6 Best literary fiction books like Of Dogs and Walls by Yūko Tsushima

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Of Dogs and Walls

By: Yūko Tsushima

3.68

Format: 53 pages, Paperback

Two luminous, tender stories from one of Japan's greatest twentieth-century writers, showing how ch…

"Living right in the heart of Tokyo itself is quite like living in the mountains – in the midst of so many people, one hardly sees anyone."

-Yūko Tsushima, Of Dogs and Walls

If you liked the literary fiction plot in Of Dogs and Walls by Yūko Tsushima , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of Nie mówię żegnaj by Han Kang

1. Nie mówię żegnaj

By: Han Kang

3.77

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Zdobywczyni nagrody Man Booker Prize 2016, Han Kang, powraca po 5 latach z nową, pełnowymiarową pow… read more

Similar categories in Han Kang's Nie mówię żegnaj book and Yūko Tsushima's Of Dogs and Walls

  • asian literature
  • asia
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
Cover of Arkada Yaylılar Çalıyor by Melikşah Altuntaş

2. Arkada Yaylılar Çalıyor

By: Melikşah Altuntaş

3.35

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

“Arkamda yaylılar çalıyor. Biri bir filmde ya da dizide gururla yürüdüğünde çaldığı gibi. Hep hüzün… read more

Similar categories in Melikşah Altuntaş's Arkada Yaylılar Çalıyor book and Yūko Tsushima's Of Dogs and Walls

  • fiction
Cover of Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme by Édouard Louis

3. Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme

By: Édouard Louis

4.13

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Pendant une grande partie de sa vie ma mère a vécu dans la pauvreté et la nécessité, à l'écart de t… read more

Similar categories in Édouard Louis's Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme book and Yūko Tsushima's Of Dogs and Walls

  • contemporary
"Why do I feel as though I'm writing a sad story, when my aim was to tell the story of a liberation?"

-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme

"I'd gotten so used to seeing her unhappy at home that the joy on her face seemed scandalous to me, a deceit, a lie that had to be exposed as soon as possible."

-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme

"I started this book wanting to tell the story of a woman, but I've realized that yours is the story of a human being who fought for the right to exist as a woman, as opposed to the nonexistence impos…"

-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme

"A final memory. A few months ago, in the garden of a teahouse where I’d suggested we meet, she told me how she had once been called to the school by my teacher when I was six years old. The teacher w…"

-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme

Cover of Lance by Vladimir Nabokov

4. Lance

By: Vladimir Nabokov

3.37

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

'The illegible signature of teetering disaster' Three great stories—"The Aurelian", "Signs and … read more

Similar categories in Vladimir Nabokov's Lance book and Yūko Tsushima's Of Dogs and Walls

  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
"So it went on, that obsession and that despair and that nightmarish impossibility to swindle destiny, until a certain first of April, of all dates."

-Vladimir Nabokov, Lance

"What I am thinking of is the man of imagination and science, whose courage is infinite because his curiosity surpasses his courage. Nothing will keep him back."

-Vladimir Nabokov, Lance

"I not only debar too definite a planet from any role in my story – from the role every dot and full stop should play in my story (which I see as a kind of celestial chart)."

-Vladimir Nabokov, Lance

"The clichés are, of course, disguised; essentially, they are the same throughout all cheap reading matter, whether it spans the universe or the living room. They are like those 'assorted' cookies tha…"

-Vladimir Nabokov, Lance

Cover of The Three Electroknights by Stanisław Lem

5. The Three Electroknights

By: Stanisław Lem

3.33

Format: 54 pages, Paperback

'What use to a being that lives beneath a sun are jewels of gas and silver stars of ice?' From a… read more

Similar categories in Stanisław Lem's The Three Electroknights book and Yūko Tsushima's Of Dogs and Walls

  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
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6. Three Japanese Short Stories

By: Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

3.28

Format: 50 pages, Paperback

'Oh the cruelty of time, that destroys all things!' Beguiling, strange and hair-raising tales fr… read more

Similar categories in Ryūnosuke Akutagawa's Three Japanese Short Stories book and Yūko Tsushima's Of Dogs and Walls

  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • japanese literature
  • asian literature
  • japan
"Heroes have always been monsters who crushed sentimentalism underfoot."

-Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Three Japanese Short Stories

"Oh, but once one has returned to the land of one's birth – there is no place more constricting – one's surroundings no longer permit such freedom, and one can no longer simply transcend the demands o…"

-Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Three Japanese Short Stories

"For her I would gladly ferry across the Sumida on the coldest winter day to buy her those sakura-mochi sweets from old Edo that she loved so much. But medicine? That is another matter. Not even on th…"

-Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Three Japanese Short Stories

"No, nothing in this world is as oppressive and debilitating as blood ties. Any other relationship – be it friend, lover, wife; be it obligatory or constraining or difficult – is something one has con…"

-Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Three Japanese Short Stories

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7. Fame

By: Andy Warhol

3.55

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

'Good b.o means good "box office." You can smell it from a mile away' The legendary sixties New … read more

Similar categories in Andy Warhol's Fame book and Yūko Tsushima's Of Dogs and Walls

  • classics
  • short stories
"I really don't care that much about 'Beauties'. What I really like are Talkers."

-Andy Warhol, Fame

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8. Of Dogs and Walls

By: Yūko Tsushima

3.68

Format: 53 pages, Paperback

Two luminous, tender stories from one of Japan's greatest twentieth-century writers, showing how ch… read more

Similar categories in Yūko Tsushima's Of Dogs and Walls book and Yūko Tsushima's Of Dogs and Walls

  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • magical realism
  • asia
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • asian literature
  • japanese literature
  • japan
"Living right in the heart of Tokyo itself is quite like living in the mountains – in the midst of so many people, one hardly sees anyone."

-Yūko Tsushima, Of Dogs and Walls

Cover of The Haunted Boy by Carson McCullers

9. The Haunted Boy

By: Carson McCullers

3.92

Format: 60 pages, Mass Market Paperback

His hand sought the adjacent flesh and sorrow paralleled desire in the immense complexity of love. … read more

Similar categories in Carson McCullers's The Haunted Boy book and Yūko Tsushima's Of Dogs and Walls

  • fiction
  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
Cover of Piers of the Homeless Night by Jack Kerouac

10. Piers of the Homeless Night

By: Jack Kerouac

3.18

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

'See my hand up-tipped, learn the secret of my human heart...'Soaring, freewheeling snapshots of li… read more

Similar categories in Jack Kerouac's Piers of the Homeless Night book and Yūko Tsushima's Of Dogs and Walls

  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
  • contemporary
"The hobo has two watches you can't buy at Tiffany's, on one wrist the sun, on the other wrist the moon, both bands are made of sky."

-Jack Kerouac, Piers of the Homeless Night

Cover of The Dialogue of Two Snails (Penguin Modern) by Federico García Lorca

11. The Dialogue of Two Snails (Penguin Modern)

By: Federico García Lorca

3.33

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

My heartbrims with billowsand minnowsof shadows and silver Beautiful, brutal, strange and lovely… read more

Similar categories in Federico García Lorca's The Dialogue of Two Snails (Penguin Modern) book and Yūko Tsushima's Of Dogs and Walls

  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
"The evening, lacking intelligent relations, crumbles down into the haze of the horizon.)"

-Federico García Lorca, The Dialogue of Two Snails (Penguin Modern)

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12. The Skeleton’s Holiday

By: Leonora Carrington

3.66

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

'Ring for your maid, and when she comes in we'll pounce upon her and tear off her face. I'll wear h… read more

Similar categories in Leonora Carrington's The Skeleton’s Holiday book and Yūko Tsushima's Of Dogs and Walls

  • fiction
  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
"The hyena found it difficult to walk in my high-heeled shoes."

-Leonora Carrington, The Skeleton’s Holiday

"The skeleton was as happy as a madman whose straitjacket had been taken off."

-Leonora Carrington, The Skeleton’s Holiday

"Ring for your maid, and when she comes in we'll pounce upon her and tear off her face. I'll wear her face tonight instead of mine."

