Contemporary fiction genre books (1023)
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All of this is True by Lygia Day Peñaflor EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
MIRI loves the novel Undertow like it's a living being. So when she and her friends get the chance to meet the author, Fatima Ro, they plot a way to get closer to her. As for what happened with Jonah ... Well, obviously none of that was Fatima's fault.SOLEIL wants to be a writer herself one day. She can't believe it when Fatima asks them to hang out with her - and having Jonah there makes it even better.PENNY is more than the party girl everyone thinks she is, and she's willing to share her darkest secrets with Fatima to prove it. But what will happen when Fatima finds out about Jonah? All of ... continue
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All Russians Love Birch Trees : A Novel by Olga Grjasnova EN
Country: Asia / 
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan
Description:
An award-winning debut novel about a quirky immigrant’s journey through a multicultural, post-nationalist landscape Set in Frankfurt, All Russians Love Birch Trees follows a young immigrant named Masha. Fluent in five languages and able to get by in several others, Masha lives with her boyfriend, Elias. Her best friends are Muslims struggling to obtain residence permits, and her parents rarely leave the house except to compare gas prices. Masha has nearly completed her studies to become an interpreter, when suddenly Elias is hospitalized after a serious soccer injury and dies, forcing her to q... continue
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All That We Know by Shilo Kino EN
Country: Oceania / 
New Zealand
New Zealand
Description:
'I don't want to be a pioneer. I want to be the last; to enjoy the fruits of everyone else's hard labour' - Māreikura 'Whatever you do, please don't read me a grief quote from the internet' - Chloe 'God loves you' - Eru 'You're never too much for the right person' - Jordana Meet Māreikura Pohe: she's in love with her best friend Eru, who's leaving to go on a church mission, and she's an accidental activist - becoming an online sensation after her speech goes viral. But does she really want the spotlight? Navigating self-diagnosed ADHD, a new romantic relationship, forging friendships and recla... continue
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All This Could Be Different : A Novel by Sarah Thankam Mathews EN
IndiaDescription:
2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST A New York Times Editors' Choice Pick “One of the buzziest, most human novels of the year…breathless, dizzying, and completely beautiful.” —Vogue “Dazzling and wholly original...[written] with such mordant wit, insight, and specificity, it feels like watching a new literary star being born in real time.” –Entertainment Weekly From a brilliant new voice comes an electrifying novel of a young immigrant building a life for herself—a warm, dazzling, and profound saga of queer love, friendship, work, and precarity in twenty-first century America Graduating into the... continue
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All We Shall Know by Donal Ryan EN
IrelandDescription:
'Martin Toppy is the son of a famous Traveller and the father of my unborn child. He's seventeen, I'm thirty-three. I was his teacher. I'd have killed myself by now if I was brave enough. I don't think it would hurt the baby. His little heart would stop with mine. He wouldn't feel himself leaving one world of darkness for another, his spirit untangling itself from me.' Melody Shee is alone and in trouble. Her husband doesn't take her news too well. She doesn't want to tell her father yet because he's a good man and this could break him. She's trying to stay in the moment, but the future is loo... continue
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All Yours by Claudia Piñeiro EN
Country: South America / 
Argentina
Argentina
Description:
Praise for Claudia Piñeiro's Thursday Night Widows: "An agile novel, a ruthless dissection of a fast decaying society." José Saramago, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature A gripping story. The dystopia portrayed is an indictment not solely of an assassin but of Argentina's class structure and the willful blindness of its petty bourgeoisie." The Times Literary Supplement A fine morality tale which explores the dark places societies enter when they place material comfort before social justice, and security before morality." Publishers Weekly Ines is convinced that every wife is bound to be ... continue
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Almost Transparent Blue by Ryu Murakami EN
JapanDescription:
This controversial novel touched the raw nerves of the Japanese and became a million seller within six months of publication. It is a semi-autobiographical tale of the author's youth spent amidst the glorious squalor of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll in 1970s Japan. Almost Transparent Blue is a brutal tale of lost youth in a Japanese port town close to an American military base. Murakami's image-intensive narrative paints a portrait of a group of friends locked in a destructive cycle of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll. The novel is all but plotless, but the raw and
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Aloft by Chang-rae Lee EN
Country: Asia / 
South Korea
South Korea
Description:
Jerry Battle, a suburban middle-aged man from Long Island, loves to fly his small plane solo and just "disappear", but when a family crisis occurs, Jerry must face his disengagement in his relationships and learn what it means to be a father, husband, son, and lover.
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Country: Asia / South Korea
South Korea
Description:
Esta história é, em resumo, sobre um monstro encontrando outro monstro. Um dos monstros sou eu. Yunjae nasceu com uma condição neurológica chamada alexitimia, ou a incapacidade de identificar e expressar sentimentos, como medo, tristeza, desejo ou raiva. Ele não tem amigos — as duas estruturas em forma de amêndoas localizadas no fundo de seu cérebro causaram isso —, mas a mãe e a avó lhe proporcionam uma vida segura e tranquila. O pequeno apartamento em que moram, acima do sebo da mãe, é decorado com cartazes coloridos com lembretes de quando sorrir, quando agradecer e quando demonstrar preocu... continue