Results for: books tagged ‘Bildungsroman’
Philadelphia, Here I Come: Brian Friel
Fed up with the dreary round of life in Ballybeg, with his uncommunicative father and the humiliating job in his father's grocery shop, with his frustrated love for Kathy Doogan ... More
The Snowflake Constant: Peter Stephan Jungk
Giacopo Tigor, eponymous hero of Peter Stephan Jungk's extraordinary novel, is a professor of mathematics, a proponent of Euclidian geometry reeling from a succession of intellectual defeats sustained at the ... More
The New Life: Orhan Pamuk
'I read a book one day, and my whole life was changed.' So begins The New Life, Orhan Pamuk's fabulous road novel about a young student who yearns for the ... More
Self: Yann Martel
Edgy, funny and devastating, Self is the fictional autobiography of a young writer at the heart of which is a startling twist. This extraordinary life meanders through a rich, complicated, ... More
The Electric Michelangelo: Sarah Hall
On the windswept front of Morecambe Bay, Cy Parks spends his childhood years first in a guest house for consumptives run by his mother and then as apprentice to alcoholic ... More
The Bastard Boy: James Wilson
Ned Gudgeon wakes to find himself in a cell. He has no idea where he is or how he came to be there, but - seeing pen and paper - ... More
Shrieks of Laughter: Moses Raine
His Illegal Self: Peter Carey
An achingly beautiful story of the love between a young woman and a little boy on the run - read by Greta Scacchi. More
Pilcrow: Adam Mars-Jones
A wonderful coming-of-age story from an acclaimed literary author, which features one of the most unusual heroes depicted in modern fiction. More
Sinister Street: Compton Mackenzie
If Compton Mackenzie is known at all now, it is as the author of entertainments like Whisky Galore and Monarch of the Glen. These are successful in their own right, ... More