20 Top fiction books like Here Be Icebergs by Katya Adaui

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Here Be Icebergs

By: Katya Adaui

3.32

Format: 133 pages, Paperback

"La exigencia de hacer algo para ser alguien. Estamos hartos de los gritos. No hay silencio. Hartos…

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Cover of The Private Lives of Trees by Alejandro Zambra, Megan McDowell

1. The Private Lives of Trees

By: Alejandro Zambra , Megan McDowell

3.66

Format: 259 pages,

The Private Lives of Trees tells the story of a single night: a young professor of literature named… read more

Similar categories in Alejandro Zambra's The Private Lives of Trees book and Katya Adaui's Here Be Icebergs

  • novella
  • literary fiction
  • latin american
  • fiction
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2. Verderame

By: Michele Mari

4.00

Format: 222 pages, Hardcover

La memoria di Felice si sta sbriciolando: per tutta la vita si e occupato della grande casa di camp… read more

Similar categories in Michele Mari's Verderame book and Katya Adaui's Here Be Icebergs

  • literary fiction
  • fiction

3. Chicas muertas

By: Selva Almada

3.18

Format: 159 pages, Paperback

"Tres adolescentes de provincia asesinadas en los anos ochenta, tres muertes impunes ocurridas cuan… read more

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Cover of Pétalos y otras historias incómodas by Guadalupe Nettel

4. Pétalos y otras historias incómodas

By: Guadalupe Nettel

3.84

Format: 141 pages, Paperback

Como vistos a la luz de una radiografía, los personajes de este libro muestran todo aquello que el … read more

Similar categories in Guadalupe Nettel's Pétalos y otras historias incómodas book and Katya Adaui's Here Be Icebergs

  • short stories
  • latin american
  • fiction
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5. Wednesday's Child: Stories

By: Yiyun Li

3.75

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A new collection—about loss, alienation, aging, and the strangeness of contemporary life—by the awa… read more

Similar categories in Yiyun Li's Wednesday's Child: Stories book and Katya Adaui's Here Be Icebergs

  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • short story collection
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6. A Little Luck

By: Claudia Piñeiro

4.29

Format: 211 pages, Paperback

After twenty years, a woman returns to the suburban Argentina she had fled to escape a dreadful acc… read more

Similar categories in Claudia Piñeiro's A Little Luck book and Katya Adaui's Here Be Icebergs

  • literary fiction
  • latin american
  • fiction
"Para escribir un diario hay que tener una seguridad del valor que tiene contar la vida propia que yo no tengo."

-Claudia Piñeiro, A Little Luck

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7. Elena Knows

By: Claudia Piñeiro

4.08

Format: 143 pages, Paperback

A unique tale that interweaves crime fiction with intimate tales of morality and search for individ… read more

Similar categories in Claudia Piñeiro's Elena Knows book and Katya Adaui's Here Be Icebergs

  • literary fiction
  • latin american
  • fiction
"¿Seguirá siendo madre ahora que no tiene hija?"

-Claudia Piñeiro, Elena Knows

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8. Cuddy

By: Benjamin Myers

4.33

Format: 447 pages, Hardcover

Cuddy is a bold and experimental retelling of the story of the hermit St. Cuthbert, unofficial patr… read more

Similar categories in Benjamin Myers's Cuddy book and Katya Adaui's Here Be Icebergs

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"Some say owls carry within them the souls of those who in life never had a name, a place or a purpose, and were cast out to wander alone. Some say their stained-glass eyes are windows into other worl…"

-Benjamin Myers, Cuddy

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

Similar categories in Andrey Kurkov's The Silver Bone (The Kyiv Mysteries, #1) book and Katya Adaui's Here Be Icebergs

  • fiction
Cover of No es un río by Selva Almada

10. 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 Katya Adaui's Here Be Icebergs

  • novella
  • literary fiction
  • latin american
  • fiction
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11. Is Mother Dead

By: Vigdis Hjorth

3.80

Format: 330 pages, Paperback

A cat and mouse game of surveillance and psychological torment develops between a middle-aged artis… read more

Similar categories in Vigdis Hjorth's Is Mother Dead book and Katya Adaui's Here Be Icebergs

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"Den första sång jag höra fick, var mor som grät vid vaggan"

-Vigdis Hjorth, Is Mother Dead

"Det händer att det som inte sker är det viktigaste som händer en dag"

-Vigdis Hjorth, Is Mother Dead

"We all carry our mothers like a hole in our souls, small or big, living or dead."

-Vigdis Hjorth, Is Mother Dead

"A mother can never be an ordinary human being to her children, and I am one of her children."

