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superunknown
05-31-2006, 11:03 AM
Any books come to mind?
Pensive
05-31-2006, 12:09 PM
Do you mean books regarding homesickness? Then I will suggest Heidi.
amanda_isabel
05-31-2006, 12:32 PM
the secret life of a schoolgirl by rosemary kingsland, though i'm not sure if memoirs qualify as nostalgic.
kimpossible
05-31-2006, 01:01 PM
The Great Gatsby
kimpossible
05-31-2006, 01:23 PM
Nabakov's Lolita

(forever in love with that girl by the beach)
PeterL
05-31-2006, 03:11 PM
The Island of the Day Before by Umberto Eco
Bysshe
05-31-2006, 03:32 PM
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh

"I had been there before, first with Sebastian more than twenty years ago on a cloudless day in June..."
rabid reader
05-31-2006, 06:33 PM
The Stone Angel- Margret Lawerance(sp?)
IrishCanadian
05-31-2006, 11:17 PM
Almost anything by Dickens I think fits in here. Perhaps not homesickness bu att his amjor characters move physically and mentally from home and end up with a more mature relationship with that part of their life by the end of the book ...
Logos
05-31-2006, 11:20 PM
The Stone Angel- Margret Lawerance(sp?)

Laurence and excellent choice ;)
rabid reader
06-01-2006, 12:02 AM
Honestly didn't like it but it does involve nosligia. In my school we tend to beat to death canadian authors, so I have a probably completely unfair hatred for Laurence, Atwood and others... oh God the memories of I Heard the Owl Call My Name
fati
06-01-2006, 12:08 PM
Nedjma -Kateb Yacine.
the writer was an algerian in exile in france. the book is like a dream about a misterious woman that the characters hope to possess. but she constanly escapes any attempts of being emprisoned, even if it were into passion. a metaphore for algeria and its history. nostalgia for a past that should be changed, but that excerts an irremediable fascination that finally leads to sterility.
Hyacinth Girl
06-01-2006, 05:37 PM
I would say "the Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana" by Umberto Eco deals with the absence of nostalgia. The main character loses his memories and can only remember things he has read. The novel centers around his search for his past and himself. Also a kind of side trail, Stephen King's The Stand reflects the influence of nostalgia - what happens when society as we know it is gone. What do we miss? What do we retain? How much is our longing for the past transmuting it into something better that what it actually was? You might also check outsome regional stories, something along the lines of Cold Sassy Tree, Lake Woebegon Days, or A River Runs Through It :D