12 best-selling short stories books like Elsewhere by Yan Ge

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Similar categories in Riku Onda's Honeybees and Distant Thunder book and Yan Ge's Elsewhere

• literature
• literary fiction
• asian literature
• fiction

"The highest form of human achievement was music. Human beings might have dirty, repulsive aspects to them, but out of the sordid swamp that was humanity - no, it was precisely because of this chaotic…"

-Riku Onda, Honeybees and Distant Thunder

"Music always had to be of the now. It couldn't just be something preserved in a museum, and it was meaningless unless it was alive in the present. If you were satisfied with merely unearthing a lovel…"

-Riku Onda, Honeybees and Distant Thunder

"What kind of job was it to be a musician? What sort of vocation was it, anyway? Vocation - that was the perfect word for it. It really was a calling, a living calling. It didn't fill your stomach, di…"

-Riku Onda, Honeybees and Distant Thunder

"What a strange thing music was. It was just one small individual up there performing, and the notes created by those fingers were here one moment and gone the next. Yet what was there was almost the …"

-Riku Onda, Honeybees and Distant Thunder

Similar categories in Natsuko Imamura's This is Amiko, Do You Copy? book and Yan Ge's Elsewhere

• literature
• literary fiction
• asian literature
• fiction

"Every time she cried, "I love you!" the words shattered her heart without mercy."

-Natsuko Imamura, This is Amiko, Do You Copy?

Similar categories in Hiromi Kawakami's Dragon Palace book and Yan Ge's Elsewhere

• asian literature
• fiction
• short stories
• anthologies

Similar categories in Kaori Fujino's Nails and Eyes book and Yan Ge's Elsewhere

• asian literature
• short stories
• fiction
• short story collection

"As a woman, Shoko is extremely petite, but as a heart, she is wondrously large."

-Kaori Fujino, Nails and Eyes

"Maybe she suddenly had a deathwish, the way some people fall in love at first sight."

-Kaori Fujino, Nails and Eyes

"There were always going to be people who loved you and people who hated you, no matter what you did, so why let anything trouble you?"

-Kaori Fujino, Nails and Eyes

"You felt that your life would always be this way. Not as one day going by, and then another, but life as an ever-expanding single day. And yet, time did go by."

-Kaori Fujino, Nails and Eyes

Similar categories in Asako Yuzuki's Butter book and Yan Ge's Elsewhere

• fiction
• audiobook

"Dessert was home-made candied chestnuts, chiffon cake baked with amazake and rice flour, and cups of gingery chai. Biting into the cake, Rika discovered that it was perfectly fluffy, with a pleasing …"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

"Soon after, Rika heard the sizzle of butter melting in a hot frying pan. It smelt to her like life itself. Maybe because it was animal fat, there was rough, raw depth and fragrance to its smell, whic…"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

"Milk was originally blood. In that case, was the butter in the Babaji story actually a metaphor for all the carnage that took place under the cover of the jungle? What seemed pure, white and creamy h…"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

"The whipped butter had already started melting across the waffles' latticed brown surface, creating a golden trickling waterfall that pooled in their hollows. Rika bit into the dough, savoring how ju…"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

Similar categories in Banana Yoshimoto's The Premonition book and Yan Ge's Elsewhere

• asian literature
• literary fiction
• short stories
• fiction

"I'd never known a love before that could blot out the world around like this."

-Banana Yoshimoto, The Premonition

"Later, for the first time in a very long time, I heard my aunt play the piano. Its tone was soft, and just like I remembered it. At the kitchen window one overcast afternoon, I watched its beautiful …"

-Banana Yoshimoto, The Premonition

Similar categories in Lydia Davis's Our Strangers: Stories book and Yan Ge's Elsewhere

• fiction
• literary fiction
• short stories
• anthologies

Similar categories in Sven Holm's Termush book and Yan Ge's Elsewhere

• short stories
• fiction

"An inspired lie could be preferred to a malignant truth."

-Sven Holm, Termush

"I must ask myself whether I am not colouring what I see with my own views."

-Sven Holm, Termush

"- I do have some faith in democracy, but I don't think that this vote can be regarded as a matter of course as democratic. The voters knew too little about the alternatives. - They are always Ill-inf…"

-Sven Holm, Termush

Similar categories in Bora Chung's Your Utopia book and Yan Ge's Elsewhere

• fiction
• short stories
• anthologies
• audiobook

Similar categories in Álvaro Enrigue's You Dreamed of Empires book and Yan Ge's Elsewhere

• literature
• literary fiction
• fiction
• audiobook

Similar categories in Mieko Kanai's Mild Vertigo book and Yan Ge's Elsewhere

• literature
• literary fiction
• asian literature
• fiction

Similar categories in A.K. Blakemore's The Glutton book and Yan Ge's Elsewhere

• literary fiction
• fiction
• audiobook

Similar categories in Izumi Suzuki's Hit Parade of Tears book and Yan Ge's Elsewhere

• literary fiction
• short stories
• fiction
• asian literature
• audiobook

"Love isn't like a house you can just kick back and live in once its completed. No, it gets more worn and tattered day by day, unless you keep on making it up."

-Izumi Suzuki, Hit Parade of Tears

Similar categories in Ana Paula Maia's Of Cattle and Men book and Yan Ge's Elsewhere

• literary fiction
• 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

Similar categories in Camilla Grudova's The Coiled Serpent book and Yan Ge's Elsewhere

• fiction
• short stories
• anthologies
• short story collection

Similar categories in Yōko Ogawa's Mina's Matchbox book and Yan Ge's Elsewhere

• literature
• literary fiction
• asian literature
• fiction

"Quant à l'endroit où se trouvait mon père, le jour de ses funérailles, ma mère me l'avait indiqué. C'est un peu loin, mais un jour ou l'autre nous irons le rejoindre, il n'y a pas à craindre de s'éga…"

-Yōko Ogawa, Mina's Matchbox

Similar categories in Yan Ge's Elsewhere book and Yan Ge's Elsewhere

• literary fiction
• short story collection
• literature
• anthologies
• chinese literature
• short stories
• fiction
• asian literature
• china
• audiobook

Similar categories in Wole Talabi's Convergence Problems book and Yan Ge's Elsewhere

• short story collection
• anthologies
• short stories
• fiction
• audiobook

Similar categories in Thomas Morris's Open Up book and Yan Ge's Elsewhere

• short stories
• fiction
• short story collection

Similar categories in Anton Hur's Toward Eternity book and Yan Ge's Elsewhere

• literary fiction
• fiction
• audiobook

Similar categories in Cho yeeun's The New Seoul Park Jelly Massacre book and Yan Ge's Elsewhere

• asian literature
• literary fiction
• short stories
• fiction

"I couldn't help but feel empty inside as I thought about all the moments of my life fading away like that. What was I, after all, if all the memories that made me up were gone?"

-Cho yeeun, The New Seoul Park Jelly Massacre