Books like The Pigeon
Jonathan Noel, a Parisian bank guard who has lived by strict routine for decades, finds a pigeon in the corridor outside his room, and his ordered existence begins to collapse.
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Chess Story
On a ship to Buenos Aires, a reclusive Austrian lawyer who survived Nazi solitary confinement with a stolen book of chess problems takes on the reigning world champion.
The True Deceiver
In a snowbound coastal village, a calculating young woman sets out to win the trust and money of a reclusive children's book illustrator, and each woman ends up changing the other.
Death in Her Hands
Vesta Gul, a widow in her seventies, finds a note in the woods near her cabin saying that a woman named Magda is dead and nobody will ever know who killed her, and with no body to be found, she begins to imagine who Magda was.
Demian
A young man in pre-war Germany is guided by a mysterious inner voice through a Jungian journey of self-realisation, rebelling against his father and his era.
Steppenwolf
A middle-aged intellectual in Weimar Germany is torn between bourgeois respectability and the wildness inside him, guided by a mysterious figure through the theatres of his psyche.
Tonio Kröger
Tonio Kröger, son of a north German merchant and a dark-haired southern mother, grows up envying his town's ordinary, golden-haired boys and girls, and becomes a writer who belongs neither among artists nor among them.
In the Café of Lost Youth
Four narrators circle the mystery of a young woman who vanished from a Paris café.
Lullaby
A Parisian couple hire Louise, the perfect nanny, to care for their two small children, and the novel opens with the children dead, then traces how it came to that.
The Trial
A man is arrested, tried, and condemned by a court whose charges are never explained, in a parable about bureaucracy, guilt, and the absurdity of power.
Convenience Store Woman
A convenience store worker in Tokyo has organised her entire life around her job, and everyone who tries to 'fix' her only makes things worse.
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Born in an eighteenth-century Paris fish market with no scent of his own and the keenest nose in France, Grenouille apprentices as a perfumer and begins killing young women to distill their smell.
The Wall
A woman in an Alpine hunting lodge wakes to find the outside world apparently frozen behind an invisible wall and settles into writing the account of her survival.