27 must-read fiction books like El Hacho by Luis Carrasco

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Similar categories in Jeanette Winterson's The Passion book and Luis Carrasco's El Hacho

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Similar categories in Jenny Erpenbeck's Kairos book and Luis Carrasco's El Hacho

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"She would like a shallow life, swift and shallow, till some day she can start again. Get through her time fast until then. And when will that be? Then."

-Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos

Similar categories in Gijs Wilbrink's De beesten book and Luis Carrasco's El Hacho

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Similar categories in Tan Twan Eng's The House of Doors book and Luis Carrasco's El Hacho

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"Money's the sixth sense. If you don't have it, you can't make … the most of the other five."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

"I feel that when I travel I can change myself a little, and I return from a journey not quite the same self I was."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

"That night, side by side, we drifted among the galaxies of sea-stars, while far, far above us the asterisks of light marked out the footnotes on the page of eternity."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

"All of us will be forgotten eventually. Like a wave on the ocean, leaving no trace that it had once existed.' He shook his head. 'We will be remembered through our stories."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

Similar categories in Robbie Arnott's Limberlost book and Luis Carrasco's El Hacho

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"After an hour of sodden stomping they saw ghostly figures beckoning them through the dense cloud. Highland snow gums, colour-swirled and hardy, and alpine yellow gums, splashed with shades of lemon a…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

"He told her the story of it, his words coming faster than with the others, without artifice or caution. Told her how he'd known there was something wonderful under the old paint from the moment he sa…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

"He'd stare at that field of water until all the things he could not handle were rinsed out of him, and all that remained within him was the memory of that night: the whale, the warmth of the coat, hi…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

"Three days after their wedding they were standing at the base of Liffey Falls, at the brisk death of winter, watching an airborne river thrash its way earthward. The water tumbled through high ridges…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

Similar categories in Jon McGregor's Lean Fall Stand book and Luis Carrasco's El Hacho

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Similar categories in Colin Barrett's Wild Houses book and Luis Carrasco's El Hacho

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"What you are in, Dev, is a holding pattern, only you're not holding out for anything."

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"All boys, all children, are capable of cruelty at the right juncture of opportunity and circumstance, but only a few become committed prodigies of sadism..."

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"In the dream, exactly as he had in real life, he sensed the slow, inexorable approach of the shapeless, prospectless days to come, days when there would be no need to get out of bed or brush his teet…"

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"He looked around the empty kitchen. A part of him wanted this of course. A part of him had always wanted this, to be alone, away from even the prospect of any demand upon him to talk, to interact, to…"

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

Similar categories in Adania Shibli's Minor Detail book and Luis Carrasco's El Hacho

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"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

Similar categories in Rita Bullwinkel's Headshot book and Luis Carrasco's El Hacho

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"The desire to please people is the desire to not be singular."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"Tanya Maw's sister is two years older, the perfect age gap for wisdom transmission."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"It can be intoxicating to play a sport that requires one to look in their opponent's eyes."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"It's a warmth that she'll feel again very few times in her life. It's almost like love, but it has a surer, less desperate edge to it."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

Similar categories in Ann-Helén Laestadius's Stolen book and Luis Carrasco's El Hacho

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"Plötsligt började áhkku sjunga, högt, med klar röst. En samisk psalm. Hanna stod en bra bit bort men hon vände sig om, lyssnade och sjönk ihop, såg ut att kunna ramla. "

-Ann-Helén Laestadius, Stolen

Similar categories in Leo Vardiashvili's Hard by a Great Forest book and Luis Carrasco's El Hacho

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Similar categories in Sholeh Rezazadeh's De hemel is altijd paars book and Luis Carrasco's El Hacho

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Similar categories in Claire Oshetsky's Poor Deer book and Luis Carrasco's El Hacho

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"She has just learned that some things are forever, and other things are never-again."

-Claire Oshetsky, Poor Deer

"On this day the girl feels so much love pouring out of her mother that she is certain her mother has the power to save her. Soon she will come to understand she can't be saved."

