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1950
The Family Moskat
Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Drinker
Hans Fallada · 2009
One of the great German writers of the 20th century draws from his own life to present a “brave, fearless, and honest” tale of one man’s dark descent into depression and alcoholism (The Sunday Times, London)<br/><br/>This astonishing, autobiographical tour de force was written by Hans Fallada in an encrypted notebook while he was incarcerated in a Nazi insane asylum. Discovered after his death, it tells the tale—often fierce, often poignant, often extremely funny—of a small businessman losing control as he fights valiantly to blot out an increasingly oppressive society.<br/><br/>In a brilliant translation by Charlotte and A.L. Lloyd, it is presented here with an afterword by John Willett that details the life and career of the once internationally acclaimed Hans Fallada, and his fate under the Nazis—which brings out the horror of the events behind the book.
1952
Carol
Patricia Highsmith · 2010
Therese first glimpses Carol in the New York department store where she is working as a sales assistant. Carol is choosing a present for her daughter; she looks preoccupied, exuding an aura of elegance as perfect as a secret. Standing there at the counter, Therese suddenly feels wholly innocent - wholly unprepared for the first shock of love.<br> Therese was nineteen, and loved by a young man she cared about, but could not desire. Carol was a sophisticated married woman. Now Therese seemed to have no other purpose to her life other than their meeting?<br> First published under a pseudonym in 1952, Carol is a love story told with compelling wit and eroticism, and consummate tenderness.
East of Eden
John Steinbeck · 2002
1953
In the Castle of My Skin (Penguin Modern Classics)
George Lamming (author) · 2017
Someone at a Distance
Dorothy Whipple · 2011
Trans-Atlantyk
Witold Gombrowicz · 2024
1955
Pedro Paramo
Juan Rulfo · 2012
Ispanyolcanin Don Quijote'den sonraki en buyuk basyapiti!Her yolu kullanarak istedigi her seyi elde eden toprak agasi, kotulugun ta kendisi Pedro Páramo...olum dosegindeki annesinin -Marquez'in Macondo'suna esin kaynagi olacak- hayaletli koy Comala'ya babasini aramaya gonderdigi Juan Preciado...Pedro Páramo'nun cocukluk aski, butun omrunce tutkuyla sevdigi Susanna San Juan...Ve hem Meksika edebiyatinin hem de butun Ispanyolca edebiyatin temel taslarindan Juan Rulfo'nun tek romani: Pedro Páramo.Sayfa Sayisi: 132Baski Yili: 2015Dili: TurkceYayinevi: Dogan Kitap
1957
The Cairo Trilogy
Naguib Mahfouz · 2001
The Waiting Years (Vintage Classics)
Fumiko Enchi · 2019
Doctor Zhivago (Vintage Classic Russians Series)
Borís Pasternak · 2017
1958
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter (Perennial Classics)
Simone de Beauvoir · 2005
Things Fall Apart (Everyman's Library)
Chinua Achebe · 1995
Masks (Vintage Classics)
Fumiko Enchi · 2019
Published for the first time in the UK, one of Japan's greatest modern female writers<br/><br/>Ibuki loves widow Yasuko who is young, charming and sparkling with intelligence as well as beauty. His friend, Mikamé, desires her too but that is not the difficulty.
1959
Nikolai Gogol
Vladimir Nabokov · 2017
The Tin Drum
Günter Grass · 2010
Life And Fate (Vintage Classic Russians Series)
Vasily Grossman · 2017
1960
Butchers Crossing
John Williams · 2014
Mina drömmars stad
Per Anders Fogelström · 2009
En sommarkväll i ångans år, 1860, kommer Henning Nilsson vandrande till staden han drömt om. Men ännu är Stockholm en liten och fattig stad, och Henning och Lotten, flickan som han gifter sig med, får slita hårt för att skapa sig en ljus tillvaro.
