Narrative theme: Interior life

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Bystander

"I have never been faced with a moral crisis, let alone a matter of life or death."

Peter Simons doesn’t spend much time at home in his apartment. Thanks to his job at a multinational company, he is ...

The Occidental Hotel

A brooding fugitive hides out in a crumbling hotel that was once filled with celebrities enjoying the successes of postwar America, reflecting on the ruins of the South and on the life of a German performance ...

Claremont

How to survive the unthinkable?
This is the question nine-year-old Tom has to face after witnessing his parent's murder-suicide. After the horrific event, Tom refuses to speak. At first, he moves in ...

The Island of Books

By (author) Dominique Fortier
Translated by Rhonda Mullins
Categories: Fiction: general and literary

A rich portrait of the beauty of words – painted by a 15th-century illiterate scribe.

A 15th-century portrait painter, grieving the sudden death of his lover, takes refuge at the monastery at Mont Saint-Michel, ...

Walt

From critically acclaimed author Russell Wangersky, comes a dark, psychological thriller about a man named Walt, a grocery store cleaner who collects the shopping lists people leave in the store and discard ...

Siberian Odyssey of Hans Schroeder, The

By (author) Ashis Gupta
Categories: Fiction: general and literary

Based on a true story, The Siberian Odyssey of Hans Schroeder is the ironic and tragic tale of a young German mesmerized by the Hitler Youth aura who finds himself on the Russian front where he is taken ...