8 Top literature books like Taka piękna żałoba by Bohumil Hrabal

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Taka piękna żałoba

By: Bohumil Hrabal

4.20

Format: 212 pages, Hardcover

... tak oto w tych opowiadaniach zatrzymałem piękne obrazy, które nie starzeją się wraz ze mną: w k…

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Cover of Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel

1. Sputnik Sweetheart

By: Haruki Murakami , Philip Gabriel

3.83

Format: 229 pages, Paperback

alternate cover can be found here Sumire is in love with a woman seventeen years her senior. But… read more

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  • literature
  • novels
"I feel like I've swallowed a cloudy sky"

-Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

"Ice is cold; roses are red. I’m in love."

-Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

"It was far too hot to think about complicated matters."

-Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

"A percepção não passa da soma dos nossos mal-entendidos."

-Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

Cover of Panny z Wilka by Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz

2. Panny z Wilka

By: Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz

3.72

Format: None pages, Paperback

Klasyka literatury polskiej. Jedno z najlepszych opowiadan Jaroslawa Iwaszkiewicza - mistrza gatunk… read more

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Cover of Tales of Galicia by Andrzej Stasiuk, Margarita Nafpaktitis

3. Tales of Galicia

By: Andrzej Stasiuk , Margarita Nafpaktitis

4.16

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Seemingly a set of prose ballads about the southeastern tip of Poland, Tales of Galicia brilliantly… read more

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4. L'Avare

By: Molière

3.79

Format: None pages, Paperback

Harpagon est un vieillard odieux et avare. Avare jusqu'au ridicule, puisqu'il fait comparaitre en j… read more

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5. The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

By: Yukio Mishima , Ivan Morris

4.48

Format: 252 pages, Hardcover

In The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, celebrated Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima creates a haunting… read more

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  • literature
  • novels
Cover of Inny świat by Gustaw Herling-Grudziński

6. Inny świat

By: Gustaw Herling-Grudziński

3.97

Format: 355 pages, Paperback

Wspomnienia Gustawa Herlinga - Grudzińskiego z sowieckiego łagru w Jercewie pod Archagielskiem. Ksi… read more

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"Myślę z przerażeniem i głębokim wstydem o Europie przedzielonej na pół Bugiem, w której po jednej stronie miliony niewolników sowieckich modliły się o wyzwolenie z rąk armii hitlerowskiej, a po drugi…"

-Gustaw Herling-Grudziński, Inny świat

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7. Cudzoziemka

By: Maria Kuncewiczowa

3.57

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Niezwykly, gleboki, poruszajacy portret psychologiczny kobiety niespelnionej, zawiedzionej i nieszc… read more

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8. The Trial

By: Franz Kafka , Max Brod , Edwin Muir , Willa Muir

3.95

Format: 255 pages, Paperback

Written in 1914 but not published until 1925, a year after Kafka’s death, The Trial is the terrifyi… read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • czech literature
"But I’m not guilty,"

-Franz Kafka, The Trial

"Asking questions were the most important thing."

-Franz Kafka, The Trial

"It was very learned, but it didn't actually say anything."

-Franz Kafka, The Trial

"The way she sits on my lap as if it were her proper place!"

-Franz Kafka, The Trial

9. Praski elementarz

By: Aleksander Kaczorowski

4.26

Format: None pages, Paperback

"To zapis stanow duszy czlowieka, ktory zachorowal na Prage, i przekonujace wyjasnienie, ze choroba… read more

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10. Pax

By: Sara Pennypacker , Jon Klassen

3.98

Format: 212 pages, Hardcover

Pax was only a kit when his family was killed, and "his boy" Peter rescued him from abandonment and… read more

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11. Embers

By: Sándor Márai , Carol Brown Janeway

3.87

Format: 268 pages, Paperback

Originally published in 1942 and now rediscovered to international acclaim, this taut and exquisite… read more

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12. The Key

By: Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

4.25

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

'This year I intend to begin writing freely about a topic which, in the past, I have hesitated to m… read more

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13. Hunger

By: Knut Hamsun , George Egerton

4.05

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

One of the most important and controversial writers of the 20th century, Knut Hamsun made literary … read more

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  • literature
  • novels
"Yoksul aydın, zengin aydından çok daha kuvvetli görür.(s.128)"

-Knut Hamsun, Hunger

"It was not my intention to collapse; no, I would die standing."

-Knut Hamsun, Hunger

"God be praised, I had raised myself in my own estimation again!"

-Knut Hamsun, Hunger

"Truth is neither ojectivity nor the balanced view; truth is a selfless subjectivity."

-Knut Hamsun, Hunger

14. The Absolute at Large

By: Stephen Baxter , Karel Čapek

3.76

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

In this satirical classic, a brilliant scientist invents the Karburator, a reactor that can create … read more

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15. Life is Elsewhere

By: Milan Kundera , Aaron Asher

3.28

Format: 5 pages, Paperback

The author initially intended to call this novel The Lyrical Age. The lyrical age, according to Kun… read more

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16. Kokoro

By: Natsume Sōseki , Edwin McClellan

3.77

Format: None pages,

Hailed by The New Yorker as "rich in understanding and insight,"Kokoro -- "the heart of things"-- i… read more

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17. 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

18. Beauty and Sadness

By: Yasunari Kawabata , Howard Hibbett

3.81

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

Beauty and Sadness (Japanese: Mei shisatoAi shimito Utsukushisa to kanashimi to) is a 1964 novel by… read more

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19. Latarnik

By: Henryk Sienkiewicz

2.95

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Bohaterem opowiadania jest Polak - Skawiński, który przybywa do Aspinwall, aby tu objąć posadę lata… read more

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20. Śmierć pięknych saren

By: Ota Pavel

4.05

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Zawarte w książce opowiadania z dwóch tomów Oty Pavla Śmierć pięknych saren i Jak spotkałem się z r… read more

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  • czech literature
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21. Cold Enough for Snow

By: Jessica Au

3.73

Format: 99 pages, Paperback

A mother and daughter travel from abroad to meet in Tokyo: they walk along the canals through the a… read more

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"She had kept, I knew, all the tickets, brochures and guides we had been given to take home, as if she would take them out later to read as one reads a novel."