-Vigdis Hjorth, Is Mother Dead

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12. Pink Slime

By: Fernanda Trías

3.68

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A taut, harrowing novel about a woman and the people who depend on her as the world around them tee… read more

Similar categories in Fernanda Trías's Pink Slime book and Katya Adaui's Here Be Icebergs

  • literary fiction
  • latin american
  • fiction
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13. Your Utopia

By: Bora Chung

3.65

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

By the internationally acclaimed author of Cursed Bunny, in another thrilling translation from the … read more

Similar categories in Bora Chung's Your Utopia book and Katya Adaui's Here Be Icebergs

  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of What I'd Rather Not Think About by Jente Posthuma

14. 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 Katya Adaui's Here Be Icebergs

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"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

Cover of Mild Vertigo by Mieko Kanai

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 Katya Adaui's Here Be Icebergs

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
Cover of Here Be Icebergs by Katya Adaui

16. Here Be Icebergs

By: Katya Adaui

3.32

Format: 133 pages, Paperback

"La exigencia de hacer algo para ser alguien. Estamos hartos de los gritos. No hay silencio. Hartos… read more

Similar categories in Katya Adaui's Here Be Icebergs book and Katya Adaui's Here Be Icebergs

  • literary fiction
  • short story collection
  • novella
  • latin american
  • short stories
  • fiction
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17. Of Cattle and Men

By: Ana Paula Maia

3.97

Format: 99 pages, Paperback

Animals go mad and men die (accidentally and not) at a slaughterhouse in an impoverished, isolated … read more

Similar categories in Ana Paula Maia's Of Cattle and Men book and Katya Adaui's Here Be Icebergs

  • novella
  • literary fiction
  • latin american
  • fiction
"Senhor Milo knows cattlemen, he's cut from the same cloth. No one goes unpunished. They're men of cattle and blood."

-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men

"Two enclosures, one for cattle and one for men, standing side by side. Sometimes the smell is familiar. Only the voices on one side and the mooing on the other distinguish the men from the ruminants."

-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men

"Edgar picks up the mallet. The steer comes up close to him. Edgar looks into the animal's eyes and caresses its forehead. The cow stomps one hoof, wags its tail and snorts. Edgar shushes the animal a…"

-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men

"For a few moments, Edgar Wilson yields to the late afternoon sun that has not yet fully set, but that is rushing headlong into a moonless, starless night. He knows how to listen in silence, even when…"

-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men

Cover of The Rooftop by Fernanda Trías

18. The Rooftop

By: Fernanda Trías

3.77

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

‘The world is this house’, says Clara while she is trying to protect her beloved ones from the worl… read more

Similar categories in Fernanda Trías's The Rooftop book and Katya Adaui's Here Be Icebergs

  • novella
  • literary fiction
  • latin american
  • fiction
Cover of Tierra fresca de su tumba by Giovanna Rivero

19. Tierra fresca de su tumba

By: Giovanna Rivero

3.86

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Los extraños y maravillosos cuentos de Tierra Fresca de su Tumba nos arrojan a lugares desconocidos… read more

Similar categories in Giovanna Rivero's Tierra fresca de su tumba book and Katya Adaui's Here Be Icebergs

  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • latin american
  • fiction
"Nuestra casa era una prodigiosa zarza ardiente que lamía los troncos de los árboles y avanzaba como una legión por el huerto. Supe que el sonido de esa crepitación descomunal era el de todos los esqu…"

-Giovanna Rivero, Tierra fresca de su tumba

Cover of Of Saints and Miracles by Manuel Astur

20. Of Saints and Miracles

By: Manuel Astur

3.96

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

This mesmerizing novel opens with a fratricide in a beautiful if impoverished region of northern Sp… read more

Similar categories in Manuel Astur's Of Saints and Miracles book and Katya Adaui's Here Be Icebergs

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"Este momento es el momento porque es todos los momentos. Tenemos la voz y tenemos el tiempo. Tenemos todo el tiempo."

-Manuel Astur, Of Saints and Miracles

Cover of Jamás el fuego nunca by Diamela Eltit

21. Jamás el fuego nunca

By: Diamela Eltit

3.72

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

El título de esta subyugante y demoledora novela nace de un enigmático verso del poeta César Vallej… read more

Similar categories in Diamela Eltit's Jamás el fuego nunca book and Katya Adaui's Here Be Icebergs

  • literary fiction
  • latin american
  • fiction
"Era una costumbre que te pertenecía, un detalle curioso, una anécdota que te caracterizaba. Sí. Junto a tu nombre se alzaba a modo de una pequeña leyenda tu afición por el té. Ni el vino, ni la cerve…"

-Diamela Eltit, Jamás el fuego nunca

17 Top literary fiction books like Here Be Icebergs by Katya Adaui

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The Private Lives of Trees

Alejandro Zambra , Megan McDowell

3.66

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Verderame

Michele Mari

4.00

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Wednesday's Child: Stories

Yiyun Li

3.75

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A Little Luck

Claudia Piñeiro

4.29

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10 Best fiction books like Jamás el fuego nunca by Diamela Eltit

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Un homme qui dort

Georges Perec

4.05

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Antwerp

Roberto Bolaño , Natasha Wimmer

3.10

Palace of the Peacock

Wilson Harris

3.80

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Ways of Going Home

Alejandro Zambra , Megan McDowell

3.98

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