10 Best fiction books like Storie di gente felice by Lars Gustafsson

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Storie di gente felice

By: Lars Gustafsson

3.41

Format: 211 pages, Paperback

Può esistere la felicità in un mondo preconfezionato, fatto di cose che fingono di essere desiderab…

If you liked the fiction plot in Storie di gente felice by Lars Gustafsson , here is a list of 10 books like this:

Cover of Laughable Loves by Milan Kundera, حسین کاظمی‌یزدی, Suzanne Rappaport

1. Laughable Loves

By: Milan Kundera , حسین کاظمی‌یزدی , Suzanne Rappaport

3.91

Format: 736 pages, Paperback

Laughable Lovesis a collection of stories that first appeared in print in Prague before 1968, but w… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli, Simon Carnell, Erica Segre

2. 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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Cover of Fish Have No Feet by Jón Kalman Stefánsson, Philip Roughton

3. Fish Have No Feet

By: Jón Kalman Stefánsson , Philip Roughton

3.64

Format: None pages,

Keflavik: a town that has been called the darkest place in Iceland, surrounded by black lava fields… read more

Similar categories in Jón Kalman Stefánsson's Fish Have No Feet book and Lars Gustafsson's Storie di gente felice

  • scandinavian literature
  • fiction
Cover of The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni, Bruce Penman

4. The Betrothed

By: Alessandro Manzoni , Bruce Penman

3.85

Format: 720 pages, Paperback

Gyldendal-klassiker. Med utgivelsen av Alessandro Manzonis Dei trulovade i Gyldendals nye klassiker… read more

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  • fiction
"Costui, [...] un giorno osò rivolgerle il discorso. La sventurata rispose."

-Alessandro Manzoni, The Betrothed

"One the advantages about this life is that you can hate someone without knowing him"

-Alessandro Manzoni, The Betrothed

"He who utters falsehoods to the [lawyer] is a fool who will tell the truth to the judge."

-Alessandro Manzoni, The Betrothed

"Non si può spiegare quanto sia grande l'autorità d'un dotto di professione, allorché vuol dimostrare agli altri le cose di cui sono già persuasi."

-Alessandro Manzoni, The Betrothed

5. Regarde les lumières mon amour

By: Annie Ernaux

3.94

Format: 489 pages, Paperback

Pendant un an, Annie Ernaux a tenu le journal de ses visites a l'hypermarche Auchan du centre comme… read more

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Cover of Accabadora by Michela Murgia

6. Accabadora

By: Michela Murgia

4.07

Format: 166 pages, Hardcover

La Sardegna degli anni Cinquanta è un mondo antico sull’orlo del precipizio. Maria ha sei anni ed è… read more

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  • fiction
"Quan es té prou temps, fins i tot la ràbia s'organitza."

-Michela Murgia, Accabadora

"En la hora de la debilidad algunos prefieren hacerse creyentes que fuertes"

-Michela Murgia, Accabadora

"-¿Quieres juzgar el cómo sin entender el porqué? Siempre tienes prisa por dictar sentencias, Maria. (Bonaria Urria)"

-Michela Murgia, Accabadora

"Come gli occhi della civetta, ci sono pensieri che non sopportano la luce piena. Non possono nascere che di notte, dove la loro funzione è la stessa della luna, necessaria a smuovere maree di senso i…"

-Michela Murgia, Accabadora

Cover of Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, William Weaver

7. Invisible Cities

By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver

4.11

Format: 15 pages, Paperback

"Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities v… read more

Similar categories in Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities book and Lars Gustafsson's Storie di gente felice

  • short stories
  • fiction

8. Revolutionary Road

By: Richard Yates

3.90

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

In the hopeful 1950s, Frank and April Wheeler appear to be a model couple: bright, beautiful, talen… read more

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9. Le cose dell'amore

By: Umberto Galimberti

2.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

L'eros declinato in tutte le sue "figure". L'attrazione, il corteggiamento, la seduzione, il tradim… read more

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10. Reading Lolita in Tehran

By: Azar Nafisi

4.20

Format: 172 pages,

Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher n… read more

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11. The Emperor of Portugalia

By: Selma Lagerlöf

3.89

Format: 272 pages,

Dottern Klara Fina Gulleborg ar livets ljus for den varmlandske torparen Jan i Skrotlycka. Nar hon … read more

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12. American Pastoral

By: Philip Roth

3.94

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Pulitzer Prize Winner (1998) In American Pastoral, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified g… read more

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  • fiction
"Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive."

