6 must-read nobel prize books like Raga, approche du continent invisible by J.M.G. Le Clézio

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Raga, approche du continent invisible

By: J.M.G. Le Clézio

3.39

Format: 135 pages, Mass Market Paperback

On dit de l'Océanie qu'elle est le continent invisible. Invisible parce que les voyageurs qui s'y s…

If you liked the nobel prize plot in Raga, approche du continent invisible by J.M.G. Le Clézio , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt

1. What I Loved

By: Siri Hustvedt

4.08

Format: 370 pages, Paperback

This is the story of two men who first become friends in 1970s New York, of the women in their live… read more

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  • literature
  • contemporary
"What was unwritten then is inscribed into what I call myself."

-Siri Hustvedt, What I Loved

"Supuse que aquella entereza la llevaba en la sangre, como un rasgo escandinavo heredado de una larga estirpe de personas que sabían sufrir solas."

-Siri Hustvedt, What I Loved

"Vivimos en un mundo de mezclas. El mundo transita a través de nosotros por medio de la comida, los libros, las imágenes, el resto de las personas..."

-Siri Hustvedt, What I Loved

"Equating horror with the inhuman has always struck me as convenient but fallacious, if only because I was born into a century that should have ended such talk for good."

-Siri Hustvedt, What I Loved

Cover of Troubling Love by Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein

2. Troubling Love

By: Elena Ferrante , Ann Goldstein

3.26

Format: 139 pages, Paperback

Set in Naples, Italy, this debut novel by New York Times bestselling author Elena Ferrante (My Bril… read more

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  • literature
  • contemporary
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3. Twelfth Night

By: William Shakespeare , Folger Shakespeare Library

3.95

Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Named for the twelfth night after Christmas, the end of the Christmas season, Twelfth Night plays w… read more

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  • literature
"a raven's heart within a dove."

-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

"I pity you That's a degree to love"

-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

"Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit."

-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

"Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage."

-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

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4. Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family

By: Thomas Mann , John E. Woods , T.J. Reed

3.69

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Buddenbrooks, first published in Germany in 1901, when Mann was only twenty-six, has become a class… read more

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  • literature
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5. Marina

By: Carlos Ruiz Zafón

3.80

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

Quince anos mas tarde, la memoria de aquel dia ha vuelto a mi. He visto a aquel muchacho vagando en… read more

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6. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum

By: Heinrich Böll , Leila Vennewitz

3.88

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

In an era in which journalists will stop at nothing to break a story, Henrich Boll's The Lost Honor… read more

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  • literature
  • nobel prize
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7. Una questione privata

By: Beppe Fenoglio

3.79

Format: 129 pages, Paperback

Nelle Langhe, durante la guerra partigiana, Milton (quasi una controfigura di Fenoglio stesso), è u… read more

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"Non poteva più vivere senza sapere e, soprattutto, non poteva morire senza sapere, in un'epoca in cui i ragazzi come lui erano chiamati più a morire che a vivere. Avrebbe rinunciato a tutto per quell…"

-Beppe Fenoglio, Una questione privata

"Scattò tutta la testa verso di lui e disse: «Come comincerai la tua prossima lettera? Fulvia dannazione?» Lui aveva scosso la testa, frusciando i capelli contro la corteccia del ciliegio. Fulvia si a…"

-Beppe Fenoglio, Una questione privata

"Era successo proprio all’altezza dell’ultimo ciliegio. Lei aveva attraversato il vialetto ed era entrata nel prato oltre i ciliegi. Si era sdraiata, sebbene vestisse di bianco e l’erba non fosse più …"

-Beppe Fenoglio, Una questione privata

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8. Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

By: Carlo Rovelli , Simon Carnell , Erica Segre

4.42

Format: 718 pages, Hardcover

Everything you need to know about the beauty of modern physics in less than 100 pages. In seven bri… read more