Pornografia
Witold Gombrowicz · 1991
After the Banquet
Yukio Mishima · 2001
<b>For years Kazu has run her fashionable restaurant with a combination of charm and shrewdness - then she falls in love.</b><br> <br> The man is one of her clients, an aristocratic retired politician, and she renounces her business in order to become his wife. But it is not so easy to renounce her independent spirit. Eventually Kazu must choose between her marriage and the demands of her irrepressible vitality. <i>After the Banquet</i> is a magnificent portrait of political and domestic warfare and love in later life.<br> <br> <b>'An exquisitely paced high comedy at once characterized by humor and restraint...features a magnificently ebullient heroine as she embarks upon one more adventure in love' <i>Kirkus</i><br> <br> ' Mishima's most novelistic work, with a degree of earthiness and warmth rare in his fiction' <i>New York Times</i></b>
1961
Jagua Nana
Cyprian Ekwensi · 2018
<b>Bold, moving, entertaining and controversial, this is the great novel of 1960s Lagos life - with one of the most unforgettable heroines in literature. <br></b><br>Jagua Nana, no longer young but still irresistible, lives a life of hedonism in Lagos: men, parties, fights, wild nights in the Tropicana with her handsome young boyfriend Freddie. Rushing from one experience to the next in search of something she can't quite grasp, Jagua finds herself embroiled in shady politics, caught up in village feuds and a source of drama wherever she goes. In this vivid depiction of 1960s Nigeria, everyone is hustling and everyone is on the make - and a woman like Jagua must find her own unconventional path to fulfilment.
On Heroes and Tombs (Penguin Modern Classics)
Ernesto Sabato · 2017
Revolutionary Road
Richard Yates · 2007
1962
The Golden Notebook: A Novel
Doris Lessing · 2008
Pale Fire
Vladimir Nabokov · 1989
1963
Iza's Ballad
Magda Szabo · 2016
The Group
Mary McCarthy · 1991
Portrays the lives of eight women graduated from the same class at Vassar.
The Time of the Hero
Vargas Llosa M. · 2004
Hopscotch
Julio Cortazar · 2020
1964
The Complete Stories (FSG Classics)
Flannery O'Connor · 1971
The Passion According to G.H (Penguin Modern Classics)
Clarice Lispector · 2022
The Face of Another
Kobo Abe · 2003
A Personal Matter
Kenzaburo Oë, John Nathan · 1994
Kenzaburo Oe, the winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize for Literature, is internationally acclaimed as one of the most important and influential post-World War II writers, known for his powerful accounts of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and his own struggle to come to terms with a mentally handicapped son. The Swedish Academy lauded Oe for his "poetic force [that] creates an imagined world where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today." His most popular book, A Personal Matter is the story of Bird, a frustrated intellectual in a failing marriage whose Utopian dream is shattered when his wife gives birth to a brain-damaged child. In writing novels there is no substitute for maturity and moral awareness. Kenzaburo Oe has both.”Alan Levensohn, Christian Science Monitor
1965
Cosmos
Witold Gombrowicz · 1988
The Painted Bird
Jerzy Kosinski · 2007
The Magus
John Fowles · 2004
1966
The Green House
Mario Vargas Llosa · 2005
<p>Mario Vargas Llosa's classic early novel takes place in a Peruvian town, situated between desert and jungle, which is torn by boredom and lust. Don Anselmo, a stranger in a black coat, builds a brothel on the outskirts of the town while he charms its innocent people, setting in motion a chain reaction with extraordinary consequences.</p> <p>This brothel, called the Green House, brings together the innocent and the corrupt: Bonificia, a young Indian girl saved by the nuns only to become a prostitute; Father Garcia, struggling for the church; and four best friends drawn to both excitement and escape.</p> <p>The conflicting forces that haunt the Green House evoke a world balanced between savagery and civilization -- and one that is cursed by not being able to discern between the two.</p>
Wide Sargasso Sea
Jean Rhys · 2016
Silence
Shusaku Endo
Beautiful Losers
Leonard Cohen · 1993
In Cold Blood
Capote Truman · 2012
1967
The Ruined Map: A Novel
Kobo Abe · 2001
Of all the great Japanese novelists, Kobe Abe was indubitably the most versatile. With <b>The Ruined Map</b>, he crafted a mesmerizing literary crime novel that combines the narrative suspense of Chandler with the psychological depth of Dostoevsky.<br><br>Mr. Nemuro, a respected salesman, disappeared over half a year ago, but only now does his alluring yet alcoholic wife hire a private eye. The nameless detective has but two clues: a photo and a matchbook. With these he embarks upon an ever more puzzling pursuit that leads him into the depths of Tokyo's dangerous underworld, where he begins to lose the boundaries of his own identity. Surreal, fast-paced, and hauntingly dreamlike, Abe’s masterly novel delves into the unknowable mysteries of the human mind.<br>Translated from the Japanese by E. Dale Saunders.