-Philip Roth, American Pastoral

"The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy—that is every man's tragedy."

-Philip Roth, American Pastoral

"[...] ero una biografia in moto perpetuo, memoria sino al midollo delle ossa."

-Philip Roth, American Pastoral

"Exhibitionismul inerent unei marturisiri nu face decat sa agraveze suferinta."

-Philip Roth, American Pastoral

13. Cosmétique de l'ennemi

By: Amélie Nothomb

4.67

Format: 523 pages, Mass Market Paperback

<> C'est dans le hall d'un aeroport que tout a commence. Il savait que ce serait lui. La victime pa… read more

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14. Piccoli suicidi tra amici

By: Arto Paasilinna , Diego Marani , Nicola Rainò , None

3.72

Format: 294 pages, Paperback

Ci sono momenti in cui i ripetuti insuccessi, un matrimonio a rotoli, lo stress, la solitudine semb… read more

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Cover of Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution by Carlo Rovelli

15. Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution

By: Carlo Rovelli

4.08

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A startling new look at quantum theory, from the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physi… read more

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"But structures are processes are not there so that organisms can survive and reproduce. It is the other way round: organisms survive and reproduce because these structures have happened to gradually …"

-Carlo Rovelli, Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution

"Credo che uno dei grandi errori che fanno gli esseri umani quando tentano di capire qualcosa sia volere certezze. La ricerca della conoscenza non si nutre di certezze: si nutre di una radicale assenz…"

-Carlo Rovelli, Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution

"In qualunque angolo dell'universo troviamo vertiginosi pozzi di strati di realtà. In questi strati siamo riusciti a riconoscere regolarità, sulle quali abbiamo raccolto informazione rilevante per noi…"

-Carlo Rovelli, Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution

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16. Parti e omicidi

By: Sayaka Murata

3.76

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

Parti e omicidi è una raccolta di racconti ambientati in una Tokyo di un futuro non ben precisato, … read more

Similar categories in Sayaka Murata's Parti e omicidi book and Lars Gustafsson's Storie di gente felice

  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of White Holes by Carlo Rovelli

17. White Holes

By: Carlo Rovelli

4.10

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A mesmerizing trip to the strange world of white holes from the bestselling author of Seven Brief L… read more

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Cover of Ohio by Stephen Markley

18. Ohio

By: Stephen Markley

3.87

Format: 484 pages, Hardcover

One sweltering night in 2013, four former high school classmates converge on their hometown in nort… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Markley's Ohio book and Lars Gustafsson's Storie di gente felice

  • fiction
"New Canaan had this look, like a magazine after it’s tossed on the fire, the way the pages blacken and curl as they begin to burn, but just before the flames take over."

-Stephen Markley, Ohio

"You make someone your devil for long enough, and you want to hold onto that. There's something rapturous about hating another person, especially if you have a goddamned good reason."

-Stephen Markley, Ohio

"What an important lesson for every young person to learn: If you defy the collective psychosis of nationalism, of imperial war, you will pay for it. And the people in your community, your home, who y…"

-Stephen Markley, Ohio

"Like MacMillan and the clique of teachers and the coaches who all went to the same church and barbecued at one another's houses, much of the country's small-bore civil servants were itching to do som…"

-Stephen Markley, Ohio

Cover of La pasticciera di mezzanotte by Desy Icardi

19. La pasticciera di mezzanotte

By: Desy Icardi

3.61

Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition

Dopo una vita passata a leggere libri altrui, il centenario avvocato Ferro decide di scriverne uno … read more

Similar categories in Desy Icardi's La pasticciera di mezzanotte book and Lars Gustafsson's Storie di gente felice

  • fiction
Cover of Cose spiegate bene. La Terra è rotonda by Nicola Sofri

20. Cose spiegate bene. La Terra è rotonda

By: Nicola Sofri

4.10

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

«La Terra sopravviverà», diciamo spesso nelle preoccupazioni sul riscaldamento globale: sono gli es… read more

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21. Storie di gente felice

By: Lars Gustafsson

3.41

Format: 211 pages, Paperback

Può esistere la felicità in un mondo preconfezionato, fatto di cose che fingono di essere desiderab… read more

Similar categories in Lars Gustafsson's Storie di gente felice book and Lars Gustafsson's Storie di gente felice

  • short story collection
  • swedish literature
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • sweden
  • scandinavian literature

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Thomas Pynchon

3.69

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John Updike

4.26

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4.81

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