The 8 books on this stack
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Julio Llamazares 1988
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Joseph Roth 1932
Why it's on the stack
Sad, and in no hurry · family saga
It shares this with 5 more books on this stack
The preeminent chronicler of the deterioration of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Joseph Roth is an author drawn to disputed borders whose work brilliantly maps a region once again in turmoil.
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Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa 1995
Why it's on the stack
Comforting, like coming home
It shares this with 3 more books on this stack
The acclaimed novel by Lampedusa gives an exquisite portrait of a despotic Sicilian aristocrat.
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Charles Frazier 1997
Why it's on the stack
It stays with you · tender and sad at once
It shares this with 1 more book on this stack
The impact of the Civil War on lovers. Inman is not the man he used to be, as wounded in battle he slowly makes his way home to North Carolina.
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Kazuo Ishiguro 2001
Why it's on the stack
Melancholic and unhurried
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The extraordinary new novel from the author of"Never Let Me Go"and the Booker Prize winning"The Remains of the Day" The Romans have long since departed, and Britain is steadily declining into ruin.
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Chinua Achebe 1958
Why it's on the stack
Melancholic and unhurried · a big story that sweeps you along
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The first of these stories traces Okonkwo's fall from grace with the tribal world in which he lives, and in its classical purity of line and economical beauty it provides us with a powerful fable…
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Evelyn Waugh 1946
Why it's on the stack
Comforting, like coming home
It shares this with 3 more books on this stack
Selected by Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of the century and called "Evelyn Waugh's finest achievement" by the New York Times, Brideshead Revisited is a stunning exploration of desire…
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Kazuo Ishiguro 1994
Why it's on the stack
Melancholic and unhurried · funny and sad at once
It shares this with 5 more books on this stack
In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the countryside and into his past.