Novel by Nigerian author Ben Okri, the first book in a trilogy that continues with Songs of Enchantment and Infinite Riches . Published in London in 1991 by Jonathan Cape, the story of The Famished Road follows Azaro, an abiku or spirit child, living in an unnamed African, most likely Nigerian, city
Title of a novel by Boris Pasternak and its various adaptations.
Novel by Alan Paton, published in 1948. American publisher Bennett Cerf remarked at that year’s meeting of the American Booksellers Association that there had been “only three novels published since the first of the year that were worth reading Cry, The Beloved Country, The Ides of March, and The Naked and the Dead.”Two cinema adaptations of the book have been made, the first in 1951 and the second in 1995. The novel was also adapted as a musical called Lost in the Stars , with a book by the American writer Maxwell Anderson and music composed by the German emigre Kurt Weill.
Novel by Italian author Elsa Morante, generally regarded as her most famous and controversial work
304-page prose poem by Herta Mller
Novel published in 19941995 by Japanese author Haruki Murakami
Classic work of Japanese literature written in the early 11th century by the noblewoman and lady-in-waiting Murasaki Shikibu
Novel by Iris Murdoch
Unfinished modernist novel in three volumes and various drafts, by the Austrian writer Robert Musil
1955 novel written by Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov
