7 must-read novels books like Of Saints and Miracles by Manuel Astur

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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…

"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

"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

If you liked the novels plot in Of Saints and Miracles by Manuel Astur , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. La luz difícil

By: Tomás González

5.00

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Jacobo ha decidido morir. Un accidente de transito lo ha dejado paraplejico y con dolores tan fuert… read more

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  • spanish literature
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels

2. The Largesse of the Sea Maiden: Stories

By: Denis Johnson

3.40

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

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3. Space Invaders

By: Nona Fernández , Jaime Pinos

4.03

Format: None pages, Paperback

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4. 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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5. All Our Yesterdays

By: Natalia Ginzburg , Angus Davidson

3.59

Format: 464 pages,

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6. Bonsai

By: Alejandro Zambra

3.49

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Winner of Chile's Literary Critics' Award for Best Novel" Now a Major Motion Picture Hailed as a g… read more

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7. The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild

By: Mathias Énard

3.59

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

To research his thesis on contemporary agrarian life, anthropology student David Mazon moves from P… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
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8. Boulder

By: Eva Baltasar

3.89

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

La protagonista d'aquesta novel·la és una dona atreta per la solitud com per un imant. Es guanya la… read more

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  • spanish literature
  • literary fiction
  • spain
  • fiction
"Los niños pequeños tienen ese poder, imponen su alegría al malestar ordinario de los adultos."

-Eva Baltasar, Boulder

"Y sin embargo he descubierto que no se puede columpiar a un hijo sin sonreír. Lo he intentado y es imposible. Los niños pequeños tienen ese poder, imponen su alegría al malestar ordinario de los adul…"

-Eva Baltasar, Boulder

"I listen with all five senses, I listen to her with my entire body, with everything but my heart, which feels like it wants to thrash the hell out of me. This wasn't part of our plan. The truth is we…"

-Eva Baltasar, Boulder

"But all this tunneling has opened rifts through which the captive parts of me have started to emerge. I realize that I am smoke, that the things that define me rise as they would up a chimney, probin…"

-Eva Baltasar, Boulder

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9. Pelea de gallos

By: María Fernanda Ampuero

4.15

Format: 120 pages, Kindle Edition

Pelea de gallos narra desde diferentes voces el hogar, ese espacio que construye –­o destruye– a la… read more

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  • spanish literature
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"There is nothing more perfect than Love. Love always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres."

-María Fernanda Ampuero, Pelea de gallos

"No me gusta ser hombre. ¿No se puede ser otra cosa? No hay otro sitio en el que quisiera estar - ¿es el pasado un sitio? -, pero tampoco aqui."

-María Fernanda Ampuero, Pelea de gallos

"Volver, lo sabe todo el mundo, es imposible. Luego de los abrazos y las lágrimas viene el verdadero reencuentro, estar frente a frente a los mismos cuando nosotros ya somos otros, frente a ellos cuan…"

-María Fernanda Ampuero, Pelea de gallos

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10. 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

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  • spanish literature
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
"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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11. 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

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  • spanish literature
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
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12. I Is Another: Septology III-V

By: Jon Fosse

4.44

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

Asle is an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway. His only fr… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
"...I just keep the mistakes and let them be wrong, because it’s often the mistakes that eventually lead to something right..."

-Jon Fosse, I Is Another: Septology III-V

"...one of the most important things when it comes to painting is being able to stop at the right time, to know when a picture is saying what it can say, if you keep going too long then more often tha…"

-Jon Fosse, I Is Another: Septology III-V

"...a person comes from God and goes back to God, I think, for the body is conceived and born, it grows and declines, it dies and vanishes, but the spirit is a unity of body and soul, the way form and…"

-Jon Fosse, I Is Another: Septology III-V

"...everyone has a deep longing inside them, we always always long for something and we believe that what we long for is this or that, this person or that person, this thing or that thing, but actuall…"

-Jon Fosse, I Is Another: Septology III-V

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13. Grădina de sticlă

By: Tatiana Țîbuleac

4.19

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Tatiana Țîbuleac revine, în forță, într-un alt context și la un alt nivel, la tema maternă, a copil… read more

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  • spanish literature
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
"Nu-mi fac iluzii cu Tamara mea. Nici-u-na. La bătrânețe, voi rămâne singură ca o lepră și toate fricile mele - pe care acum le țin în cătușe, sub ghilotinele cu lamele ridicate - se vor năpusti asupr…"

-Tatiana Țîbuleac, Grădina de sticlă

"Nu-mi fac iluzii cu Tamara mea. Nici-u-na. La bătrânețe, voi rămâne singură ca o lepră și toate fricile mele - pe care acum le țin în cătușe, în menghine, sub ghilotinele cu lamele ridicate - se vor …"

-Tatiana Țîbuleac, Grădina de sticlă

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14. 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

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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15. Nomad Century: How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World

By: Gaia Vince

3.87

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

“We are facing a species emergency. We can survive, but to do so will require a planned and deliber… read more

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16. Held

By: Anne Michaels

3.66

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"Who can say what happens when we are remembered?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"Do we really need our own misery to teach us to be kind?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"Would he know the moment of his death or would it be like night falling."

-Anne Michaels, Held

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17. Bright

By: Duanwad Pimwana

3.97

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

Honorable mention in the Global Humanities Translation Prize When five-year-old Kampol is told b… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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18. Body Kintsugi

By: Senka Marić

4.14

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Body Kintsugi is a powerful and poetic autobiographical novel about Senka Marić’s experience of bre… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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19. 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

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  • spain
  • spanish literature
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  • novels
"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

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20. El culo

By: Sabina Urraca

4.26

Format: 27 pages, Kindle Edition

Auténtica y mordaz: así es la narrativa de Sabina Urraca. Capaz de hablar sin tapujos, con la lengu… read more

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21. La sed: Una historia antropológica (y personal) de la vida en tierras de lluvia escasa

By: Virginia Mendoza

4.03

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Esta historia también empieza en un lugar de La Mancha. Allí, hace miles de años, surgió la primera… read more

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  • spain

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Tomás González

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Mathias Énard

3.59

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Eva Baltasar

3.89

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Pelea de gallos

María Fernanda Ampuero

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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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Guadalupe Nettel

3.84

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Wednesday's Child: Stories

Yiyun Li

3.75

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