15 Top fiction books like Mandelştam'ın Son Günleri by Vénus Khoury-Ghata

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Mandelştam'ın Son Günleri

By: Vénus Khoury-Ghata

3.70

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

“Cesedimi alırsın sadece, senin için yazdığım şiir beni yaşatacak.” Osip Mandelştam’ın 1933 yılı…

If you liked the fiction plot in Mandelştam'ın Son Günleri by Vénus Khoury-Ghata , here is a list of 15 books like this:

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1. Things I Don't Want to Know

By: Deborah Levy

4.09

Format: 109 pages, Hardcover

'Perhaps when Orwell described sheer egoism as a necessary quality for a writer, he was not thinkin… read more

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"Now that we were mothers we were all shadows of our former selves, chased by the women we used to be before we had children."

-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know

"When happiness is happening it feels as if nothing else happened before it, it is a sensation that happens only in the present tense."

-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know

"The fact that lipstick and mascara and eye shadow were called 'Make Up' thrilled me. Everywhere in the world there were made up people and most of them were women."

-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know

"To become a WRITER I had to learn to INTERRUPT, to speak up, to speak a little louder, and then LOUDER, and then to just speak in my own voice which is NOT LOUD AT ALL."

-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know

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2. Dul

By: Jean-Louis Fournier , Can Belge

3.51

Format: 178 pages, Paperback

"Artik dulum. 12 Kasim gunu Sylvie oldu. Cok uzucu. Bu sene indirimli satislara birlikte gidemeyece… read more

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3. Tra donne sole

By: Cesare Pavese , Italo Calvino

3.32

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

Clelia, il personaggio che dice "io", protagonista di Tra donne sole, e una donna non piu giovane, … read more

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4. Yaşamın Ucuna Yolculuk

By: Tezer Özlü

3.44

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

Tezer Ozlu, bir baska kutupta kendisiyle ayni yazgiyi paylasan Oguz Atay gibi, beklenmedik bir anda… read more

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5. The Complete Essays

By: Michel de Montaigne , M.A. Screech

4.23

Format: 1344 pages, Paperback

Michel de Montaigne was one of the most influential figures of the Renaissance, singlehandedly resp… read more

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"The thing I fear most is fear."

-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

"We should tend our freedom wisely."

-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

"Why do people respect the package rather than the man?"

-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

"To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it."

-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

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6. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

By: Jeanette Winterson

3.94

Format: 456 pages, Paperback

This startling novel describes the adolescence of a ferociously bright and rebellious orphan adopte… read more

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7. 2666

By: Roberto Bolaño

4.21

Format: 1128 pages, Paperback

A cuatro profesores de literatura, Pelletier, Morini, Espinoza y Norton, los une su fascinación por… read more

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"Nothing is ever behind us."

-Roberto Bolaño, 2666

"Reading is never a waste of time."

-Roberto Bolaño, 2666

"Every hundred feet the world changes"

-Roberto Bolaño, 2666

"The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower."

-Roberto Bolaño, 2666

8. Rosalie Blum 3

By: Camille Jourdy

4.24

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

LE FIN DE LA TRILOGIE !!! Vincent coupera-t-il le cordon ? Quel passe noir et douloureux Rosalie no… read more

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9. Rosalie Blum 2

By: Camille Jourdy

4.24

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Aude, 19 ans, mene une vie chaotique dans un appartement qu'elle partage avec un punk cambrioleur e… read more

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10. Kralın Laneti

By: None , None

4.44

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Cok genc yasta resme baslayan ama Mondrian'in resimleriyle tanisinca asla onun kadar iyi bir ressam… read more

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11. L'analphabète: récit autobiographique

By: Ágota Kristóf

4.11

Format: 57 pages, Paperback

Onze chapitres pour onze moments de sa vie, de la petite enfance en Hongrie à l'apprentissage du fr… read more

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"You become a writer by writing with patience and obstinacy, without ever losing faith in what you write."

-Ágota Kristóf, L'analphabète: récit autobiographique

"في الغالب أكتفي بالكتابة في ذهني . ذلك اسهل . داخل الراس تجري الامور كلها بيسر . لكن ما ان نشرع في الكتابة حتى تتغير الأفكار .تتشوه.تصير خاطئة"

-Ágota Kristóf, L'analphabète: récit autobiographique

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12. The Blind Owl

By: Sadegh Hedayat , D.P. Costello

3.97

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

Considered the most important work of modern Iranian literature, The Blind Owl is a haunting tale o… read more

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"افكار پوچ! از هر حقيقتی بيشتر مرا شكنجه ميكند"

-Sadegh Hedayat, The Blind Owl

"در زندگی زخمهایی است که روح را آهسته در انزوا می خورد ومیتراشد"

-Sadegh Hedayat, The Blind Owl

"در زندگی زخمهايی هست که مثل خوره روح را آهسته در انزوا می خورد و می تراشد"

-Sadegh Hedayat, The Blind Owl

"از دور ریختن عقایدی که به من تلقین شده بود، آرامش مخصوصی در خودم حس می‌کردم."