A Grain of Wheat
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o · 2010
Originally published in 1967, Ngugi's third novel is his best known and most ambitious work. "A Grain of Wheat" portrays several characters in a village whose intertwined lives are transformed by the 1952-1960 Emergency in Kenya. As the action follows the village's arrangements for Uhuru (independence) Day. This is a novel of stories within stories, a narrative interwoven with myth as well as allusions to real-life leaders of the nationalist struggle, including Jomo Kenyatta. At the centre of it all is the reticent Mugo, the village's chosen hero and a man haunted by a terrible secret. As events unfold, compromises are forced, friendships are betrayed and loves are tested.
The Silent Cry
Kenzaburo Oe · 2016
The Silent Cry follows two brothers who return to their ancestral home, a village in densely forested Western Japan. After decades of separation, the reunited men are each preoccupied by their own personal crises. One brother grapples with the recent suicide of his dearest friend, the birth of his disabled son, and his wife's increasing alcoholism. The other brother sets out to incite an uprising among the local youth against the disintegration of the community's culture and economy due to the imposing franchise of a Korean businessman nicknamed the "Emperor of the Supermarkets". Both brothers live in the shadow of the mysteries surrounding the untimely deaths of their older brother and younger sister, as well as their great-grandfather's political heroism. When long-kept family secrets are revealed, the brothers' strained bond is pushed to its breaking-point and their lives are irrevocably changed. Considered Oe's most essential work by the Nobel Prize committee, The Silent Cry is as powerfully relevant today as it was when first published in 1967.
1969
Family Lexicon
Natalia Ginzburg · 2018
Ada Or Ador A Family Chronicle
Vladimir Nabokov · 1974
Runaway Horses
Yukio Mishima · 1999
<b>The second book in Mishima's Sea of Fertility tetraology - this is a story of political violence, traditional samurai values and nihilism.</b><br> <br> Isao is a young, engaging patriot, and a fanatical believer in the ancient samurai ethos. He turns terrorist, organising a violent plot against the new industrialists, who he believes are threatening the integrity of Japan and usurping the Emperor's rightful power. As the conspiracy unfolds and unravels, Mishima brilliantly chronicles the conflicts of a decade that saw the fabric of Japanese life torn apart.<br> <br> <b>'<i>Runaway Horses</i> is disturbing material, also a harbinger of Mishima's own act of 'patriotic' self-slaughter... Strange, elegant, erotic' <i>Guardian</i></b>
Spring Snow: The Sea of Fertility, 1
Yukio Mishima · 1990
A Void
Georges Perec · 2025
1970
The Temple of Dawn
Yukio Mishima · 1999
Temple of Dawn
1971
Malina (Penguin Modern Classics)
Ingeborg Bachmann · 2019
Maurice: A Novel
E. M. Forster · 2005
The Decay of the Angel
Yukio Mishima · 2001
1972
Augustus (New York Review Books Classics)
John Williams · 2014
1973
The Box Man: A Novel
Kobo Abe · 2001
Kobo Abe, the internationally acclaimed author of <b>Woman in the Dunes</b><i>, </i>combines wildly imaginative fantasies and naturalistic prose to create narratives reminiscent of the work of Kafka and Beckett.<br><br>In this eerie and evocative masterpiece, the nameless protagonist gives up his identity and the trappings of a normal life to live in a large cardboard box he wears over his head. Wandering the streets of Tokyo and scribbling madly on the interior walls of his box, he describes the world outside as he sees or perhaps imagines it, a tenuous reality that seems to include a mysterious rifleman determined to shoot him, a seductive young nurse, and a doctor who wants to become a box man himself. <b>The Box Man</b> is a marvel of sheer originality and a bizarrely fascinating fable about the very nature of identity.<br><br>Translated from the Japanese by E. Dale Saunders.
