Literary Fiction

Au cœur de l'enfer, une femme se bat pour l'espoir. "Rappelle-toi: notre seule arme, c'est de rester en vie, et pour rester en vie, nous devons aimer, nous devons donner, et, malheureusement, nous devons souffrir." Lorsqu'elle arrive à Auschwitz, sous un ciel bas et gris, Ana est persuadée qu'elle ne survivra pas à l'enfer du camp. Mais elle possède une compétence que les nazis recherchent : elle est sage-femme. Son travail sera de donner naissance aux enfants des autres prisonnières.

It’s been raining for a long time now, so long that the land has reshaped itself and old rituals and religions are creeping back into practice. Sisters Isla, Irene, and Agnes have not spoken in some time when their father, an architect as cruel as he was revered, dies. His death offers an opportunity for the sisters to come together in a new way. In the grand glass house they grew up in, their father’s most famous creation, the sisters sort through the secrets and memories he left behind, until their fragile bond is shattered by a revelation in his will.

The new book censor hasn't slept soundly in weeks. By day he combs through manuscripts at a government office, looking for anything that would make a book unfit to publish-allusions to queerness, unapproved religions, any mention of life before the Revolution. By night the characters of literary classics crowd his dreams, and pilfered novels pile up in the house he shares with his wife and daughter. As the siren song of forbidden reading continues to beckon, he descends into a netherworld of resistance fighters, undercover booksellers, and outlaw librarians.

Jason Taverner—world-famous talk show host and man-about-town—wakes up one day to find that no one knows who he is—including the vast databases of the totalitarian government. And in a society where lack of identification is a crime, Taverner has no choice but to go on the run with a host of shady characters, including crooked cops and dealers of alien drugs. But do they know more than they are letting on? And just how can a person's identity be erased overnight?

それは、彼女と僕だけの秘密です――世界に隠された恋と後悔の物語。迷い、悩み、嫉妬し、決断をしては、傷つき合う。恋の輝きと世界に隠された理不尽を鮮烈に描いたくラブストーリー。

Everything in Edith’s life is approaching disaster. Her writing career is stagnant. Her love life is a mess. Her ex, Tessa, is marrying a man. Her teeth are rotting in her skull. And her best friend, Val, is dead. Still Life volleys between the present and recent past, chronicling the lives of three women—one cis, two trans, all forever entwined.

Set in the roaring 1920s, The Great Gatsby is a timeless tale of wealth, excess, love, and tragedy. Through the eyes of narrator Nick Carraway, F. Scott Fitzgerald tells the story of the enigmatic and wealthy Jay Gatsby, who throws lavish parties in a bid to rekindle his lost love, Daisy Buchanan. Beneath the glittering surface of opulence and glamour, The Great Gatsby explores deeper themes of identity, obsession, and the American Dream gone awry.

Esilarante e stranamente tenero, l’esperimento di “ibernazione” narcotica di una giovane donna, aiutata e incoraggiata da una delle peggiori psichiatre della storia. New York, all’alba del nuovo millennio. La protagonista gode di molti privilegi, almeno in apparenza. È giovane, magra, carina, da poco laureata alla Columbia e vive, grazie a un’eredità, in un appartamento nell’Upper East Side di Manhattan. Ma c’è qualcosa che le manca, c’è un vuoto nella sua vita che non è semplicemente legato alla prematura perdita dei genitori o al modo in cui la tratta il fidanzato che lavora a Wall Street.

David Copperfield war Charles Dickens der liebste Roman, es ist auch sein persönlichster. Das Buch hat Generationen von Lesenden in seinen Bann geschlagen, vielen war und ist es prägende Jugendlektüre, große Autorinnen und Autoren – Leo Tolstoi, Virginia Woolf, Vladimir Nabokov, Elias Canetti – verehrten ihn ein Leben lang. Es ist zunächst eine Leidensgeschichte im viktorianischen England. Nach dem Tod des Vaters geboren und nach einer unseligen Neuvermählung der Mutter muss der junge David eine höllenhafte Schulzeit durchleiden, wird bereits als Zehnjähriger zur Arbeit gezwungen.

Ihr weltveränderndes Geheimnis kann nicht mehr lange verborgen bleiben. Elloren Gardner verbirgt das mächtigste Geheimnis in ganz Aerda - sie ist die Schwarze Hexe der Prophezeiung und dazu bestimmt, zu triumphieren ... oder als ultimative Waffe der Zerstörung eingesetzt zu werden. Getrennt von allen, die sie liebt, isoliert und gejagt, muss Elloren sich an die letzte Person wenden, der sie vertrauen kann - Kommandant Lukas Grey.

Es la madrugada del 1 de septiembre de 1939 cuando el continente europeo despierta enmudecido por la marcha de miles de soldados alemanes hacia Polonia, a la que acabarán conquistando y anexionando con una guerra relámpago. Italia se mantiene al margen mientras que Reino Unido y Francia declaran inmediatamente la guerra a Hitler. Sin embargo, testigo de la rapidez del ejército nazi y cada día más presionado por los altos cargos fascistas, Mussolini se convence de que todo terminará pronto y en abril de 1940 decide también involucrarse en el conflicto.

In the summer of 1983, twenty-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: conservative Member of Parliament Gerald, his wealthy wife Rachel, and their two children, Toby—whom Nick had idolized at Oxford—and Catherine, who is highly critical of her family's assumptions and ambitions. As the boom years of the eighties unfold, Nick, an innocent in the world of politics and money, finds his life altered by the rising fortunes of this glamorous family.

