Títulos em Ficção Literária

Reunião de narrativas escritas entre 1949 e 1969, Antes do baile verde é considerado por muitos críticos o livro de contos literariamente mais bem-sucedido de Lygia Fagundes Telles. As situações narradas são as mais diversas. Em "A caçada", um homem fica a tal ponto intrigado com uma velha tapeçaria encontrada num antiquário que acaba por mergulhar na cena retratada na peça, como se tivesse participado dela numa outra vida ou numa outra dimensão.

Leaving the safety of America, Teera returns to Cambodia for the first time since her harrowing escape as a child refugee. She carries a letter from a man who mysteriously signs himself as "the Old Musician" and claims to have known her father in the Khmer Rouge prison where he disappeared 25 years ago. In Phnom Penh, Teera finds a society still in turmoil, where perpetrators and survivors of unfathomable violence live side by side, striving to mend their still beloved country.

It’s the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong? Our narrator has many of the advantages of life: young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, she lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like everything else, by her inheritance. But there is a vacuum at the heart of things, and it isn’t just the loss of her parents in college, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her alleged best friend.

Elfriede Jelineks Roman über Lust, patriarchalische Machtverhältnisse und Sexualität, der viel Aufsehen erregte: Als selbst die Angst vor Aids auch das hinterste Alpental erreicht hat, muss der Fabrikdirektor gezwungenermaßen seine außerehelichen Eskapaden einstellen und sich wieder seiner Frau Gerti zuwenden. Doch Gerti versucht den sexuellen Angriffen ihres Mannes zu entfliehen und landet schließlich in den Armen des Studenten Michael, aber auch dieses erotische Abenteuer endet für Gerti in Demütigung.

Some said it was tragic, what happened to the Van Laars. Some said the Van Laars deserved it. That they never even thanked the searchers who stayed out for five nights in the freezing forest trying to help find their missing son. Some said there was a reason it took the family so long to call for help. That they knew what happened to the boy. Now, fifteen years later, the daughter the family had in their grief has gone missing in the same wilderness as her brother.

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.

Inspirée de faits réels, la démonstration qu'un simple jeu peut finir en dictature. Pour faire comprendre les mécanismes du nazisme à ses élèves, Ben Ross, professeur d'histoire, crée un mouvement expérimental au slogan fort : "La Force par la Discipline, la Force par la Communauté, la Force par l'Action." En l'espace de quelques jours, l'atmosphère du paisible lycée californien se transforme en microcosme totalitaire : avec une docilité effrayante, les élèves abandonnent leur libre arbitre pour répondre aux ordres de leur nouveau leader.

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.

Um crime choca os moradores de uma pequena cidade no interior do Brasil: uma mulher é queimada viva, em um ritual motivado por razões religiosas, a fim de purificar a vítima e endireitá-la para o "caminho do bem". A violência parece ter se tornado parte da paisagem: desde que uma comunidade evangélica se instalou na região, episódios do tipo se tornaram cada vez mais comuns. Cabe então ao leitor juntar fragmentos, seguir as pistas e acompanhar os rastros de uma mulher que tenta organizar a narrativa desse trágico acontecimento.

Eight-year-old orphan Beth Harmon is quiet, sullen, and by all appearances unremarkable. That is, until she plays her first game of chess. Her senses grow sharper, her thinking clearer, and for the first time in her life she feels herself fully in control. By the age of 16, she's competing for the US Open championship. But as Beth hones her skills on the professional circuit, the stakes get higher, her isolation grows more frightening, and the thought of escape becomes all the more tempting.

Sucesso de crítica e best-seller em todo o universo de língua espanhola, A uruguaia é uma epopeia tragicômica sobre a busca pela felicidade. A uruguaia apresenta o argentino Pedro Mairal, um dos narradores mais destacados da nova literatura latino-americana. Este romance divertido e apaixonante sobre afetos, crise conjugal, autoengano e busca pela felicidade mostra, através das peripécias sentimentais de um escritor recém-chegado aos quarenta anos, como devemos enfrentar as promessas que fazemos e não cumprimos e as diferenças entre aquilo que somos e o que realmente gostaríamos de ser.

Neste breve romance em que a atmosfera onírica se mescla à transcendência, um homem começa a dirigir sem rumo e, desconhecendo as próprias motivações, conduz seu carro até uma floresta. Logo escurece e começa a nevar. Obedecendo à lógica trágica e misteriosa que opera nos pesadelos — ou no encontro inescapável com o destino —, em vez de procurar ajuda, ele decide se aventurar pela mata escura, onde se depara com um ser de brancura reluzente.

Desde eras longínquas, os malakins, anjos estudiosos e sábios, observam em silêncio o progresso do homem. Mas eis que chega o século XX, e com ele as armas modernas, a poluição das indústrias, afastando os mortais da natureza divina, alargando as fronteiras entre o nosso mundo e as sete camadas do céu. Isolados no paraíso, incapazes agora de enxergar o planeta, esses anjos solicitaram a ajuda dos “exilados”, celestiais pacíficos, que havia anos atuavam na terra.

When Blue Bird and her grandmother leave their family's camp to gather beans for the long, threatening winter, they inadvertently avoid the horrible fate that befalls the rest of the family. Luckily, the two women are adopted by a nearby Dakota community and are eventually integrated into their kinship circles. Ella Cara Deloria's tale follows Blue Bird and her daughter, Waterlily, through the intricate kinship practices that created unity among her people. Waterlily, published after Deloria's death and viewed as the masterpiece of her career, offers a captivating glimpse.

Laços é um romance provocativo e de leitura irresistível sobre os vínculos familiares e as amarras do casamento. Uma obra vulcânica e marcante escrita por um dos principais autores italianos da atualidade. Vanda e Aldo estão casados há mais de cinco décadas. Ao voltarem de uma agradável semana de férias na praia, eles encontram seu apartamento completamente revirado. Reorganizando seus papeis, Aldo se vê forçado a encarar lembranças de décadas atrás: os anos que abandonara Vanda e os filhos para viver com outra mulher. As fissuras causadas por esse trauma familiar permanecem latentes no presente.

When retired Maths teacher Grace is left a run-down house on a Mediterranean island by a long-lost friend, curiosity gets the better of her. She arrives in Ibiza with a one-way ticket, no guidebook and no plan. Among the rugged hills and golden beaches of the Balearics, Grace searches for answers about her friend’s life, and how it ended. What she uncovers is stranger than she could have dreamed. But to dive into this impossible truth, Grace must first come to terms with her past.

Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a distribution warehouse and asks him if he'd like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend, Eileen, is getting over a break-up and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood. Alice, Felix, Eileen and Simon are still young—but life is catching up with them.

Odyssey is a classic poem written by Homer that consists of 12.110 verses. It is unique already in that it has reached our days in its original form. This poem is a genuine revelation of the poetic thought of ancient Hellas. ... After the Trojan War, most of the survived Greek leaders returned by sea to Troy. However, after numerous troubles, only the chosen ones could have stayed alive. One of them - the cunning king Odysseus – was wandering in the sea for almost ten years.

En el prólogo de estos Doce cuentos peregrinos, García Márquez nos regala su explicación de por qué doce, por qué cuentos y por qué peregrinos. En Barcelona, una prostituta que va entrando en la vejez entrena a su perro para llorar ante la tumba que ha escogido para sí misma. En Viena, una mujer se vale de su don de ver el futuro para convertirse en la adivina de una familia rica.

A deep American South novel about a black & white intertwined in a relationship living in one house with various goings-on Southern style.