Books like Study for Obedience
A young Jewish woman moves to a remote northern European country to keep house for her brother and senses, in the village, a rising anger that keeps finding her.
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Leave the World Behind
Amanda and Clay take their teenage children to a rented house at the far end of Long Island for a week's vacation, and on the second night an older Black couple knock at the door, saying they own the house and have fled a sudden blackout in New York.
Homesick for Another World
Stories of deeply unlovable Americans examining their own decay with uncomfortable clarity.
The Lottery and Other Stories
Stories of suburban menace and domestic cruelty, anchored by the infamous title story of a village ritual.
The Unconsoled
A concert pianist arrives at a European hotel for a performance and discovers that the building, the city, and his schedule are shifting according to a dream logic he can't control.
Hangsaman
A troubled young woman leaves home for college and begins to unravel in ways that may or may not be real.
The True Deceiver
In a snowbound coastal village, a calculating young woman sets out to win the trust and money of a reclusive children's book illustrator, and each woman ends up changing the other.
Fatelessness
György Köves, a fourteen-year-old Budapest Jew, is taken off a bus in 1944 and deported to Auschwitz and then Buchenwald, and tells it all in a flat, almost uncomprehending voice.
Eileen
In 1964, in a grim Massachusetts town, Eileen Dunlop, a lonely, self-loathing secretary at a juvenile prison who looks after her alcoholic father, becomes infatuated with Rebecca, the glamorous new education director, and is drawn into a crime.
The Ghost Writer
A young writer spends a night at the Berkshires home of the reclusive author he idolises and becomes convinced that the man's mysterious young assistant is Anne Frank.
Grey Bees
Sergey Sergeyich, a beekeeper, is one of only two people left in a village in the grey zone between the Ukrainian army and the separatists in Donbas, and in spring he sets off with his hives to find somewhere quiet.
The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
Josef Bloch, a construction fitter and former goalkeeper, takes a remark at work as his dismissal, drifts around Vienna, kills a cinema cashier and takes a bus to a village near the border.
For Two Thousand Years
A young Jewish architecture student in Bucharest in the 1920s and 30s keeps a diary as the antisemitism of his friends and teachers grows around him.