Títulos em Vida em Família

Así habla el narrador de "Pacífico", testigo de una novela familiar en la que, de puertas adentro, mientras afuera se hace el primer trasplante de corazón o el hombre conquista la luna, se van acumulando desgracias. Si la intimidad es aquello que no se puede compartir, porque nos debilita, "Pacífico", es un relato íntimo que hurga en las entrañas de sus personajes con una delicadeza excepcional, hasta convertirlos en seres inolvidables, maltratados por la vida.

In un romanzo corale e luminoso, Harada Maha accompagna i suoi lettori lungo le stagioni della natura e della vita, in una favola giapponese moderna sul valore della dolcezza. Tra Osaka e Kobe c’è la piccola pasticceria Sweet Home, nascosta tra le colline verdi e accoglienti. È gestita dal signor Kōda, sua moglie Akiko e le loro figlie Hina e Haruhi. Sono molti i clienti che vi si affacciano, attratti dalla dolcezza delle pietanze ma anche dal calore del contatto umano.

On a bright summer day in 1989 New England, Abi, three years old, vanishes from her aunt’s secluded home. Upstairs, her young cousins are looking out of the window. Something is unfolding in the distance at the edge of the forest – something sinister that is watching them back.

Daphne und Dominic sind seit drei Jahren verheiratet. Der Alltag hat sie bequem gemacht, und ihr Sexleben ist alles andere als aufregend. Im Rausch einer Silvesterparty macht Dominic Daphne den Vorschlag, die Ehe zu öffnen. Daphne stimmt zu, unter drei Bedingungen: nur eine Nacht im Jahr, nicht zweimal mit derselben Person und Stillschweigen gegenüber dem anderen. Es dauert nicht lange, da merken sie: Dies ist keine kleine Veränderung, sondern eine gewaltige ... Daphne lernt endlich, zu sagen, was sie will, und teilt ihre Erlebnisse auf einem anonymen Blog.

Usted no escribirá nada sobre esto, me preguntó o me ordenó mi papá, su índice elevado, su tono a medio camino entre súplica y mandamiento. Pensé en responderle que un escritor nunca sabe de qué escribirá, que un escritor no elige sus historias sino que éstas lo eligen a él, que un escritor no es más que una hoja seca en el soplo de su propia narrativa. Pero por suerte no dije nada. Usted no escribirá nada sobre esto, repitió mi papá, su tono ahora más fuerte, casi autoritario. Sentí el peso de sus palabras.

Four short stories with a bit of a twist. In these delightful short stories we find churchmen who are a little eccentric, a woman who can't keep her nose out of things and another woman trying to keep her family together.

Ignacio es el único hijo de una familia que ha logrado ascender a una clase media acomodada; acaba de obtener su título universitario. Por intermedio de un amigo en común, conoce a Angélica y logra conquistar su corazón.

Por el hecho azaroso de nacer unos minutos antes que Adán, siete minutos para ser exactos, su gemelo, Alberto Urquidi Jr., fue siempre considerado el mayor de los dos. Y no sólo eso, sino el hermano más inteligente, sensato, desenvuelto, maduro y tenaz: todo lo que Malú, su madre, siempre quiso ser y reflejó en una descarada predilección por el primogénito. Pero no nos dejemos engañar: ¿no es este tan sólo el punto de vista de un desdichado hermano menor?

Daniel is a worldly and urbane journalist living in London. His relationships appear to be sexually fulfilling but sentimentally meager. A young gay man with no relationships outside of sexual ones, he can seem at once callow and, at times, cold to the point of cruel with his lovers. Emotionally distant from his elderly, senile father, Daniel nonetheless returns to South Africa to care for him during his final months. Following his father’s death, Daniel learns of an unusual clause in the old man’s will.

Durante una cena de Navidad, un joven vive en carne propia las peculiaridades y conflictos que su familia arrastra desde hace años. La familia, en apariencia normal como cualquier otra, pero capaz de llevar a cabo una violencia pasiva e implacable, se asienta en torno a la estirpe de los Migueles (Miguel Primero, Miguel Segundo y Miguel Tercero), tres generaciones llamadas a no entenderse entre sí y sumidas en una lucha profunda que podría culminar en tragedia.

