8 best-selling france books like La Fissure by Jean-Paul Didierlaurent

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La Fissure

By: Jean-Paul Didierlaurent

3.53

Format: 219 pages, Kindle Edition

Dernier représentant d’une entreprise de nains de jardin rachetée par une holding américaine, Xavie…

If you liked the france plot in La Fissure by Jean-Paul Didierlaurent , here is a list of 8 books like this:

Cover of Voices in the Evening by Natalia Ginzburg

1. Voices in the Evening

By: Natalia Ginzburg

3.74

Format: 170 pages, Paperback

In a hushed Italian town after the Second World War, Elsa lives with her parents in the house where… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Monsieur Ibrahim and The Flowers of the Qur'an by Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Patricia Benecke, Patrick Driver

2. Monsieur Ibrahim and The Flowers of the Qur'an

By: Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt , Patricia Benecke , Patrick Driver

4.83

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Internationally acclaimed play of cross-cultural friendship Paris in the 1960s. Thirteen-year-old M… read more

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  • france
  • fiction
Cover of The Seventh Function of Language by Laurent Binet

3. The Seventh Function of Language

By: Laurent Binet

3.76

Format: 359 pages, Paperback

Paris, 1980. The literary critic Roland Barthes dies—struck by a laundry van—after lunch with the p… read more

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  • france
  • fiction
"The slalom race of syntax!"

-Laurent Binet, The Seventh Function of Language

"He liked cock, this intellectual!"

-Laurent Binet, The Seventh Function of Language

"The homosexuals are the new Jesuits."

-Laurent Binet, The Seventh Function of Language

"What would you do if you ruled the world?"

-Laurent Binet, The Seventh Function of Language

Cover of Le sumo qui ne pouvait pas grossir by Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt

4. Le sumo qui ne pouvait pas grossir

By: Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt

3.76

Format: 168 pages, Broche

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  • france
  • fiction
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5. MUH!

By: David Safier

3.86

Format: 302 pages, Hardcover

Eine tierisch komische Geschichte <>Dieses Lied singt die ostfriesische Kuh Lolle, deren Traum vom … read more

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  • france
  • fiction
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6. The Argonauts

By: Maggie Nelson

3.91

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Ma… read more

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7. 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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8. Housekeeping

By: Marilynne Robinson

3.94

Format: 450 pages,

A modern classic, Housekeepingis the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up hap… read more

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9. Was man von hier aus sehen kann

By: Mariana Leky

4.62

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Von der unbedingten Anwesenheitspflicht im eigenen Leben Selma, eine alte Westerwalderin, kann den … 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. Last Vanities

By: Tim Parks , Fleur Jaeggy

4.20

Format: 172 pages, Paperback

Jaeggy has come up with seven stories, each at some deep level in dark complicity with the others, … read more

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12. El olvido que seremos

By: Héctor Abad Faciolince

4.07

Format: None pages, Paperback

El medico Hector Abad Gomez dedico sus ultimos anos, hasta el mismo dia en que cayo asesinado en pl… read more

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13. Semmelweis

By: Louis-Ferdinand Céline

4.00

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

Louis-Ferdinand Celine (1894-1961) is best known for his early novels Journey to the End of the Nig… read more

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14. Age of Iron

By: J.M. Coetzee

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

In Cape Town, South Africa, an old woman is dying of cancer. A classics professor, Mrs. Curren has … read more

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15. Bad Girls

By: Camila Sosa Villada

4.43

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Gritty and unflinching, yet also tender, fantastical, and funny, a trans woman’s coming-of-age tale… read more

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  • fiction
"Nosotras habíamos nacido ya expulsadas del armario,esclavas de nuestra apariencia."

-Camila Sosa Villada, Bad Girls

"Cuando una puerta se cierra, se abre una ventana, pero hay que ser muy ágil para entrar o salir por la ventana"

-Camila Sosa Villada, Bad Girls

"La infancia y las travestis son incompatibles. La imagen de una travesti con un niño en brazos es pecado para esa gentuza."

-Camila Sosa Villada, Bad Girls

"A las travestis no nos nombra nadie, salvo nosotras. El resto de la gente ignora nuestros nombres, usa el miso para todas: putos."

-Camila Sosa Villada, Bad Girls

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16. Baumgartner

By: Paul Auster

3.78

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A taut yet expansive novel of love, memory, and grief from Paul Auster, best-selling, award-winning… read more

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  • fiction
"Vivir es sentir dolor, y vivir con miedo al dolor es negarse a vivir"

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

"To live is to feel pain, he told himself, and to live in fear of pain is to refuse to live."

