Books like Almanac of the Dead
In Tucson two elderly Yaqui sisters guard the fragments of an ancient almanac that foretells the end of European rule in the Americas, while drug dealers, arms smugglers, psychics and revolutionaries across two continents move towards a reckoning.
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There There
Twelve Native Americans converge on a powwow in Oakland, each carrying a private history of displacement, addiction, and the violence of being seen as invisible.
Ceremony
Tayo, a young Laguna Pueblo man, comes home from the Second World War, where he was a prisoner of the Japanese, sick in body and spirit, and looks for healing in the old ceremonies.
Poor Fellow My Country
Jeremy Delacy, a cattleman in the Northern Territory, and his Aboriginal grandson Prindy live through the years leading up to the Second World War, in one of the longest of all Australian novels.
Nostromo
In the South American republic of Costaguana, the San Tomé silver mine becomes the prize in a revolution, and the incorruptible dockworker Nostromo is trusted to hide its silver.
2666
Five linked parts circle Santa Teresa, a city in the Mexican desert where hundreds of women are being murdered, and a reclusive German novelist whom four European critics are searching for.
Cities of Salt
In a desert oasis in an unnamed Gulf kingdom in the 1930s, Americans arrive looking for oil, and the oasis, its people and their way of life are swept away.
Waiting for the Barbarians
The Magistrate of a frontier town at the edge of an unnamed empire has kept the peace for years, until Colonel Joll arrives from the capital to interrogate prisoners about a rumoured barbarian rising.
Demons
A provincial Russian town is thrown into chaos by a small cell of revolutionaries, led by a manipulative young radical and orbiting the magnetic, hollow nobleman Stavrogin.
A Brief History of Seven Killings
The attempted assassination of Bob Marley in 1976 spirals into a three-decade story of gangsters, politics, drugs and the CIA, told by more than a dozen voices from Kingston to New York.
The War of the End of the World
In the backlands of northeastern Brazil in the 1890s, a preacher known as the Counsellor gathers thousands of the poor at Canudos, and the new republic sends its army against them.
Drylands
In a dying town in the Queensland outback, Janet Deakin, who runs the newsagency, writes a novel about her neighbours, and their stories of cruelty and leaving fill the book.
Carrion Comfort
Nina, Melanie and Willi, three old friends with the power to take over other people's minds, meet each year in Charleston to compare the deaths they have caused, while Saul Laski, a psychiatrist who survived a Nazi camp, hunts the officer who once used him as a puppet.