8 Best lgbt books like La Vie lente by Abdellah Taïa

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La Vie lente

By: Abdellah Taïa

3.88

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

Dans la France d'après les attentats de 2015, Mounir, parisien homosexuel de 40 ans d'origine maroc…

If you liked the lgbt plot in La Vie lente by Abdellah Taïa , here is a list of 8 books like this:

Cover of War, So Much War by Mercè Rodoreda, Maruxa Relaño, Martha Tennent

1. War, So Much War

By: Mercè Rodoreda , Maruxa Relaño , Martha Tennent

3.86

Format: 445 pages, Paperback

"Rodoreda had bedazzled me by the sensuality with which she reveals things within the atmosphere of… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell

2. What Belongs to You

By: Garth Greenwell

4.29

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

On an unseasonably warm autumn day, an American teacher enters a public bathroom beneath Sofia's Na… read more

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  • fiction
  • lgbt
Cover of L'altra figlia by Annie Ernaux, Lorenzo Flabbi

3. L'altra figlia

By: Annie Ernaux , Lorenzo Flabbi

3.95

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

In un’assolata domenica d’estate una bambina ascolta per caso una conversazione della madre, e la s… read more

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  • france

4. Vera

By: Elizabeth von Arnim

3.00

Format: 285 pages,

First published in 1921, Verais a darkly comic story about Lucy Entwhistle and Everard Wemyss. Both… read more

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5. De kommer att drunkna i sina mödrars tårar

By: Johannes Anyuru

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

En vinterkvall kliver tre individer som svar trohet till den sonderfallande terrorstaten Daesh in i… read more

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6. Music for Chameleons

By: Truman Capote

4.50

Format: 282 pages, Paperback

At the centre of Music for Chameleonsis Handcarved Coffins, a 'nonfiction novel' based on the bruta… read more

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7. All the Names

By: Margaret Jull Costa , José Saramago

3.24

Format: 324 pages, Paperback

Senhor Jose is a low-grade clerk in the city's Central Registry, where the living and the dead shar… read more

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8. Élise ou la vraie vie

By: Claire Etcherelli

4.24

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Un concert fracassant envahit la rue. " Les pompiers ", pensai-je. Arezki n'avait pas bouge. Les vo… read more

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9. Los armarios vacíos

By: Annie Ernaux

3.94

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Es la historia de una ruptura social, de una hija atrapada entre dos mundos: el de sus padres, prol… read more

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  • france
  • fiction
"Farklılıkların paradan kaynaklanabileceği hiç aklıma gelmezdi, insanların doğuştan temiz ya da pasaklı, zevk sahibi ya da sallapati olduğunu sanırdım. Ayyaşlık, konserve et, kenefin yanındaki çiviye …"

-Annie Ernaux, Los armarios vacíos

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10. A Woman's Story

By: Annie Ernaux

4.23

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

A Woman's Story is Annie Ernaux's "deeply affecting account of mothers and daughters, youth and age… read more

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  • france
"Until I was twenty, I thought I was responsible for her growing old."

-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story

"With so much misery around, fighting for social advancement had lost all meaning."

-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story

"I believe I am writing about my mother because it is my turn to bring her into the world."

-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story

"Het beeld van haar wordt langzaam weer dat wat ik mij voorstel te hebben gehad van haar in mijn babytijd, een grote, blanke schaduw boven mij."

-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story

Cover of Ce que je sais de toi by Éric Chacour

11. Ce que je sais de toi

By: Éric Chacour

4.43

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Dans le Caire des années 1980, un jeune médecin suit un destin tracé pour lui. Entre son dispensair… read more

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  • france
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"Le jour, ses mains en prolongement des tiennes sur le corps des patients. La nuit, son corps en prolongement du tien sous tes mains impatientes."

-Éric Chacour, Ce que je sais de toi

Cover of Minor Detail by Adania Shibli

12. Minor Detail

By: Adania Shibli

4.20

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn a… read more

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  • fiction
"Man, not the tank, shall prevail."

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Não há como descartar a probabilidade de uma conexão entre os dois fatos, ou alguma ligação oculta entre eles, por analogia às relações que os seres humanos encontram entre as plantas, por exemplo, q…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Desde que tive ciência da minha incapacidade consumada de me mover de acordo com os limites, resolvi, finalmente, permanecer dentro dos limites da minha casa, tanto quanto possível. Agora, uma vez qu…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Toch zijn er mensen die in die logica − dus dat je je concentreert op de meest futiele details zoals stof op een bureau of vliegenpoepjes op een schilderij − de enige manier zien om de waarheid te do…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

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13. La ternura

By: Paula Ducay

3.59

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Naima y Marco, compañeros de trabajo separados por una cierta diferencia de edad, han desarrollado … read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Los reyes de la casa by Delphine de Vigan

14. Los reyes de la casa

By: Delphine de Vigan

3.94

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

Una novela sobrecogedora sobre los peligros de la sobreexposición en redes, la explotación infantil… read more

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  • france
  • fiction
"Cada familia cultiva su fábula. O al menos una versión épica de su historia, enriquecida por los años, a la que poco a poco van sumándose hazañas, coincidencias, detalles extraordinarios, y hasta alg…"

-Delphine de Vigan, Los reyes de la casa

Cover of Watch Us Dance (In the Country of Others, #2) by Leïla Slimani

15. Watch Us Dance (In the Country of Others, #2)

By: Leïla Slimani

4.07

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The rebellions within an interracial family play out against the countercultural rebellions of the … read more

