Contemporary fiction genre books (1025)
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Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a “stunner” (People) of a novel about new friendships, old loves, and the very human desire to leave a mark on the world. “Tell Me Everything hits like a bucolic fable. . . . A novel of moods, how they govern our personal lives and public spaces, reflected in Strout’s shimmering technique.”—The Washington Post SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION • A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Time, NPR, Vogue, Parade With her remarkable insight into the human condition and silences that contain ... continue
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Country: North America / 
Dominican Republic
Dominican Republic
Description:
Die Dominikanische Republik, etwas später. Vom einstigen Touristenparadies ist nicht mehr viel übrig: Die Strandpromenaden von Tsunamis verwüstet, das Meer auf Jahrzehnte verseucht, und auf den Straßen patrouillieren Roboter, die Flüchtlinge aus Haiti einsammeln und verschwinden lassen. Dies ist die Welt von Acilde Figueroa. Die junge Frau arbeitet als Hausangestellte einer Voodoo-Priesterin mit besten Verbindungen zur Macht. Acilde selbst hat nur zwei Wünsche: erstens Restaurantchef zu werden und zweitens ein Mann. Ihr Plan für ein neues Leben geht gehörig schief. Doch auf der Flucht erfährt ... continue
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Terra e cinzas by Atiq Rahimi, FLAVIA NASCIMENTO PT
Country: Asia / 
Afghanistan
Afghanistan
Description:
Um ancião num vale esquecido à beira de um rio ressecado. Um menino que não ouve mais. Uma cabana de vigia à entrada de uma mina. E mais nada, além do ressecado do vale desértico. Do escritor e cineasta afegão Atiq Rahimi, este é um panfleto anti-guerra, onde o velho e seu neto estão aguardando, num passar do tempo raro na literatura mundial, uma carona para a mina onde está trabalhando o filho do primeiro e pai do segundo, com a incumbência de anunciar a ele que a família morreu num ato de guerra. O pano de fundo é o conflito gerado durante o regime pró-soviético no início dos anos 80. Mas os... continue
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Tesis Sobre Una Domesticación by Camila Sosa Villada ES
Country: South America / 
Argentina
Argentina
Description:
Ningún pacto es capaz de dominar el deseo. "Una sola travesti es suficiente para socavar los cimientos de una casa, deshacer los nudos de un compromiso, romper una promesa, renunciar a una vida", piensa la inolvidable actriz que narra esta historia de pactos invisibles y pasiones arrasadoras. Vulnerables, los personajes de Camila Sosa Villada se pierden en una vida burguesa y apacible, abrumados por infiernos y culpas. Erotismo y violencia habitan sus vínculos, pero también una profunda ternura. En Tesis sobre una domesticación, la familia se aferra a breves momentos de felicidad sin darse cue... continue
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That Hair by Djaimilia Pereira De Almeida EN
AngolaDescription:
A Best Translation of the Year at World Literature Today That Hair is a family album of sorts that touches upon the universal subjects of racism, feminism, colonialism, immigration, identity and memory. Finalist for the 2021 PEN Translation Prize “The story of my curly hair,” says Mila, the narrator of Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida’s autobiographically inspired tragicomedy, “intersects with the story of at least two countries and, by extension, the underlying story of the relations among several continents: a geopolitics.” Mila is the Luanda-born daughter of a black Angolan mother and a white P... continue
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The (Other) You : Stories by Joyce Carol Oates EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
A powerful reckoning over the people we might have been if we'd chosen a different path, from a master of the short story In this stirring, reflective collection of short stories, Joyce Carol Oates ponders alternate destinies: the other lives we might have led if we'd made different choices. An accomplished writer returns to her childhood home of Yewville, but the homecoming stirs troubled thoughts about the person she might have been if she'd never left. A man in prison contemplates the gravity of his irreversible act. A student's affair with a professor results in a pregnancy that alters the... continue
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The Accidental by Ali Smith EN
ScotlandDescription:
Filled with the bestselling, award-winning author's trademark wordplay and inventive storytelling, here is the dizzyingly entertaining, wickedly humorous story of a mysterious stranger whose sudden appearance during a family’s summer holiday transforms four variously unhappy people. Each of the Smarts—parents Eve and Michael, son Magnus, and the youngest, daughter Astrid—encounter Amber in his or her own solipsistic way, but somehow her presence allows them to see their lives (and their life together) in a new light. Smith’s narrative freedom and exhilarating facility with language propel the ... continue
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The Affairs of the Falcóns by Melissa Rivero EN
Country: South America / 
Peru
Peru
Description:
A stunning debut novel about a young undocumented Peruvian woman fighting to keep her family afloat in New York City Ana Falcón, along with her husband Lucho and their two young children, has fled the economic and political strife of Peru for a chance at a new life in New York City in the 1990s. Being undocumented, however, has significantly curtailed the family’s opportunities: Ana is indebted to a loan shark who calls herself Mama, and is stretched thin by unceasing shifts at her factory job. To make matters worse, Ana must also battle both criticism from Lucho’s cousin—who has made it obvio... continue
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The Aguero Sisters by Cristina Garcia EN
Country: North America / 
Cuba
Cuba
Description:
When Cristina García's first novel, Dreaming in Cuban, was published in 1992, The New York Times called the author "a magical new writer...completely original." The book was nominated for a National Book Award, and reviewers everywhere praised it for the richness of its prose, the vivid drama of the narrative, and the dazzling illumination it brought to bear on the intricacies of family life in general and the Cuban American family in particular. Now, with The Agüero Sisters, García gives us her widely anticipated new novel. Large, vibrant, resonant with image and emotion, it tells a mesmerizi... continue
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The Alternatives : A Novel by Caoilinn Hughes EN
IrelandDescription:
“A bold, beautiful, complex novel, and I can’t wait to read what Hughes writes next. She, too, is an unstoppable force.” —New York Times Book Review “A tale about sisterhood, a novel of ideas, a chronicle of our collective follies, a requiem for our agonizing species, The Alternatives unfolds in a prose full of gorgeous surprises and glows with intelligence, compassion, and beauty.” —Hernan Diaz From the writer Anthony Doerr calls “a massive talent,” the story of four brilliant Irish sisters, orphaned in childhood, who scramble to reconnect when the oldest disappears into the Irish countryside... continue