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After another relationship disaster Alice Littleton returns home to spend summer in Dublin’s Sandycove with her Mum, Ciara and beloved grandmother Eva at their family deli and grocers. As Alice settles back into her old life with best friend Becca and her new boyfriend Conal Blake, she begins to fall in love with the comings and goings of their family shop and once more enjoying the rhythms of Irish life.

Astrid Hekne has inherited the fighting spirit and hypersensitivity of her grandmother, who was a protector of the mythic Sister Bells that had once hung in the village's centuries-old stave church. The once-traitorous priest Kai Schweigaard, now in his eighties, is wondering how his death, prophesied in a centuries-old tapestry, will come to pass. He delves into the myths about the Night of the Scourge, which, according to old village beliefs, is when the known world will fall and the Earth will be scraped down to bare rock. Then Norway is occupied by the Nazis.

It is 1978, and Nieve finds herself caught between the tides of her parents' turbulent relationship and a country in turmoil. To try to control her situation, she begins to record the intimate and harsh details of her life in her diary. Becoming her sole means of expression, the diary is her only constant and her only friend.

Dounia, a young Saudi finds herself alienated and alone as she prepares for motherhood in an air-conditioned mansion in the middle of the desert. After losing her home and baby in a natural disaster, Flora does the unthinkable and leaves her surviving child in the Philippines to become an overseas domestic worker. Pushed by her family to marry a jihadist, Zeinah, a Syrian woman finds herself joining the city's morality police. Justine uproots her progressive New York family to curate an exhibit in Abu Dhabi, where she must reckon with her ethical limitations.

Les jours passés à la librairie Morisaki resteront à jamais gravés dans ma mémoire. Puisque c'est là-bas que j'ai commencé à vivre, à vivre réellement. Sans cette parenthèse, ma vie aurait été bien moins colorée, bien plus monotone, bien plus triste. Un lieu précieux, inoubliable. Voilà ce qu'est la librairie Morisaki à mes yeux.

اثنتا عشرة خطوة بينك وبين الهاوية، إمّا أن تجتازها أو تسقط ...كان هذا هو الخيار الوحيد أمام صلاح، بل كان خيار الجميع.

وعند ذلك تدخل معترك الحياة وتخوض العديد من التجارب إلى أن تلتقي ب"عبّاس" وتقع في غرامه وتبدأ بتجرّع مبادئه واعتناقها، فهل ستدور أمينة وترجع إلى نقطة البداية لتُصبح صورةً عن نساءٍ كرهتهن أبدًا، أم أنّها ستتمرَّد مرةً أخرى فتكون النهاية نهايتها هي؟

Jason Taverner has a glittering TV career, millions of fans, great wealth and something close to eternal youth. He is one of a handful of brilliant, beautiful people, the product of top-secret government experiments forty years earlier. But suddenly, all records of him vanish. He becomes a man with no identity, in a police state where everyone us closely monitored. Can he ever be rich and famous again? Or was that life just an illusion?

Antes de la publicación de La tumba en 1964, no existía en la literatura mexicana un escritor que transgrediera las formas narrativas como lo hizo José Agustín con su primera novela. La tumba seguirá siendo leída por distintas generaciones por su intacto espíritu rebelde, desencantado y mordaz. Un clásico que celebra sus primeros 50 años.

For fifteen years, subterranean humanity has been fed on daily broadcasts of a never-ending nuclear destruction, sustained by a belief in the all powerful Protector. Now someone has gone to the surface and found no destruction, no war. The authorities have been telling a massive lie…

Alice Montgomery goes missing in 2015. Seven years later, her best friend Hannah is bouncing from city to city, forever feeling the need to outrun something, but unsure what. With the niggling need to move nipping at her heels, Hannah decides to return home – a small coastal town in Western Australia – for the first time since she left, to help her mum after surgery and confront their fractured relationship. When Hannah hears that Marnie Montgomery, Alice's mum, has been diagnosed with terminal cancer, she is seized by terror that she will never know the truth of her friend's disappearance.

Born at the end of the old world, Miriam grows up during The Great Reckoning, a sprawling, decades-long war that nearly decimates humanity and strips her of friends and family. Devastated by grief and loneliness, she emotionally exiles herself, avoiding relationships or allegiances, and throws herself into her work--disengagement that serves her when the war finally ends, and The New Society arises.

Hailed as “The Paris Review of BIPOC literature,” Kweli Journal has been a launching pad for many of today’s most celebrated writers. This powerful anthology marks the journal’s 15th anniversary, showcasing 15 unforgettable stories curated by founder Laura Pegram. With a foreword from award-winning author Edwidge Danticat, the narratives included in this vivid anthology explore the devastation of leaving home and the struggle to adapt to reimagined lives, lost loves, distant families, and buried pasts.

This extraordinary Strega Prize-winning novel confirms Domenico Starnone's reputation as one of Italy's greatest living writers. Told against the backdrop of Naples in the 1960s, a city that itself becomes a vivid character in this lush, atmospheric novel, The House on Via Gemito is a masterpiece of Italian fiction.

After her first ex abandoned her and her second ex let her down, Eve has worked hard to rebuild her family’s life and now, she’s doing just fine, or so she thinks. She definitely doesn’t have the time or the energy to trust anyone else with her fragile heart. But then eldest son Tom drops a bombshell and precocious daughter Anna is determined to make Eve see that there is a man in her life who could be absolutely perfect for her.

Slag. Noun. A promiscuous woman, of cheap or questionable character. Mostly derogatory. Sometimes affectionate. Takes one to know one… Sisters Sarah and Juliette are going on a whisky-fuelled campervan road-trip across Scotland to celebrate Juliette’s birthday – and they’re going to dig up some demons from the past.

Tre giorni dura il ritorno a Trieste di Alma, che dalla città è fuggita per rifarsi una vita lontano, e ora è tornata per raccogliere l’imprevista eredità di suo padre. Un uomo senza radici che odiava il culto del passato e i suoi lasciti, un padre pieno di fascino ma sfuggente, che andava e veniva al di là del confine, senza che si potesse sapere che lavoro facesse là nell’isola, all’ombra del maresciallo Tito "occhi di vipera". A Trieste Alma ritrova una mappa dimenticata della sua vita.

هل سمعت عن هذه الرواية من قبل ؟!! إنّها تتربع على صدر قائمة أفضل مئة رواية عربية.

رواية شائكة، مُتعبة وقريبة للقلب، ستشعر بأنَّك عاصرتَ بعض أحداثها وتتفاجىء بأحداث وتفاصيل أخرى لم تنتبه إليها يومًا.

إحدى روايات القائمة القصيرة لجائزة البوكر 2012 على الرَّغم من نهايتها الغريبة والتي خالفت جميع التوقعات، وربما كانت هذه النهاية بحبكتها الذكية السبب في وصول الرواية إلى قائمة البوكر القصيرة.