The Black Prince: Vintage Classics Murdoch Series
Iris Murdoch · 2019
Gravitys Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon · 2013
1974
I the Supreme
Augusto Roa Bastos · 2019
1977
Complete Stories (Penguin Modern Classics)
Clarice Lispector · 2022
Petals of Blood
Ngugi wa Thiong'o · 2018
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
Mario Llosa · 1982
Secret Rendezvous
Kobo Abe · 2002
From the acclaimed author of <i>Woman in the Dunes</i> comes <b>Secret Rendezvous</b><i>,</i> the bizarrely erotic and comic adventures of a man searching for his missing wife in a mysteriously vast underground hospital.<br><br> From the moment that an ambulance appears in the middle of the night to take his wife, who protests that she is perfectly healthy, her bewildered husband realizes that things are not as they should be. His covert explorations reveal that the enormous hospital she was taken to is home to a network of constant surveillance, outlandish sex experiments, and an array of very odd and even violent characters. Within a few days, though no closer to finding his wife, the unnamed narrator finds himself appointed the hospital’s chief of security, reporting to a man who thinks he’s a horse. With its nightmarish vision of modern medicine and modern life, <b>Secret Rendezvous</b> is another masterpiece from Japan’s most gifted and original writer of serious fiction.
1978
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting: A Novel
Milan Kundera · 2023
Broken April
Ismail Kadare · 2005
The Sea, The Sea: Vintage Classics Murdoch Series
Iris Murdoch · 2019
Life A Users Manual
Perec, Georges
1979
Burgers Daughter
Nadine Gordimer · 1987
1980
Coin Locker Babies
Murakami, Ryu (author) · 2023
1983
Mazurka for Two Dead Men
Camilo José Cela · 2019
Child of Fortune
Yuko Tsushima · 2018
'A terrific novel' Angela Carter Koko won't do what is expected of her. Defying her family's wishes, she has brought up her eleven-year-old daughter alone in her apartment. And now, after a casual affair, she is unexpectedly pregnant again. What will this mean for her already troubled relationship with her daughter? As she faces the future, memories of her own childhood loss flood into her consciousness, threatening to overwhelm her. Combining the beauty and unease of a dream, this haunting novel is an unflinching portrayal of a woman's innermost fears and desires. 'As relevant today as when it was published ... at once powerfully uplifting and achingly sad' Japan Times
1984
Segu
Maryse Condé · 2017
The Ark Sakura (Vintage International)
Kobo Abe · 2009
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Milan Kundera · 2023
1985
Love in the Time of Cholera (Penguin Modern Classics)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez,Gabriel Garc-A Mrquez · 2007
1986
Search Sweet Country (Penguin Modern Classics)
Kojo Laing · 2019
Winner of the Valco Fund Literary Award for Fiction and the Ghana Book Award<br/>Search Sweet Country follows the lives of an eclectic, interconnected group of Ghanaians living in and around the sprawling, chaotic city of Accra in the mid-1970s. Bringing the city to life in dizzying, lyrical prose, Laing weaves a story filled with bizarre and often melancholy characters: an idealistic professor, a lovely young witch, a wide-eyed student, a corrupt politician and his hack sidekick, a business-savvy young woman, a healer, a bishop and a crazy man intent on founding his own village. Their collective narratives create a portrait of a country where colonialism is dying, but democracy remains elusive. Search Sweet Country is a timeless, near-forgotten gem by a virtuosic writer, as necessary now as when the book was first published. Like Joyce's Dublin and Dickens's London, Laing's Accra brims with both lush specificity and universal relevance.
