Absurdist Style

12 books

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Strange Tales of the Northeast Qingbeixu · 2014 Strange Tales of the Northeast is a long supernatural mystery web novel by Qingbei Xu, a writer from Jinzhou, Liaoning. Serialized and completed on Mo…
Party Phobia cover
Rating 4.3
Party Phobia 卡门·玛丽亚·马查多 / 叶佳怡 Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2021 This collection comprises eight stories in which the author blends reality and fantasy to explore self-awareness and growth. A woman who has always re…
Homo cover
Rating 2.3
Homo Giovanni Cena Project Gutenberg · 2019 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
The Lost One cover
Rating 4.0
The Lost One 沈大成 Taihai Publishing House · 2021 This is a new work by the young fiction writer Shen Dacheng, and in it her singular imagination takes a few more steps forward. A person who dozes off…
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Rating 4.4
Dual Personality Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky / 李春雨 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2026 The Double is one of Dostoevsky's most important novellas. It centers on the civil servant Golyadkin, a man who endlessly fantasizes but never dares t…
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Rating 4.0
The Herbivorous Family Mo Yan Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House · 2022 A masterpiece of absurdity, magic realism and imagination pushed to the extreme, The Herbivorous Family is a major novel by Mo Yan, winner of the 2012…
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Rating 4.0
Supplement to Journey to the West 董说 The Commercial Press · 2024 Sixteen chapters, by Dong Yue (courtesy name Ruoyu) of the late Ming. It takes up after the "Three Trials of the Banana Fan" episode in Journey to the…
Crater (Collected Works of Ning Ken) cover
Rating 3.9
Crater (Collected Works of Ning Ken) 宁肯 Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2025 A commemorative collected edition marking the 40th anniversary of "the assassin of contemporary literature" Ning Ken's writing career, and one of the …
Field Chaplain Schmelzle's Journey to Flätz with Continuing Notes cover
Rating 3.6
Field Chaplain Schmelzle's Journey to Flätz with Continuing Notes Jean Paul Project Gutenberg · 2019 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman cover
Rating 4.5
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Laurence Sterne Project Gutenberg · 2019 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
A Cabbage's Unexpected Encounter cover
Rating 3.4
A Cabbage's Unexpected Encounter 戴玉祥 Tianjin People's Publishing House · 2018 This is a collection of short, punchy stories. The author's plot-light fiction is an innovative mode of literary art: the writing is breezy and seemin…
Empty Courtyard, Waning Moon cover
Rating 3.8
Empty Courtyard, Waning Moon Han Shaogong Anhui Literature and Art Publishing House · 2023 'Empty Courtyard, Waning Moon' is one of the volumes in the 'Chinese Writers Archive Series,' collecting short and medium-length works by the famous c…