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  • nonfiction
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9. Wojna polsko-ruska pod flagą biało-czerwoną

By: Dorota Masłowska

4.75

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

... ta metrykalnie mlodziutka dziewczyna ma w sobie tak nieslychana dojrzalosc pisarska i taki dar … read more

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  • contemporary
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10. Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

By: Mario Vargas Llosa , None

3.54

Format: None pages,

Mario Vargas Llosa's brilliant, multilayered novel is set in the Lima, Peru, of the author's youth,… read more

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  • nobel prize
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11. Prometheus Bound

By: Aeschylus , None , James Scully , C. John Herington

3.13

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Featuring an insightful introduction, comprehensive commentary on plot, characters, structure, and … read more

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  • literature

12. Memories of My Melancholy Whores

By: Gabriel García Márquez , Edith Grossman

3.89

Format: 202 pages, Paperback

A New York TimesNotable Book On the eve of his ninetieth birthday a bachelor decides to give himsel… read more

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13. Barabbas

By: Pär Lagerkvist , Alan Blair

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Barabbas is the acquitted; the man whose life was exchanged for that of Jesus of Nazareth, crucifie… read more

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14. Jamilia

By: Chingiz Aitmatov , James Riordan

3.87

Format: 268 pages, Paperback

Jamilia is the first major novel by Chingiz Aytmatov, published originally in Russian in 1958. The … read more

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15. Baltasar and Blimunda

By: José Saramago , Giovanni Pontiero

3.95

Format: None pages, Paperback

From the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature, a "brilliant...enchanting novel" (New Yor… read more

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16. La hojarasca

By: Gabriel García Márquez

3.65

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

El primer libro de Gabriel García Márquez —de 1955— contiene el germen estilístico y de las ideas q… read more

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  • literature
  • nobel prize
"As I hear him, I understand that he's not more moronic because of the brandy than he is because of his cowardice."

-Gabriel García Márquez, La hojarasca

"When something moves you can tell that time has passed. Not till then. Until something moves time is eternal ... That's why time doesn't pass for the hanged man: because even if the child's hand move…"

-Gabriel García Márquez, La hojarasca

"Mientras se abanica con el sombrero el rostro trastornado por la sofocación y el aguardiente, mirando hacia la soga, calculando su fuerza, él dice: `Es imposible que una soga tan delgada haya sosteni…"

-Gabriel García Márquez, La hojarasca

"Hay un minuto en que se agota la siesta. Hasta la secreta, recóndita, minúscula actividad de los insectos cesa en ese instante preciso; el curso de la naturaleza se detiene; la creación tambalea al b…"

-Gabriel García Márquez, La hojarasca

17. Silence

By: Shūsaku Endō , William Johnston

3.84

Format: 223 pages, Paperback

Beneath the light of the candle I am sitting with my hands on my knees, staring in front of me. And… read more

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18. Soumission

By: Michel Houellebecq

3.65

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

Dans une France assez proche de la nôtre, un homme s’engage dans la carrière universitaire. Peu mot… read more

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  • literature
  • france
  • french literature
  • contemporary
"It’s submission,"

-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission

"There is no Israel for me."

-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission

"Intimacy isn’t something men talk about."

-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission

"I was about as political as a bath towel."

-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission

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19. The Street of Crocodiles

By: Jonathan Safran Foer , Bruno Schulz , Jerzy Ficowski , Celina Wieniewska

4.02

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

The Street of Crocodiles in the Polish city of Drogobych is a street of memories and dreams where r… read more

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  • literature
"Reality is as thin as paper, and betrays with all its cracks its imitative character."

-Jonathan Safran Foer, The Street of Crocodiles

"Can there be anything sadder than a human being changed into the rubber tube of an enema?"

-Jonathan Safran Foer, The Street of Crocodiles

"They were villages forgotten in the depth of time, peopled by creatures chained forever to their tiny destinies."

