Books like The Land of Green Plums
In Ceaușescu's Romania, a young woman from the German-speaking minority and three young men from the provinces are drawn together after a girl in her dormitory is found hanged, and come under the eye of the secret police.
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The Appointment
A young woman in Ceaușescu's Romania rides the tram to another interrogation by the secret police, and on the way remembers how she came to be summoned.
The Hunger Angel
In January 1945, seventeen-year-old Leopold Auberg, a German-speaking Romanian, is deported to a Soviet labour camp in Ukraine, where he will spend five years with the hunger angel.
Satantango
In the mud and rain of a collapsing Hungarian collective farm, the last villagers hear that a charismatic man they thought dead is coming back, and he leads them into a new scheme.
The Orphan Master's Son
A North Korean orphan survives by reinventing himself through the state's mythology, in a novel about identity under totalitarianism.
The Door
A Hungarian writer hires a fiercely private old housekeeper who never lets anyone through her front door, and their decades-long bond turns into love, dependence, and betrayal.
In Evil Hour
In a small Colombian town under a military mayor, anonymous lampoons start appearing on doors overnight, exposing the residents' secrets, and one of them leads to a killing.
Fortune Smiles
Six stories, among them two North Korean defectors struggling to adjust to life in Seoul and a former Stasi prison warden in Berlin who cannot admit what happened there.
The Box Man
A nameless man cuts a window in a cardboard box, puts it over his head and begins to live inside it, writing the notebook the reader holds.
Cosmos
Two young men renting rooms in a Polish country house find a hanged sparrow in the woods and become obsessed with a web of signs that may or may not mean anything.
A Tomb for Boris Davidovich
Seven linked stories of revolutionaries swallowed by the Soviet purges and by the revolution they served, told as if from the archives.
House Made of Dawn
Abel, a young Native American veteran, returns from World War II to his grandfather's pueblo in New Mexico, unable to find his place there or later in Los Angeles, and searches for a way back to himself through ceremony and the land.
NW
Four Londoners' lives intersect in the northwest neighbourhood of Kilburn, spanning three decades of British class, race, and the stories we tell about our futures.