Books like The Melancholy of Resistance
A circus arrives in a frozen Hungarian town with a giant stuffed whale and a mysterious figure called the Prince, and the town slides into mob violence.
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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.
Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming
Baron Béla Wenckheim, a gambler who has spent years in exile in Argentina, comes back to his Hungarian home town to find his first love, and the town prepares to welcome a saviour.
Solenoid
A failed writer teaching Romanian at a Bucharest school in the 1980s keeps a diary of his dreams, his memories and the strange machine buried under his house.
The Unnamable
A voice, placeless and without a body it can be sure of, talks on and on, trying to say who it is and to stop talking.
Kaddish for an Unborn Child
A Hungarian writer who survived Auschwitz explains, in one long monologue, why he refused to have a child.
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.
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.
Drylands
In a dying town in the Queensland outback, Janet Deakin, who runs the newsagency, writes a novel about her neighbours, and their stories of cruelty and leaving fill the book.
Molloy
A decrepit wanderer looking for his mother, and the agent Moran, sent to find him, each tell stories that dissolve as they go, in the first novel of Beckett's trilogy.
Satan in Goray
In the town of Goray, rebuilt after the massacres of 1648, the news that the messiah Sabbatai Zevi has come drives the community into a frenzy.
The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born
A nameless railway clerk resists corruption in post-independence Ghana.
Doctor Faustus
A German biographer writes during the Reich's collapse about his friend, a composer who contracted for twenty-four years of genius in a Leipzig brothel.