Troublesome bodies

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Literature featuring characters who are seen as physically different or non-conforming. For this list, I'm less interested in explicitly disability awareness fiction, but more in how authors have thematized this "otherness" (for better or for worse).
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The Glass Menagerie
af Tennessee Williams
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Den vidunderlige kaerligheds historie : roman
af Carl-Johan Vallgren
558 medlemmer
18 anmeldelser
3.8
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Der Buckel
af Hugo Loetscher
10 medlemmer
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spiphany: Story collection featuring multiple characters with physical differences, including a hunchbacked dwarf.
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Bliktrommen
af Günter Grass
7,586 medlemmer
93 anmeldelser
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Klokkeren fra Notre Dame
af Victor Hugo
14,144 medlemmer
176 anmeldelser
3.9
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Hans kongelige højhed
af Thomas Mann
599 medlemmer
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½ 3.5
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spiphany: The prince's left arm is crippled from birth, complicating royal appearances in public.
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Stones from the River
af Ursula Hegi
4,680 medlemmer
68 anmeldelser
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En bøn for Owen Meany
af John Irving
18,090 medlemmer
327 anmeldelser
4.2
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Gargoilen : stendragen
af Andrew Davidson
4,061 medlemmer
281 anmeldelser
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Swan's Wing
af Ursula Synge
74 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
4.2
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A Dream in Polar Fog
af Yuri Rytkheu
212 medlemmer
10 anmeldelser
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spiphany: Canadian trader loses most of his fingers to frostbite and is taken in by the Chukchi people of the far north.
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Warrior Scarlet
af Rosemary Sutcliff
441 medlemmer
5 anmeldelser
3.8
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Die Zunge
af Lea Singer
12 medlemmer
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spiphany: Protagonist was born with malformed hands in revolutionary-era France; becomes a famous gourmet and critic of the arts.
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The Gaze
af Elif Shafak
169 medlemmer
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½ 3.4
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Vom Wasser: Roman
af John von Düffel
55 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
4.1
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The Witch's Brat
af Rosemary Sutcliff
185 medlemmer
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Caesars Druide
af Claude Cueni
48 medlemmer
3 anmeldelser
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spiphany: Historical novel set in Roman-era Germania. Protagonist has a muscular disorder that makes it difficult to walk.
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The Centaur in the Garden
af Moacyr Scliar
230 medlemmer
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spiphany: Narrator is a centaur; this is treated realistically (i.e., as a birth defect/mutation) rather than as a fantasy element.
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Flight to Afar
af Alfred Andersch
503 medlemmer
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spiphany: One of the main characters suffers from a poorly healed amputation from the war.
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Tides
af Eduard von Keyserling
201 medlemmer
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spiphany: One of the characters, Knospelius, is described as being hunchbacked.
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The Phoenix
af Henning Boëtius
116 medlemmer
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spiphany: Protagonist was badly burned/disfigured during the Hindenburg disaster.
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Company of Liars
af Karen Maitland
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spiphany: Features one character with a facial scar and missing eye, one with a deformed arm, and an albino.
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The Obscene Bird of Night
af José Donoso
851 medlemmer
13 anmeldelser
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Langsom mand
af J. M. Coetzee
2,033 medlemmer
50 anmeldelser
½ 3.4
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Der Halbbart
af Charles Lewinsky
14 medlemmer
2 anmeldelser
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spiphany: One of the central characters is a newcomer to the village who has a badly scarred face.
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Sandbarnet
af Tahar Ben Jelloun
609 medlemmer
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spiphany: Female child raised as a man because of the father's desire for a male heir; the disparity between physical body and social gender are a source of conflict for the protagonist.
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A Gorda (Portuguese Edition)
af Isabela Figueiredo
35 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
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Hulebjørnens klan
af Jean M. Auel
12,740 medlemmer
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spiphany: The shaman who raises Ayla is partly crippled; Ayla herself has difficulty being accepted by the Neanderthal clan due to her physical difference from them.
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Manger l'autre
af Ananda Devi
8 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
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Dværgen
af Pär Lagerkvist
1,099 medlemmer
26 anmeldelser
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