Snow Country
1948 · 175 pages
At a hot spring in Japan's snow country, a wealthy Tokyo idler keeps visiting a geisha who loves him past anything he can give. Kawabata states almost nothing and it lands anyway.
★ 7.2
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Cry, the Beloved Country
1948 · 320 pages
A Zulu parson goes to Johannesburg to find his son and learns the boy killed a white man who fought for black South Africans. Paton's fifteen million readers made apartheid a world scandal.
★ 6.7
The American Political Tradition
1948 · 560 pages
Hofstadter strips the myths off American statesmen from Jefferson to Franklin Roosevelt and finds one propertied creed underneath. The Emancipation Proclamation, he writes, had all the moral grandeur of a bill of lading.
★ 6.5
The Naked and the Dead
1948 · 736 pages
America's novel of the Second World War, published when Mailer was twenty-five and just back from the Philippines. A reconnaissance platoon crosses a Japanese-held island while he tracks every man's fear.
★ 6.5
The Tunnel
1948 · 138 pages
Writing from a prison cell, the painter Juan Pablo Castel explains why he killed the woman who understood his work. Sabato follows a jealous mind step by step until its logic feels ordinary.
★ 6.0
The Complete Little World of Don Camillo
1948 · 272 pages
The comic cycle that became Italian folklore sets a hot-tempered priest against the Communist mayor of a Po Valley village, with the crucifix above the altar talking Don Camillo down from revenge.
★ 5.0