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

"at some point in the coming years, the two books should be combined and reconfigured into a large, one-volume collected poems—a monument of singing pages that will overwhelm the silence of Anna’s gra…"

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

"the story turns out to be so astounding and so powerful that your jaw drops open and you feel that it has changed or enhanced or deepened your understanding of the world, does it matter if the story …"

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

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17. Kairos

By: Jenny Erpenbeck

3.46

Format: 379 pages, Hardcover

Die neunzehnjährige Katharina und Hans, ein verheirateter Mann Mitte fünfzig, begegnen sich Ende de… read more

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  • fiction
"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

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18. 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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  • france
"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

Cover of The Pachinko Parlour by Elisa Shua Dusapin

19. The Pachinko Parlour

By: Elisa Shua Dusapin

3.61

Format: 171 pages, Paperback

The days are beginning to draw in. The sky is dark by seven in the evening. I lie on the floor and … read more

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  • france
  • fiction
"They made it illegal to speak Korean. You could be sentenced to death for speaking it. And do you know what your grandmother’s mother did to avoid being subjected to speaking Japanese at school? She …"

-Elisa Shua Dusapin, The Pachinko Parlour

"When Korea was divided, we were still nationals of a unified Korea. It was called Choson. At separation, the Japanese government gave us permission to keep our Korean identity, but we had to choose b…"

-Elisa Shua Dusapin, The Pachinko Parlour

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20. Los abismos

By: Pilar Quintana

3.91

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Una niña contempla con una agudeza y una sensibilidad extraordinaria el conflictivo matrimonio de s… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Terra Alta (Terra Alta, #1) by Javier Cercas

21. Terra Alta (Terra Alta, #1)

By: Javier Cercas

3.67

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Él era un hombre justo, el mundo, no. Terra Alta, un thriller impactante. Un crimen terrible sacud… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Three O'Clock in the Morning by Gianrico Carofiglio

22. Three O'Clock in the Morning

By: Gianrico Carofiglio

4.00

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A coming-of-age novel—a heady union of Before Sunrise and Beautiful Ruins—about a father and his te… read more

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  • france
  • fiction
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23. Indelicacy

By: Amina Cain

3.59

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

In "a strangely ageless world somewhere between Emily Dickinson and David Lynch" (Blake Butler), a … read more

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  • fiction
"I hated March more than any other month, with its promises of warmth that never came"

-Amina Cain, Indelicacy

"I would listen to a bird cry, or the cat and the dog scratching around. In those moments I felt like a giant ear."

-Amina Cain, Indelicacy

"In books I found even more strongly my desire to write, to write back to them and their jagged, perfect words. I found life that ran close to my own"

-Amina Cain, Indelicacy

"Why is empty space a comfort and a relief? It's not because I project myself there; it's because I can't. It shows me my projections, but they haven't left my mind. Empty space remains empty, always.…"

-Amina Cain, Indelicacy

Cover of The Jealousy Man and Other Stories by Jo Nesbø

24. The Jealousy Man and Other Stories

By: Jo Nesbø

3.65

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

A veritable crime lover’s delight from a true master of mystery and suspense. Experience the #1 New… read more

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  • fiction
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25. Intermezzo

By: Sally Rooney

4.34

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Of Dogs and Walls by Yūko Tsushima

26. 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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  • fiction
"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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27. Ruth & Pen

By: Emilie Pine

3.69

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Dublin, 7th October 2019. One day, one city, two women - Ruth and Pen. Neither known to the other, … read more

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  • fiction
Cover of La Fissure by Jean-Paul Didierlaurent

28. La Fissure

By: Jean-Paul Didierlaurent

3.53

Format: 219 pages, Kindle Edition

Dernier représentant d’une entreprise de nains de jardin rachetée par une holding américaine, Xavie… read more

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  • france
  • fiction
Cover of Babam, Ev ve Yumurta Kabukları by Fatma Nur Kaptanoğlu

29. Babam, Ev ve Yumurta Kabukları

By: Fatma Nur Kaptanoğlu

4.29

Format: 112 pages, None

Geldim. Yine. Eve dönmek çocukluğunu geçirdiğin dört duvara dönmek değil sadece, çocukluğunu oluştu… read more

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Cover of Küçük Kardeşim by Jean-Louis Fournier

30. Küçük Kardeşim

By: Jean-Louis Fournier

3.57

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Birbirinden tamamen farklı iki erkek kardeş. Büyüğü çapkın, geveze, özgüvenli, tembel, sözcükler… read more

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Cover of Beden Kaçarken by Ricardo Sumalavia

31. Beden Kaçarken

By: Ricardo Sumalavia

3.16

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

“Aslında ortada bir ceset yoktu ama bir ceset hikâyesi vardı (ki edebiyatta bu ikisi aynı şeydir).”… read more

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Voices in the Evening

Natalia Ginzburg

3.74

Transform Your Habits

Monsieur Ibrahim and The Flowers of the Qur'an

Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt , Patricia Benecke , Patrick Driver

4.83

Transform Your Habits

The Seventh Function of Language

Laurent Binet

3.76

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Le sumo qui ne pouvait pas grossir

Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt

3.76

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Lance

Vladimir Nabokov

3.37

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The Three Electroknights

Stanisław Lem

3.33

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Three Japanese Short Stories

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

3.28

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Fame

Andy Warhol

3.55

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