Títulos em Gênero Ficção

Mesclando passado e presente, análises pessoais e referências culturais, Trevisan compõe um painel inesquecível da relação tumultuosa entre pai e filho enquanto constrói, com maestria, o retrato de toda uma geração.

In Village Diary, Miss Read describes the people of Fairacre with exactitude, a sense of comedy, and sharp observation. In addition to those characters familiar to readers of Village School, there are newcomers, including dictatorial Amy, an old college friend; Mr Mawne, whom the village sees as a possible husband for the unwilling Miss Read; and the earnest new infants teacher.

The Old Man and the Sea is one of Hemingway's most enduring works. Told in language of great simplicity and power, it is the story of an old Cuban fisherman, down on his luck, and his supreme ordeal, a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. Here Hemingway recasts, in strikingly contemporary style, the classic theme of courage in the face of defeat, of personal triumph won from loss.

In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child—not powerful, like her father, nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers that she does possess power—the power of witchcraft, which can transform rivals into monsters and menace the gods themselves.

Fairacre is a village of cottages, a church and the school - and, at the heart of the school, its head mistress Miss Read. Through her discerning eye, we meet the villagers of Fairacre and see their trials and tribulations, from the irascible school cleaner Mrs Pringle, to the young school children, with their scraped knees, hopeful faces and inevitable mischief.

The correspondence between Carrie Allsop and David Mayer reveals, piece by piece, the painful details of a devastating affair between their spouses. With each commiserating scratch of the pen, they confess their fears and bare their souls. They share the bewilderment over how things went so wrong and come to wonder where to go from here. Told entirely through the letters of two comforting strangers and those of two illicit lovers, Evidence of the Affair explores the complex nature of the heart. And ultimately, for one woman, how liberating it can be when it’s broken.

In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a cafe which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than 100 years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time. From the author of Before the Coffee Gets Cold comes a story of four new customers, each of whom is hoping to take advantage of Cafe Funiculi Funicula's time-travelling offer.

In a classroom in Seoul, a young woman watches her Greek language teacher at the blackboard. She tries to speak but has lost her voice. Her teacher finds himself drawn to the silent woman, for day by day he is losing his sight. Soon the two discover a deeper pain binds them together. For her, in the space of just a few months, she has lost both her mother and the custody battle for her nine-year-old son. For him, it's the pain of growing up between Korea and Germany, being torn between two cultures and languages, and the fear of losing his independence.

¿Cuándo se termina el amor? ¿Cómo saber con exactitud su fecha de expiración? Tras una relación de más de una década, Sofía y Rímini se separan. Con treinta años, Rímini se aboca a su trabajo como traductor mientras intenta sostener relaciones más o menos duraderas con otras mujeres. Sin embargo, de a poco, va cayendo en la apatía, tironeado entre la literatura y la cocaína, sometido a las caprichosas reapariciones de Sofía, que, impulsada por una pasión inagotable, le impide poner fin a su historia.

Un escritor de culto y casi secreto, que se ha convertido en maestro y referente imprescindible de lo mejor de la literatura actual.

Em 2000, Vanessa Wye é uma estudante solitária de ensino médio. Talentosa e com o sonho de ser escritora, Vanessa diz não se importar em ficar sozinha, principalmente quando seu professor de inglês, Jacob Strane, um homem de 42 anos, começa a prestar atenção nela, elogiando seu cabelo, suas roupas e lhe emprestando alguns de seus livros favoritos—como Lolita, de Nabokov. Antes que Vanessa perceba, os dois embarcam em uma relação e a jovem acredita que o professor a ama e a considera especial.

"1984", le livre légendaire écrit par George Orwell, enfin disponible dans une nouvelle traduction française. Un regard terrifiant sur l'avenir et une menace très claire sur ce que pourrait être notre futur, avec un État omniprésent et ultra-répressif. 1984 est le livre incontournable de l'anticipation distopique. L'histoire : Dans le futur, le monde a été divisé en trois empires qui se combattent en permanence : L'Océanie, l'Asie de l'Est et l'Eurasie. "1984" se passe à Londres, dans l'Océanie, une dictature.

Everyone keeps to themselves at Briarwood House, an all-female boarding house in the heart of the US capital, where secrets hide behind respectable facades. But when the mysterious Grace March moves into the attic room, she draws her oddball collection of neighbours – a poised English beauty, a policeman’s daughter, a frustrated female baseball star, and a rabidly pro-McCarthy typist – into an unlikely friendship.

Quase 70 anos depois de ser escrito, chega ao Brasil o romance inédito de Simone de Beauvoir com uma história fundamental para a formação de uma das mais importantes intelectuais do século XX. Escrito em 1954, cinco anos após a publicação de O segundo sexo, As inseparáveis é o romance autobiográfico que conta a história da amizade passional que uniu Sylvie (Simone de Beauvoir) e Andrée (Élisabeth Lacoin, a Zaza).

Em uma vila distante do sertão nordestino, um aprendiz de mágico faz a alegria da população com truques mirabolantes tirados de sua cartola. Acostumado com os olhares surpresos e abestalhados, Dino não espera que na noite da véspera de São João a mesmice de sua vida esteja prestes a findar. Uma forasteira desconhecida de olhos grandes e encantadores, que carrega asas de ferro nas costas, parece assisti-lo de maneira diferente, vendo além do que mostra em seu espetáculo.

Shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize. A Guardian Fiction Book of the year. Sometimes discovery brings destruction. "When We Cease to Understand the World" shows us great minds striking out into dangerous, uncharted terrain. Fritz Haber, Alexander Grothendieck, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger: these are among the luminaries into whose troubled minds we are thrust as they grapple with the most profound questions of existence. They have strokes of unparalleled genius, they alienate friends and lovers, they descend into isolated states of madness.

Klaus Mann: Mephisto - Roman einer Karriere, gelesen von Ingolf Kloss. Klaus Mann schrieb seinen "Mephisto" in weniger als einem halben Jahr. Begonnen hatte er den Roman Anfang 1936 und im Mai desselben Jahres war das Manuskript bereits fertig. Kurz darauf erschien er in einer Pariser Zeitung als Vorabdruck. In der Hauptrolle glänzte der berühmte und ganz reale Schauspieler, Gustaf Gründgens, hier im Buch unter dem Namen Hendrik Höfgen benannt.

M. F. K. Fisher's first novel tells of a late-summer idyll at the Swiss farmhouse of Tim and Sara, where guests have gathered at ease on the terrace next to the burbling fountain in which baby lettuces are being washed, there to enjoy the food and wine served them by this stylish American couple. But all around these seemingly fortunate people, the forces of darkness are gathering: The year is 1939; World War II approaches.

In der kleinen mexikanischen Stadt Linares erzählt man sich noch immer von dem Tag, an dem die alte Nana Reja ein Baby unter einer Brücke gefunden hat. Von einem Bienenschwarm umhüllt, erweckt der kleine Simonopio zunächst Misstrauen bei den abergläubischen Dorfbewohnern. Doch die Gutsbesitzer Francisco und Beatriz Morales nehmen den wilden stummen Jungen bei sich auf und lieben ihn wie ihr eigenes Kind.

Once an aristocrat in the heady days of pre-revolutionary France, now Lestat is a rockstar in the demonic, shimmering 1980s. He rushes through the centuries in search of others like him, seeking answers to the mystery of his terrifying exsitence. His story, the second volume in Anne Rice's best-selling Vampire Chronicles, is mesmerizing, passionate, and thrilling.