Category

1989 novels

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The General in His Labyrinth

novel by Gabriel García Márquez

Like Water for Chocolate

novel by Mexican novelist Laura Esquivel

The History of the Siege of Lisbon

1989 novel by José Saramago

The Melancholy of Resistance

1989 novel by László Krasznahorkai

novel by Mircea Cărtărescu

The Power of One

novel by Bryce Courtenay

Kådisbellan (The Condom Slingshot) is a 1989 Swedish autobiographical novel written by Roland Schütt. The book is about Schütt's life as child during the 1920s. His Jewish mother Zipa sells condoms, which was forbidden then, and Roland steals the condoms and makes slingshots and balloons of them. A film based on the novel, directed by Åke Sandgren, was released in 1993.