-Sadegh Hedayat, The Blind Owl

13. Diaboliad

By: Mikhail Bulgakov

2.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

The five, irreverant, satirical and imaginative stories contained in Diaboliadcaused an uproar upon… read more

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14. Rosalie Blum 1

By: Camille Jourdy

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Vincent, 30 ans, celibataire, solitaire mene une vie ennuyeuse et routiniere partagee entre son sal… read more

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15. The Young Man

By: Annie Ernaux

3.61

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Annie Ernaux's most recent book, dazzling and breat… read more

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16. Niente di vero

By: Veronica Raimo

3.59

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Prendete lo spirito dissacrante che trasforma nevrosi, sesso e disastri famigliari in commedia, da … read more

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"Quando finalmente arrivò la scoperta dei libri, non fu una forma di evasione, piuttosto una rasserenante coalescenza di noia. Riuscivo quasi a visualizzarla, bianca e melmosa: leggere era come sprofo…"

-Veronica Raimo, Niente di vero

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17. Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme

By: Édouard Louis

4.13

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Pendant une grande partie de sa vie ma mère a vécu dans la pauvreté et la nécessité, à l'écart de t… read more

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"Why do I feel as though I'm writing a sad story, when my aim was to tell the story of a liberation?"

-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme

"I'd gotten so used to seeing her unhappy at home that the joy on her face seemed scandalous to me, a deceit, a lie that had to be exposed as soon as possible."

-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme

"I started this book wanting to tell the story of a woman, but I've realized that yours is the story of a human being who fought for the right to exist as a woman, as opposed to the nonexistence impos…"

-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme

"A final memory. A few months ago, in the garden of a teahouse where I’d suggested we meet, she told me how she had once been called to the school by my teacher when I was six years old. The teacher w…"

-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme

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18. Long Live the Post Horn!

By: Vigdis Hjorth

3.67

Format: 240 pages, ebook

Ellinor, a 35-year-old media consultant, has not been feeling herself; she's not been feeling much … read more

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"A letter is practically a gift."

-Vigdis Hjorth, Long Live the Post Horn!

"What do we do with our despair if our lives are too small to contain it?"

-Vigdis Hjorth, Long Live the Post Horn!

"What do we do with our despair if our lives are too small to contain it?’ . . . .accept that there’s so much we’ll never understand intellectually and try to live with things which don’t add up, that…"

-Vigdis Hjorth, Long Live the Post Horn!

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19. 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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"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

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20. Şeytanın Çırağı

By: Shirō Hamao

3.81

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

“Sayın Savcı Tsuchida, bir katil zanlısı olarak burada tutuluyorum. Fakat belki de aslında katil be… read more

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  • fiction
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21. Cursed Bunny

By: Bora Chung

3.78

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

Cursed Bunny is a genre-defying collection of short stories by Korean author Bora Chung. Blurring t… read more

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"Her husband had pursued an “alternative lifestyle"

-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny

"One can break the curse, but it is impossible to cure their blindness from greed. They were always ready to wage another war"

-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny

"But there I remained, standing in the bathroom, waiting for someone to miraculously find me, to release me from my ties to this life."

-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny

"Once you experience a terrible trauma and understand the world from an extreme perspective, it is difficult to overcome this perspective. Because your very survival depends on it."

-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny

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22. August Blue

By: Deborah Levy

3.68

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A new novel from the Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy, the celebrated author of The Man Who Saw E… read more

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"We agreed that whatever happened next in the world, we would still rub conditioner into our hair after we washed it and comb it through to the ends, we would soften our lips with rose-, strawberry-, …"

-Deborah Levy, August Blue

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23. The Years

By: Annie Ernaux

4.17

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist’s defining work and a breakout bestseller when… read more

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"Sauver quelque chose du temps où l'on ne sera plus jamais."

-Annie Ernaux, The Years

"La profusion des choses cachait la rareté des idées et l'usure des croyances."

-Annie Ernaux, The Years

"The profusion of things concealed the scarcity of ideas and the erosion of beliefs."

-Annie Ernaux, The Years

"Je ne suis nulle part dans le temps. Il est l'ange qui fait revivre le passé, rend éternel."