Similar categories in Leïla Slimani's Watch Us Dance (In the Country of Others, #2) book and Abdellah Taïa's La Vie lente

  • morocco
  • france
  • africa
  • fiction
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16. Otaberra

By: Elisa Victoria

3.79

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Algo pasó en 1989. Renata vuelve a ese año una y otra vez. El presente para ella no existe. El tiem… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Caderno de Memórias Coloniais by Isabela Figueiredo

17. Caderno de Memórias Coloniais

By: Isabela Figueiredo

4.13

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

«O Caderno de Memórias Coloniais relata a história de uma menina a caminho da adolescência, que viv… read more

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  • africa
Cover of Love by Maayan Eitan

18. Love

By: Maayan Eitan

3.27

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

Love is a fever dream of a novella about a young sex worker whose life blurs the boundaries between… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Opowiadania bizarne by Olga Tokarczuk

19. Opowiadania bizarne

By: Olga Tokarczuk

3.83

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Świat staje się coraz bardziej bizarny. Najnowszy zbiór opowiadań Olgi Tokarczuk. Zaskakujące i… read more

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  • fiction
"Człowiek, którego widzisz, nie dlatego istnieje, że go widzisz, ale dlatego, że to on na ciebie patrzy."

-Olga Tokarczuk, Opowiadania bizarne

"Діти це знають найкраще: саму смерть ще якось можна пережити. Найгіршим буває те, що повторюється, ритмічне, незмінне, передбачуване, неминуче й безвладне - те, на що неможливо вплинути і що хапає св…"

-Olga Tokarczuk, Opowiadania bizarne

Cover of De purs hommes by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr

20. De purs hommes

By: Mohamed Mbougar Sarr

4.13

Format: 191 pages, Paperback

Tout part d'une vidéo virale, au Sénégal. On y voit comment le cadavre d'un homme est déterré, puis… read more

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  • africa
  • france
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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21. Punto de cruz

By: Jazmina Barrera

3.92

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

«Uno de los recuerdos más luminosos de mi infancia es aquel en el que mi madre, con su voz cálida y… read more

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  • fiction
  • lgbt
Cover of Las lealtades by Delphine de Vigan

22. Las lealtades

By: Delphine de Vigan

3.99

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Una novela desgarradora sobre un niño que se evade bebiendo y unos adultos que tratan de encontrar … read more

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  • france
  • fiction
"Parfois je me dis que devenir adulte ne sert à rien d'autre qu'à ça : réparer les pertes et les dommages du commencement. Et tenir les promesses de l'enfant que nous avons été."

-Delphine de Vigan, Las lealtades

Cover of La Petite Dernière by Fatima Daas

23. La Petite Dernière

By: Fatima Daas

3.85

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

« Je m'appelle Fatima Daas. Je suis la mazoziya, la dernière. Celle à laquelle on ne s'est pas prép… read more

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  • france
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"Il n'y a que sur les photos qu'on est heureux."

-Fatima Daas, La Petite Dernière

"Islam meant believing in God, loving Him, fearing Him, obeying Him. I got the first stages right."

-Fatima Daas, La Petite Dernière

Cover of El trabajo de los ojos by Mercedes Halfon

24. El trabajo de los ojos

By: Mercedes Halfon

3.74

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

¿Qué es lo que se ve? Puntual e inabarcable, esa podría ser la pregunta sin articular que se hace l… read more

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25. A mordiscos la orquídea

By: Joan Daròs

4.34

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

Cinco personajes pasan el verano alrededor de una piscina rosa. Uno de ellos no pertenece a la fami… read more

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  • fiction
  • lgbt
Cover of Alejandra Pizarnik. Biografía de un mito by Cristina Piña

26. Alejandra Pizarnik. Biografía de un mito

By: Cristina Piña

4.09

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

La obra y la influencia de Alejandra Pizarnik no dejan de crecer. Numerosos lectores en todo el mun… read more

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27. La Vie lente

By: Abdellah Taïa

3.88

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

Dans la France d'après les attentats de 2015, Mounir, parisien homosexuel de 40 ans d'origine maroc… read more

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  • morocco
  • africa
  • lgbt
  • france
  • fiction
Cover of Amado mio - Atti impuri by Pier Paolo Pasolini

28. Amado mio - Atti impuri

By: Pier Paolo Pasolini

3.57

Format: 201 pages, Paperback

Due romanzi brevi, "Atti impuri" e "Amado mio", entrambi autobiografici, della prima giovinezza fri… read more

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  • fiction
  • lgbt
Cover of Tarántula (Spanish Edition) by Eduardo Halfon

29. Tarántula (Spanish Edition)

By: Eduardo Halfon

4.11

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

Hacia fines de 1984, dos jóvenes hermanos guatemaltecos, exiliados desde hace años en Estados Unido… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Mi padre y su museo by Marina Tsvetaeva

30. Mi padre y su museo

By: Marina Tsvetaeva

3.74

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Marina Tsvietáieva escribió este relato autobiográfico durante el exilio en Francia y lo publicó en… read more

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Cover of El año que nevó en Valencia by Rafael Chirbes

31. El año que nevó en Valencia

By: Rafael Chirbes

3.95

Format: 48 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Valencia cubierta de nieve: una estampa inusual que se vio en el invierno de 1956. Chirbes tenía si… read more

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3.94

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