Títulos em Ficção Literária

"Quan ets menuda, no t’imagines que res pot anar malament. Lo futur és un bufet lliure infinit, és tot teu, és inabastable, és etern, i morir-te et passarà, però en una altra vida. Hi ha gent que ja ho sap, que ho té fotut, perquè han tingut la mala sort d’haver nascut en un país en guerra o un entorn desfavorable. En este món de merda per desgràcia en tenim milions i milions i milions d’exemples, de xiquets amb un futur complicat. Però no era el meu cas. Jo donava per feta la vida fàcil. La felicitat, potser. Sí, donava la felicitat per segura. A mi, la vida m’aniria de cara."

Della terra in cui è nata le sono rimasti pochi ricordi, vaghi e confusi: la zia Aster che si sforza di farla mangiare, i suoi passi a testa bassa sulla strada per la scuola, i giochi con il cugino Abbush e i bambini del quartiere. Le è rimasto il nome, che in amarico significa “nostalgia” e sembra alludere a qualcosa di originario che le mancherà sempre. E il cognome, Abraham, preso da un padre che non conosce, ma che si trascina dietro come un’ombra, come la traccia di un passato divenuto ormai troppo distante. Perché Tezeta è italiana.

"Nach fünf Seiten war ich verknallt. Schwester Holiday ist einfach großartig." Gillian Flynn "Eines der besten Krimidebüts, das mir seit langem untergekommen ist." Don Winslow Die neue coole Krimi-Serie um Schwester Holiday, eine Nonne, die gerne Punkrock hört! Als ihre Klosterschule Ziel eines Brandanschlags wird und der Hausmeister Jack tot aufgefunden wird, stürzen die Schwestern und die umliegende Gemeinde ins Chaos.

Эта сентиментальная и проницательная книга на грани автобиографической прозы и лирического стендапа вызовет у женской аудитории понимающую улыбку, у мужской - взволнованное любопытство. Книгу сможет прочитать каждый, кто захочет понять, что же такое жизнь - прекрасная и ужасная, обыденная и невероятная, жесткая и нежная. Настоящая. Любопытно заглянуть в авторскую голову, как в платяной шкаф, в котором хранятся разные фрагменты этой жизни, с катышками и без. Книга Екатерины Подлесских, создательницы клуба авторского чтения «Вслух. Про себя», написана легко, самоиронично, тепло и жизнелюбиво.

Anna first fell in love with London at her hometown library—its Jane Austen balls a far cry from her life of food stamps and hand-me-downs. But when she finally arrives after college, the real London is a moldy flat and the same paycheck-to-paycheck grind—that fairy-tale life still out of reach. Then Anna meets the Wilders, who fly her to Saint-Tropez to tutor their teenage daughter. Swept up by the sphinx-like elder sister, Anna soon finds herself plunged into a heady whirlpool of parties and excess, a place where confidence is a birthright.

Informed by real-life events from Japanese incarceration, the Vietnam War, and modern-day immigrant detention, Kevin Nguyen gives us a version of reality only a few degrees away from our own—much too close for comfort. Moving and finely attuned to both the brutalities and mundanities of racism in America, My Documents is a strangely funny and touching portrait of American ambition, fear, and family. The story of the Nguyens is one of resilience and how we return to each other, and to ourselves, after tragedy.

Arriving at the University of Edinburgh for her first term, Pen knows her divorced parents back in Canada are hiding something from her. She believes she’ll find the answer here in Scotland, where an old friend of her father’s—now a famous writer known as Lord Lennox—lives. When she is invited to spend the weekend at Lord Lennox’s centuries-old estate with his enveloping, fascinating family, Pen begins to unravel her parents’ secret, just as she’s falling in love for the first time . . .

A collection of vibrant and incisive short stories depicting the sometimes humorous, but more often tragic interactions between Black people and white people in America in the 1920s and ‘30s.

In Donegal, Ireland, 1973, a baby boy is found on the beach of a close-knit fishing village. After the baby has been carried through the crowd of onlookers, fisherman Ambrose Bonnar—a man of great bulk, and great heart—offers to bring the child into his own family: his son, Declan, wife, Christine, and up the lane, Christine's sister and aging father. The townspeople remain fascinated by the baby, now named Brendan, as he grows into a strange yet charismatic young man.

In a neighborhood known as the Bramble Patch, the Lyons family endures despite poverty, racism, and the ghoulish appetites of an underworld kingpin called the Barghest. As the years pass and the neighborhood falls into decay, along with the town that surrounds it, what’s left of the Bramble Patch will learn the saying is true: These bones are gonna rise again.

