Books like Milkman
In an unnamed city in the 1970s, an eighteen-year-old who reads nineteenth-century novels while she walks is pursued by a married paramilitary known as the milkman, and the whole community starts to talk.
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The Appointment
A young woman in Ceaușescu's Romania rides the tram to another interrogation by the secret police, and on the way remembers how she came to be summoned.
In the Country of Men
In Tripoli in 1979, nine-year-old Suleiman watches his dissident father vanish into Qaddafi's purges, and his mother drink to forget.
The Good Terrorist
Alice, a middle-class revolutionary in her thirties, moves in with a group of comrades squatting in a derelict London house and sets about making it a home while they plan something bigger.
Molloy
A decrepit wanderer looking for his mother, and the agent Moran, sent to find him, each tell stories that dissolve as they go, in the first novel of Beckett's trilogy.
Leviathan
After a man blows himself up beside a Wisconsin road, his novelist friend reconstructs how a gentle writer became a bomber of Statue of Liberty replicas.
The Flamethrowers
A young motorcycle racer and artist moves to New York in 1975, falls for the heir to an Italian tyre empire, and follows him to Italy as the radical movements of 1977 erupt.
The Bee Sting
The Barnes family of a small Irish town is coming apart: the father's car dealership is failing after the 2008 crash, the mother watches the money and the marriage slip away, and their teenage daughter and young son each struggle in secret.
Nutshell
A fetus in the womb narrates the plot his mother and her lover, his uncle, are hatching to murder his father, Hamlet retold from before birth.
Brooklyn
In the early 1950s, Eilis Lacey leaves her mother and sister in a small Irish town for a job in Brooklyn, where homesickness slowly gives way to a new life and a love affair, until news from home calls her back.
The Gathering
Veronica Hegarty, one of twelve surviving children, brings her brother Liam's body home from England after he drowns himself, and the family gathers in Dublin for the wake.
The Land of Green Plums
In Ceaușescu's Romania, a young woman from the German-speaking minority and three young men from the provinces are drawn together after a girl in her dormitory is found hanged, and come under the eye of the secret police.
The Sea
An ageing Irishman reflects on a childhood summer by the sea and the drowning that ended it, unable to separate memory from invention.