5 must-read fiction books like The Green Sea of Heaven: Fifty Ghazals from the Diwan of Hafiz by Hafez

Cover of The Green Sea of Heaven: Fifty Ghazals from the Diwan of Hafiz by Hafez

The Green Sea of Heaven: Fifty Ghazals from the Diwan of Hafiz

By: Hafez

4.41

Format: 170 pages, Paperback

Hafiz is the preeminent poet of Persian Sufism and one of the great poets of world literature. The …

If you liked the fiction plot in The Green Sea of Heaven: Fifty Ghazals from the Diwan of Hafiz by Hafez , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez, Gregory Rabassa

1. Chronicle of a Death Foretold

By: Gabriel García Márquez , Gregory Rabassa

3.97

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

A man returns to the town where a baffling murder took place twenty-seven years earlier, determined… read more

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  • fiction
"الشرف هو الحب" , هكذا كنت أسمع أمي تقول"

-Gabriel García Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold

"Ningún lugar de la vida es más triste que una cama vacía"

-Gabriel García Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold

"...ningún lugar de la vida es más triste que una cama vacía."

-Gabriel García Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold

"He always considered death an unavoidable professional hazard."

-Gabriel García Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold

2. The Prophet

By: Kahlil Gibran

4.01

Format: 511 pages, Paperback

Kahlil Gibran's masterpiece, The Prophet, is one of the most beloved classics of our time. Publishe… read more

Similar categories in Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet book and Hafez's The Green Sea of Heaven: Fifty Ghazals from the Diwan of Hafiz

  • poetry
  • fiction

3. Steppenwolf

By: Hermann Hesse , Basil Creighton , کیکاووس جهانداری

4.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

Steppenwolfis a poetical self-portrait of a man who felt himself to be half-human and half-wolf. Th… read more

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Cover of Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata, Edward G. Seidensticker

4. Thousand Cranes

By: Yasunari Kawabata , Edward G. Seidensticker

3.71

Format: 147 pages, Paperback

An alternate cover of this ISBN can be found here. Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata’s Thousa… read more

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  • fiction
"Гріх ніколи не змиєш, а горе минає."

-Yasunari Kawabata, Thousand Cranes

"Коли вона померла, я з жалем подумала: навіть якщо її не розуміли, то все одно смерть не можна виправдати. Смерть виключає будь-яку надію на порозуміння."

-Yasunari Kawabata, Thousand Cranes

"Now, even more than the evening before, he could think of no one with whom to compare her. She had become absolute, beyond comparison. She had become decision and fate."

-Yasunari Kawabata, Thousand Cranes

"– Понимаете, Кикудзисан, человек не может быть благоразумным и мудрым, если в нем слишком сильно мужское или женское начало. – Да? Значит, мудрость среднего пола? – Иронизируете? Ну, ну… Однако, когд…"

-Yasunari Kawabata, Thousand Cranes

Cover of Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata, Edward G. Seidensticker

5. Snow Country

By: Yasunari Kawabata , Edward G. Seidensticker

3.59

Format: 175 pages, Paperback

Nobel Prize recipient Yasunari Kawabata's Snow Country is widely considered to be the writer's mast… read more

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  • fiction
"국경의 긴 터널을 빠져나오자, 雪國이었다."

-Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country

"Nothing is so strange when one is in love."

-Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country

"In the moonlight the fine geishalike skin took on the luster of a seashell."

-Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country

"The notes went out crystalline into the clean winter morning, to sound on the far, snowy peaks."

-Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country

Cover of The Green Sea of Heaven: Fifty Ghazals from the Diwan of Hafiz by Hafez

6. The Green Sea of Heaven: Fifty Ghazals from the Diwan of Hafiz

By: Hafez

4.41

Format: 170 pages, Paperback

Hafiz is the preeminent poet of Persian Sufism and one of the great poets of world literature. The … read more

Similar categories in Hafez's The Green Sea of Heaven: Fifty Ghazals from the Diwan of Hafiz book and Hafez's The Green Sea of Heaven: Fifty Ghazals from the Diwan of Hafiz

  • islam
  • poetry
  • iran
  • fiction

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3.91

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4.02

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