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

"The best we could do in this life was to pass through it, like smoke through the branches, suffering, until we either reached the state of nothingness, or else suffered elsewhere."

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

"Nowadays, she said, people were hungry to know everything, thinking that they could understand it all, as if enlightenment were just around the corner. But, she said, in fact there was no control, an…"

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

"Then she reached for her bag and took out a small book. She explained she had found it at a store near her home, and that it described the nature of your character based on the date of your birth. (.…"

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

Cover of Mała apokalipsa by Tadeusz Konwicki

22. Mała apokalipsa

By: Tadeusz Konwicki

3.63

Format: 235 pages, Paperback

"Oto nadchodzi koniec świata. Oto nadciąga, zbliża się czy raczej przypełza mój własny koniec świat… read more

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  • literature
  • novels
"Dreams are debris from bad day. Dreams are poems by bad poets that never got written."

-Tadeusz Konwicki, Mała apokalipsa

"Yes, I am confusing literature with life. I'm declaring my own ordinary life to be a work of literature."

-Tadeusz Konwicki, Mała apokalipsa

"She smelled like water that had been warmed by the sun, and she also had the sharp, enticing aroma of birch leaves."

-Tadeusz Konwicki, Mała apokalipsa

"Character is a lack of doubt, character is stubbornly persevering in an intention no matter how senseless it is, character is a lack of imagination, character is inborn dullness, character is the mis…"

-Tadeusz Konwicki, Mała apokalipsa

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23. Żywot i śmierć pana Hersha Libkina z Sacramento w stanie Kalifornia

By: Ishbel Szatrawska

4.38

Format: 203 pages, Paperback

Ocalały z Shoah emigrant z Polski przybywa do Stanów Zjednoczonych, by robić karierę w Hollywood. W… read more

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"Ja tylko chcę być raz w życiu człowiekiem! Ja chcę raz w życiu zobaczyć, że nie jestem inny! Że jestem postacią, która ma własne życie!"

-Ishbel Szatrawska, Żywot i śmierć pana Hersha Libkina z Sacramento w stanie Kalifornia

"W ogóle mamy tendencję, by wspominać spektakularne wydarzenia. Jak pan się zastanowi, zorientuje się pan, że życie to także drobiazgi i to głównie one dodają całości smaku. Nieważne, co pan ma na tal…"

-Ishbel Szatrawska, Żywot i śmierć pana Hersha Libkina z Sacramento w stanie Kalifornia

24. Wieża

By: Gustaw Herling-Grudziński

3.55

Format: 11 pages, ebook

Opowiadanie ma strukturę szkatułkową. Autor, stosując najpierw styl zbliżony do reportażu, relacjon… read more

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25. El ojo de Goliat

By: Diego Muzzio

4.15

Format: 183 pages, Paperback

A Edward Pierce; psiquiatra inglés; le piden que trate el caso de David Bradley; un ingeniero de la… read more

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26. The Pole

By: J.M. Coetzee

3.69

Format: 166 pages, Hardcover

A psychologically probing, compulsively readable novel about dogged love and the unpredictability o… read more

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  • literature
  • novels
Cover of Kartoteka by Tadeusz Różewicz

27. Kartoteka

By: Tadeusz Różewicz

3.68

Format: 92 pages, None

Jeden z najważniejszych dramatów powojennych. Głównym elementem artystycznym, będącym scenicznym wy… read more

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"Że też w tym kraju każdy kelner jest filozofem i każdy filozof kelnerem."

-Tadeusz Różewicz, Kartoteka

Cover of Las niñas del naranjel by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara

28. Las niñas del naranjel

By: Gabriela Cabezón Cámara

3.83

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Abordaje lírico e irreverente del personaje histórico de la Monja Alférez, que nació en España como… read more

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29. Brzezina

By: Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz

3.91

Format: 139 pages, None

Opowiadanie rozpoczyna się przyjazdem młodego, chorego na gruźlicę Stanisława do małej leśniczówki … read more

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30. Taka piękna żałoba

By: Bohumil Hrabal

4.20

Format: 212 pages, Hardcover

... tak oto w tych opowiadaniach zatrzymałem piękne obrazy, które nie starzeją się wraz ze mną: w k… read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • humor
  • czech literature
Cover of Hrabal. Słodka Apokalipsa by Aleksander Kaczorowski

31. Hrabal. Słodka Apokalipsa

By: Aleksander Kaczorowski

3.52

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

Bohumil Hrabal. Wybitny czeski prozaik, zapatrzony w naturszczyków mistrz słowa, który potrafił wzn… read more

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Haruki Murakami , Philip Gabriel

3.83

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4.48

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Franz Kafka , Max Brod , Edwin Muir , Willa Muir

3.95

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4.05

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4.02

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