Notre monde est fait de règles. Si toutes ces injonctions permettent la cohabitation pacifique de tous, elles assurent aussi le complet malheur de chacun. Les dés peuvent nous libérer, comme ils ont libéré Luke Rhinehart, un psychiatre à la vie étriquée, qui décide de jouer aux dés tous ses choix... quelles qu’en soient les conséquences.

Seine Exzellenz Eugène Rougon (Son excellence Eugène Rougon. Übersetzt von Armin Schwarz) Eugène Rougon hatte als republikanischer Minister des Innern im Jahr 1851 den Staatsstreich unterstützt, in dessen Zuge Staatspräsident Charles Louis Napoléon Bonaparte zum Kaiser Napoléon III. ausgerufen wurde. Rougons Karriere ist auf ihrem Höhepunkt. Zola begleitet Rougon durch seine politischen Machtkämpfe, die selbst vor dem Kaiser nicht Halt machen.

詩人・南郷芳明の自伝的連作短編小説集。いやおうなしに襲いかかってくる様々な困難を何とか克服しようともがく小3から中1の少年の悪戦苦闘の様子をつぶさに描写している。既発表の「やさしい子」「あのころは月光仮面がいた」「でっかいあいつ」に今回書き下ろした「少年の　なみだ」を加えて連作短編小説集とした。《赤裸々な心の告白》と《想像力》あっての文学である。

DESPRE AUDIOBOOK: Finalist The Folio Prize 2022 & The Orwell Prize 2022. Naratoarea din Adunare este o tânără britanică de culoare. Ea se pregătește să participe la o petrecere extravagantă în grădina familiei iubitului său, situată într-o regiune rurală îndepărtată, în Anglia. În același timp, se gândește cu grijă la piesele din care este alcătuită. Pe măsură ce trec clipele și viitorul bate la ușă, nu se poate gândi decât la o întrebare: oare e timpul să renunțe la toate? Adunare este povestea poveștilor pe care le trăim.

« Il était absurde d’attendre une année entière pour soumettre au hasard d’une nuit le restant de ses jours. » Une fois par an, le 16 août, Ana Magdalena Bach prend un ferry pour passer une nuit sur l’île où est enterrée sa mère. Indifférente à la splendeur des Caraïbes, elle se contente de déposer un bouquet de glaïeuls sur sa tombe avant de retrouver son mari.

An orphan leaves Dark Ages London, taking a dangerous journey and posing as a Jew to study medicine in Persia, in "an adventurous and inspiring tale" (Library Journal). A child holds the hand of his dying mother and is terrified, aware something is taking her. Orphaned and given to an itinerant barber-surgeon, Rob Cole becomes a fast-talking swindler, peddling a worthless medicine. But as he matures, his strange gift - an acute sensitivity to impending death - never leaves him, and he yearns to become a healer.

Стройная красивая брюнетка снимает номер в захудалой островной гостинице с видом на томную голубую лагуну. Днем она посещает могилу матери на вершине холма, а ближе к ночи развлекается в гостиничном баре под звуки сальсы и болеро. Она давно и счастливо замужем, но каждый год в один из дней августа переправляется на пароме на далекий остров, чтобы провести жаркую ночь со случайным любовником. Головокружительный, радостно чувственный роман Увидимся в августе – нежданный подарок от одного из величайших писателей, которых когда-либо знал мир.

Widower Sir Adam Wilson has put off remarrying in favor of seeing to his textile business and the tenants farmers who work the fields. At thirty-five and a father of a young daughter, he can no longer ignore his need for an heir. When he discovers how his grandfather found his Lady Wilson, he decides to do the same—run a bride contest at the local fair.

It was with her stories that Mary Morris first won attention and acclaim: her first collection, Vanishing Animals, received the prestigious Rome Prize, and her second, The Bus of Dreams, was widely hailed. In this new collection, Mary Morris once again shows her great sensitivity to men and women at moments of turbulence, uncertainty and crisis in their lives—and how they can reach for the unexpected and the spiritual at such times.

Six amusing and endearing stories which will make you laugh and cry, and awaken your memories of another day. The perfect book for a day on the beach while basking in balmy ocean breezes, or a mountain vacation ensconced in a cozy cabin. This is a work of fiction, but like the fiction of Hemingway and many others, it is partly autobiographical. Themes of joy, and guilt, and great adventures, and just plain fun are embodied, and as the metaphors sing, you are carried off to another place.

It is the story of a Family halfheartedly searching for a missing relation who does not want to be found, while just off-stage, World War I is raging on the continent. It is a story about ordinary people trying to live ordinary lives in extraordinary times. The things they do are less important than the ways in which they do them: often comic, occasionally tragic, but always touching and true to life. It reminds us that Poetry and Romance can be found anywhere, hidden beneath the surface of the most commonplace things.

Les jours passés à la librairie Morisaki resteront à jamais gravés dans ma mémoire. Puisque c'est là-bas que j'ai commencé à vivre, à vivre réellement. Sans cette parenthèse, ma vie aurait été bien moins colorée, bien plus monotone, bien plus triste. Un lieu précieux, inoubliable. Voilà ce qu'est la librairie Morisaki à mes yeux.

Cвежайший роман современного классика Колма Тойбина, титана ирландской и мировой литературы, лауреата многих престижных премий, неоднократного финалиста Букера, автора таких международных бестселлеров, как Волшебник и Мастер. Пятнадцать лет назад его роман Бруклин — тихая одиссея молодой ирландки Эйлиш Лейси, отправившейся из родного Эннискорти в Нью-Йорк, — покорил сердца читателей всего мира, а экранизация Бруклина, поставленная Джоном Краули по сценарию самого Тойбина и Ника Хорнби, получила три "Оскара".