Books like The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China
The complete fiction of Lu Xun, the father of modern Chinese literature, from A Madman's Diary to the story of Ah-Q, a village labourer who turns every humiliation into a victory.
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Love in a Fallen City
Stories of love and money in Shanghai and Hong Kong in the 1940s; in the title novella, a divorced woman goes to Hong Kong to win a rich playboy, and the Japanese attack.
The Women at the Pump
In a small Norwegian coastal town, the gossip at the pump follows Oliver, a sailor who came home crippled, and everyone else whose business is everyone's business.
Nazi Literature in the Americas
A fake reference work of thirty invented right-wing Americas writers, their books and journals and enemies, by the author who turned bibliography into menace.
The Garlic Ballads
When the farmers of a county in Shandong are told to grow garlic and the market then collapses, they riot and burn down the government offices.
The Time Regulation Institute
Hayri İrdal, a man of no particular ability, tells how he came to help run an institute devoted to setting all the clocks of Istanbul to the same time.
The Late George Apley
A satirical memoir of George Apley, a Boston Brahmin, put together from his letters by an admiring family friend.
Plain Tales from the Hills
Forty short tales of Anglo-Indian life at Simla and the plains: flirtations, scandals, soldiers, officials and the Indians around them, told in clipped, knowing sketches.
Penguin Island
A short-sighted abbot mistakes a colony of great auks for people and baptises them, and heaven has to turn them into humans; their history then follows France's from Charlemagne to the Dreyfus affair.
Only Yesterday
Isaac Kumer, a young idealist from Galicia, arrives in Ottoman Palestine in the early 1900s to work the land and ends up a house painter caught between secular Jaffa and religious Jerusalem.
The Republic of Wine
A special investigator is sent to Liquorland to look into reports that officials are cooking and eating baby boys, and is drunk almost as soon as he arrives.
Black No More
When a Black doctor invents a treatment that turns Black people white, Max Disher, a Harlem insurance clerk, is among the first to take it, and heads south to win the white woman who once snubbed him.
The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas
A dead man narrates his own life from the grave, skewering nineteenth-century Brazilian society with a wit that anticipates magical realism by a century.