need a shorter book

737max

I'm looking for something shorter e.g. 250 to 350 pages.
I want something more literature than pulp.
I don't mind flowery writing as long as the author doesn't lose the run of themselves.
Not Irish.
Not a collection of short stories.
Not existential.
Not financial.
Not depressing.
Not a whodunnit or Kafkaesque.
Not Mills and Boon.
Definitely not targeted at teenagers; they just don't hit the spot with me. tried that.
Not published in the last 20 years i.e. stood the test of time.

I won't be reading it in my native language.
Completed a couple of books in a foreign language but the last one nearly killed me; Love in the Time of Cholera is a great book but not an easy read in another language and too long.
Easy enough to find a book which isn't any of those things until you add the restriction of it not being over 350 pages long. If I were reading in English I'd have no problem with a longer book.

Any suggestions?

Joe_ Public

Must be 1000s of great slim novels out there. Though many great novels tend to be either existentialist or a bit depressing by nature.

Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
Scoop! - Evelyn Waugh
Housekeeping- Marilanne Robinson
Times Arrow - Amis

A few I like anyway.

GLaDOS

Animal Farm?

737max

Joe_ Public wrote: »

Scoop! - Evelyn Waugh

I like Waugh and I can't remember reading that one. I'll look in to that.

beans

737max wrote: »

Not Irish.
Not a collection of short stories.
Not existential.
Not financial.
Not depressing.
Not a whodunnit or Kafkaesque.
Not Mills and Boon.
Definitely not targeted at teenagers; they just don't hit the spot with me. tried that.
...

Any suggestions?

Perfume by Patrick Suskind is the first book that springs to mind

737max

Read it in the original language. Great book.