Contemporary fiction genre books (1025)
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Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
She's written off more than she can chew... Romance author Sophie Lyon's secret just went viral: she's never been in love. With a manuscript deadline looming, Sophie makes an ambitious plan to overcome her writer's block: reunite with her exes to learn why she's never fallen in love. Luckily, Sophie's reclusive landlord, Dash Montrose - a former teen heartthrob with his own complicated history - has social media all figured out and is willing to help. As Sophie and Dash grow closer, they discover a heat between them that rivals anything they've ever known. But Sophie needs to figure out who sh... continue
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Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov EN
RussiaDescription:
In this moving, amusing story of a seeming born loser at odds with the New World, there is all the pathos of a generation cruelly and irrecoverably severed from its past.
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Pond by Claire-Louise Bennett EN
EnglandDescription:
“A sharp, funny, and eccentric debut … Pond makes the case for Bennett as an innovative writer of real talent. … [It]reminds us that small things have great depths.”–New York Times Book Review "Dazzling…exquisitely written and daring ." –O, the Oprah Magazine Immediately upon its publication in Ireland, Claire-Louise Bennett’s debut began to attract attention well beyond the expectations of the tiny Irish press that published it. A deceptively slender volume, it captures with utterly mesmerizing virtuosity the interior reality of its unnamed protagonist, a young woman living a singular and mos... continue
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Preço de Noiva by Buchi Emecheta PT
NigeriaDescription:
Aku-nna é uma jovem igbo que vê a vida ruir após a morte do pai. Junto com a mãe e o irmão, ela precisa deixar a capital, Lagos, e retornar ao povoado rural de Ibuza, onde vai enfrentar as angústias da adolescência e as rígidas tradições patriarcais do seu povo. Lá, ela se apaixona por Chike, filho de uma família próspera, mas descendente de escravos, e esse amor é considerado uma afronta à cultura dos igbos. Só que o casal está disposto a tudo para ficar junto, mesmo sabendo que esse caminho pode levar à tragédia.
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ScotlandDescription:
What unites Katherine Mansfield, Charlie Chaplin, Shakespeare, Rilke, Beethoven, Brexit, the present, the past, the north, the south, the east, the west, a man mourning lost times, a woman trapped in modern times? Spring. The great connective. With an eye to the migrancy of story over time and riffing on Pericles, one of Shakespeare's most resistant and rollicking works, Ali Smith tells the impossible tale of an impossible time. In a time of walls and lockdown, Smith opens the door. The time we're living in is changing nature. Will it change the nature of story? Hope springs eternal.
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Příspěvek k dějinám radosti by Radka Denemarková CS
Country: Europe / 
Czech Republic
Czech Republic
Description:
The suicide of a wealthy elderly man soon proves to be improbable. The perceptive policeman tirelessly searches for the real reasons for the strange death, which will lead him to the mysterious house under Petrin. The mysteries and motives increase as the hours spent with the young widow increase. The main characters are three, perhaps four women, educated, bold and devoted to a higher justice, according to which the victim and the culprit lose their original duality. And the burning question echoes: how much more violence and wars await us before all this human misfortune finally becomes huma... continue
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Prosopagnosia by Sònia Hernández EN
SpainDescription:
A sly and playful novel about the many faces we all have. Fifteen-year-old Berta says that beautiful things aren't made for her, or that she isn't destined to have them, or that the only things she deserves are ugly. It's why her main activity, when she's not at school, is playing the "prosopagnosia game"--standing in front of the mirror and holding her breath until she can no longer recognise her own face. An ibis is the only animal she wants for a pet. Berta's mother is in her forties. By her own estimation, she is at least twenty kilos overweight, and her husband has just left her. Her whol... continue
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Pulpa by Flor Canosa ES
Country: South America / 
Argentina
Argentina
Description:
¿Qué significado cabe encontrar hoy en las distopías, cuando las pesadillas del siglo XX parecen haberse materializado entre nosotros? Es poco lo que dicen chapucerías tecnófobas y humanistas como Black Mirror, y por suerte no es ese el camino que eligió Flor Canosa en Pulpa, su primera novela de ciencia ficción. Flor prefirió escarbar en el corazón oscuro del género y sacar a la luz los horrores del cuerpo y el estado, o, mejor, el terror del estado que ha colonizado los cuerpos y su dolor, sus secreciones, sus emociones. Todo sin miedos, sin resabios, sin atavismos de un sujeto ya perimido, ... continue
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Quichotte : A Novel by Salman Rushdie EN
IndiaDescription:
***SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019*** In a tour-de-force that is both an homage to an immortal work of literature and a modern masterpiece about the quest for love and family, Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie has created a dazzling Don Quixotefor the modern age. Inspired by the Cervantes classic, Sam DuChamp, mediocre writer of spy thrillers, creates Quichotte, a courtly, addled salesman obsessed with television, who falls in impossible love with the TV star Salman R. Together with his (imaginary) son Sancho, Quichotte sets off on a picaresque quest... continue