Books like On Chesil Beach
A young couple's honeymoon night on the Dorset coast goes catastrophically wrong, and the silence between them becomes the story of a generation.
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Runaway
Eight stories, three of them about one woman, Juliet, of women in Canadian towns and farms who run away, or try to.
The Good Soldier
A naive American narrator tries to tell the 'saddest story' of his friendship with Edward Ashburnham and the four-way adultery he failed to notice until it had ended them all.
The Sense of an Ending
Tony Webster, retired and settled, receives a solicitor's letter about a small bequest from the mother of his university girlfriend, and it forces him to revisit his friendship with Adrian, the brilliant schoolfriend whose story he thought he understood.
The Spectator Bird
Joe Allston, a retired literary agent in California, reads aloud to his wife from the journal of a trip to Denmark they took twenty years before, and old secrets come back.
Offshore
A handful of people live on old boats moored at Battersea Reach on the Thames in 1961, among them Nenna, whose husband won't come and live aboard, and her two young daughters.
The Pilot's Wife
Kathryn Lyons is woken before dawn in her New Hampshire farmhouse by the news that her husband Jack's plane has gone down off the coast of Ireland, and as investigators suggest he caused the crash, she begins to find she did not know the man she married.
Stoner
A Missouri farm boy becomes a literature professor at the University of Missouri and lives a quiet, thwarted life that only gains shape in its retelling.
One Part Woman
Kali and Ponna, a farming couple in Tamil Nadu, still have no child after twelve years of marriage, and their families suggest a festival night when a childless woman may lie with a stranger.
Interpreter of Maladies
Nine stories of Indian immigrants and their American-born children, caught between cultures and the quiet tragedies of misunderstanding.
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
Nine stories; in the title story, two teenage girls play a cruel trick on the family's plain housekeeper with forged love letters.
His Only Wife
Afi Tekple, a young seamstress in a small Ghanaian town, is married to Elikem, a wealthy man she barely knows, who misses the wedding, and moves to Accra, where she learns that his family married her to him to draw him away from another woman.
Dominicana
In 1965 Ana Canción, fifteen, is married off by her family to Juan Ruiz, a man twice her age, and taken from the Dominican countryside to an apartment in Washington Heights, so that the rest of them can follow.