Books like The Baron in the Trees
At twelve, Cosimo, son of a baron, climbs a tree after a quarrel over a plate of snails and vows never to come down, and he keeps his word, living his whole life in the canopy as the Enlightenment unfolds below.
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Cosmicomics
The history of the universe told by Qfwfq, a being who was there for the Big Bang, the formation of the Moon and the first creatures to crawl onto land, in comic cosmic fables.
If on a winter's night a traveler
A Reader begins a novel called If on a winter's night a traveler, but the book keeps breaking off and restarting as a different novel, ten times.
Still Life with Woodpecker
Princess Leigh-Cheri, an exiled royal and environmentalist, falls for Bernard Mickey Wrangle, an outlaw bomber known as the Woodpecker, in a love story built out of dynamite, pyramids, a pack of Camels and the moon.
The Little Prince
A pilot downed in the Sahara meets a small prince from an asteroid who has left his beloved rose, and learns that what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Death with Interruptions
On New Year's Day in an unnamed country, death stops killing, and as the old fail to die, the funeral industry collapses and the church panics, until death returns with new rules.
Skinny Legs and All
A can of beans, a dirty sock, a painted stick, and the Dance of the Seven Veils become vehicles for a novel about religion, art, politics, and the third eye.
The Book of Questions
Neruda's last book: seventy-four short poems made entirely of questions, such as why trees conceal the splendour of their roots.
The Stone Raft
The Iberian Peninsula breaks off from Europe and floats into the Atlantic, and the continent's reaction reveals everything about the politics of belonging.
Time Shelter
A Bulgarian writer works in a Zurich clinic where each floor recreates a decade of the 20th century for Alzheimer’s patients, and then nations begin choosing their own pasts.
How to Be Both
Two linked stories, of a Renaissance painter in Ferrara and of a grieving teenage girl in present-day Cambridge, can be read in either order, and both ask how we see and who we become.
Pure Colour
In a world presented as God's first draft, Mira studies art criticism, falls for a woman named Annie, and after her father dies finds that her spirit has passed into a leaf, alongside his.
One, No One and One Hundred Thousand
When his wife remarks that his nose tilts to the right, Vitangelo Moscarda realises that everyone sees a different man, and sets out to destroy every one of the Moscardas others believe in.