20 Best fiction books like Adiós a mamá by Reinaldo Arenas

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Adiós a mamá

By: Reinaldo Arenas

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Que savez-vous de lui ? Personne ne sait rien... Maintenant que Fidel Castro est tombé, qu'on l'a …

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1. A Season in Hell

By: Michel Butor , Arthur Rimbaud , Robert Mapplethorpe , None

4.07

Format: 95 pages, Hardcover

Written by Rimbaud at age 18 in the wake of a tempestuous affair with fellow poet, Paul Verlaine, A… read more

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"Cela s'est passé. Je sais aujourd'hui saluer la beauté."

-Michel Butor, A Season in Hell

"Elle est retrouvée — Quoi? — l’Éternité. C’est la mer mêlée Au soleil."

-Michel Butor, A Season in Hell

"In the dawn, armed with a burning patience, we shall enter the splendid cities."

-Michel Butor, A Season in Hell

"¡Perpetua farsa! Mi inocencia podría hacerme llorar. La vida es la farsa en que participamos todos."

-Michel Butor, A Season in Hell

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2. White Nights

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky

4.06

Format: 82 pages, Paperback

White Nights is a short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky that was published in 1848. Set in St. Petersbur… read more

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"E ti chiedi: “Dove sono i tuoi sogni?"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

"Kalbim içimde konuşurken ben susmayı beceremem."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

"Oh, how unbearable is a happy person sometimes!"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

"But how could you live and have no story to tell?"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

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3. Soldados de Salamina

By: Javier Cercas

3.58

Format: 24 pages,

Un joven periodista topa por casualidad con una historia fascinante, y muy significativa, de la Gue… read more

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4. Identity

By: Milan Kundera , Linda Asher

3.60

Format: 246 pages, Paperback

There are situations in which we fail for a moment to recognize the person we are with, in which th… read more

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5. A Heart So White

By: Javier Marías , Margaret Jull Costa

4.02

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

An alternate cover of this ISBN can be found here. Javier Marías's A Heart So White chronicles w… read more

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"No es fácil saber por qué se mata la gente, ni los más próximos, todo el mundo está trastornado, todo el mundo las pasa putas, a veces sin causa y casi siempre en secreto, la gente vuelve cara contra…"

-Javier Marías, A Heart So White

"Listening is the most dangerous thing of all, listening means knowing, finding out about something and knowing what’s going on, our ears don’t have lids that can instinctively close against the words…"

-Javier Marías, A Heart So White

"Casi todo el mundo se avergüenza de su juventud, no es muy cierto que se añore como se dice, más bien se relega o rehúye y con facilidad o esfuerzo se confina el origen a la esfera de los malos sueño…"

-Javier Marías, A Heart So White

"I have a tendency to want to understand everything people say and everything I hear, both at work and outside, even at a distance, even if it’s one of the innumerable languages I don’t know, even if …"

-Javier Marías, A Heart So White

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6. Confessions of a Mask

By: Yukio Mishima

2.57

Format: 210 pages, Paperback

Confessions of a Maskis the story of an adolescent who must learn to live with the painful fact tha… read more

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7. Eugénie Grandet

By: Honoré de Balzac , Sylvia Raphael , Christopher Prendergast

3.79

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

"Who is going to marry Eugenie Grandet?" This is the question that fills the minds of the inhabi… read more

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"Misery begets equality."

-Honoré de Balzac, Eugénie Grandet

"[...] ironia este însușirea fundamentală a providenței"

-Honoré de Balzac, Eugénie Grandet

"Bilgisi arttıktan sonra, erdem de günah kadar hesap yapar."

-Honoré de Balzac, Eugénie Grandet

"این نقطه اشتراک زن ها و فرشته هاست. رنج بشریت مال آن هاست."

-Honoré de Balzac, Eugénie Grandet

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8. The Men with the Pink Triangle: The True Life-and-Death Story of Homosexuals in the Nazi Death Camps

By: David Fernbach , Heinz Heger , Klaus Muller

2.70

Format: None pages, Paperback

It has only been since the mid-1970s that any attention has been paid to the persecution and interm… read more

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9. Todos los fuegos el fuego

By: Julio Cortázar , None

4.11

Format: 559 pages, Hardcover

Todos los fuegos el fuego offers eight great examples of the creative fullness that encompasses Cor… read more

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10. El Llano en llamas

By: Juan Rulfo

4.47

Format: None pages,

'The Burning Plain and Other Stories consists of fifteen pieces ranging from brief anecdotes, casua… read more

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11. The Wild Boys

By: William S. Burroughs

3.99

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

The Wild Boysis a futuristic tale of global warfare in which a guerrilla gang of boys dedicated to … read more

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12. Caim

By: José Saramago

4.57

Format: 201 pages, Paperback

Neste novo romance, o vencedor do premio Nobel Jose Saramago reconta episodios biblicos do Velho Te… read more

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13. The Savage Detectives

By: Roberto Bolaño , Natasha Wimmer

4.48

Format: 334 pages,

New Year's Eve, 1975: Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, founders of the visceral realist movement in p… read more

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14. The Insatiable Spiderman

By: Pedro Juan Gutiérrez

2.92

Format: None pages, Paperback

Pedro Juan Gutierrez exploded onto the literary landscape three years ago with his bestselling nove… read more

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15. Aura

By: Carlos Fuentes

3.82

Format: 118 pages, Paperback

Felipe Montero is employed in the house of an aged widow to edit her deceased husband's memoirs. Th… read more

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"Hay que morir antes de renacer."

-Carlos Fuentes, Aura

"También el demonio fue un ángel, antes…"

-Carlos Fuentes, Aura

"Hay un momento en el que ya no es posible distinguir el paso de los años."