-Annie Ernaux, The Years

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24. Bu Hikâye Senden Uzun Osman

By: Aylin Balboa

4.18

Format: 129 pages, Paperback

“Öyle işte. Hâlâ biraz soğuk geliyor ama battıkça alışıyorum. Kendimi boşa aldım bayırdan aşağı ko… read more

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  • fiction
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25. Malma station

By: Alex Schulman

3.64

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

Alex Schulmans nya roman utspelar sig på ett tåg. Fem personer är på resa genom Sverige: ett gift p… read more

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26. Kuzeyli Annem

By: Jean-Louis Fournier

4.21

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

"Küçüklüğümde ne zaman bir şeyler yazsam ya da bir resim yapsam, iyi olmuş mu diye anneme sorma iht… read more

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27. Concerning My Daughter

By: Hye-Jin Kim

3.71

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

When an ageing mother allows her thirty-something daughter to move into her apartment, she wants fo… read more

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"Ir abrindo mão das coisas de que gostamos. Essa é a definição do verbo envelhecer."

-Hye-Jin Kim, Concerning My Daughter

"That child who sprang from my own flesh and blood is perhaps the creature I'm most distant from."

-Hye-Jin Kim, Concerning My Daughter

"Ela estudou tanto que, não tendo mais o que estudar, foi aprender o que não devia. Por exemplo: como negar o mundo, como ir contra o mundo."

-Hye-Jin Kim, Concerning My Daughter

"It's not my fault. It's not your fault. It's no one's fault. If we keep telling ourselves that, then who should all the victims of the world go to for their apology?"

-Hye-Jin Kim, Concerning My Daughter

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28. Of Dogs and Walls

By: Yūko Tsushima

3.68

Format: 53 pages, Paperback

Two luminous, tender stories from one of Japan's greatest twentieth-century writers, showing how ch… read more

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"Living right in the heart of Tokyo itself is quite like living in the mountains – in the midst of so many people, one hardly sees anyone."

-Yūko Tsushima, Of Dogs and Walls

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29. Eine Frau zu sehen

By: Annemarie Schwarzenbach

3.87

Format: 76 pages, Hardcover

Weihnachten 1929: Im Fahrstuhl eines Hotels in den Schweizer Alpen trifft die junge Erzählerin auf … read more

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"(...) ese nombre que es más que deseo, que se ha convertido ya en posesión a fuerza de haberlo repetido mil veces."

-Annemarie Schwarzenbach, Eine Frau zu sehen

"Ich weiß nicht, wie ich ein Gestern ertragen habe, und ein Vorgestern, und die vielen Tage, die sich noch rückwärts reihen."

-Annemarie Schwarzenbach, Eine Frau zu sehen

"(...) ¿qué son las posibilidades? ¿No significan acaso promesa, siempre y cuando seamos valientes? ¿No significan acaso poder de la voluntad?: y saberlo es suficiente para ser capaz de esperar."

-Annemarie Schwarzenbach, Eine Frau zu sehen

"Pero, ¿podía haber algo que infundiera más miedo que otra noche de espera, otro día de tensión, el no-suceder, el no-actuar? ¿Acaso no se había alcanzado un punto culminante, por encima del cual solo…"

-Annemarie Schwarzenbach, Eine Frau zu sehen

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30. Être ici est une splendeur. Vie de Paula M. Becker

By: Marie Darrieussecq

4.09

Format: 154 pages, Kindle Edition

Paula Modersohn-Becker voulait peindre et c’est tout. Elle était amie avec Rilke. Elle n’aimait pas… read more

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"Les femmes n'ont pas de nom. Elles ont un prénom. Leur nom est un prêt transitoire, un signe instable, leur éphémère. Elles trouvent d'autres repères. Leur affirmation au monde, leur "être là", leur …"

-Marie Darrieussecq, Être ici est une splendeur. Vie de Paula M. Becker

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31. Mandelştam'ın Son Günleri

By: Vénus Khoury-Ghata

3.70

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

“Cesedimi alırsın sadece, senin için yazdığım şiir beni yaşatacak.” Osip Mandelştam’ın 1933 yılı… read more

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12 Top fiction books like 2666 by Roberto Bolaño

Transform Your Habits

Hopscotch

Julio Cortázar , Gregory Rabassa

4.20

Transform Your Habits

The Recognitions

William H. Gass , William Gaddis

4.20

Transform Your Habits

The Crying of Lot 49

Thomas Pynchon

3.69

Transform Your Habits

Underworld

Don DeLillo

4.81

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