7 Top fiction books like Cuentos fríos / El que vino a salvarme by Virgilio Piñera

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Cuentos fríos / El que vino a salvarme

By: Virgilio Piñera

4.14

Format: 424 pages, Paperback

Aunque el escritor cubano Virgilio Piñera gustase de autodefinirse como "teatral", lo cierto es que…

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1. To the Lighthouse

By: Virginia Woolf

3.80

Format: 209 pages, Paperback

The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assor… read more

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  • fiction
"I have had my vision."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

"[...] there was only the sound of the sea."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

"Well, we must wait for the future to show."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

"The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

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2. Arturo, la estrella más brillante

By: Reinaldo Arenas

4.24

Format: 82 pages, Paperback

Arturo, el hijo de La vieja Rosa, acude a un concierto y a la salida, todavía sacudido por la lluvi… read more

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  • fiction
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3. Women

By: Charles Bukowski

3.81

Format: 291 pages, Paperback

Low-life writer and unrepentant alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. After decades of slac… read more

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  • fiction
"Are you anti-black? I'm anti-everything."

-Charles Bukowski, Women

"You're the most unknown famous man I ever met"

-Charles Bukowski, Women

"My cock was hard, but my spirit wasn't in it."

-Charles Bukowski, Women

"You're the most unknown famous man I ever met."

-Charles Bukowski, Women

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4. Before Night Falls

By: Reinaldo Arenas , Dolores M. Koch

4.20

Format: 398 pages, Hardcover

Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas describes his poverty-stricken childhood in rural, his adolescence as … read more

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"Cuba will be free. I already am."

-Reinaldo Arenas, Before Night Falls

"If Cuba is Hell, Miami is Purgatory."

-Reinaldo Arenas, Before Night Falls

"La gran Humanidad no tolera la belleza, quizá porque no puede vivir sin ella; el horror de la fealdad avanza cada día a pasos acelerados."

-Reinaldo Arenas, Before Night Falls

"Los dictadores y los regímenes autoritarios pueden destruir a los escritores de dos modos: persiguiéndolos o colmándolos de prebendas oficiales."

-Reinaldo Arenas, Before Night Falls

5. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

By: Haruki Murakami , Jay Rubin

3.92

Format: None pages, Paperback

Japan's most highly regarded novelist now vaults into the first ranks of international fiction writ… read more

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6. Dirty Havana Trilogy

By: Pedro Juan Gutiérrez , Natasha Wimmer

4.16

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

For the last four decades, Fidel Castro's communist Cuba has survived a harsh economic blockade. In… read more

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7. The Gambler

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Constance Garnett , Gary Saul Morson

3.91

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

In this dark and compelling short novel, Dostoevsky tells the story of Alexey Ivanovitch, a young t… read more

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  • fiction
"Quien teme al lobo no se mete en el bosque."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler

"يجب ان يظل المال دون الأستقراطي، حتى لكأن الأستقراطي لا يكاد يحفل به أو يقلق له"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler

"En toda situación es posible comportarse con dignidad. Si hay lucha, que sea noble y no humillante."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler

"People really do like seeing their best friends humiliated; a large part of the friendship is based on humiliation; and that is an old truth,well known to all intelligent people."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler

8. Ficciones

By: Jorge Luis Borges , Anthony Bonner , Anthony Kerrigan

3.53

Format: 320 pages,

The seventeen pieces in Ficcionesdemonstrate the whirlwind of Borges's genius and mirror the precis… read more

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9. The Color of Summer: or The New Garden of Earthly Delights

By: Thomas Colchie , Andrew Hurley , Reinaldo Arenas

4.15

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Critics worldwide have praised Reinaldo Arenas's writing. His extraordinary memoir, Before Night Fa… read more

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10. The Palace of the White Skunks

By: Thomas Colchie , Andrew Hurley , Reinaldo Arenas

4.27

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

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11. Singing from the Well

By: Thomas Colchie , Andrew Hurley , Reinaldo Arenas

3.46

Format: None pages, Paperback

His mother talks piously of the heaven that awaits the good, and disciplines him with an ox prod. H… read more

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12. Hallucinations: or, The Ill-Fated Peregrinations of Fray Servando

By: Thomas Colchie , Andrew Hurley , Reinaldo Arenas

3.46

Format: None pages, Paperback

El candido, picaro, aventurero y exaltado fray Servando Teresa de Mier, celebre personaje historico… read more

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13. Blindness

By: José Saramago

4.17

Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition

From Nobel Prize–winning author José Saramago, a magnificent, mesmerizing parable of loss A city… read more

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  • fiction
"الناس يتعودون إي شيء ."

-José Saramago, Blindness

"هناك أوقات لايفيد معها الكلام ."

-José Saramago, Blindness

"* البطون الفارغة تستيقظ باكراً ."

-José Saramago, Blindness

"* الأحقاد القديمة لاتزول بسهولة ."

-José Saramago, Blindness

Cover of Cuentos fríos / El que vino a salvarme by Virgilio Piñera

14. Cuentos fríos / El que vino a salvarme

By: Virgilio Piñera

4.14

Format: 424 pages, Paperback

Aunque el escritor cubano Virgilio Piñera gustase de autodefinirse como "teatral", lo cierto es que… read more

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  • short stories
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11 Top fiction books like Women by Charles Bukowski

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John Fante

4.10

Transform Your Habits

The Stranger

Albert Camus , Matthew Ward , Stuart Gilbert , None

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Naked Lunch

William S. Burroughs , Barry Miles , James Grauerholz

3.46

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Women

Charles Bukowski

3.81

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