Domestic fiction genre books (209)
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Devil is Fine by John Vercher EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTION • LONGLISTED FOR THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE • INDIE NEXT PICK • NAMED A BEST NOVEL OF THE YEAR BY ELECTRIC LIT • ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 MUST-READ BOOKS OF 2024 • A CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY BEST BOOK OF 2024 • FEATURED IN THE LA TIMES, THE ROOT, AND THE CHICAGO REVIEW OF BOOKS • Still reeling from a sudden tragedy, our biracial narrator receives a letter from an attorney: he has just inherited a plot of land from his estranged white grandfather. He travels to a beach town several hours south of his home with the intention of selling the la... continue
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Divorce Islamic Style by Amara Lakhous EN
AlgeriaDescription:
From the author of Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio The Italian secret service has received intel that a group of Muslim immigrants based in Rome's Viale Marconi neighborhood is planning a terrorist attack. Christian Mazzari, a young Sicilian court translator who speaks perfect Arabic, goes undercover to infiltrate the group and learn who its leaders are. Christian poses as Issa, a recently arrived Tunisian in search of a place to sleep and a job. He soon meets Sofia, a young Egyptian immigrant whose life with her husband, Said a.k.a Felice, an architect who has reinv... continue
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Duşmanca. Balul by Irène Némirovsky RO
UkraineDescription:
Cu o mama frivola si prea ocupata cu flirturile ca sa se mai ingrijeasca si de cele doua fiice, cu un tata mereu prins cu afaceri departe de casa, Gabri, eroina romanului Dușmanca, se maturizeaza mai mult la voia intimplarii. Copilaria ei are drept singur tovaras ranchiuna fata de mama, care cu vremea se transforma in dorinta de razbunare. Aproape pe nesimtite, copila taciturna si neglijata de toti devine o tinara plina de farmec, dar si egala inamicei sale dintotdeauna. De-acum, razbunarea ii e mai la indemina ca oricind, insa conflictul difuz dintre cele doua femei e dominat de sentimente co... continue
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Een revolverschot by Virginie Loveling NL
BelgiumDescription:
Een revolverschot heeft de noodlottige liefde van twee zusters voor dezelfde man als thema.
De roman laat de lezer weinig illusies. Toeval en noodlot regeren het menselijke bestaan en erfelijk bepaalde animale driften, steeds latent aanwezig ondanks ieders goede eigenschappen, bedreigen de broze humaniteit.
Opvallend aan deze sterke, stevig gebouwde roman is dat geen enkel detail, geen enkel nevenpersonage los staat van de centrale handeling. Meesterlijk is de vondst om het dramatische gebeuren te laten plaatsvinden tegen een speelse luchtige achtergrond, waardoor het contrast tussen de bana... continue
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Effi Briest by Theodor Fontane EN
GermanyDescription:
After marrying a Baron twice her age and moving to a remote Baltic port, Effi Briest begins an affair that threatens to ruin her marriage and her life.
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Effi Briest by Theodor Fontane DE
Description:
»Fontanes meisterhaftes Buch über eine unglückliche Ehe, die erfüllte und unerfüllte Liebe und das sich daraus ergebende Schicksal. Ein Buch, das die immer wieder eingeforderte Pflichterfüllung und Disziplin auf ganz besondere Weise in Frage stellt.«
Reiner Girstl
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Empty Wardrobes by Maria Judite de Carvalho EN
PortugalDescription:
A previously untranslated classic of Portuguese feminist literature originally published in 1978, Carvalho's Empty Wardrobes introduces English-speaking readers to a forgotten and underappreciated woman writer a la recent publishing sensations Lucia Berlin, Natalia Ginzburg, Ingeborg Bachmann, Silvina Ocampo, and Armonia Somers. Empty Wardrobes is a tightly plotted, highly entertaining read, that, thanks to an ingenious detached narrative technique (one that makes the plot all the more fun to revisit and rethink), is both darkly humorous and devastatingly true.
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En agosto nos vemos by Gabriel García Márquez ES
Country: South America / 
Colombia
Colombia
Description:
Un maravilloso regalo inesperado para los innumerables lectores de García Márquez. « En agosto nos vemos es también otra prueba irrefutable de su talento, dedicación y amor por la literatura. Es una obra imprescindible. El broche final a una carrera y una vida únicas». Juan Cruz, El Periódico Cada mes de agosto Ana Magdalena Bach toma el transbordador hasta la isla donde está enterrada su madre para visitar la tumba en la que yace. Esas visitas acaban suponiendo una irresistible invitación a convertirse en una persona distinta durante una noche al año. Escrita en el inconfundible y fascinante ... continue
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Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows : A Novel by Balli Kaur Jaswal EN
SingaporeDescription:
Reese Witherspoon’s Book Club Pick A lively, sexy, and thought-provoking East-meets-West story about community, friendship, and women’s lives at all ages—a spicy and alluring mix of Together Tea and Calendar Girls. Every woman has a secret life . . . Nikki lives in cosmopolitan West London, where she tends bar at the local pub. The daughter of Indian immigrants, she’s spent most of her twenty-odd years distancing herself from the traditional Sikh community of her childhood, preferring a more independent (that is, Western) life. When her father’s death leaves the family financially strapped, Ni... continue
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Fasting, Feasting by Anita Desai EN
IndiaDescription:
A wonderful novel in two parts, moving from the heart of a close-knit Indian household, with its restrictions and prejudices, its noisy warmth and sensual appreciation of food, to the cool centre of an American family, with its freedom and strangely self-denying attitudes to eating. In both it is ultimately the women who suffer, whether, paradoxically, from a surfeit of feasting and family life in India, or from self-denial and starvation in the US. Or both. Uma, the plain, older daughter still lives at home, frustrated in her attempts to escape and make a life for herself. Her Indian family i... continue