Books like Flights
A constellation of short pieces on travel and the human body, from a woman obsessed with anatomical specimens to Chopin's heart being smuggled home to Warsaw and a man whose wife and child vanish on a Croatian island.
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The Rings of Saturn
A walking tour of the Suffolk coast becomes a meditation on destruction, history, and memory.
Soul Mountain
A man wrongly told he has lung cancer sets off into the remote forests and mountains of southwest China in search of Lingshan, the soul mountain.
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Seven linked parts on forgetting, personal, political and erotic, as Czechs live under the Soviet occupation and remembering becomes an act of resistance.
When We Cease to Understand the World
Linked narratives enter the interior lives of 20th-century scientists and mathematicians at the edge of what knowledge can bear.
Lost Children Archive
A family drives from New York to the Arizona borderlands, the mother to document children caught at the border, the father to record the echoes of the Apache, as their marriage comes apart.
The Museum of Unconditional Surrender
A Croatian writer in exile in Berlin after the break-up of Yugoslavia assembles a novel from fragments, photographs and memories of her mother and of a country that no longer exists.
The Box Man
A nameless man cuts a window in a cardboard box, puts it over his head and begins to live inside it, writing the notebook the reader holds.
G.
The son of an Italian merchant and an American heiress, raised in England, grows up into G., a seducer, against the background of Europe before the First World War.
Blackouts
A young queer man keeps vigil at the deathbed of an older one, and together they rewrite the redacted margins of a 1940s study of sexual deviance.
Malina
A woman living in Vienna with a silent man named Malina and loving a violent one named Ivan writes her own disappearance in a book that is part novel, part score.
Speedboat
A young New York journalist narrates the 1970s in loose, dry, jumpy paragraphs about parties, assignments, and the peculiar etiquette of being alive in the city then.
The Book of Disquiet
A Lisbon bookkeeper's fragmentary diary of dreams, observations, and existential unease.