-Jonathan Safran Foer, The Street of Crocodiles

"The days hardened with cold and boredom like last year's loaves of bread. One began to cut them with blunt knives without appetite, with a lazy indifference."

-Jonathan Safran Foer, The Street of Crocodiles

20. Silk

By: Alessandro Baricco

3.37

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

When an epidemic threatens to destroy the silk trade in France, the young merchant Herve Joncour le… read more

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21. The Book of Illusions

By: Paul Auster

2.57

Format: None pages, Paperback

Six months after losing his wife and two young sons, Vermont Professor David Zimmer spends his waki… read more

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22. The Dry Heart

By: Natalia Ginzburg

4.00

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

The Dry Heart begins and ends with the matter-of-fact pronouncement: “I shot him between the eyes.”… read more

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"I absorbed his every word and tried to see if there was any love in it."

-Natalia Ginzburg, The Dry Heart

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23. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

By: Salman Rushdie

4.10

Format: 209 pages, Hardcover

From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

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24. A Shining

By: Jon Fosse

3.49

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

A man starts driving without knowing where he is going. He alternates between turning right and lef… read more

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  • literature
  • nobel prize
  • contemporary
"but you can’t just touch a whiteness like that. because if you did you’d probably get it dirty. and imagine getting something so white dirty"

-Jon Fosse, A Shining

"Es ist auch nicht zu begreifen, es ist etwas anderes, vielleicht etwas, das man nur erlebt und das nicht wirklich geschieht. Aber geht es an, dass man so etwas einfach erlebt. Alles, was man erlebt, …"

-Jon Fosse, A Shining

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25. 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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  • contemporary
"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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26. Create Dangerously

By: Albert Camus

3.84

Format: 58 pages, Paperback

'To create today is to create dangerously' Camus argues passionately that the artist has a respo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • france
  • french literature
"Artists, like everyone else, must take up their oars without dying, if possible."

-Albert Camus, Create Dangerously

"To paint a still life, a painter and an apple must confront and adjust to each other."

-Albert Camus, Create Dangerously

"Perhaps there is no peace for an artist other than the peace found in the heat of combat."

-Albert Camus, Create Dangerously

"But now the artist is in the amphitheatre. Of necessity, his voice is not quite the same; it is not nearly so firm."

-Albert Camus, Create Dangerously

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27. 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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  • literature
  • nobel prize
  • contemporary
"...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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28. Civilizations

By: Laurent Binet

3.67

Format: 384 pages, ebook

Vers l’an mille  : la fille d’Erik le Rouge met cap au sud.1492  : Colomb ne découvre pas l’Amériqu… read more

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  • france
  • french literature
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29. Vânturile

By: Mario Vargas Llosa

3.68

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Publicată de revista Letras Libres în octombrie 2021, elegie crudă pentru sfârșitul umanismului, po… read more

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30. Raga, approche du continent invisible

By: J.M.G. Le Clézio

3.39

Format: 135 pages, Mass Market Paperback

On dit de l'Océanie qu'elle est le continent invisible. Invisible parce que les voyageurs qui s'y s… read more

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  • nobel prize
  • literature
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • france
  • french literature
  • contemporary
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31. Exil

By: Alexandra Badea

4.46

Format: 160 pages, None

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What I Loved

Siri Hustvedt

4.08

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Troubling Love

Elena Ferrante , Ann Goldstein

3.26

Transform Your Habits

Wojna polsko-ruska pod flagą biało-czerwoną

Dorota Masłowska

4.75

Transform Your Habits

Soumission

Michel Houellebecq

3.65

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The Reader

Bernhard Schlink , Carol Brown Janeway

3.78

Transform Your Habits

Anna Göldin

Eveline Hasler

3.54

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Der Richter und sein Henker

Friedrich Dürrenmatt , John J. Neumaier , William Gillis

3.70

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Die Physiker

Friedrich Dürrenmatt

4.38

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