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A Man Was Going Down the Road
A Man Was Going Down the Road (Georgian: Gzaze Erti Katsi Midioda) is a 1973 novel by Otar Chiladze, his first, retelling the Golden Fleece legend.
A Simple Story
A Simple Story (Hebrew: Sipur pashut) is a 1935 novel by Israeli writer Shmuel Yosef Agnon, telling of a young shopkeeper's son whose unrequited love for his cousin leads to depression and near-madness.
Adam Šangala
Adam Šangala is a 1923 historical novel by the Slovak physician-writer Ladislav Nádaši-Jégé, following a serf's son from Orava who refuses to submit to the powerful.
Arsena of Marabda
Arsena of Marabda (Arsena Marabdeli) is a historical novel by the Georgian writer Mikheil Javakhishvili about the brigand Arsena Odzelashvili and the nineteenth-century Georgian peasant struggle against Russian rule.
Babyloniaca
Babyloniaca (Βαβυλωνιακά, "Babylonian Tales"), also known as The Story of Sinonis and Rhodanes, is a lost ancient Greek novel by Iamblichus, written around 165–180 CE.
Bai Ganyo
Bai Ganyo, also transliterated Bay Ganyo, is the hero of Aleko Konstantinov's 1895 Bulgarian book, a rose-oil salesman whose misadventures in Europe made him a lasting figure in Bulgarian literature.
Between Two Fires
Between Two Fires is the shared English title of two unrelated novels: a 1937 historical novel by Azerbaijani writer Yusif Vəzir Çəmənzəminli and a 2012 horror fantasy by Christopher Buehlman.
Bosnian Chronicle
Bosnian Chronicle (Travnička hronika), also published as The Days of the Consuls, is a 1945 historical novel by Ivo Andrić set in Travnik from 1807 to 1814, when French and Austrian consuls served under Ottoman viziers.
Burning Orchards
Burning Orchards (Ayrvogh aygestanner) is the only novel of Armenian writer Gurgen Mahari, published in 1966 and set in Van before the 1915 Armenian defense.
By the Pen
By the Pen (Nūn va'l-qalam) is a 1961 historical novel and political allegory by the Iranian writer Jalal Al-e Ahmad, translated into English in 1988.
Bygone Days
Bygone Days (Oʻtkan kunlar) is a historical novel by the Uzbek writer Abdulla Qodiriy, written in 1918–1920 and widely regarded as the first novel in Uzbek literature.
Data Tutashkhia
Data Tutashkhia (დათა თუთაშხია) is a novel by the Georgian writer Chabua Amirejibi, his most famous work, set in Georgia at the turn of the 20th century.
Dear Shameless Death
Dear Shameless Death (Sevgili Arsız Ölüm) is a 1983 novel by Turkish writer Latife Tekin about the Aktaş family's migration to Istanbul, an early work of Turkish magical realism.
Death and the Dervish
Death and the Dervish (Derviš i smrt) is a 1966 novel by the Bosnian writer Meša Selimović, a first-person confession of a dervish in Ottoman-era Sarajevo.
Dictionary of the Khazars
The Dictionary of the Khazars, Hazarski rečnik, is a 1984 novel by the Serbian writer Milorad Pavić, written as a dictionary of the Khazar people.
Ears of Corn Under Your Sickle
Ears of Corn Under Your Sickle (Belarusian: Kalasy pad siarpom tvaim) is a historical novel by Uladzimir Karatkievich whose published part depicts preparations for the 1863 uprising, serialized in 1965.
Enemies, A Love Story
Enemies, A Love Story (Sonim, di geshikhte fun a libe) is a 1966 Yiddish tragicomedy novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer, set among Holocaust survivors in postwar New York.
Ferdydurke
Ferdydurke is a grotesque novel by the Polish writer Witold Gombrowicz, published in Warsaw in 1937, in which a thirty-year-old narrator is returned to school.
Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex
Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex (Польові дослідження з українського сексу) is a 1996 novel by the Ukrainian writer Oksana Zabuzhko and the first bestseller of independent Ukraine.
Garden, Ashes
Garden, Ashes (Bašta, pepeo) is a 1965 autobiographical novel by Danilo Kiš, told through a boy watching his father disappear during the early years of World War II.
Gevorg Marzpetuni
Gevorg Marzpetuni (Գևորգ Մարզպետունի) is a three-part historical novel by the Armenian writer Muratsan, serialized in 1896, set in 10th-century Bagratid Armenia under King Ashot II.
Giông tố
Giông tố, rendered in English as The Storm, is a satirical realist novel by Vietnamese writer Vũ Trọng Phụng, first published in 1936, that depicts colonial Vietnamese society as corrupt and morally degraded.
Gösta Berling's Saga
Gösta Berling's Saga is a debut novel by the Swedish author Selma Lagerlöf, published in 1891, about a defrocked priest who joins the cavaliers at the Ekeby estate in Värmland.
Homeless People
Homeless People (Ludzie bezdomni) is an 1899 social novel by the Polish writer Stefan Żeromski, a leading work of Young Poland whose hero, Dr Tomasz Judym, renounces love for his social mission.
Hoši od Bobří řeky
Hoši od Bobří řeky (The Boys from Beaver River) is a Czech adventure novel by Jaroslav Foglar, first published in 1937, about boys who earn beaver-tooth achievement badges.
Hrdý Budžes
Hrdý Budžes is a 1998 Czech novel by Irena Dousková, her best-known work, told by an eight-year-old schoolgirl whose innocent misunderstandings of 1970s normalization supply its humor and social criticism.
I Curse the River of Time
I Curse the River of Time (Jeg forbanner tidens elv) is a 2008 Norwegian novel by Per Petterson, which won the Nordic Council Literature Prize.
I See the Sun
I See the Sun (Russian: Я вижу солнце) is a novel by Georgian writer Nodar Dumbadze, set in World War II western Georgia and blind girl Khatia.
Independent People
Independent People (Sjálfstætt fólk) is a 1934–1935 novel by Icelandic Nobel laureate Halldór Laxness, following a crofter whose obsession with independence costs those around him dearly.
Jalaleddin
Jalaleddin (Armenian: Ջալալէդդին) is a short historical novel by Raffi (Hakob Melik-Hakobian), serialized in 1878, depicting a Kurdish chieftain's assault on Armenian and Assyrian villages during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–78.