日本語の諸説読めない。頭弱い俺は。
The Double by Jose Saramago
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Marching Powder by Rusty Young
Storm Rider by Akira Yoshimura
Scar Lover by Harry Crews
No one belongs here more than you. Stories by Miranda July
Heretics of Dune by Frank Herbert
Grotesque by Natsuo Kirino
Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
Recommended:
No one belongs here more than you
Short, anonymously charactered stories written by genius. Having seen some "performance art" and short films by the author I was almost certain I'd hate this. After I'd read to page 7 I realized this would become one of my favorite books ever. It is.
Marching Powder
British coke smuggler gets tossed in Bolivian prison, but must pay rent. So, he makes/sells coke while inside until he owns the prison but he still can't leave it. True story.
Storm Rider
Late 19th century Japanese sailors shipwreck and become Americans on account that they are forbidden to return to Japan by decree of the Bakufu. Some make it back, some die trying, one boy accepts his new home but finds he is never fully accepted. So, later in life he returns to Japan only to find he isn't accepted anywhere. Based upon true accounts. All of the novels by Yoshimura are well worth your attention. I highly recommend you start with Shipwrecks.
The Double
A man with failures enough for two lives learns there's a man in every way identical to him out there who is living a very different life than his. He searches him out and when they connect his universe implodes. Typical, astounding Saramago head trip written in the de Sousa Saramago trademarked beautiful, grammar-defying prose.
Not recommended:
Grotesque
Scar Lover
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