Literary Fiction

A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves.

" Je viens sauver quelqu’un, se répétait-il, et maintenant qu’il se trouvait à deux heures de Prague, il sentait monter en lui une vive anxiété. " Une échappée belle de Paris à Prague, d’un studio de radio à des ruelles hostiles, d’un cachot glacé à une académie de billard, d’une école de bonnes sœurs aux bureaux obscurs de la République. Chacun des Pelletier, à son heure, devra choisir entre son intérêt et son devoir, et pour certains entre la raison du cœur et la raison d’État. Un dilemme parfois déchirant, sauf pour le chat Joseph, qui lui a choisi depuis longtemps.

Tracing the career of a writer of uncertain parentage and omnivorous erotic tastes, Answered Prayers careens from a louche bar in Tangiers to a banquette at La Côte Basque, from literary salons to high-priced whorehouses. It takes in calculating beauties and sadistic husbands along with such real-life supporting characters as Colette, the Duchess of Windsor, Montgomery Clift, and Tallulah Bankhead. Above all, this malevolently funny book displays Capote at his most relentlessly observant and murderously witty.

Californie, 1966. " Les femmes aussi peuvent être des héros. " Lorsque Frankie McGrath, étudiante infirmière de vingt ans, entend ces paroles, c'est une révélation. Élevée au sein d'une communauté privilégiée et patriote sur l'île idyllique de Coronado, elle a toujours été l'incarnation même de la jeune fille de bonne famille. Mais en 1966, le monde change et Frankie imagine pour la première fois une autre vie que celle d'épouse et mère. Alors que son frère vient de partir combattre au Vietnam, elle décide, sans le soutien de ses parents, de rejoindre le corps des infirmières de l'armée.

An uncertain near-future. A story of new boundaries drawn between people daily. A not-very brave new world. Add two children. And a horse. From a Scottish word meaning a transient moment, a shock, a faint glimpse, Gliff explores how and why we endeavour to make a mark on the world. In a time when western industry wants to reduce us to algorithms and data—something easily categorizable and predictable—Smith shows us why our humanity, our individual complexities, matter more than ever.

Written in Cho Nam-joo’s signature razor-sharp prose, Miss Kim Knows follows eight women as they confront how gender shapes and orders their lives. A woman is born. A woman is filmed in public without consent. A woman is gaslit. A woman is discriminated against at work. A woman grows old. A woman becomes famous. A woman is hated, and loved, and then hated again. As with Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982, these microcosmic stories prove eerily relatable under Cho Nam-joo’s precise, unveiled gaze, offering another captivating read from an essential voice in fiction.

À la fin du XIXe siècle, dans une petite ville des Caraïbes, un jeune télégraphiste pauvre et une ravissante écolière jurent de se marier et se promettent un amour éternel. Durant trois ans ils vivent l’un pour l’autre, mais Fermina épouse Juvenal Urbino, un brillant médecin. Alors Florentino, l’amoureux trahi, se mue en séducteur impénitent et s’efforce de se faire un nom et une fortune pour mériter celle qu’il ne cessera d’aimer, en secret, cinquante années durant.

Una novel·la mordaç i brillant que captura l’energia dels vint anys i el caos de les primeres vegades."Si mai has estimat la persona equivocada, o la persona correcta en el moment equivocat... En resum, si mai has estat jove, t’encantarà El factor Rachel tant com a mi." - Gabrielle Zevin, autora de Demà, i demà i demà.La Rachel és al darrer curs de la Universitat, treballa en una llibreria i viu amb el seu millor amic, en James, en una casa que cau a trossos.

Ce jeune homme qui rentre à l’issue d’une nuit blanche passée avec les derniers fêtards d’un mariage ignore, en regagnant sa demeure, que le destin l’attend et qu’il mourra poignardé. Pourtant tout le monde le sait et Santiago Nasar, livré à ses bourreaux avec l’assentiment collectif, sera la victime de ce crime d’honneur. Qu’il soit ou non coupable, il n’échappera pas à cette mort annoncée. Car la mariée n’était plus vierge.

古代ペルシアの王シャフリヤールは，王妃の不倫現場を目撃して以来，一夜限りの妻を娶っては殺す，という掟をつくる．宰相の娘シェヘラザードは自ら王の花嫁に志願し，夜明け前にそらんじている物語を聞かせる．

1715: With the country on the brink of rebellion, Dorothy Forster’s life at Bamburgh Hall is ruled by the men in her life – her feckless brothers stirring up trouble at court, her elderly father with his dangerous secrets and the man she loves who the world seems determined to keep her apart from. As tensions grow, Dorothy finds herself caught between the warring factions, danger everywhere. Then Dorothy discovers her family are the keepers of the legendary Rose, the talisman both sides believe will guarantee them victory in this deadly conflict.

When a repairman accidentally finds a parallel universe, everyone sees it as an opportunity, whether as a way to ease Earth’s overcrowding, set up a personal kingdom, or hide an inconvenient mistress. But when a civilization is found already living there, the people on this side of the crack are sent scrambling to discover their motives. Will these parallel humans come in peace, or are they just as corrupt and ill-intentioned as the people of this world?

Known for his tragicomic voice and unforgettable characters, John Dufresne tells the story of Olney, whose beloved son, Cully, collapses into addiction and vanishes into the chaotic netherworld of southern Florida. Aided by his terminally ill girlfriend and the colorful inhabitants of a local motel—including a doomsday prepper, an ex-nun, a pair of blind twins with an acute sense of smell, and a devoutly Catholic shelter worker—Olney sets out to save his son.

