Absurdist

A Completely Original and Captivating Dystopian Alternate History#1 Best Seller in Absurdist FictionAn ambitious feat of engineering and a continent in crisis. The Atlantropa Articles is an epic saga by YouTuber Cody Franklin (Alternate History Hub),...

Winner of the Akutagawa Prize and the Kenzaburo Oe PrizeA New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice'In Yukiko Motoya's delightful new story collection, the familiar becomes unfamiliar . . . Certainly the style will remind readers of the Japanese authors...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679750093Author Roy LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 198gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 132mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936787876Author Lincoln MichelFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint CatapultPublisher Catapult

For sheer unpredictable brilliance, Gogol may come to mind, but no author alive today takes a reader as far as Helen DeWitt into the funniest, most far-reaching dimensions of possibility. Her jumping-off points might be statistics, romance, the art...

Three opens with the disappearance at sea, possibly suicide, of a young woman, identified only as S. A middle-aged couple, Ruth and Leonard, had been spying on their young lodger in their summer house by the sea, and now begin to pore over her diary, her...

A whip-smart, dark comedy for fans of Sally Rooney, Fleabag and My Year of Rest and Relaxation'Janet is my soulmate' LUCY MANGAN'Surprising and irreverent' NEW YORK TIMES***If there was a pill that promised happiness... Would you take it?Meet Janet...

Pest presents the bizarre events that lead a new, parallel life for a man named Chalo as a wild yak living in the Himalayas. Chalo the man is recruited by a latter day prophet named Grant to design and build a campus on Catalina Island, where initiates...

'A strange and joyous marvel' Richard Flanagan'Delightful... Enchanting' Guardian'Spectacular' CultureflyA young man named Levi McAllister decides to build a coffin for his sister, Charlotte - who promptly runs for her life. A water rat swims upriver in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684058785Author Benoit PeetersFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Idea & Design WorksPublisher Idea & Design Works

THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA Reese's Book Club Pick 2023'A hilarious, sweet, smart read that you're going to love!' REESE WITHERSPOON'A rollercoaster of modern love and dating' STYLISTA TV script writer thinks she's over romance, until...

A FINALIST FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZEDeep within the Balou mountains lies a small rural town populated by disabled people. Blind, deaf and disfigured, the 197 citizens of the Village of Liven have until now enjoyed a peaceful, mutually...

In this thrilling chase narrative, a hunted being escapes certain death at breakneck speed-careening through Europe, heading blindly South. Faster and faster, escaping the assassins, our protagonist flies forward, blending into crowds, adjusting to...

Winner of the 2018 Sapir Prize. You need to bribe someone into giving you weed? Don't worry, just step into this court room and call the defendant a murderer. You're a rich, lonely man and you want the joy of company? Don't worry, just buy up...

In a rundown apartment building, in an unnamed city in Uruguay, a father and daughter close themselves off from the world."The world is this house," says Clara, and the rooftop becomes their last recess of freedom. A pet canary is their only witness. As...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609800734Author Kurt VonnegutFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 88g

Not every fishmonger can be a secret agent.Journey to an unnamed mountainous country in central Europe at the end of the Great War. Enter Citizen Orlov, a simple fishmonger and an honest, upright citizen, who stumbles into the Ministry of Security, and...

A uniquely humorous and deeply profound novel from a legendary stand-up comedian that follows the thoughts of a 1960s third grader during a single day at school.Steven Wright is one of the most significant and influential stand-up comedians in history...

For fifteen years, ever since the taciturn civil servant Stephen Summerchild fell to his death from a window, there have been rumours. So Brian Jessel, a young member of the Cabinet Office, is diverted from his routine work and asked to prepare an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739285937Author Christopher Brett BaileyFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Spender BooksPublisher Spender Books

In many respects, Their Four Hearts is a book of endings and final things. Vladimir Sorokin wrote it in the year the Soviet Union collapsed and then didn't write fiction for ten years after completing it--his next book being the infamous Blue Lard, which...

Cows Can't Jump is a romantic comedy of errors about breaking out, following your dreams, and finding a sense of purpose. How far would you go for love? 18-year-old Billy Reed has few qualifications but is desperate to leave home. He's working a...

The English-language debut of one of Japan's most exciting new writers, The Factory follows three workers at a sprawling industrial factory. Each worker focuses intently on the specific task they've been assigned: one shreds paper, one proofreads...

**AS SEEN ON BBC TWO'S BETWEEN THE COVERS**Discover Joseph Heller's hilarious and tragic satire on military madness, and the tale of one man's efforts to survive it.It's the closing months of World War II and Yossarian has never been closer to death...

A new story collection from Jennifer Fliss, author of The Predatory Animal Ball Who has a right to tell us how to experience our grief? How to perform-or not perform-the roles society prescribes to us based on our various points of identity?As If She Had...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590171158Author Luigi PirandelloFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952177729Author Asja BakicFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Feminist Press at The City University of New YorkPublisher Feminist Press at The City...

'I loved this beautiful book. It's tender and compassionate, written with exquisite care and verve, and so so SO funny' MARIAN KEYESProfessor Chandra is about to embark on the trip of a lifetime. In the moments after the bicycle accident, Professor...

For fans of Julia Armfield's Our Wives Under the Sea 'Absolutely stunning . . . Full of longing, mystery, fear and hope. I loved this book to pieces!' - Frances Cha, author of If I Had Your Face Ro is stuck. She's just entered her thirties, she's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681371450Author Alice KaplanFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,...

Asa's husband is transferring jobs, and his new office is located near his family's home in the countryside. During an exceptionally hot summer, the young married couple move in, and Asa does her best to quickly adjust to their new rural lives, to their...

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From the international bestselling and Booker Prize nominated author of The Slap comes a blazingly brilliant new novel.Winner of the 2006 Age Fiction Prize Winner of the 2006 Melbourne Best Writing AwardPart long-forgotten myth, part meditation on the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781603094795Author Andi WatsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Top Shelf ProductionsPublisher Top Shelf Productions

From the critically acclaimed author of The Heap, a thought-provoking and wryly funny novel-equal parts satire and psychological thriller-that holds a funhouse mirror to the isolated workplace and an age of endless distraction. At the far reaches of the...

An eccentric novelist decides to go back to basics on his journey of self- improvement: he will strip out the literary aspect of his writing and simply improve his handwriting. The novelist begins to keep a notebook of handwriting exercises, hoping that...

With an introduction by the writer and critic Viv Groskop.In this imaginative extravaganza the devil, disguised as a magician, descends upon Moscow, along with a talking cat and an expert assassin. This riotous band succeed in fooling an entire...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780811226455Author Raymond RousselFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint New Directions Publishing CorporationPublisher New Directions Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802148162Author Megan HunterFormat HardbackPage Count 194Imprint Black CatPublisher Black Cat

A madcap tale of sadistic power-play by one of the 20th century's most beloved French gay writers.My Manservant and Me is a story about the trials and tribulations of having a live-in valet. Written from the uneasy perspective of an aging, incontinent...