Contemporary fiction genre books (1025)
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Juli, August, September by Olga Grjasnowa DE
Country: Asia / 
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan
Description:
Lous zweiter Ehemann ist eine Trophäe – das muss selbst ihre Mutter anerkennen. Sergej ist Pianist und er ist jüdisch, genau wie Lou. Trotzdem ist ihre Tochter Rosa noch nie in einer Synagoge gewesen – eine ganz normale jüdische Familie in Berlin. Aber sind sie noch eine Familie, und was ist das überhaupt? Um das herauszufinden, folgt Lou der Einladung zum 90. Geburtstag ihrer Tante. In einem abgehalfterten Resort auf Gran Canaria trifft der ganze ex-sowjetische Clan aus Israel zusammen, verbunden nur noch durch wechselseitige Missgunst. Gegen die kleinen Bösartigkeiten und die vage Leere in s... continue
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Just by Looking at Him : A Novel by Ryan O'Connell EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
"Elliot is a writer who spends his days navigating the back stabbing, the pressure, and the day-to-day snark of writing aggressively average television. In laugh out loud detail, we're immediately with him on his journey to try to get his lines onto the screen. But there's a deeper, and more poignant, story beating at the heart of this would be rom com: instead of the usual boy meets boy, the person you really fall in love with, the one you're rooting for until the end, is the protagonist himself. As a gay man with cerebral palsy, Elliot has always searched for the one, and he thought he found... continue
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Just Stab Me Now by Jill Bearup EN
Country: Europe / 
Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland
Description:
A desperate mother. A dubious escort. And a deranged author who won’t leave them alone. Caroline Lindley is determined that her new romance novel will be her best one yet. Fantasy! Formal gowns! Fencing! And, of course, a twentysomething heroine to star in an enemies-to-lovers plot with all of Caroline’s favourite tropes. But Lady Rosamund Hawkhurst is a thirty-six-year-old widow with two children, her sole focus is facilitating a peace treaty between her adopted nation and her homeland, and she flatly refuses to take the correct approach to there being Only One Bed. What’s an author to do? Ba... continue
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GermanyDescription:
East Berlin, 1986. One day in November, nineteen-year-old Katharina meets Hans on a bus, a writer in his fifties, married with a teenage son. They begin a complex and not necessarily idyllic love relationship. Meanwhile, the communist bloc begins to falter, and the GDR will eventually collapse, with the iconic image of the fall of the Wall. A time of hope opens, but also uncertainty. A time of anxiety and confusion, which each of the characters will experience in a very different way due to the difference in age that separates them. Running away from archetypes and clichés, Jenny Erpenbeck bui... continue
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Description:
Jenny Erpenbeck's much anticipated new novel Kairos is a complicated love story set amidst swirling, cataclysmic events as the GDR collapses and an old world evaporates
Switzerland367.
Kamusari Tales Told at Night by Shion Miura EN
JapanDescription:
From Shion Miura, award-winning author of The Easy Life in Kamusari, comes a spirit-lifting novel about tradition, first love, and ancient lore in a Japanese mountain village. It's been a year since Yuki Hirano left home--or more precisely, was booted from it--to study forestry in the remote mountain village of Kamusari. Being a woodsman is not the future he imagined, but his name means "courage," and Yuki hopes to live up to it. He's adapting to his job and learning constantly. In between, he records local legends--tales pulsing with life, passion, and wondrous gods. Kamusari has other charms... continue
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Kibogos Himmelfahrt : Roman | Ein moderner Mythos, die literarische Karambolage all der konkurrierenden Geschichten in einem kolonisierten Land by Scholastique Mukasonga DE
RwandaDescription:
Ein wunderbarer Ruanda-Roman voller kleiner Legenden, Mythen und Abenteuererzählungen in einem Ton, der zum Teil an die Evangelien erinnert, zum Teil an eine Art zentralafrikanische Odyssee, der manchmal aber auch ganz leicht ist, umgangssprachlich und heiter das sehr komplexe koloniale und postkoloniale Gefüge beschreibt, das ja derzeit auch in Europa eine vermehrte kritische Aufarbeitung erfährt. Kurzum, Mukasongas Romane, sie hat mehrere geschrieben und bei Gallimard in Frankreich veröffentlicht, einen weiteren werden wir vermutlich im Frühjhar oder Herbst 2025 bringen, sind literarisch fas... continue
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Kids Run the Show by Delphine de Vigan EN
FranceDescription:
A cautionary tale for a world in which social media has shattered the boundaries of intimacy. The first time that Mélanie met Clara, she was stunned by Clara's sense of authority, and for her part, Clara was struck by Mélanie's pink, glittery nails, which shimmered in the dark. "She looks like a child," thought the first. "She looks like a doll," pondered the second. These two women, both of the same generation and exposed to the same forms of media throughout their lives, could not be more different in adulthood. Mélanie is a social media superstar, broadcasting her children's daily lives on ... continue
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Killing Commendatore : A novel by Haruki Murakami EN
Description:
A tour de force of love and loneliness, war and art, Killing Commendatore is a stunning work of imagination from one of our greatest writers. When a thirty-something portrait painter is abandoned by his wife, he secludes himself in the mountain home of a world famous artist. One day, the young painter hears a noise from the attic, and upon investigation, he discovers a previously unseen painting. By unearthing this hidden work of art, he unintentionally opens a circle of mysterious circumstances; and to close it, he must undertake a perilous journey into a netherworld that only Haruki Murakami... continue