Books like 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.
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The Atom Station
Ugla, a country girl from the north, comes to Reykjavík to work as a maid in the house of a member of parliament, just as Iceland argues over selling the Americans a base.
The Maid Silja
Silja, the last daughter of a ruined Finnish farming family, goes into service on farms and estates in the years around 1918, a young woman of quiet grace in hard times.
Jean-Christophe
The life of Jean-Christophe Krafft, born into a family of musicians in a small Rhineland town, from his childhood and first loves to his struggle as a composer in Germany and Paris.
World Light
Ólafur Kárason, an unwanted foster child beaten on a hard Icelandic farm, longs to be a poet, and carries that longing into a life of poverty and devotion to beauty.
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.
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.
2 A.M. at The Cat's Pajamas
Over one day and night before Christmas Eve in Philadelphia, a foul-mouthed nine-year-old aspiring jazz singer, her lonely teacher and the owner of a failing jazz club all find their way to The Cat's Pajamas.
The Forest of Wool and Steel
Tomura, a quiet boy from a mountain village in Hokkaido, hears a piano tuner at work in his school gym and decides to become one, apprenticing himself to a small piano shop.
Anne of Green Gables
An accidentally-adopted red-haired orphan talks, dreams, and misbehaves her way into the hearts of an ageing brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm.
Aya of Yop City
Young women navigate love, ambition, and family in 1970s Abidjan.
Hunger
A young writer starving in Kristiania wanders the streets, pawns his waistcoat, chews wood shavings and tells grand lies to strangers, his pride and his mind fraying as the hunger deepens.
David Copperfield
David Copperfield tells his own life, from a happy early childhood and a cruel stepfather to a London factory, his eccentric aunt's rescue and his slow growth into a writer, in Dickens' most personal novel.