Books like Paradoxia by Lydia Lunch

Four strangers in Paris—an artist, an aristocratic neighbor, a talented roommate, and a neglected grandmother—intertwine as their lives expose the uncertainties and connections of modern urban living.

A historical adventure novel about a Chilean seamstress who flees to Peru and forms a passionate bond with a conquistador, leading to the creation of a new city and a clash between the Spanish and indigenous peoples of Chile.

Biographical novel about the life of Princess Ana de Mendoza.

An engrossing tale of royal intrigue and forbidden love in the 18th century.

A fascinating tale of the Georgian era, focusing on Princess Charlotte, the future Queen of England, and the Regent's determination to keep her distant.

A surreal black comedy about a woman's struggles as a mother and wife, exploring themes of adulthood, parenthood, and mental illness through a mother's voice as she tries to make sense of her chaotic life.

In 1916 a 25-year-old, newly qualified doctor named Mikhail Bulgakov was posted to the remote Russian countryside. He brought to his position a diploma and a complete lack of field experience. And the challenges he faced didn't end there: he was assigned to cover a vast and sprawling territory that was as yet unvisited by modern conveniences such as the motor car, the telephone, and electric lights.

A school's lunch lady turns crime‑fighter to save a video‑game shipment from a scheming group of librarians, with help from the Breakfast Bunch students.

A Jamaican woman with the power to predict the future becomes a subject of fear and suspicion in England, while her spiritual visions and storytelling attempts to break free from institutionalized oppression.

A novel exploring the final years of a renowned writer caught in the conflict between his beloved wife and the Tolstoyan movement, with a compelling portrayal of a genius at the crossroads of his life and legacy.

A gripping tale of the Tudor era, from the perspective of Princess Mary Tudor, the last child of King Henry VIII, as she navigates the treacherous path to the English throne and struggles with her Catholic beliefs and the challenges of power struggles in England during the Reformation.

"The first novel to appear in English by one of the most talked-about and critically acclaimed writers of new Mexican fiction. From a psychoanalyst's couch, the narrator looks back on her bizarre childhood--in which she was born with an abnormality in her eye into a family intent on fixing it. In a world without the time and space for innocence, the narrator intimately recalls her younger self--a fierce and discerning girl open to life's pleasures and keen to its ruthless cycle of tragedy. With raw language and a brilliant sense of humor, both delicate and unafraid, Nettel strings together hard-won, unwieldy memories--taking us from Mexico City to Aix-en-Provence, France, then back home again--to create a portrait of the artist as a young girl. In these pages, Nettel's art of storytelling transforms experience into inspiration and a new startling perception of reality. "Nettel's eye...gives rise to a tension, subtle but persistent, that immerses us in an uncomfortable reality, disquieting, even disturbing--a gaze that illuminates her prose like an alien sun shining down on our world." --Valeria Luiselli, author of Sidewalks and Faces in the Crowd "It has been a long time since I've found in the literature of my generation a world as personal and untransferable as that of Guadalupe Nettel." --Juan Gabriel Vasquez, author of The Sound of Things Falling "Nettel reveals the subliminal beauty within beings...and painstakingly examines the intimacies of her soul." --Magazine Litteraire "Guadalupe Nettel's storytelling power is majestic."--Typographical Era In Praise of Natural Histories "Five flawless stories..." --The New York Times "Nettel's stories are as atmospheric and emotionally battering as Checkhov's."--Asymptote"-- "From a psychoanalyst's couch, the narrator looks back on her bizarre childhood--in which she was born with a birth defect into a family intent on fixing it--having somehow survived the emotional havoc she went through. And survive she did, but not unscathed. This intimate narrative echoes the voice of the narrator's younger self: a sharp, sensitive girl who is keen to life's gifts and hardships. With bare language and smart humor, both delicate and unafraid, the narrator strings a strand of touching stories together in a portrait of an unconventional childhood that crushed her, scarred her, mended her, tore her apart and ultimately made her whole"--