Books like My City: A Hong Kong Story
Ah Gor, a young man just out of school, takes a job with the telephone company and wanders Hong Kong, in a playful, childlike portrait of the city in the 1970s.
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Hear the Wind Sing
Murakami's debut: in the summer of 1970, a college student home on break drinks beer with his friend the Rat at J's Bar, meets a girl with nine fingers and listens to the radio, learning how to be alone.
The Fish Can Sing
Álfgrímur, raised by a kindly old couple in a turf cottage in Reykjavík around 1900, dreams of singing like the mysterious Garðar Hólm, Iceland's world-famous tenor.
Chronicle in Stone
A boy grows up in Gjirokastër, a city of stone in southern Albania, during the Second World War, as Italians, Greeks and Germans take turns occupying it.
Trout Fishing in America
A series of short, odd pieces in which the phrase 'Trout Fishing in America' becomes a person, a hotel, a place and a way of life, Brautigan's gentle, sideways picture of the country in the 1960s.
Black Swan Green
A thirteen-year-old boy navigates 1980s England, stammering through adolescence while his family quietly disintegrates.
A Strangeness in My Mind
Mevlut comes from an Anatolian village to Istanbul in 1969 to sell boza, a fermented drink, on the streets at night, and spends three years writing love letters to a girl he glimpsed once at a wedding.
Aya of Yop City
Young women navigate love, ambition, and family in 1970s Abidjan.
Kornél Esti
Eighteen stories about Kornél Esti, the narrator's double, a Budapest dandy, traveller and trickster whose escapades and confessions light up the Europe between the wars.
I Am Not Sidney Poitier
A young Black man named Not Sidney Poitier, raised with a fortune and Ted Turner as guardian, stumbles through a life that keeps replaying the plots of Sidney Poitier's films.
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
A woman with abnormally large thumbs hitchhikes from Virginia to the Dakotas on a quest involving cowgirls, whooping cranes, and the meaning of freedom.
Odes to Common Things
Short odes to ordinary things: an onion, a tomato, a pair of socks, a lemon, a spoon, a chair.
A General Theory of Oblivion
Ludo, an agoraphobic Portuguese woman in Luanda, bricks herself into her apartment on the eve of Angolan independence in 1975 and lives there alone for nearly thirty years.