Books like The House of Sleeping Beauties
Old Eguchi visits a secret seaside inn where elderly men pay to spend the night beside young women drugged into a deep sleep, and each night brings back memories of his life.
Explore books like this on the map12 books for readers of The House of Sleeping Beauties
The Lake
Gimpei Momoi, a former teacher who lost his job after an affair with a pupil, can't stop following women he sees in the street, and his memories drift back to a lake of his childhood.
Palm-of-the-Hand Stories
Seventy very short stories Kawabata wrote across his life, few longer than two pages, of chance meetings, love, death and the turning seasons.
Krapp's Last Tape
A play: on his sixty-ninth birthday, Krapp, alone in his den with bananas and a tape recorder, listens to the tape he made thirty years before, about a woman in a punt.
First Person Singular
Eight first-person stories in which an ageing narrator looks back on youth and chance encounters, from a talking monkey who scrubs his back at a hot-spring inn to a jazz record that should not exist.
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.
A Pale View of Hills
A Japanese woman living in England recalls her life in postwar Nagasaki, and the gaps in her story conceal a truth she cannot bear to face.
Tirra Lirra by the River
Nora Porteous, in her seventies, comes home to the Brisbane house where she grew up after decades in Sydney and London, and remembers her life.
Rabbit, Run
Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom, a former high-school basketball star now selling kitchen gadgets in a Pennsylvania town, walks out on his pregnant wife and young son one evening and keeps driving.
A Happy Death
Patrice Mersault, an Algiers shipping clerk, kills a rich, crippled man and takes his money, then sets out to buy the time to be happy.
The Train Was on Time
In 1943 Andreas, a young German soldier on a troop train heading back to the Eastern Front, is certain he will die within days, and counts down the time.
Klingsor's Last Summer
In the last summer of his life, the painter Klingsor, forty-two, burns through drink, love and colour in the villages above an Italian-Swiss lake.
The Eye of the Storm
Elizabeth Hunter, old, rich and dying in her Sydney house, receives her children, an actor from London and a princess by marriage from France, who have come home for the inheritance.