Books like The Post-Office Girl
A poor Austrian post-office clerk is briefly swept into a luxury Swiss resort by a rich aunt and returns to her village unable to bear the life she had.
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The Bread of Those Early Years
Walter Fendrich, who went hungry in the bombed-out cities after the war and now has money and a girlfriend, is sent to meet a girl from his home town at the station and falls for her on sight.
The Setting Sun
After the war, Kazuko and her aristocratic mother lose their Tokyo house and move to a country villa, where they wait for Kazuko's brother, Naoji, to come home from the army with his addictions intact.
Beware of Pity
A young Austro-Hungarian lieutenant's thoughtless kindness to a paralysed girl entangles him in an impossible engagement on the eve of the First World War.
The Remains of the Day
An ageing English butler reflects on a lifetime of service, repressed love, and the moral compromises of loyalty to a flawed master.
The Age of Innocence
A man in 1870s New York is torn between a conventional fiancée and a scandalous countess, and the society that constrains his choice also defines who he is.
Kairos
A love affair between a young East Berlin student and a much older married writer begins at a bus stop in 1986 and outlives the wall that surrounds them.
Père Goriot
In a shabby Paris boarding house, the ambitious young Eugène de Rastignac watches old Goriot give everything to his two daughters, who use him and leave him to die.
The Clown
Hans Schnier, a clown, comes home to his empty Bonn apartment after a bad fall on stage, his career collapsing since Marie, the Catholic woman he lived with, left him, and starts phoning everyone he knows.
Maurice
Maurice Hall, a conventional young man from the suburbs, falls in love at Cambridge with his friend Clive Durham, in an England where their love is a crime, and has to work out what kind of life he can have.
The Sound of the Mountain
An ageing patriarch in postwar Japan listens to the mountain and contemplates his family's slow dissolution, beauty, and the nearness of death.
The Hive
A few days in Madrid in 1943, through some three hundred people whose lives cross in and around Doña Rosa's café.
Suite Française
A wealthy Parisian family flees the Nazi invasion alongside millions of refugees, and their intertwined story with a German soldier reveals the intimacy of occupation.