-Claire Oshetsky, Poor Deer

Similar categories in Sylvain Neuvel's The Test book and Luis Carrasco's El Hacho

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Similar categories in Samantha Harvey's Orbital book and Luis Carrasco's El Hacho

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"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

Similar categories in Hisham Matar's My Friends book and Luis Carrasco's El Hacho

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"A vast distance exists between a protester and his slogan; the entire history of politics exists in that gap."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"For a writer, exile is prison, a severing from the source, and so, courageous or not, he dies in front of our eyes."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"She was older and all the more beautiful, had the weary tiredness of one who, in surrendering to her life, was ennobled by it."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"I walked off feeling an emptiness well up inside me. It seemed, for all the emptiness that it was, a presence. It made me want to run away, dive deeper into myself, into that cold desolation, to the …"

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

Similar categories in Paolo Cognetti's Beneden in het dal book and Luis Carrasco's El Hacho

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Similar categories in Ish Ait Hamou's Het moois dat we delen book and Luis Carrasco's El Hacho

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"Wie wacht die verwacht."

-Ish Ait Hamou, Het moois dat we delen

"Ik sukkel niet omdat ik zwak ben, ik sukkel omdat ik sterk ben."

-Ish Ait Hamou, Het moois dat we delen

"Medelijden is een gevaarlijk ding, medelijden komt voort uit een superioriteitsgevoel."

-Ish Ait Hamou, Het moois dat we delen

"Slechte gewoontes verlaten je nooit, ze schuilen, ze onderwerpen zich, maar ze vertrekken niet."

-Ish Ait Hamou, Het moois dat we delen

Similar categories in Yael van der Wouden's The Safekeep book and Luis Carrasco's El Hacho

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Similar categories in Sebastián Martínez Daniell's Two Sherpas book and Luis Carrasco's El Hacho

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"One minute it represents the pinnacle of gregarious engineering, the most refined Apollonian mechanism of social regulation; the next it’s a groping homunculus spewing pus and other people’s blood on…"

-Sebastián Martínez Daniell, Two Sherpas

"Actions, thoughts, interpretations, dialogues and soliloquies, sufferings… are nothing more than intermittently surging projections, stamps on the surface of the knowable. Symptoms. The real is in th…"

-Sebastián Martínez Daniell, Two Sherpas

"Although it could be argued that every voyage already contains, in latent form, the possibility of its deviations. That they’re never random. That nor are they predestined. But they are larval, that …"

-Sebastián Martínez Daniell, Two Sherpas

"It’s a brief moment before the word is returned to the box of the irreversible, before it makes itself present with its flotilla of tragic predestinations. A regrettable loss, a true disaster. The li…"

-Sebastián Martínez Daniell, Two Sherpas

Similar categories in Elif Shafak's There Are Rivers in the Sky book and Luis Carrasco's El Hacho

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"Books, like paper lanterns, provide us with a light amidst the fog."

-Elif Shafak, There Are Rivers in the Sky

Similar categories in Anne Michaels's Held book and Luis Carrasco's El Hacho

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"Who can say what happens when we are remembered?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"Do we really need our own misery to teach us to be kind?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"Would he know the moment of his death or would it be like night falling."

-Anne Michaels, Held

Similar categories in Luis Carrasco's El Hacho book and Luis Carrasco's El Hacho

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• spain
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Similar categories in Susanna Clarke's The Wood at Midwinter book and Luis Carrasco's El Hacho

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Similar categories in Munir Hachemi's Living Things book and Luis Carrasco's El Hacho

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• spain
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Similar categories in Rachel Kushner's Creation Lake book and Luis Carrasco's El Hacho

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"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

Similar categories in Lynn Buckle's What Willow Says book and Luis Carrasco's El Hacho

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• literary fiction
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"Nothing holds sadness quite as well as concrete."

-Lynn Buckle, What Willow Says