to be so astounding and so powerful that your jaw drops open and you feel that it has changed or enhanced or deepened your understanding of the world, does it matter if the story …"

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

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3. 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

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  • literature
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Dove non mi hai portata. Mia madre, un caso di cronaca by Maria Grazia Calandrone

4. Dove non mi hai portata. Mia madre, un caso di cronaca

By: Maria Grazia Calandrone

3.91

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

1965. Un uomo e una donna, dopo aver abbandonato nel parco di Villa Borghese la figlia di otto mesi… read more

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5. Giù nella valle

By: Paolo Cognetti

3.58

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Un padre ha piantato due alberi davanti alla sua casa, uno per ogni figlio. Il primo, un larice, … read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Mi limitavo ad amare te by Rosella Postorino

6. Mi limitavo ad amare te

By: Rosella Postorino

3.86

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Si esiste interi solo prima di nascere. Ma quello strappo è la vita. Omar ha dieci anni e passa le… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Rainbow by Yasunari Kawabata

7. The Rainbow

By: Yasunari Kawabata

3.50

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Available in English for the very first time, a powerful, poignant novel about three half sisters i… read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • fiction
"La profondità dell'essere umano è proporzionale alle esperienze vissute e alla lontananza del tempo in cui il suo animo si immerge."

-Yasunari Kawabata, The Rainbow

"Un ponte di pietra tra le anime? Meglio allora un arcobaleno." "Sì, è possible che il ponte che unisce due anime sia simile a un arcobaleno."

-Yasunari Kawabata, The Rainbow

"Fra le tante cose che suscitano nell'uomo una sensazione di impotenza, l'architettura è più di ogni altra arte soggetta a condizionamenti. Luogo, materiale, destinazione, grandezza, costi, le bizzarr…"

-Yasunari Kawabata, The Rainbow

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8. La ricreazione è finita

By: Dario Ferrari

4.24

Format: 480 pages, ebook

Marcello è un trentenne senza un vero lavoro, resiste ai tentativi della fidanzata di rinsaldare il… read more

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  • italy
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Silver Bone (The Kyiv Mysteries, #1) by Andrey Kurkov

9. The Silver Bone (The Kyiv Mysteries, #1)

By: Andrey Kurkov

3.43

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the Ukrainian Andrey Kurkov, a perplexing mystery from a world-renowned literary master that i… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Invernale by Dario Voltolini

10. Invernale

By: Dario Voltolini

3.48

Format: 120 pages, Kindle Edition

Il padre spacca gli animali, entra nelle loro viscere, separa i muscoli dalle membrane, estirpa gli… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Madre d'ossa by Ilaria Tuti

11. Madre d'ossa

By: Ilaria Tuti

3.82

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Teresa Battaglia ha davvero perso la sfida più grande di tutte? Quella con la sua memoria, contro i… read more

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12. Sputiamo su Hegel e altri scritti

By: Carla Lonzi

4.28

Format: 127 pages, Paperback

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  • italy
  • womens
"El divorcio es un injerto en el matrimonio con el cual se refuerza dicha institución."

-Carla Lonzi, Sputiamo su Hegel e altri scritti

"La donna come soggetto non rifiuta l’uomo come soggetto, ma lo rifiuta come ruolo assoluto. Nella vita sociale lo rifiuta come ruolo autoritario."

-Carla Lonzi, Sputiamo su Hegel e altri scritti

"It means the liberation of one half of humankind, which would make its voice heard, challenging, for the first time in history, not only bourgeois society but every society in which man is the protag…"

-Carla Lonzi, Sputiamo su Hegel e altri scritti

"For a girl, the university is not the place where she will achieve her liberation by means of culture, but the place where, after having been carefully prepared by the family, her repression will be …"

-Carla Lonzi, Sputiamo su Hegel e altri scritti

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13. The Birthday Party

By: Laurent Mauvignier

3.75

Format: 454 pages, Paperback

A painter contends with the ghosts of the French countryside in a psychological literary thriller b… read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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14. 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

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15. Free Day

By: Inès Cagnati

3.83

Format: 214 pages, Kindle Edition

In the marshy countryside of southwestern France, fourteen-year-old Galla rides her battered bicycl… read more

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  • literature
  • womens
  • novels
  • fiction
Cover of Blomsterdalen by Niviaq Korneliussen

16. Blomsterdalen

By: Niviaq Korneliussen

3.67

Format: 279 pages, Paperback

Hun oplevede det første selvmord, da hun var tretten. Selv vil hun begraves mellem de høje fjelde i… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of La donna degli alberi by Lorenzo Marone

17. La donna degli alberi

By: Lorenzo Marone

3.48

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

La donna è sola, inquieta, in fuga: non vuole più restare dove non c'è amore. Ha lasciato la città,… read more

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  • italy
  • fiction
  • nature
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18. Rombo

By: Esther Kinsky

3.58

Format: 270 pages, Hardcover

Im Mai und im September 1976 erschüttern zwei schwere Erdbeben eine Landschaft und ihre Bevölkerung… read more

Similar categories in Esther Kinsky's Rombo book and Esther Kinsky's Rombo

  • german literature
  • italy
  • literature
  • germany
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • womens
  • novels
  • nature
Cover of Brian by Jeremy Cooper

19. Brian

By: Jeremy Cooper

3.83

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

A tender meditation on friendship and the importance of community,  Brian  is also a tangential wor… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Ein simpler Eingriff by Yael Inokai

20. Ein simpler Eingriff

By: Yael Inokai

3.75

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Meret ist Krankenschwester. Die Klinik ist ihr Zuhause, ihre Uniform trägt sie mit Stolz, schließli… read more

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  • german literature
  • womens
  • novels
  • fiction

16 best-selling fiction books like Rombo by Esther Kinsky

Transform Your Habits

The Recognitions

William H. Gass , William Gaddis

4.20

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Baumgartner

Paul Auster

3.78

Transform Your Habits

The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild

Mathias Énard

3.59

Transform Your Habits

Giù nella valle

Paolo Cognetti

3.58

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14 best-selling fiction books like Blomsterdalen by Niviaq Korneliussen

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L’ultima cosa bella sulla faccia della terra

Michael Bible

3.60

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L'età fragile

Donatella Di Pietrantonio

3.73

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Om udregning af rumfang I

Solvej Balle

3.71

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What Happens at Night

Peter Cameron

3.47

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