1987
Beloved (Everyman's Library)
Toni Morrison · 2006
<b>Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Toni Morrison’s <i>Beloved</i> is a spellbinding and dazzlingly innovative portrait of a woman haunted by the past, presented here in stunning hardcover with an introduction by A. S. Byatt.<br></b><br><b>Named by <i>The Atlantic</i> as one of the Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years.<br></b><br>Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has borne the unthinkable and not gone mad, yet she is still held captive by memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. Meanwhile Sethe’s house has long been troubled by the angry, destructive ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved.<br><br>Sethe works at beating back the past, but it makes itself heard and felt incessantly in her memory and in the lives of those around her. When a mysterious teenage girl arrives, calling herself Beloved, Sethe’s terrible secret explodes into the present.<br><br>Combining the visionary power of legend with the unassailable truth of history, Morrison’s unforgettable novel is one of the great and enduring works of American literature.<br><br>Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Contemporary Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times.
1988
Libra (Contemporary American Fiction)
Don DeLillo · 1991
The Garlic Ballads: A Novel
Mo Yan, Howard Goldblatt · 2012
Bad Behavior
Mary Gaitskill · 2019
Thus Were Their Faces: Selected Stories (NYRB Classics)
Silvina Ocampo · 2015
Dance, Dance, Dance
Haruki Murakami · 2003
1990
Possession
A. S. Byatt · 1991
Velvet Waters
Gerald Murnane · 1992
1992
The Natural Order of Things
Antonio Lobo Antunes · 2001
A Heart so White
Javier Maras,Javier Mar?as · 2012
1993
The Robber Bride
Margaret Atwood · 2011
1994
Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me
Javier Maras,Javier Mar?as · 2022
La muerte de Carlos Gardel (Spanish Edition)
António Lobo Antunes · 2012
1996
Toddler Hunting: And Other Stories
Taeko Kono · 2018
Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2018<br/>An unforgettable collection of stories from “the most carnally direct and the most lucidly intelligent woman writing in Japan” (Kenzaburo Oe)<br/>Toddler-Hunting and Other Stories introduces a startlingly original voice. Winner of Japan’s top literary prizes for fiction (among them the Akutagawa, the Tanizaki, the Noma, and the Yomiuri), Taeko Kono writes with a strange beauty, pinpricked with sadomasochistic and disquieting scenes.<br/>In the title story, the protagonist loathes young girls, but compulsively buys expensive clothes for little boys so that she can watch them dress and undress. The impersonal gaze Taeko Kono turns on this behavior transfixes the reader with a fatal question: What are we hunting for? And why?<br/>Multiplying perspectives and refracting light from the strangely facing mirrors of fantasy and reality, pain and pleasure, these ten stories present Kono at her very best.
1997
In the Miso Soup
Ryu Murakami · 2006
1998
The Rum Diary
Hunter S. Thompson · 2004
1999
Daughter of Fortune: A Novel
Isabel Allende · 2014
<p>From the New York Times bestselling author of The House of the Spirits, Isabelle Allende, comes a passionate tale of one young woman's quest to save her lover set against the chaos of the 1849 California Gold Rush.<br></p><p>Orphaned at birth, Eliza Sommers is raised in the British colony of Valparaíso, Chile, by the well-intentioned Victorian spinster Miss Rose and her more rigid brother Jeremy. Just as she meets and falls in love with the wildly inappropriate Joaquín Andieta, a lowly clerk who works for Jeremy, gold is discovered in the hills of northern California. By 1849, Chileans of every stripe have fallen prey to feverish dreams of wealth. Joaquín takes off for San Francisco to seek his fortune, and Eliza, pregnant with his child, decides to follow him.<br></p><p>As Eliza embarks on her perilous journey north in the hold of a ship and arrives in the rough-and-tumble world of San Francisco, she must navigate a society dominated by greedy men. But Eliza soon catches on with the help of her natural spirit and a good friend, the Chinese doctor Tao Chi'en. What began as a search for love ends up as the conquest of personal freedom.<br></p><p>A marvel of storytelling, Daughter of Fortune confirms once again Isabel Allende's extraordinary gift for fiction and her place as one of the world's leading writers.<br></p>
Disgrace
J. M. Coetzee · 1999
