Contemporary fiction genre books (1025)
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IraqDescription:
Ein Flüchtling betritt die Ausländerbehörde, um ein letztes Mal seine zuständige Sachbearbeiterin aufzusuchen. Er ist wütend und hat nur einen Wunsch: dass ihm endlich jemand zuhört. Als Karim drei Jahre zuvor von der Ladefläche eines Transporters ins Freie springt, glaubt er in Frankreich zu sein. Bis dorthin hat er für seine Flucht aus dem Irak bezahlt. In Wahrheit ist er mitten in der bayerischen Provinz gelandet. – Er kämpft sich durch Formulare und Asylunterkünfte bis er plötzlich seinen Widerruf erhält und abgeschoben werden soll. Jetzt steht er wieder ganz am Anfang. Dieser ebenso abgrü... continue
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Argentina543.
Olhos d'água by Conceição Evaristo PT
Country: South America / 
Brazil
Brazil
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Em Olhos d’água Conceição Evaristo ajusta o foco de seu interesse na população afro-brasileira abordando, sem meias palavras, a pobreza e a violência urbana que a acometem.
Sem sentimentalismos, mas sempre incorporando a tessitura poética à ficção, seus contos apresentam uma significativa galeria de mulheres: Ana Davenga, a mendiga Duzu-Querença, Natalina, Luamanda, Cida, a menina Zaíta. Ou serão todas a mesma mulher, captada e recriada no caleidoscópio da literatura em variados instant&ac... continue
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Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • The beloved first novel featuring Olive Kitteridge, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of My Name is Lucy Barton and the Oprah’s Book Club pick Olive, Again “Fiction lovers, remember this name: Olive Kitteridge. . . . You’ll never forget her.”—USA Today “Strout animates the ordinary with astonishing force.”—The New Yorker One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post Book World, USA Today, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, People, Entertainment Weekly, The... continue
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Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout continues the life of her beloved Olive Kitteridge, a character who has captured the imaginations of millions. “Strout managed to make me love this strange woman I’d never met, who I knew nothing about. What a terrific writer she is.”—Zadie Smith, The Guardian “Just as wonderful as the original . . . Olive, Again poignantly reminds us that empathy, a requirement for love, helps make life ‘not unhappy.’”—NPR ONE OF PEOPLE’S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR Prickly, wry, resistant to change yet ruthlessly hones... continue
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On s'habitue aux fins du monde by Martin Page FR
FranceDescription:
Le soir même où Elias, jeune producteur de cinéma à qui tout réussit, reçoit un prix, il jette le trophée dans la Seine. Clarisse, son amie, l'a quitté. Lorsque Caldeira, un réalisateur charismatique, le met à la porte, Elias commence à prendre conscience des fictions de son existence. De désillusions en déceptions, le jeune homme va tenter de découvrir qui il est et ce qu'il veut. Il découvre qu'il n'est pas très différent des personnages désespérés qui l'entourent... La grâce et la possibilité du bonheur arrivent sous la forme d'une jeune écrivaine qui tente de mettre fin à ses jours à chaqu... continue
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On the Calculation of Volume (Book I) by Solvej Balle EN
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Utterly riveting, Solvej Balle's On the Calculation of Volume (Book I) is the grand opening of her speculative fiction septology, winner of the 2022 Nordic Council Literature Prize (Scandinavia's most important literary award) for being "a masterpiece of its time."
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On the Calculation of Volume (Book II) by Solvej Balle EN
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Tara Selter's epic journey through November 18th continues in Book II of the masterly On the Calculation of Volume from one of Scandinavia's most beloved writers.
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On the Calculation of Volume (Book III) by Solvej Balle EN
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In the marvelous third installment of Balle's "astonishing" (The Washington Post) septology, Tara's November 18th transforms when she discovers that she is no longer alone in her endless autumnal day. For she has met someone who remembers, and who knows as well as she does that "it is autumn, but that we're not heading into winter. That spring and summer will not follow. That the reds and yellows of the trees are here to stay. That yesterday doesn't mean the seventeenth of November, that tomorrow means the eighteenth, and that the nineteenth is a day we may never see." Where Book I and II focu... continue