5 Best fiction books like Disguise by Hugo Hamilton

Cover of Disguise by Hugo Hamilton

Disguise

By: Hugo Hamilton

3.16

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

1945. At the end of the Second World War, a young mother loses her two-year-old boy in the bombings…

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Cover of After Dark by Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin

1. After Dark

By: Haruki Murakami , Jay Rubin

3.74

Format: 191 pages, Hardcover

In After Dark—a gripping novel of late night encounters—Murakami’s trademark humor and psychologica… read more

Similar categories in Haruki Murakami's After Dark book and Hugo Hamilton's Disguise

  • fiction
"With luck, it might even snow for us."

-Haruki Murakami, After Dark

"The silence is so deep it hurts our ears"

-Haruki Murakami, After Dark

"Is it against the law for me to know it?"

-Haruki Murakami, After Dark

"Are you asking because you really want an answer?"

-Haruki Murakami, After Dark

2. The Tie That Binds

By: Kent Haruf

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

Colorado, January 1977. Eighty-year-old Edith Goodnough lies in a hospital bed, IV taped to the bac… read more

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3. A Man's Place

By: Annie Ernaux

3.88

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A New York Times Notable Book Annie Ernaux's fat… read more

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"J'écris peut-être parce qu'on n'avait plus rien à se dire."

-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place

"Sous le bonheur, la crispation de l'aisance gagnée à l'arraché."

-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place

"Có lẽ niềm tự hào lớn nhất đối với ông, hay thậm chí là lời biện minh cho cuộc đời ông: là tôi đang thuộc về thế giới từng khinh miệt ông."

-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place

"It was in other people that I searched for the figure of my father, in the way they would call their children, sit down and looked bored in waiting rooms and wave goodbye on station platforms."

-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place

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4. The Postcard

By: Anne Berest

4.37

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the Choix Goncourt Prize, Anne Berest’s The Postcard is a vivid portrait of twentieth-cen… read more

Similar categories in Anne Berest's The Postcard book and Hugo Hamilton's Disguise

  • world war ii
  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"It would be wrong to call them memories; they are moments of life, that man hat es erlebt - one has lived. They are inside me, part of me, branded into my skin, you might say - but they're not memori…"

-Anne Berest, The Postcard

"After the war, women in orthodox Jewish families had made it their mission to have as many children as possible to replenish the population -- and it seemed to me that the same was true for books. Th…"

-Anne Berest, The Postcard

Cover of Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe

5. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

By: Patrick Radden Keefe

4.46

Format: 441 pages, Hardcover

In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged from her Belf… read more

Similar categories in Patrick Radden Keefe's Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland book and Hugo Hamilton's Disguise

  • war
  • irish literature
"Like the revolution's going to wait until I finish my education."

-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

"Who should be held accountable for a shared history of violence? It was a question that was dogging Northern Ireland as a whole."

-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

"There was a discomfiting sense in Belfast that there was no place where you were truly secure: you would run inside to get away from a gun battle, only to run outside again for fear of a bomb."

-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

"His job, he felt, was to speak for the victims - to represent the next person who might be killed in the conflict. He had no particular party; his only allegiance was to those who had been (and would…"

-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

Cover of Ocean State by Stewart O'Nan

6. Ocean State

By: Stewart O'Nan

3.44

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Set in a working-class town on the Rhode Island coast, O'Nan's latest is a crushing, beautifully wr… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Last House on the Street by Diane Chamberlain

7. The Last House on the Street

By: Diane Chamberlain

4.23

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling author Diane Chamberlain comes an irresistible new novel that perfectly interweave… read more

Similar categories in Diane Chamberlain's The Last House on the Street book and Hugo Hamilton's Disguise

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Violence is the weapon of the weak. - Ralph Abernathy"

-Diane Chamberlain, The Last House on the Street

Cover of Disguise by Hugo Hamilton

8. Disguise

By: Hugo Hamilton

3.16

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

1945. At the end of the Second World War, a young mother loses her two-year-old boy in the bombings… read more

Similar categories in Hugo Hamilton's Disguise book and Hugo Hamilton's Disguise

  • war
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • irish literature

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