BookFeed Ελληνικά The unease in these books is rarely loud. It gathers in small rooms and ordinary sentences: a clerk in sunstruck Algiers who reports his own indifference to love and grief with unnerving calm, or a poor island grandmother in Παπαδιαμάντης's Η Φόνισσα who decides she is doing the world a favour and lets the narration follow her mind all the way. If you like being disturbed by a voice rather than a jump scare, these are the shelves to browse.
Albert Camus, 1942
A clerk in sunstruck Algiers reports his own indifference to love, grief and guilt with unnerving calm.
I don’t know why, but something inside me snapped. I started yelling at the top of my lungs, and I insulted him and told him not to waste his prayers on me. I grabbed him by the collar of his cassock. I was pouring out on him everything that was in my heart, cries of anger and cries of joy. Gillian Flynn, 2012
A reporter returns to the small town she fled, sent to cover two missing girls, and finds her own family waiting with its teeth bared.
Διονύσιος Σολωμός, 1859
A fierce, strange prose satire that turns Zakynthian society into a stage for hypocrisy, war, and moral judgment.
Κ’ εγώ άκουγα μέσα μου μεγάλη ταραχή και με συνεπήρε το πνεύμα στο Μισολόγγι. Και δεν έβλεπα μήτε το κάστρο, μήτε το στρατόπεδο, μήτε τη λίμνη, μήτε τη θάλασσα, μήτε τη γη που επάτουνα, μήτε τον ουρανό· πολιορκούμενους και πολιορκισμένους και όλα τα έργα τους και όλα τα πάντα τα εκατασκέπαζε μαυρίλα και πίσσα. Catriona Ward, 2022
A terrified, gentle-voiced narrator and an eleven-year-old disappearance on his street, told and retold. A gothic puzzle that reads like a fever you can't stop watching.
Jo Nesbo, 2018
A river, a hidden camera, and an old man who has lost the words to raise the alarm. Nesbø at his coldest.
Frances Cha, 2020
In Seoul's underground room salons, three young women navigate the cost of beauty surgery, money and loyalty, narrated by a narrator who has lost her voice.
Η Σούτζιν με αποκαλεί χαϊδευτικά ινόκουντζου, ή «μικρή γοργόνα». Λέει ότι διάλεξε αυτό το όνομα επειδή η μικρή γοργόνα έχασε τη φωνή της, αλλά την ξαναβρήκε αργότερα και έζησε ευτυχισμένη. Δεν της λέω ότι αυτή είναι η αμερικανική εκδοχή του παραμυθιού. Στην αυθεντική ιστορία αυτοκτονεί. William Golding, 1954
Twelve boys, one island, no adults: a school story that becomes an inquiry into how quickly people build rules, and how easily they drop them.
Aldous Huxley, 1932
An engineered future where comfort is compulsory and happiness is manufactured—and one outsider asks what was sacrificed to get it.
Oscar Wilde, 1890
A beautiful young man wishes his portrait would age in his place. It is a sharp, funny, then frightening study of vanity, charm and moral drift, still uncomfortably current.
George Orwell, 1945
A farm's animals overthrow their farmer and write their own rules — then discover how quickly a good slogan can be edited. A fable about power, in plain prose.
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