-Carlos Fuentes, Aura

"La soledad es necesaria para alcanzar la santidad. Se han olvidado de que en la soledad la tentación es más grande."

-Carlos Fuentes, Aura

16. The Satanic Verses

By: Salman Rushdie

4.25

Format: None pages, Paperback

One of the most controversial and acclaimed novels ever written, The Satanic Versesis Salman Rushdi… read more

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17. Ficciones

By: Jorge Luis Borges , Anthony Bonner , Anthony Kerrigan

3.53

Format: 320 pages,

The seventeen pieces in Ficcionesdemonstrate the whirlwind of Borges's genius and mirror the precis… read more

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18. El túnel

By: None

5.00

Format: None pages,

Breve e intensa novela publicada en 1948, este logrado fruto de la denominada "literatura existenci… read more

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19. Lo que no tiene nombre

By: Piedad Bonnett

3.86

Format: 138 pages, Paperback

?Hasta donde puede llegar la literatura? En este libro dedicado a la vida y la muerte de su hijo Da… read more

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20. The Green House

By: Gregory Rabassa , Mario Vargas Llosa

4.00

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

Mario Vargas Llosa's classic early novel takes place in a Peruvian town, situated between desert an… read more

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21. Bad Girls

By: Camila Sosa Villada

4.43

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Gritty and unflinching, yet also tender, fantastical, and funny, a trans woman’s coming-of-age tale… read more

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"Nosotras habíamos nacido ya expulsadas del armario,esclavas de nuestra apariencia."

-Camila Sosa Villada, Bad Girls

"Cuando una puerta se cierra, se abre una ventana, pero hay que ser muy ágil para entrar o salir por la ventana"

-Camila Sosa Villada, Bad Girls

"La infancia y las travestis son incompatibles. La imagen de una travesti con un niño en brazos es pecado para esa gentuza."

-Camila Sosa Villada, Bad Girls

"A las travestis no nos nombra nadie, salvo nosotras. El resto de la gente ignora nuestros nombres, usa el miso para todas: putos."

-Camila Sosa Villada, Bad Girls

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22. Soy una tonta por quererte

By: Camila Sosa Villada

3.94

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

En plena decada de los años 90 una mujer se gana la vida como novia de alquiler de hombres gays. En… read more

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"hay que morir en una hoguera para saber cuánto tiempo es la eternidad."

-Camila Sosa Villada, Soy una tonta por quererte

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23. Hurricane Season

By: Fernanda Melchor

4.06

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times Notable Book (2020) A Guardian Best Book of 2020 A Literary Hub Favorite Book of… read more

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"а разнообразие и за да не губи навик, баба, когато е ядосана, си спомня само за лошите неща"

-Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season

"за разнообразие и за да не губи навик, баба, когато е ядосана, си спомня само за лошите неща"

-Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season

"There's no reasoning with dog, two ferocious dogs who refuse to let go of their prey until they've been torn to shreds"

-Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season

"момчето, щом порасна, се превърна в диво животно, което, пуснеха ли го на свобода, дори по никое време вечер, все го теглеше към гората, защото според баба ѝ този бил начинът да възпитават момчетата,…"

-Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season

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24. El tiempo de las moscas

By: Claudia Piñeiro

3.79

Format: 340 pages, Kindle Edition

Inés sale en libertad, después de quince años presa por haber asesinado a Charo, la amante de su ex… read more

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25. The Fallen

By: Carlos Manuel Álvarez

3.65

Format: 131 pages, Paperback

A powerful, unsettling portrait of ordinary family life in Cuba, Carlos Manuel Álvarez’s debut nove… read more

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"El tiempo y la rutina todo lo destruye."

-Carlos Manuel Álvarez, The Fallen

"El insomnio es puro síntoma de querer controlar la vida."

-Carlos Manuel Álvarez, The Fallen

"La base de la felicidad radica en dormir las horas necesarias en el horario elegido."

-Carlos Manuel Álvarez, The Fallen

"Para qué le sirve el juicio al hombre si no puede hacer nada con él salvo mirar lo que no hizo en el momento en que no tenía juicio y martirizarse con lo que hubiera podido hacer de haberlo tenido."

-Carlos Manuel Álvarez, The Fallen

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26. The Devil of the Provinces

By: Juan Cárdenas

3.61

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

After a series of failures, a biologist returns to his hometown to live with his grieving mother. B… read more

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27. Ein Kind

By: Thomas Bernhard

3.97

Format: 167 pages, Paperback

Die Schande einer unehelichen Geburt, die Alltagssorgen der Mutter und ihr ständiger Vorwurf: Du ha… read more

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28. Adiós a mamá

By: Reinaldo Arenas

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Que savez-vous de lui ? Personne ne sait rien... Maintenant que Fidel Castro est tombé, qu'on l'a … read more

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29. Hasta que pase un huracán

By: Margarita García Robayo

3.71

Format: None pages, Paperback

Fresca y luminosa, Hasta que pase un huracán puede leerse como una encendida novela de iniciación p… read more

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"La estética latinoamericana es la estética del cliché."

-Margarita García Robayo, Hasta que pase un huracán

"Si yo fuera rica no me querría ir, los ricos pueden vivir bien en cualquier parte."

-Margarita García Robayo, Hasta que pase un huracán

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30. La conjura contra Porky

By: Fernando Vallejo

3.20

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

«Una de las voces más personales, controvertidas y exuberantes de la literatura actual en español».… read more

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Aurora Venturini

3.91

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Mariana Enríquez , Megan McDowell

4.06

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4.55

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