Contemporary fiction genre books (1024)
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GermanyDescription:
A portrait of the artist as a young woman in a Berlin that can't escape its history: an electric debut novel about the daughter of Afghan refugees and her year of nightclubs, bad romance, and self-discovery 'Kaleidoscopic, full of style and soul' Raven Leilani 'A must-read ... Dark, breathtaking, profound, so fresh' Guardian 'A no-bullshit must-read debut' Kaveh Akbar In Berlin's underground, where techno rattles buildings still scarred with the violence of the last century, nineteen-year-old Nila finds her tribe. In their company she can escape the parallel city that made her, the public hous... continue
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Good Kings Bad Kings by Susan Nussbaum EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
The residents at a facility for disabled young people in Chicago build trust and make friends in an effort to fight against their living conditions and mistreatment in this debut novel from the playwright behind “Mishuganismo.”
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Goodbye, Vitamin by Rachel Khong EN
MalaysiaDescription:
Hello, ageing parents. Hello, dementia. Goodbye, vitamin... 'Khong is a magician... Brilliant' Lauren Groff, author of Fates and Furies 'Khong's first novel sneaks up on you - just like life, illness and heartbreak. And love. A million small, human and often deeply funny details gather force to tell a tale that is ultimately, incredibly poignant' Miranda July, author of The First Bad Man Ruth is thirty and her life is falling apart: she and her fianc� are moving house, but he's moving out to live with another woman; her career is going nowhere; and then she learns that her father, a history pr... continue
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Grădina de sticlă by Tatiana Țîbuleac RO
MoldovaDescription:
Tatiana Țîbuleac revine, în forță, într-un alt context și la un alt nivel, la tema maternă, a copilului iubit/neiubit, a consecințelor tragice ale „neiubirii“, a remușcării, într-o carte la fel de tulburătoare ca și Vara în care mama a avut ochii verzi. Orfana care descoperă un Chișinău multicultural a fost înfiată dintr-un orfelinat sătesc de o femeie singură și ambițioasă, care vrea să-i ofere un viitor prosper ori poate cumpărată ca mână de lucru și exploatată la fel de nemilos ca în romanele lui Dickens? Întrebările te urmăr... continue
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Hai să furăm pepeni by Nora Iuga RO
RomaniaDescription:
Un du-te-vino captivant intre dezbaterea din jurul unei fetite de 11 ani, insarcinata in luna a sasea, si povestile autobiografice. In Hai sa furam pepeni sint narate intimplari savuroase ori cutremuratoare, pretext al unor reflectii uneori amare, alteori apologetice, memorialistica intilnindu-se in mod fericit cu fictiunea. „Fluxul constiintei“, desi prezent, nu inlocuieste intriga, romanul nefiind unul „intelectualizant”, ci unul in care filonul de autentic prozator al Norei Iuga transpare fara straduinta.
„Opera Norei Iuga este rezultatul unei voluptati insa... continue
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Haifa Fragments by Khulud Khamis EN
PalestineDescription:
As a designer of jewelry, Maisoon wants an ordinary extraordinary life, which isn t easy for a tradition-defying activist and Palestinian citizen of Israel who refuses to be crushed by the feeling that she is an unwelcome guest in the land of her ancestors. She volunteers for the Machsom Watch, an organization that helps children in the Occupied Territories cross the border to receive medical care. Frustrated by her boyfriend Ziyad and her father, who both want her to get on with life and forget those in the Occupied Territories, she lashes out only to discover her father isn t the man she tho... continue
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Happiness, Like Water by Chinelo Okparanta EN
NigeriaDescription:
A moving debut story collection centered on Nigerian women, as they build lives out of longing and hope, faith and doubt, the struggle to stay and the mandate to leave, and the burden and strength of love.
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Happy Hour by Marlowe Granados EN
Country: North America / 
Canada
Canada
Description:
With the verve and bite of Ottessa Moshfegh and the barbed charm of Nancy Mitford, this stunning debut about a young ingénue in the big city is “as refreshing as gin fizz . . . a wild careening joyride through a hot sultry summer in New York” (Rachel Syme, The New Yorker). Isa Epley, all of twenty-one years old, is already wise enough to understand that the purpose of life is the pursuit of pleasure. She arrives in New York with her newly blond best friend looking for adventure. They have little money, but that’s hardly going to stop them. By day, the girls sell clothes on a market stall, pinc... continue