Last Summer in the City by Gianfranco Calligarich, maybe not quite heart wrenching but fits the “makes you think but doesn’t” well imo. It’s about a depressed guy in his 20s who lives in Rome and feels increasingly lost and isolated, I really liked it it’s nice and short.
Cormac McCarthy’s border trilogy will mess you up in various ways but all have good plots and characters to balance out the cruelty going on, especially All the Pretty Horses is very romantic.
No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai is another book more about depression than inherently depressing but I didn’t enjoy reading it much (not sure it’s meant to be enjoyed exactly but it’s very classic Japanese lit where everything is really subtle and you’re not super clear with what has happened a lot of the time)
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Last Summer in the City by Gianfranco Calligarich, maybe not quite heart wrenching but fits the “makes you think but doesn’t” well imo. It’s about a depressed guy in his 20s who lives in Rome and feels increasingly lost and isolated, I really liked it it’s nice and short.
Cormac McCarthy’s border trilogy will mess you up in various ways but all have good plots and characters to balance out the cruelty going on, especially All the Pretty Horses is very romantic.
No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai is another book more about depression than inherently depressing but I didn’t enjoy reading it much (not sure it’s meant to be enjoyed exactly but it’s very classic Japanese lit where everything is really subtle and you’re not super clear with what has happened a lot of the time)