Books like Death with Interruptions
On New Year's Day in an unnamed country, death stops killing, and as the old fail to die, the funeral industry collapses and the church panics, until death returns with new rules.
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Seeing
The sequel to Blindness: the city holds an election where every ballot is cast blank, and the government's response reveals that democracy's greatest threat is its own defenders.
The Stone Raft
The Iberian Peninsula breaks off from Europe and floats into the Atlantic, and the continent's reaction reveals everything about the politics of belonging.
Penguin Island
A short-sighted abbot mistakes a colony of great auks for people and baptises them, and heaven has to turn them into humans; their history then follows France's from Charlemagne to the Dreyfus affair.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
A prophet comes down from ten years alone on a mountain, convinced that God is dead, to teach the crowds that humanity is something to be overcome, in a book of speeches, parables and songs.
The Intuitionist
When an elevator crashes on her watch, the first Black woman in the city's Department of Elevator Inspectors hunts for a lost blueprint of the perfect elevator to clear her name.
Glory
In the animal kingdom of Jidada, the Old Horse who has ruled for decades is overthrown by his own deputy, and Destiny, a young goat back from exile, watches what happens next.
Still Life with Woodpecker
Princess Leigh-Cheri, an exiled royal and environmentalist, falls for Bernard Mickey Wrangle, an outlaw bomber known as the Woodpecker, in a love story built out of dynamite, pyramids, a pack of Camels and the moon.
Mort
Death takes on an apprentice, a gangly young man named Mort, and when Mort saves a princess who was supposed to die, reality starts to come apart around her.
Skinny Legs and All
A can of beans, a dirty sock, a painted stick, and the Dance of the Seven Veils become vehicles for a novel about religion, art, politics, and the third eye.
Humboldt's Gift
Charlie Citrine, a successful writer in 1970s Chicago, is losing his money to an ex-wife, a small-time gangster and a demanding girlfriend while he mourns Von Humboldt Fleisher, the brilliant, self-destructive poet who was his mentor.
Time Shelter
A Bulgarian writer works in a Zurich clinic where each floor recreates a decade of the 20th century for Alzheimer’s patients, and then nations begin choosing their own pasts.
White Noise
A professor of Hitler Studies at a Midwestern college faces an 'airborne toxic event' and discovers that the white noise of American consumer culture can't drown out the fear of death.