-Leonora Carrington, The Skeleton’s Holiday

"The skeleton's lodgings had an ancient head and modern feet. The ceiling was the sky, the floor the earth. It was painted white and decorated with snowballs in which a heart beat. He looked like a tr…"

-Leonora Carrington, The Skeleton’s Holiday

Cover of The Cracked Looking-Glass by Katherine Anne Porter

13. The Cracked Looking-Glass

By: Katherine Anne Porter

3.04

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

'She only wished to prove to herself she was once more on a train going somewhere' A passionate,… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Anne Porter's The Cracked Looking-Glass book and Yūko Tsushima's Of Dogs and Walls

  • fiction
  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
Cover of Madame du Deffand and the Idiots by Javier Marías

14. Madame du Deffand and the Idiots

By: Javier Marías

3.72

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

'She was bored and fought against her boredom, which only bored her still more.' Five sparkling,… read more

Similar categories in Javier Marías's Madame du Deffand and the Idiots book and Yūko Tsushima's Of Dogs and Walls

  • classics
  • short stories
Cover of The Duke in His Domain by Truman Capote

15. The Duke in His Domain

By: Truman Capote

3.80

Format: 50 pages, Paperback

Now Brando looked at people with assurance, and with what can only be called a pitying expression, … read more

Similar categories in Truman Capote's The Duke in His Domain book and Yūko Tsushima's Of Dogs and Walls

  • classics
  • short stories
Cover of Death the Barber by William Carlos Williams

16. Death the Barber

By: William Carlos Williams

3.39

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

'The alphabet ofthe treesis fading in thesong of the leaves' Filled with bright, unforgettable i… read more

Similar categories in William Carlos Williams's Death the Barber book and Yūko Tsushima's Of Dogs and Walls

  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
Cover of The Survivor by Primo Levi

17. The Survivor

By: Primo Levi

3.74

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

'Back, away from here, drowned people, go. I haven't stolen anyone's place' A selection of poet… read more

Similar categories in Primo Levi's The Survivor book and Yūko Tsushima's Of Dogs and Walls

  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
"What is the number of your days? I've counted them: Few and brief, and each one heavy with cares; With anguish about the inevitable night, When nothing saves you from yourself; With fear of the dawn …"

-Primo Levi, The Survivor

Cover of Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer by Wendell Berry

18. Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer

By: Wendell Berry

3.68

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

'Do I wish to keep up with the times? No. My wish simply is to live my life as fully as I can' T… read more

Similar categories in Wendell Berry's Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer book and Yūko Tsushima's Of Dogs and Walls

  • classics
  • short stories
"I am not an optimist; I am afraid that I won't live long enough to escape my bondage to the machines."

-Wendell Berry, Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer

"How, I am asking, can women improve themselves by submitting to the same specialization, degradation, trivialization, and tyrannization of work that men have submitted to? And that question is made l…"

-Wendell Berry, Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer

"And yet language is the most intimately physical of all the artistic means. We have it palpably in our mouths; it is our langue, our tongue. Writing it, we shape it with our hands. Reading aloud what…"

-Wendell Berry, Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer

"If you are already solving your problem with the equipment you have - a pencil, say- why solve it with something more expensive and more damaging? If you don't have a problem, why pay for a solution?…"

-Wendell Berry, Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer

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19. The Problem That Has No Name

By: Betty Friedan

4.20

Format: 55 pages, Paperback

'What if she isn't happy - does she think men are happy in this world? Doesn't she know how lucky s… read more

Similar categories in Betty Friedan's The Problem That Has No Name book and Yūko Tsushima's Of Dogs and Walls

  • classics
  • short stories
Cover of Letter to My Mother by Georges Simenon

20. Letter to My Mother

By: Georges Simenon

3.74

Format: 58 pages, Paperback

'As you are well aware, we never loved each other in your lifetime. Both of us pretended.' Sime… read more

Similar categories in Georges Simenon's Letter to My Mother book and Yūko Tsushima's Of Dogs and Walls

  • classics
  • short stories
Cover of Glittering City by Cyprian Ekwensi

21. Glittering City

By: Cyprian Ekwensi

3.15

Format: 52 pages, Paperback

'"Forget all your fears now. Have a fling this night"' Untrustworthy, charming Fussy Joe spins s… read more

Similar categories in Cyprian Ekwensi's Glittering City book and Yūko Tsushima's Of Dogs and Walls

  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories

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Vladimir Nabokov

3.37

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