Títulos em Ficção Literária

Cuando el amor se mezcla con la dominación, cuando el amor no es otra cosa que obsesión, cuando el amor humilla, lastima, esclaviza, ¿se trata todavía de amor? Las cuatro nouvelles que componen Tan cerca en todo momento siempre son un viaje al corazón de esa pasión, de la mano de una maestra de la literatura contemporánea: Joyce Carol Oates. En estas cuatro nouvelles Oates desarma la ficción del amor romántico, el enamoramiento adolescente y el amor familiar, y ofrece una visión lúcida de las relaciones amorosas en toda su violenta complejidad.

Álvaro Peña, un ingeniero industrial de cincuenta años, casado y sin hijos, pierde su empleo como jefe de calidad de una importante fábrica sevillana de automoción, al principio de la crisis. Sus ahorros se evaporan y en menos de tres años, tras sufrir humillaciones en su desesperada búsqueda de un empleo, se ve obligado a acudir a un comedor social para poder meterse en el estómago un plato caliente de comida.

Johnny Grant faces stark life decisions. Seeking answers, he looks back to his relationship with Jerry Field. When they met, Johnny was 19, Jerry was 45. They fell in love and made a life on their own terms in Jerry’s flat: 1, Nova Scotia House. Johnny is still there today—but Jerry is gone, and so is the world they knew. As Johnny’s mind travels between then and now, he begins to remember stories of Jerry’s youth: of experiments in living; of radical philosophies; of the many possibilities of queer love, sex and friendship before the AIDS crisis devastated the queer community.

In the summer of 1980, astrophysics professor Joan Goodwin begins training to be an astronaut at Houston’s Johnson Space Center, alongside an exceptional group of fellow candidates: Top Gun pilots Hank Redmond and John Griffin; mission specialist Lydia Danes; warm-hearted Donna Fitzgerald; and Vanessa Ford, the magnetic and mysterious aeronautical engineer. As the new astronauts prepare for their first flights, Joan finds a passion and a love she never imagined and begins to question everything she believes about her place in the observable universe.

Two people meet for lunch in a Manhattan restaurant. She’s an accomplished actress in rehearsals for an upcoming premiere. He’s attractive, troubling, young – young enough to be her son. Who is he to her, and who is she to him? In this compulsively addicting, brilliantly constructed novel, two competing narratives unspool, rewriting our understanding of the roles we play every day – partner, parent, creator, muse – and the truths every performance masks, especially from those who think they know us most intimately.

Hermosa alegoría sobre el amor y la renuncia, "La bailarina" es una de las piezas más delicadas del japonés Ōgai Mori, máximo exponente, junto a Natsume Sōseki, de la literatura nipona de la era Meiji.

Moritz erleidet einen Schlaganfall und hat dafür eigentlich gar keine Zeit: Er ist im Job erfolgreich, im Ehrenamt engagiert, als Mann und Vater geliebt – und zudem erst Mitte 50. Die Auswirkungen sind verheerend: Moritz' Gehirn bleibt geschädigt, sein Sprachvermögen und Kurzzeitgedächtnis sind gestört. Er kommt in den geschützten Bereich eines Pflegeheims. Max Grund, sein Jugendfreund, besucht ihn dort fast jeden Samstag.

Пережив страшные события в прошлом, Алана продолжает жить и покорять новые вершины. Ее ждет поступление в Гарвард. Учеба в университете, новые друзья, парень, которому она нравится, — все наконец начинает налаживаться... Пока однажды на горизонте не появляется он — ее главный страх. Он не из тех, кто может так просто отпустить свою жертву. Для него это не просто спор, а дело всей жизни. Алана должна принадлежать только ему. Особенно сейчас, когда в ее жизни появился Майк — парень, который может спасти ее от прошлого... если она позволит.

迫られる攘夷か、開国か――。嘉永六年(一八五三年)六月、浦賀にその姿を現した四隻のアメリカ軍艦。強大な武力をもって日本に開国を求める艦隊司令長官・ペリーの対応に幕府は苦慮していた。

New Bethlehem, Connecticut. Picture-perfect lawns, manicured hedges, multi-million dollar homes. But beneath the designer yoga gear and country club memberships lies a darker reality. In this world of excess, Devon and Belle have it all—beauty, money, status. But they want something more. Something dangerous. Something that makes them feel alive. Their solution? A party—a meticulously curated gathering of New Bethlehem’s elite, from a desperate ex-NFL quarterback to a hockey coach with a penchant for married women, and a ruthless Wall Street “closer” who wields his wealth like a weapon.

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Cassidy is done living life as the headline-making other woman. She's paid for her mistakes as a young campaign intern in spades, and she's ready to move on. After years of working on anti-bullying initiatives in D.C., she returns to her hometown, Berkeley, to recalibrate and quickly falls into bed with her high school nemesis Leon, whose slacker attitude has always clashed with her type-A approach. Their encounter is just a one-night thing to blow off steam. That is, until they’re stuck in close quarters helping their mutual friend open her new ceramics studio.

A pesar de tener setenta y un años, todas las tardes después del trabajo, el librero Carl Kollhoff entrega personalmente los libros que le han encargado los clientes más especiales. Así, cada día da un agradable paseo por las pintorescas calles de la ciudad, ve cómo transcurre la vida fuera de la librería y visita a los lectores voraces que se han convertido en amigos para él.

Wyatt Riggins, the boyfriend of rising Maine artist Zetta Nadeau, has gone missing, leaving behind a cell phone containing a single-word message: RUN. Private investigator Charlie Parker is hired to find out why Riggins has fled, and from whom. Parker discovers that Riggins, an ex-soldier, has been involved in the abduction of four children from Mexico: three girls and a boy, all belonging to the cartel boss Blás Urrea—except Urrea’s family is safe and well in Mexico, which means the abductees cannot be his children. Yet whoever they are, Urrea wants them back.

Con una de las prosas más aplaudidas de Colombia, esta novela, Premio Nacional de Literatura y singular éxito editorial, cuenta la historia de Pedro de Ursúa, conquistador español destinado a tener una vida apasionante en el continente americano, apenas descubierto algunos años antes del viaje más importante de su vida. Allí pasará del anhelo enfermizo de la riqueza y el oro a la experiencia de la clandestinidad y el descubrimiento de una amistad insospechada.

There is something about the number 3. The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two. Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes. Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and literary avenues that classic authors were so adept at creating.

Ten years ago, when she was at university, Maeve Gaffney fell for a boy. When she fell pregnant, she disappeared from his life. For the next nine years, it was just Maeve, Maeve's mother, and Maeve's daughter, Emer. After her mother's death, Maeve decides it's finally time to find her daughter's father - the man she's never stopped idolising - and stake her claim. For her, her arrival in the small West Cork town where she and he first met, and where he still lives, offers a chance to have the nuclear family she's always dreamed of.

There is something about the number 3. The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two. Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and literary avenues that classic authors were so adept at creating.

There is something about the number 3. The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two. Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes. Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and literary avenues that classic authors were so adept at creating.

Em Heresia, Betty Milan aborda o tema da morte assistida e questiona até que ponto é legítimo o prolongamento da vida pela ciência e de uma existência orgânica na qual a memória e a própria subjetividade já se extinguiram. No início do romance, a protagonista diz: “Vou atribuir o que eu escrevo a outra narradora”, num movimento de afastamento do vivido para melhor contemplá-lo e, assim, reatar a ficção ao impulso de conhecimento irrompido pela imaginação.”