Books like Death in Venice
Gustav von Aschenbach, an ageing German writer on holiday in Venice, becomes infatuated with a beautiful Polish boy, Tadzio, and stays on as cholera spreads through the city.
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The Aspern Papers
An American editor takes rooms in a crumbling Venetian palazzo, posing as a lodger, to get his hands on the love letters a dead Romantic poet wrote to the very old woman who lives there with her niece.
Klingsor's Last Summer
In the last summer of his life, the painter Klingsor, forty-two, burns through drink, love and colour in the villages above an Italian-Swiss lake.
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
A young monk becomes so obsessed with the beauty of the Golden Pavilion in Kyoto that he decides to destroy it.
Mario and the Magician
On holiday at an Italian seaside resort in the late 1920s, a German family goes to the show of Cipolla, a hunchbacked hypnotist who bends his audience to his will.
Tonio Kröger
Tonio Kröger, son of a north German merchant and a dark-haired southern mother, grows up envying his town's ordinary, golden-haired boys and girls, and becomes a writer who belongs neither among artists nor among them.
The Line of Beauty
A young gay man in Thatcher-era London befriends a conservative MP's family and watches privilege, denial, and desire collide as the AIDS crisis approaches.
The Leopard
In 1860, as Garibaldi's troops land in Sicily, Prince Fabrizio of Salina watches the aristocratic world he was born into give way to the new Italy, and arranges his nephew's marriage to the daughter of a rich upstart.
Across the River and into the Trees
Colonel Richard Cantwell, fifty, scarred by two wars and with a failing heart, spends a winter weekend in Venice duck-hunting and with Renata, a young Venetian countess who loves him.
Nightwood
In Paris and Berlin between the wars, a circle of exiles orbits the restless, unreachable Robin Vote, and her abandoned lover Nora pours out her grief to a garrulous, unlicensed doctor in a novel of baroque, incantatory prose.
Snow Country
A Tokyo dilettante travels to a hot-spring town in snow country to visit his geisha lover, and the cold landscape mirrors the impossibility of their connection.
Embers
Two old friends meet after 41 years to confront betrayal, love, and a night that ended everything.
Kairos
A love affair between a young East Berlin student and a much older married writer begins at a bus stop in 1986 and outlives the wall that surrounds them.