Without Blood
Manuel Roca and his two sons live in the countryside, on an old isolated farm. When that old Mercedes arrives and he sees the four men getting out, he reacts as if he had been waiting for that moment all...
Literature - Psychological
Lucy by the Sea
Set during the 2020 pandemic, when the virus spreads through New York, William, Lucy’s ex-husband, comes to her home to take her to Maine in order to protect her from infection. Lucy is the widow of her...
Love And Summer
The work tells a romantic story set in a small inland village in Ireland during the summer. A young woman from the poorhouse, Ellie, is married for convenience to a widowed farmer; she falls in love with a...
The Death of a Beekeeper
Some consider this novel to be the best work of the Swedish author. Written in a fragmentary style, with texts taken from various sources (Yellow Notebook, Blue Notebook, and Torn Notebook), it narrates the...
I Called Him Necktie
It tells the story of the unexpected encounter between two very different men who nevertheless share feelings of isolation and emotional wounds. One is Hiro, a young Japanese hikikomori who has lived...
The Lady in the Van
A realistic novel in which the author humorously narrates the stay of an eccentric woman who, for more than ten years (1974 to 1989), used her garden to park her caravan. The author, to prevent his neighbor...
The Colony
The story begins in the summer of 1979: Lloyd is an artist from London who ventures to paint on a small, remote Irish island. He is ambitious and dreams of success. The solitude Lloyd seeks disappears when...
Sound of a Distant Horn
The Swedish convert Sven Stolpe wrote this psychological novel about a Swedish Catholic convert in Paris in the mid-twentieth century.
Among the supporting characters are an atheist physician, his...
Unformed Landscape
This Swiss author writes about Kathrine, born and raised in a village on a fjord in Finnmark. She is a sensitive Sami-Norwegian woman in her late 20s who finds few outlets for her desires.
With a son...
Beware of Pity
Beware of Pity is Stefan Zweig’s only full-length novel and a sharp portrait of human fragility in the face of misguided compassion. Set in pre–First World War Europe, it tells the story of Lieutenant Anton...