Books like The Spirit of Science Fiction
Two young Mexican writers discover science fiction in the 1970s, and the genre becomes a lens for exile, ambition, and the strangeness of being alive.
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The Savage Detectives
Two young poets in 1970s Mexico City search for a vanished avant-garde poet, and their quest becomes an odyssey across decades and continents.
Amulet
Hiding in a university bathroom when the army storms the campus in 1968, an Uruguayan poet in Mexico City remembers the young poets she mothered and begins to see their futures.
Hear the Wind Sing
Murakami's debut: in the summer of 1970, a college student home on break drinks beer with his friend the Rat at J's Bar, meets a girl with nine fingers and listens to the radio, learning how to be alone.
Still Born
Two Mexico City friends make opposite choices about motherhood and find their lives entwined anyway around an ailing newborn.
Generation X
Andy, Dag and Claire, three twentysomethings who have walked out of their careers, work dead-end jobs in Palm Springs and tell each other stories to make sense of a world that seems to have no place for them.
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.
The Hive
A few days in Madrid in 1943, through some three hundred people whose lives cross in and around Doña Rosa's café.
Simpatía
A film writer in a collapsing Caracas inherits his father-in-law’s mansion on the condition that he turn it into a shelter for the dogs the exiled middle class has left behind.
The Dog of the South
Ray Midge of Little Rock follows his runaway wife, her ex-husband and his stolen Ford Torino to Honduras, picking up a broken-down con man named Dr. Reo Symes along the way.
Telephone
A paleobiologist whose daughter is slowly losing her mind to a rare disease finds a plea for help sewn into a jacket he bought online and drives into the desert to answer it.
Signs Preceding the End of the World
Makina, who works the switchboard in a small Mexican town, crosses the border to bring her brother home, carrying a message from her mother and a package from the local crime bosses.
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.