Contemporary fiction genre books (1025)
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Memorial : A Novel by Bryan Washington EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME, NPR, Entertainment Weekly, Vanity Fair, O, the Oprah Magazine, Esquire, Marie Claire, Harper's Bazaar, Good Housekeeping, Refinery29, Real Simple, Kirkus Reviews, Electric Literature, and Lit Hub “A masterpiece.” —NPR “No other novel this year captures so gracefully the full palette of America.” —The Washington Post “Wryly funny, gently devastating.” —Entertainment Weekly A funny and profound story about family in all its strange forms,... continue
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Memory of Water : A Novel by Emmi Itäranta EN
FinlandDescription:
An amazing, award-winning speculative fiction debut novel by a major new talent, in the vein of Ursula K. Le Guin. Global warming has changed the world’s geography and its politics. Wars are waged over water, and China rules Europe, including the Scandinavian Union, which is occupied by the power state of New Qian. In this far north place, seventeen-year-old Noria Kaitio is learning to become a tea master like her father, a position that holds great responsibility and great secrets. Tea masters alone know the location of hidden water sources, including the natural spring that Noria’s father te... continue
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EnglandDescription:
Shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award Longlisted for the Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award'Imagined with an impressively detailed three-dimensional solidity' Sunday Times'I loved it ... You could feel the chill of the wind ... Fantastic; it's a great book' Sara Cox, BBC Two 'Between the Covers''Stylish and thoughtful ... The eerie claustrophobia of the setting will stay with the reader for a long while.' Literary Review 'Unputdownable ... An extraordinary book ... as insightful and as premonitory as Orwell's 1984' Litro___________________________________________________Not all that is hidd... continue
Germany465.
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Three generations of a Greek American family find themselves plagued by a mutant gene which causes bizarre side effects in the family's teenage girls.
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EgyptDescription:
In her Muslim hijab, with her down-turned gaze, Najwa is invisible to most eyes, especially to the rich families whose houses she cleans in London.
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Minha vida de rata by Joyce Carol Oates PT
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
O que deve prevalecer: a lealdade à família ou à verdade? Será que dizer a verdade é sempre um erro e mentir pela família é sempre justificável? É possível fazer o que é certo, mas se arrepender amargamente? Em uma sucessão de episódios vividamente rememorados, Violet Rue contempla as circunstâncias de quando ainda era a adorada filha mais nova dos Kerrigan. Até que seus irmãos assassinam brutalmente um adolescente negro e ela os denuncia para a polícia. Expulsa de casa, e rejeitada pela família, Violet passa sua vida consumida pela culpa e presa à fugidia esperança de retornar ao lar. A premi... continue
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Minor Disturbances at Grand Life Apartments by Hema Sukumar EN
IndiaDescription:
A warm-hearted debut novel set in the beautiful coastal city of Chennai, for fans of Alexander McCall Smith, Joanna Nell and Graeme Simsion. Grand Life Apartments is a middle-class apartment block surrounded by lush gardens in the coastal city of Chennai, India. It is the home of Kamala, a pious, soon-to-be retired dentist who spends her days counting down to the annual visits from her daughter who is studying in the UK. Her neighbour, Revathi, is a thirty-two-year-old engineer who is frequently reminded by her mother that she has reached her expiry date in the arranged marriage market. Jason,... continue
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Miracle à la combe aux Aspics by Ante Tomić FR
CroatiaDescription:
A sept kilomètres de Smiljevo, haut dans les montagnes, dans un hameau à l'abandon, vivent Jozo Aspic et ses quatre fils. Leur petite communauté aux habitudes sanitaires, alimentaires et sociologiques discutables n'admet ni l'Etat ni les fondements de la civilisation, jusqu'à ce que le fils aîné, Kresimir, en vienne à l'idée saugrenue de se trouver une femme. Bientôt, il devient clair que la recherche d'une épouse est encore plus difficile et hasardeuse que la lutte quotidienne des Aspic pour la sauvegarde de leur autarcie. La quête amoureuse du fils aîné des Aspic fait de ce road movie littér... continue
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Mirror, Shoulder, Signal by Dorthe Nors EN
DenmarkDescription:
Mirror, shoulder, signal is a poignant, sharp-witted tale of one woman's journey in search of herself when there's no one to ask for directions.