Emmie Brown has always known she was adopted. Nellie Brown sacrificed everything to make their life together comfortable and, while not the most demonstrative or warm woman, Emmie never doubted her devotion. But, when Emmie finds a stash of letters and a hidden photo after her mother’s death, everything she has believed changes in an instant. And she won’t be able to rest until she finds the mysterious ‘G’ who sent the letters.

Sometimes even gods need help. In Galactic Pot-Healer that god is an alien creature known as The Glimmung, which looks alternately like a flaming wheel, a teenage girl, and a swirling mass of ocean life. In order to raise a sunken city, he summons beings from across the galaxy to Plowman’s Planet. Joe Fernwright is one of those summoned, needed for his skills at pot-healing—repairing broken ceramics. But from the moment Joe arrives on Plowman’s Planet, things start to go awry.

After nearly losing the election to a geriatric donkey, newly installed Mayor Delizia Miccuci can’t help but feel like the sun has finally set on the rural Italian village of Lazzarini Boscarino. Tourists only stop by to ask for directions, Nonna Amara’s cherished ristorante is long shuttered, and the town hall is disgustingly overrun with glis glis poo—even Postman Duccio has been disgraced.

Celebrated stage actress Mona Zahid wakes up on Thanksgiving morning to the clamor of guests packed into her Manhattan apartment and to a wave of dread: her in-laws are lurking on the other side of the bedroom door; she’s still fighting with her husband; and in just a few weeks she will begin rehearsals as Shakespeare’s Cleopatra, the hardest role in theater. In an impulsive burst, Mona bounds out the door with the family dog in tow (“I forgot the parsley!” is her lame excuse) to find her estranged mentor, Milton Katz, who was recently forced out of the legendary theater company he founded.

" Si je m'autorisais à t'aimer, mes sentiments pour toi me consumeraient. Il n'y aurait plus que toi dans ma vie. J'aurais constamment peur que tu cesses de m'aimer. Et, si tu le faisais, j'en mourrais. ". En 1960, quand Jennifer Stirling se réveille à l'hôpital, elle a tout oublié. L'accident de voiture, son mari, son nom… Alors qu'elle cherche à comprendre pourquoi elle n'est qu'une figurante dans sa propre vie, elle retrouve une lettre d'amour. Son correspondant mystérieux, qui signe d'un simple " B ", semble prêt à tout pour elle.

En Seúl, una mujer asiste a clases de griego antiguo. Su profesor le pide que lea en voz alta pero ella permanece en silencio; ha perdido la capacidad del lenguaje, así como a su madre y la custodia de un hijo de ocho años. Su única esperanza de recuperar el habla es mediante el aprendizaje de una lengua muerta. Con una belleza inusitada, las voces íntimas de estos dos protagonistas se intercalan y se cruzan en un momento de desesperación. ¿Será posible que encuentren en el otro el modo de salvarse, que la oscuridad dé paso a la luz y el silencio a la palabra?

Tiene frente a su cámara fotográfica a la interna del manicomio Modesta Burgos, una mujer que le parece familiar. Sobre el banquillo de los locos, ella posa con sorpresiva altivez. Joaquín Buitrago no demora mucho en recordarla, es una de las mujeres del burdel La Modernidad a la que había retratado años antes. Ahora, desposeída de todo, aún conserva el imán que lo atrae.Obsesionado por su historia, busca hacerse de su expediente médico, «debe haber algo más en el silencio de su vida», se dice el fotógrafo.

After her first ex abandoned her and her second ex let her down, Eve has worked hard to rebuild her family’s life and now, she’s doing just fine, or so she thinks. She definitely doesn’t have the time or the energy to trust anyone else with her fragile heart. But then eldest son Tom drops a bombshell and precocious daughter Anna is determined to make Eve see that there is a man in her life who could be absolutely perfect for her.

Inglaterra en la Edad Media. Del paso de los romanos por la isla sólo quedan ruinas, y Arturo y Merlín –amados por unos, odiados por otros– son leyendas del pasado. Entre la bruma todavía habitan ogros, y británicos y sajones conviven en unas tierras yermas, distribuidos en pequeñas aldeas. En una de ellas vive una pareja de ancianos –Axl y Beatrice– que toma la decisión de partir en busca de su hijo.

Rachel es una universitaria irlandesa que trabaja en una librería para pagarse la carrera. Allí conoce a un chico de su edad, James; no tardarán mucho en hacerse íntimos amigos y animarse a compartir un piso tan barato como destartalado. Ambos buscan abrirse camino en la Irlanda de la Gran Recesión mientras gestionan sus caóticas vidas: James está harto de que la gente piense que no quiere salir del armario y Rachel fantasea sin parar con el doctor Byrne, un profesor casado al que intenta seducir con un arriesgado plan de imprevisibles resultados.

The stories in Paul Theroux’s fascinating new collection are both exotic and domestic, their settings ranging from Hawaii to Africa and New England. Each focuses on life’s vanishing points—a moment when seemingly all lines running through one’s life converge, and one can see no farther, yet must deal with the implications. With the insight, subtlety, and empathy that has long characterized his work, Theroux has written deeply moving stories about memory, longing, and the passing of time, reclaiming his status, once again, as a master of the form.

Гражданская война в России подходит к концу. Остатки белой армии оказывают отчаянное сопротивление на Крымском перешейке. Волна беженцев вот-вот обрушится на Турцию, а затем распространится по всей Европе. Небольшая группа русских эмигрантов пытается спастись от красных, перебравшись из Крыма в Константинополь, а затем в Париж. Все они бегут от большевиков, но у каждого из них бегство от внешних обстоятельств накладывается на попытку бегства от внутренних проблем.