Un joven matrimonio decide comprar un viejo molino y arreglarlo con la intención de pasar en él sus vacaciones y el tiempo de descanso, pero pronto su paz se verá perturbada por la llegada de la hermana de la mujer que aparece en el molino con su hijo y su nuevo compañero sentimental para pasar allí unos días. Esta visita creará una serie de tensiones que acabarán desencadenando un suceso inesperado. Una historia llena de fuerza y misterio en la que la presencia del agua juega un papel que acabará por determinar las vidas de los personajes.

When Charlotte Sitterly’s husband is arrested for a white-collar crime, she and her daughter Iris are locked out of their house by the FBI and—what’s potentially even worse—thrust into the spotlight of @JuniperShoresSocialite, the town’s snarky anonymous Instagram account. Cut off from her bank accounts and feeling desperate, Charlotte takes up an acquaintance’s offer to stay at a beachfront former bed-and-breakfast that’s home to a community of single mothers and draws plenty of gossip in the small coastal North Carolina town.

When Jessica’s grandfather left for war, he promised to keep a record of each day he was apart from her grandmother. The diary was lost along with him—until now, when a mysterious, handsome Italian man named Alessandro shows up at Jessica’s door with the diary in hand. Immediately enchanted by her grandfather’s accounts of Italy’s glittering golden hours, Jess decides to spend a summer in Tuscany before she’s due to take over at her family’s farm. She hopes she can visit the places her grandfather once did—and finally find out what really happened the night he died.

As a new decade begins, hopeless romantic and big dreamer Ellen is finally moving on from her hometown. In Galway she takes a job in a bookshop, and somewhere between the dusty bookshelves and the quiet afternoons, a bookseller called Ben finds a place in her heart. Fast forward, and the bright lights (and cosy flats) of London are calling Ellen's name. There she meets Leo, a charming, attentive City banker who's everything she's ever wanted. And wherever she goes, her heart beats in time with her childhood friend, Danny - though they never seem to be in the right place at the right time.

Adela is sixteen years old. When she tells her parents she's pregnant, they send her from their home in Indiana to her grandmother’s in Padua Beach, Florida, "a town built on y’all bein' good now? and babies havin' babies, said in the rasp of a loud whisper and one polite little shake of the head." There, Adela meets Emory, who has a baby of her own she brings to high school, strapped to her chest; and Simone, ringleader of “the Girls,” young moms who hang out with their growing brood in the back of her red truck.

El día en que su hermano le contó que la Tierra era redonda como una naranja, Juanita aprendió a pensar. Desde la curiosidad de sus cinco años comienza a narrar, con la chispa de un juego de niños, el mundo que la rodea. Cuando aprendí a pensar, publicado por primera vez en 1962, convirtió a Pilarica Alvear Sanín en una promesa de la literatura colombiana. Más de cincuenta años después se reedita esta obra que, en palabras de su autora, es un libro de chiquitos escrito para grandes.

Christmas is just around the corner, and Ronja and Melissa’s dreamer of a father is out of work again. When ten-year-old Ronja hears about a job at a Christmas tree stand near where the family lives in central Oslo, she thinks it might be the stroke of luck they all need. Soon, the fridge fills with food, and their father returns home with money in his pocket and a smile on his face. But one evening he disappears into the night under the pretense of buying Christmas gifts—and the daughters know he has gone to his favorite local pub.

Banned from their home in the Navajo Nation as a result of their disobedience, Eliza and Alex Trellis build a new life for themselves and their two sons. Although life is a daily struggle, the boys grow up healthy and happy—until the oldest son Cameron starts to become envious of his younger brother and bandmate Austin, who gets everything he wants—fame, fortune and all that goes with it.

The Hickory Creek Community Centre is a lifeline for new mums. So when a bad case of black mould threatens to end the only women's services available in their small town, a new mothers' group bands together to save it. Their plan? Create a fundraiser calendar featuring themselves ... in the nude. As the mothers bare all, it doesn't take long for them to start baring their secrets too.

No aeroporto, à espera de seu voo, Natalia encontra Felipe, o médico de cuidados paliativos de seu pai, Artur, que morrera alguns anos antes. A partir da conversa que se seguiu, a narradora reflete sobre a perda e retoma os acontecimentos que circundaram a morte do pai. Desde a notícia de que sua doença voltara, até os momentos finais de sua vida, acompanhamos os pequenos gestos e eventos que compõem o retrato do declínio físico de Artur e de seus efeitos na família.