Contemporary fiction genre books (1024)
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Ela se chama Rodolfo by Julia Dantas PT
Country: South America / 
Brazil
Brazil
Description:
Murilo acaba de se mudar para um apartamento no qual a antiga moradora, Francesca, deixou uma tartaruga. Seguindo ordens recebidas por e-mail, tenta entregar o animal por meia Porto Alegre. A peregrinação parece inocente, mas a escritora Julia Dantas sabe que não há nada mais radical e transformador do que o encontro entre pessoas, quando minimamente desarmadas. Comovente, espirituoso, inesperado, o segundo romance da autora é narrado de forma tão firme que poderia ser utilizado em aulas sobre como contar uma história, criar cenas perfeitas, com... continue
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Eleven Minutes : A Novel by Paulo Coelho EN
Country: South America / Brazil
Brazil
Description:
Eleven Minutes is the story of Maria, a young girl from a Brazilian village, whose first innocent brushes with love leave her heartbroken. At a tender age, she becomes convinced that she will never find true love, instead believing that "love is a terrible thing that will make you suffer. . . ." A chance meeting in Rio takes her to Geneva, where she dreams of finding fame and fortune. Maria's despairing view of love is put to the test when she meets a handsome young painter. In this odyssey of self-discovery, Maria has to choose between pursuing a path of darkness -- sexual pleasure for its ow... continue
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Elizabeth Costello: Eight Lessons by J. M. Coetzee EN
Country: Africa / 
South Africa
South Africa
Description:
Elizabeth Costello is an Australian writer of international renown; she is f-ted, studied, honoured. Famous principally for an early novel that established her reputation and from which, it seems, she will never escape, she has reached the stage, late in life, where her remaining function is to be venerated and applauded. One of a new breed of intellectual nomads, her life has become a series of engagements in sterile conference rooms throughout the world - a private consciousness obliged to reveal itself to a curious public: the presentation of a major award at an American college where she i... continue
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Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey EN
EnglandDescription:
'Elizabeth is missing', reads the note in Maud's pocket in her own handwriting. Lately, Maud's been getting forgetful. She keeps buying peach slices when she has a cupboard full, forgets to drink the cups of tea she's made and writes notes to remind herself of things. But Maud is determined to discover what has happened to her friend, Elizabeth, and what it has to do with the unsolved disappearance of her sister Sukey, years back, just after the war.
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Endlings by Maria Reva EN
UkraineDescription:
Set in Ukraine, an eccentric scientist breeding rare snails crosses paths with sisters posing as members of the marriage industry to find their activist mother. As Russia invades, they embark on a wild journey with kidnapped bachelors and a last-of-its-kind snail. This darkly comic novel explores survival, love, and the impact of war. "This novel turns corners and tables. I love works that are smarter than I am, and this is one.”– Percival Everett, author of National Book Award-winner James "Funny and smart. This is essential reading.”– Ann Patchett, add bestselling author of Tom Lake "Pulses ... continue
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Essa Dama Bate Bué! by Yara Nakahanda Monteiro PT
AngolaDescription:
Vitória nasceu em Angola, mas foi criada em Portugal. A infância, que está longe de idílica (por causa do racismo e da condição de exilada), esconde um trauma: ela nunca conheceu a mãe, uma revolucionária angolana. Narrado com eletricidade, o romance embaralha saudavelmente as formas e as expectativas: é uma história de amor e de guerra, um conto contemporâneo que lida com o passado, um chamado à independência das mulheres como seres políticos.
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Eurotrash by Christian Kracht EN
Country: Europe / 
Switzerland
Switzerland
Description:
Realising he and she are the very worst kind of people, our unnamed middle-aged narrator embarks on a highly dubious road trip through Switzerland with his terminally ill and terminally drunken mother. They try unsuccessfully to give away or squander the fortune she has amassed from investing in armament industry shares. Along the journey they bicker endlessly over the past, throw handfuls of fran[Bokinfo].
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Evening Primrose: a heart-wrenching novel for our times by Kopano Matlwa EN
Country: Africa / South Africa
South Africa
Description:
A powerful and timely novel from 'South Africa's Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie' (Bookseller) . 'Heart-wrenching' Grazia . With urgency and tenderness Evening Primrose explores issues of race, gender and the medical profession through the eyes of a junior doctor. When Masechaba finally achieves her childhood dream of becoming a doctor, her ambition is tested as she faces the stark reality of South Africa's public healthcare system. As she leaves her deeply religious mother and makes friends with the politically-minded Nyasha, Masechaba's eyes are opened to the rising xenophobic tension that carries ... continue