Romance genre books (573)
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Moartea la Veneția by Thomas Mann RO
GermanyDescription:
Moartea la Veneția (în germană Der Tod in Venedig) este o nuvelă scrisă de autorul german Thomas Mann și publicată în 1912.[1] Opera literară prezintă un mare scriitor care vizitează Veneția și este eliberat, înălțat sufletește și apoi obsedat din ce în ce mai mult de vederea unui tânăr uimitor de frumos.
Tadzio, băiatul din nuvelă, este porecla pentru numele polonez Tadeusz și se bazează pe un băiat pe care Mann îl văzuse în timpul vizitei sale la Veneția în 1911.
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Modern Love, Revised and Updated : True Stories of Love, Loss, and Redemption by Daniel Jones EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
The most popular, provocative, and unforgettable essays from the past fifteen years of the New York Times “Modern Love” column—including stories from the anthology series starring Tina Fey, Andy Garcia, Anne Hathaway, Catherine Keener, Dev Patel, and John Slattery A young woman goes through the five stages of ghosting grief. A man’s promising fourth date ends in the emergency room. A female lawyer with bipolar disorder experiences the highs and lows of dating. A widower hesitates about introducing his children to his new girlfriend. A divorcée in her seventies looks back at the beauty and rubb... continue
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Mondhitze by Gioconda Belli DE
Country: North America / 
Nicaragua
Nicaragua
Description:
"Mondhitze", der neue Roman der lateinamerikanischen Kultautorin Gioconda Belli, handelt von den Geheimnissen, Erfahrungen und Abenteuern einer Frau um die Fünfzig. Oder davon, wie der Verlust der physischen Fruchtbarkeit auch der Beginn einer persönlichen Revolution sein kann.
Emma ist eine attraktive Arztgattin aus Nicaragua, und sie hat etwas gegen die unschöne Rolle, die einer reiferen Frau von der Gesellschaft zugedacht wird. Da ihr Körper erste Zeichen des Alterns zu zeigen beginnt, packt sie die Panik. An einem besonders schwarzen Tag voller negativer Geda... continue
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IrelandDescription:
A deceptively low-key glance at love and death, from the acclaimed young author of the Booker-longlisted and Costa-shortlisted Normal People and Conversations with Friends.
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My Father's Wives by José Eduardo Agualusa EN
AngolaDescription:
"Celebrated Angolan musician Faustino Manso has just died, leaving seven wives and eighteen children scattered across southern Africa. His youngest daughter, Laurentina, arrives in Angola from her home in Portugal to trace the story of the father she never knew." "My Father's Wives is the story of Laurentina's journey, but this fiction also runs in parallel with Jose Eduardo Agualusa's story of the novel's genesis, as writer and characters travel the southern African coast, from Angola, through Namibia and South Africa, to Mozambique, meeting extraordinary people and discovering Faustino's sec... continue
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My Thousand and One Nights : A Novel of Mecca by Raja Alem EN
Country: Asia / 
Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia
Description:
The distinguished Middle Eastern author Raja Alem grew up in Mecca at a time when the holy city was on the cusp of changing from medieval to modern. In this vanished Mecca, vividly brought to life again in My Thousand and One Nights, women hold center stage—especially Jummo, the wildly passionate daughter of the Water Carriers’ Sheik. This faraway time and setting become compellingly real as we follow the intimate drama of Jummo’s life, the tragic arc of her affair with her childhood sweetheart and her lifelong love for the mysterious Sidi Wadhana, a more-than-human emissary from the Netherwor... continue
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Mzzlmeiden Winterlove by Marion van de Coolwijk NL
Country: Europe / 
Netherlands
Netherlands
Description:
Joan, Hanna en Tanja gaan skiën! Deze keer wordt het een echte zussenvakantie, vriendjes mogen niet mee. Brent is zwaar teleurgesteld. Als Joan en Hanna na een lange busreis in Oostenrijk aankomen, staat hun een onaangename verrassing te wachten: Tanja heeft Danny doodleuk meegenomen! Vooral Joan is boos omdat zij Brent wel heeft thuisgelaten. Tanja trekt zich hier weinig van aan: haar relatie met Danny bloeit als nooit tevoren. De twee tortelduiven zijn niet van elkaar weg te slaan. Ondanks de ergernissen, brengt de sneeuw veel plezier én ook liefde: Hanna ontmoet op de piste een heel leuke j... continue
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Naomi by Junichiro Tanizaki EN
JapanDescription:
A hilarious story of one man’s obsession and a brilliant reckoning of a nation’s cultural confusion—from a master Japanese novelist. When twenty-eight-year-old Joji first lays eyes upon the teenage waitress Naomi, he is instantly smitten by her exotic, almost Western appearance. Determined to transform her into the perfect wife and to whisk her away from the seamy underbelly of post-World War I Tokyo, Joji adopts and ultimately marries Naomi, paying for English and music lessons that promise to mold her into his ideal companion. But as she grows older, Joji discovers that Naomi is far from the... continue
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Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad by Damilare Kuku EN
NigeriaDescription:
One night, you will calmly put a knife to your husband's penis and promise to cut it off. It will scare him so much that the next day, he will call his family members for a meeting in the house. He will not call your family members, but you will not care. Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad is a collection of twelve short stories featuring characters with unique voices and stories that represent the diverse class, gender and ethnic melting pot that is Lagos. There's a story of a young lady who tries to find her oyibo soulmate on the streets of Lagos; another of a pastor's wife who defends her ... continue
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Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro EN
Description:
NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • From the acclaimed, bestselling author of The Remains of the Day comes “a Gothic tour de force" (The New York Times) with an extraordinary twist—a moving, suspenseful, beautifully atmospheric modern classic. One of The New York Times’s 10 Best Books of the 21st Century As children, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside. It was a place of mercurial cliques and mysterious rules where teachers were constantly reminding their charges of how special they were. Now, years later, Kathy is a young woman. ... continue