For Clarence’s mother, life revolves around her young son; she takes him to see specialists to find the cause of his blindness and developmental delays, protects him from the cruelty of other children, and loves him tenderly. But she has her own struggles too. Her sanity is precarious and fractured, making caregiving increasingly difficult.

At the turn of the twenty-first century, three young people come of age in Tanzania. Karim returns to his sleepy hometown after university with new swagger and ambition. Fauzia glimpses in him a chance at escape from a smothering upbringing. The two of them offer a haven to Badar, a poor boy still unsure if the future holds anything for him at all. As tourism, technology, and unexpected opportunities and perils reach their quiet corner of the world, bringing, each arrives at a different understanding of what it means to take your fate into your own hands.

In the shadow of an ancient abbey nestled between rivers, Daniel is growing up. He is highly intelligent but little understood by his parents, and a secret passion burns inside him for love and recognition. When his father loses his job as the headmaster of the local school, his family stumbles into a rural life for which they are ill-prepared. Daniel’s sole solace is the arrival of Philip, a new boy at school, whom he worships with a confused intensity.

Charley Byrne isn't really living. At age 29, she hunkers down in her apartment above the bookstore she manages, afraid of a 7-year curse. Then quirky activist Xander Wallace lures her out of social exile with the prospect of friendship and romance. Charley joins Xanders circle of friends diverse in their heritage, race, gender and sexual orientation. She thrives, even leaving her comfort zone to join protests in a city struggling with social justice ills.

In "The Call of the Wild" by Jack London, the wild applies an overwhelming appeal, drawing peruses into a primal world of survival and self-discovery. Through the eyes of Buck, a tamed canine pushed into the cruel substances of the Alaskan wild, London dives profound into the mind of both man and monster. Buck's change from a spoiled pet to a furious and free pioneer mirrors humanity's possess journey for character and opportunity.

Kathleen and Yannick have not spoken for nineteen years, not since what happened with their daughter. Now, there’s unexpected news from the other side of the country, and the call for a road trip they can only make together. As they rattle over two thousand miles in a pick-up, through forests, over mountains and into service stations, an alluring history reveals itself: of fierce love, complicated ex-wives and headstrong children, and of a unique bond that never really went away.

Amy “Angie” Nelson was ten when she was rescued from the famed “Dyna Girl Kidnapping.” In the final days of her kidnapping, Amy’s father, Louis, discovered her whereabouts, but was killed by her abductor— her own mother, Cassandra. Eighteen years later, Cassandra sits in prison, and damaged Amy lives a hermetic life, shunning relationships with everyone but those closest to her—her maternal grandfather and her therapist.

Eine Road-Novel über die Phantome der Vergangenheit, über Scham und über Wut und darüber, was es bedeutet, bei sich zu sein. Adikous Herkunft ist verschwommen, die Spuren ihrer Familiengeschichte sind verwischt, sie weiß nicht einmal, wie man ihren Namen richtig ausspricht. Dann, in einem drückend heißen Sommer, hält sie es in Paris nicht mehr aus. Adikou fliegt nach Lomé, Togo, dem Herkunftsort ihres Vaters, den sie nicht kennt.

Уильям Берроуз (1914–1997) – американский писатель и эссеист, король и классик англоязычной альтернативной прозы, автор, имя которого не нуждается в дополнительном представлении. Человек-эпоха, человек-стиль, который решился рассказать о себе намного больше, чем кто-нибудь посмел бы его спросить. "Белый кот символизирует серебристую луну, заглядывающую в углы и расчищающую небо перед грядущим днем.Белый кот — охотник и убийца, чей путь освещен серебристой луной. Все темные потайные места и существа разоблачены в ее мягком неумолимом свете.

Un famoso escritor se ha instalado en una isla paradisíaca. Como cada año, Emily, su hija, ha venido a visitarlo. Pero esta vez viene acompañada de Antonia. De inmediato se despiertan las pasiones: ella es joven, bella y, sobre todo, accesible. Así es que comienza a espiarla, agazapado tras unos lentes oscuros y un deseo al acecho. Pero mirar a Antonia implica mirar a Emily y, hacerlo, obliga a comparar: su hija es mucho más bella que su amiga y ése es un pensamiento que no debería tener lugar... aunque los deseos no suelen estar bajo nuestro control... mucho menos si son correspondidos.