Contemporary fiction genre books (1023)
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A Girl in Exile : Requiem for Linda B. by Ismail Kadare EN
AlbaniaDescription:
When a girl is found dead with a signed copy of Rudian Stefa’s latest book in her possession, the author finds himself summoned for an interview by the Party Committee. Unable to guess what transgression he has committed Rudian goes fearfully to meet his interrogators. He has never met the girl in question but he remembers signing the book. As the influence of a paranoid regime steals up on him, Rudian finds himself swept along on a surreal quest to discover what really happened to the mysterious girl to whom he wrote the dedication – to Linda B. ‘Powerful, empathetic, at times harrowing... ex... continue
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A Good Fall by Ha Jin EN
ChinaDescription:
An anthology by the National Book Award-winning author of The Bridegroom contains intricately detailed pieces illuminating the experiences of Chinese immigrants in America, from a lonely composer who takes comfort in a parakeet's song to a group of children who want to change their names.
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A gorda : romance by Isabela Figueiredo PT
Country: Africa / 
Mozambique
Mozambique
Description:
Maria Luísa, a heroína deste romance, é uma bela rapariga, inteligente, boa aluna, voluntariosa e com uma forte personalidade. E é gorda. E isto, esta característica física, incomoda-a de tal modo que coloca tudo o resto em causa. Na adolescência, sofre e aguenta, em silêncio, as piadas e os insultos dos colegas. Fica esquecida, ao lado da mais feia das suas colegas, no baile dos finalistas do colégio. Mas não desiste, não se verga, e vai em frente, gorda, à procura de uma vida que valha a pena viver.
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A Greek Love: A Novel of Cuba by Zoé Valdés EN
Country: North America / 
Cuba
Cuba
Description:
For readers of Isabel Allende, Gabriela Garcia, and Julia Alvarez, the story of a woman who must fight for her love and her child in a Cuba suffocated by oppression A free spirit who spends time near the port of Havana, where her friend Osiris is known as the “Greek sailormen's whore,” teenager Zé becomes pregnant after a brief love affair with a captain's son her age. By the time she realizes her condition, the ship has left and the boy is gone. In her father's Cuba, an unwed teenage mother is a source of scandal and shame and a threat to his ambitions in the Party. He disowns her and brutall... continue
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A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
A struggling American businessman travels to a rising Saudi Arabian city with the hopes of securing a contract that will earn him a commission large enough to stave off his economic woes and hold his family together.
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A Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne EN
IrelandDescription:
“A satire of writerly ambition wrapped in a psychological thriller . . . An homage to Patricia Highsmith, Oscar Wilde and Edgar Allan Poe, but its execution is entirely Boyne’s own.”—Ron Charles, The Washington Post NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE Maurice Swift is handsome, charming, and hungry for fame. The one thing he doesn’t have is talent—but he’s not about to let a detail like that stand in his way. After all, a would-be writer can find stories anywhere. They don’t need to be his own. Working as a waiter in a West Berlin hotel i... continue
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A Mountain to the North, A Lake to The South, Paths to the West, A River to the East by Laszlo Krasznahorkai EN
HungaryDescription:
The grandson of Prince Genji lives outside of space and time and wanders the grounds of an old monastery in Kyoto. The monastery, too, is timeless, with barely a trace of any human presence. The wanderer is searching for a garden that has long captivated him. This novel by International Booker Prize winner Laszlo Krasznahorkai - perhaps his most serene and poetic work - describes a search for the[Bokinfo].
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A Natureza da Mordida by Carla Madeira PT
Country: South America / 
Brazil
Brazil
Description:
Biá, uma psicanalista já reformada e apaixonada por livros, aborda a jovem jornalista Olívia, que está devastada por uma perda recente, com uma pergunta agitadora: «O que perdeu que a entristeça tanto?» Olívia, sentada à mesa, aceita a inesperada provocação, bem como o carinho e o interesse daquela mulher, afinal apenas uma estranha, desencadeando-se uma sucessão de encontros marcados por uma galopante intimidade entre as duas mulheres, que aos poucos vão revelando as suas histórias. «A nossa amizade começou assim, enquanto nos afogávamos», relata Olívia. Com uma sensível alternância de vozes,... continue
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A Novel to Read on the Train by Dumitru Tsepeneag EN
RomaniaDescription:
A director is trying to adapt a short story he once wrote for the screen. The story is about an isolated train station under threat by a giant eagle in a small town where rumors of war are rumbling. But the film shoot is plagued by accidents. The actors and crew don't understand the script. They argue over its meaning and perhaps come to identify with its subject matter a little too closely. Soon enough reality, such as it is, begins to crumble. Roman de Gare is a dreamlike and ominous novel by a great European writer--and the first novel he composed in French.