Títulos em Ficção Literária

Em meio a uma onda de calor devastadora e a uma greve de ônibus que paralisa a cidade, três amigos se reencontram em Porto Alegre. No final dos anos 1990, eles haviam incendiado a internet com o Orangotango, um fanzine digital que se tornou cultuado em todo o Brasil. Agora, quase duas décadas depois, a morte do quarto integrante do grupo vai reaproximar Aurora, cientista e pesquisadora vivendo uma pequena guerra acadêmica, Antero, artista de vanguarda convertido em publicitário, e Emiliano, jornalista que tem uma difícil tarefa pela frente.

Athena Liu is a literary darling and June Hayward is literally nobody. When Athena dies in a freak accident, June steals her unpublished manuscript and publishes it as her own under the ambiguous name Juniper Song. But as evidence threatens June’s stolen success, she will discover exactly how far she will go to keep what she thinks she deserves. What happens next is entirely everyone else’s fault.

Sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes deeply joyous, The House on Mango Street tells the story of Esperanza Cordero, whose neighborhood is one of harsh realities and harsh beauty. Esperanza doesn't want to belong, not to her rundown neighborhood, and not to the low expectations the world has for her. Esperanza's story is that of a young girl coming into her power, and inventing for herself what she will become.

El día en que lo iban a matar, Santiago Nasar se levantó a las 5.30 de la mañana para esperar el buque en que llegaba el obispo. Acaso sea Crónica de una muerte anunciada la obra más "realista" de Gabriel García Márquez, pues se basa en un hecho histórico acontecido en la tierra natal del escritor.

Nicolas, um jovem psiquiatra francês, é convidado para trabalhar na Suíça logo após o fim da Segunda Guerra Mundial. Junto da esposa Anna, ele se muda para um pequeno vilarejo, próximo ao hospital psiquiátrico onde vai trabalhar. O lugar, conhecido por seus métodos humanizados de tratamento, recebe internos de toda a Europa.

At dinner parties and over coffee, Rabih and Kirsten's friends always ask them the same question: how did you meet? The answer comes easily - it's a happy story, one they both love to tell. But there is a second part to this story, the answer to a question their friends never ask: what happened next? Rabih and Kirsten find each other, fall in love, get married. Society tells us this is the end of the story. In fact it is only the beginning.

"Sempre que me acontece alguma coisa importante, está ventando", costuma dizer Ana Terra, que reside com os pais e os dois irmãos numa estância erma do interior gaúcho, na segunda metade do século XVIII.O cotidiano dos Terras é duro, penoso, arriscado. Tiram sustento da colheita. Calculam a passagem do tempo observando a natureza.

A Wall Street tycoon takes a young woman as his wife. Together they rise to the top in an age of excess and speculation. But now a novelist is threatening to reveal the secrets behind their marriage, and this wealthy man’s story—of greed, love and betrayal—is about to slip from his grasp. Composed of four competing versions of this deliciously deceptive tale, Trust brings us on a quest for truth while confronting the lies that often live buried in the human heart.

A festa do Bode é um dos romances mais importantes de Mario Vargas Llosa, laureado com o Nobel de Literatura em 2010 . Com uma pesquisa histórica rigorosa e uma preocupação flaubertiana pelos detalhes, ele recria uma República Dominicana de meados do século XX para recontar a história do general Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina—o "Bode"—e a implacável ditadura que implantou no país durante seus 31 anos de governo.

Outline is a novel in 10 conversations. Spare and lucid, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing over an oppressively hot summer in Athens. She leads her student in storytelling exercises. She meets other writers for dinner. She goes swimming in the Ionian Sea with her seatmate from the place. The people she encounters speak volubly about themselves, their fantasies, anxieties, pet theories, regrets and longings. And through these disclosures, a portrait of the narrator is drawn by contrast, a portrait of a woman learning to face great a great loss.

Soviet Russia, 1930. Zuleikha, the “pitiful hen,” lives with her brutal husband Murtaza and her mother-in-law in a small Tartar village. When Murtaza is executed by communist soldiers, she is sent into exile to a remote region on the Angara River in Siberia. Hundreds die of hunger and exhaustion on the journey and over the first difficult winter, yet exile is the making of Zuleikha. As she gets to know her fellow survivors, Zuleikha begins to build a new life far removed from the one she left behind. 

La inspiración para escribir este libro le llegó a García Márquez con una insólita noticia que tuvo que cubrir como periodista. El 26 de octubre de 1949 el reportero Gabriel García Márquez fue enviado al antiguo convento de Santa Clara, que iba a ser demolido para edificar sobre él un hotel de cinco estrellas, a presenciar el vaciado de las criptas funerarias y a cubrir la noticia. Se exhumaron los restos de un virrey del Perú y su amante secreta, un obispo, varias abadesas, un bachiller de artes y una marquesa.

Harlem in the 1970s: the black soul of New York City. Tish is nineteen and the man she loves - her lifelong friend and the father of her unborn child - has been jailed for a crime he did not commit. As their families come together to fight for his freedom, will their love be enough?

The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector's consummate final novel, may well be her masterpiece. Narrated by the cosmopolitan Rodrigo S. M., this brief, strange, and haunting tale is the story of Macabéa, one of life's unfortunates. Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a poor living as a typist, Macabéa loves movies, Coca-Colas, and her rat of a boyfriend; she would like to be like Marilyn Monroe, but she is ugly, underfed, sickly, and unloved.

Unfinished Tales is a collection of narratives ranging in time from the Elder Days of Middle-earth to the end of the War of the Ring and provides those who have read The Lord of the Rings with a whole collection of background and new stories from the 20th century’s most acclaimed popular author.

Esta novela, adictiva, trepidante, y con una tensión que no decae en cada partida, en cada viaje, en cada momento de abandono de la protagonista, que siempre oscila entre el éxito y el abismo, se quedará en el corazón de los oyentes. Y les servirá además como introducción al mundo del ajedrez, que, como Beth Harmon, parece tranquilo y accesible, pero contiene debajo todo un volcán de pasiones y peligros.

Os dez contos reunidos neste livro foram publicados por Lygia Fagundes Telles entre 1958 e 1981. Todos, de alguma maneira, mereceriam o título emprestado pelo primeiro deles à coletânea. São histórias de homens e mulheres, crianças e adultos flagrados em seus sentimentos mais secretos e em sua relação espinhosa com a vida à sua volta. Em "Um Coração Ardente", um rapaz se apaixona por uma moça sem saber que ela é prostituta e, depois, tenta regenerá-la.

My sister Greta and I were having our portrait painted by our Uncle Finn because he knew he was dying . . .There's only one person who has ever truly understood fourteen-year-old June Elbus, and that's her uncle, the renowned painter, Finn Weiss. Shy at school and distant from her once inseparable older sister, June can only be herself in Finn's company; he is her godfather, confidant, and best friend.

Prisioneira de uma sombria dimensão e possuidora de um dom e de uma maldição, Nina está determinada a encontrar seu caminho e sua identidade. O que fazer? Fugir e sobreviver, ou enfrentar seus fantasmas e acabar morrendo? A única pessoa que poderia lhe ajudar foi justamente a responsável por reduzir seu coração a pedaços. Em quem Nina poderá confiar agora, que acaba de descobrir que a morte pode ter muitas facetas?

Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England's Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort—a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other "Bunny", and seem to move and speak as one. But everything changes when Samantha receives an invitation to the Bunnies' fabled "Smut Salon"....