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  • Cover of Children of Violence
    Children of ViolenceSeries

    series · 5 books · 1952

    completed

    About coming of age, set in africa.

    Start with Martha Quest →

    similar byliterary & generalidentitymid 20th centuryreflective+2 more

  • Cover of Island
    IslandNovel

    Aldous Huxley · standalone novel · 1962

    About faith and religion and ecological collapse, set in islands.

    “Although it has a plot, the plot largely serves to further conceptual explorations rather than setting up and resolving conventional narrative tension.”

    from the catalogue

    similar byliterary & generalchallengingmid 20th centuryreflective+1 more

  • Cover of Cards of Identity
    Cards of IdentityNovel

    Nigel Dennis · standalone novel · 1955

    Satire, about class conflict, set in british isles.

    “The case histories are in fact fictional representations of a character in line with their theoretical biases, rather than analyses of real patients.”

    from the catalogue

    similar byliterary & generalchallengingidentitymid 20th century+1 more

  • Cover of Orsinia
    OrsiniaSeries

    series · 16 books · 1961

    completed

    Historical fiction.

    “There's no ongoing plot connecting the pieces; Orsinia functions more as a shared place and history than a series with continuing characters.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Orsinian Tales →

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  • Cover of The Russian Quartet
    The Russian QuartetSeries

    series · 4 books · 1983

    completed

    Literary & general, set in mid 20th century.

    Start with Ararat →

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  • Cover of Midnight's Children
    Midnight's ChildrenNovel

    Salman Rushdie · standalone novel · 1980

    Magical realism, about coming of age and rebellion and revolution, set in south asia.

    “WorldCat: The life of a man born at the moment of India's independence becomes inextricably linked to that of his nation and is a whirlwind of disasters and triumphs that mirror modern India's course.”

    from the catalogue

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