Hello reading friends.
I enjoy reading strange literary fiction – not your commercial horror/fantasy, but rather something beyond. Old unknown gems. Unpredictable plots.
Translations from non-English authors highly welcome.
Some examples of books I have enjoyed in this vein:
Agustina Bazterrica: Tender is the Flesh
Guido Morselli: Dissipatio H.G. The Vanishing
Susanna Clarke: Piranesi
Kay Dick: They
Yoko Ogawa: The Memory Police
Rachel Ingalls: Mrs. Caliban
Kevin Wilson: Nothing to see here
Grace Krilanovich: The Orange Eats Creeps
John Fowles: The Magus
China Miéville: This Census-Taker
Leena Krohn: Tainaron
Jacqueline Harpman: I Who Have Never Known Men
Any suggestions?
by HeatRepresentative96
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If on a winter’s night a traveler by Italo Calvino.
Fever Dream by by Samata Shweblin which is a very tense read, and The Wind that Lays Waste by Selva Alma which is… about a man fixing a car… you read it for the vibes. It’s one of those book where someone asks you what it’s about and you can’t help but make it sound boring though it’s not (unless you’re a plot driven reader). Both are Argentinian writers.
I also enjoyed Idol Burning by Rin Usami which is about a young Japanese girl struggling with mental health