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The Other Side of Silence
The Other Side of Silence (Anderkant die stilte) is a 2002 novel by André Brink about Hanna X, a German woman abused in German South-West Africa who takes revenge.
The Other World
The Other World (L'Autre Monde) is a two-part prose fiction by the French writer Cyrano de Bergerac, recounting imaginary voyages to the Moon and the Sun that satirize seventeenth-century France.
The Palm and the Neighbours
The Palm and the Neighbours (النخلة والجيران) is a 1966 novel by the Iraqi writer Gha'ib Tu'ma Farman, set in a poor Baghdad quarter during World War II.
The Palm-Wine Drinkard
The Palm-Wine Drinkard is a 1952 novel by Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, following Drinkard into the land of the dead to recover his dead palm-wine tapper.
The Patient Stone
The Patient Stone (Persian: سنگ صبور) is a 1966 novel by Persian writer Sadeq Chubak, his last and most acclaimed work, set in a Shiraz tenement in the 1930s.
The Peasants
The Peasants (Chłopi) is a four-volume novel by the Polish writer Władysław Reymont, published 1904 to 1909 and honored with the 1924 Nobel Prize in Literature.
The Penitent
The Penitent (Yiddish: Der bal-tshuve) is a short novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer about a New York businessman who joins an ultra-Orthodox community in Jerusalem.
The People of Hemsö
The People of Hemsö is a comic 1887 novel by August Strindberg, in which the farmhand Carlsson marries his way into owning a farm in the Stockholm archipelago.
The Perfumed Garden
The Perfumed Garden (al-Rawḍ al-ʿāṭir fī nuzhat al-khāṭir) is a 15th-century Arabic sex manual by Muhammad al-Nafzawi of Nefzaoua, Tunisia, written 1410-1434 for the Hafsid court; known in English via Burton's 1886 French-based translation until Colville's 1999 direct Arabic version.
The Perón Novel
The Perón Novel (La novela de Perón) is a 1985 novel by the Argentine writer Tomás Eloy Martínez that reconstructs Juan Perón's return from exile in 1973.
The Philosophy of Lao Zhang
The Philosophy of Lao Zhang (老张的哲学) is the first full-length novel by the Chinese writer Lao She, a satire of a Beijing schoolteacher who puts money above all.
The Pioneer
The Pioneer (개척자, Gaecheokja) is a serialized novel by the Korean writer Yi Kwang-su, his second after The Heartless, published in Maeil Shinbo from 1917 to 1918.
The Poor Christ of Bomba
The Poor Christ of Bomba (Le Pauvre Christ de Bomba) is a satirical anticolonial novel by the Cameroonian writer Mongo Beti, published in Paris in 1956.
The Poor Man's Son
The Poor Man's Son (Le Fils du pauvre) is an autobiographical novel by Mouloud Feraoun, which recounts Fouroulou Menrad's journey through the colonial system to become a teacher.
The Precipice
The Precipice (Russian: Обрыв, Obryv) is an 1869 novel by Ivan Goncharov, his third and final, conceived in 1849 and taking about twenty years to complete.
The Prespa Bells
The Prespa Bells (Преспанските камбани) is a 1954 historical novel by Bulgarian writer Dimitar Talev, the second book of his tetralogy about the Bulgarian liberation struggles in Macedonia.
The Princess of Cleves
The Princess of Cleves (French: La Princesse de Clèves) is a novel by Madame de La Fayette, published anonymously in Paris in 1678 and often considered the first modern psychological novel.
The Quest for Christa T.
The Quest for Christa T., German title Nachdenken über Christa T., is a 1968 novel by East German writer Christa Wolf recounting a friend's memory of a nonconformist woman who dies of leukemia.
The Quest for the Holy Grail
The Quest for the Holy Grail, or La Queste del Saint Graal, is an anonymous Old French prose romance from around 1225 in which knights seek the Grail.
The Ragazzi
The Ragazzi, Italian title Ragazzi di vita, is Pier Paolo Pasolini's 1955 debut novel set in the poor outskirts of Rome, prosecuted for obscenity and translated as The Street Kids.
The Record of Lady Sa's Journey South
The Record of Lady Sa's Journey South (Sassi namjeonggi) is a classic Korean novel by Kim Man-jung about a wife cast out by a scheming concubine.
The Red Lances
The Red Lances (Las lanzas coloradas) is a 1931 historical novel by the Venezuelan writer Arturo Uslar Pietri, his first, dramatizing the fall of Venezuela's Second Republic in 1814.
The Red Room
The Red Room (Röda rummet) is an 1879 satirical novel by the Swedish writer August Strindberg, following the idealist Arvid Falk through 1870s Stockholm journalism and often called the first modern Swedish novel.
The Red-Haired Woman
The Red-Haired Woman (Turkish: Kırmızı Saçlı Kadın) is a 2016 novel by Orhan Pamuk about a well-digger and his apprentice near Istanbul in the mid-1980s.
The Republic of Wine
The Republic of Wine (酒国) is a 1989 experimental novel by Nobel laureate Mo Yan, in which an investigator probes Liquor City officials' cannibalism through wine-soaked banquets.
The Repudiation
The Repudiation (La Répudiation, Arabic التطليق) is the first novel of Algerian writer Rachid Boudjedra, published in Paris in 1969, which broke Maghrebi political, religious, and sexual taboos and led to its author's exile.
The Return of Philip Latinowicz
The Return of Philip Latinowicz (Povratak Filipa Latinovicza) is a 1932 novel by Croatian writer Miroslav Krleža, following a painter who returns to his native town after 23 years abroad.
The Return of the Spirit
The Return of the Spirit (عودة الروح) is a 1933 novel by Egyptian writer Tawfiq al-Hakim, portraying a Cairo household during the 1919 Revolution and considered a founding work of the Arabic realistic novel.
The Revenge of the Snakes
The Revenge of the Snakes (Turkish: Yılanların Öcü) is a Turkish social realist village novel by Fakir Baykurt, serialized in 1958 and published as a book in 1959.
The Right Hand of the Grand Master
The Right Hand of the Grand Master (დიდოსტატის მარჯვენა) is a 1939 historical novel by Georgian writer Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, built on the legend of Svetitskhoveli Cathedral.