Contemporary Fiction

Six friends are selling home appliances to the US from a call centre in India. Each one has an issue with love....

Adultery, the provocative new novel by Paulo Coelho, best-selling author of The Alchemist and Eleven Minutes, explores the question of what it means to live life fully and happily, finding the balance between life's routine and the desire for something new....

Najeeb's dearest wish is to work in the Gulf and earn enough money to send back home. He achieves his dream only to be propelled by a series of incidents, grim and absurd, into a slave-like existence herding goats in the middle of the Saudi desert....

Essays in Love is a stunningly original love story....

In Paris, in Washington, and in Greece in a fabulous villa, an innocent American becomes a bewildered, horror-stricken pawn in a game of vengeance and betrayal....

One day a renowned author discovers that his wife mhas disappeared leaving no trace. She may have been kidnapped or blackmailed - or simply bored with their marriage....

Jayavant Dalvi has depicted a village in South Kokan in this novel. It holds us with a host of interesting characters of that time.....

Brida, a young Irish girl, has long been interested in various aspects of magic but is searching for something more. Her search leads her to people of great wisdom....

This novel, based on the life of Sarat Chandra Chatterjee, a well-known Bengali novelist and short story writer, is literary and biographical fiction. Sarat Chandra Chatterjee was arguably one of the most popular novelists in the Bengali language....

Justice Laxmi Narayan Thakur and his wife, Mamta, spend their days watching anxiously over their five beautiful (but troublesome) alphabetically named daughters....

Swami is a talkative, mischievous boy whose life is all about having fun with his friends and avoiding school and homework. He lives with his parents, younger brother and grandmother....

An ordinary family man, geologist, and Mormon, Soren Johansson has always believed he'll be reunited with his loved ones after death in an eternal hereafter....

In Find Me, Aciman shows us Elio's father, Samuel, on a trip from Florence to Rome to visit Elio, now a gifted classical pianist. A chance encounter on the train upends Sami's visit and changes his life forever....

When Tulsi first meets Madhav, she is irrevocably drawn to his chiseled good looks and charm. Although wary of his many dalliances and the string of broken hearts left in his wake, she is surprised by the intense desire that Madhav arouses in her. And before long, she forsakes her family....

When the younger players in India's cricket team find out that advertising executive Zoya Singh Solanki was born at the very moment India won the World Cup back in 1983, they are intrigued....

The New York Times best-selling novel from Garth Stein - a heart-wrenching but deeply funny and ultimately uplifting story of family, love, loyalty, and hope - a captivating look at the wonders and absurdities of human life...as only a dog could tell it....

In what is widely hailed as the best of his many novels, Charles Bukowski details the long, lonely years of his own hardscrabble youth in the raw voice of alter ego Henry Chinaski....

Maya is pretty, young, and eager to escape her middle-class home. Ranjan is handsome, driven, well-born, and wealthy. Their arranged marriage seems a perfect match until Maya discovers that underneath her husband’s charming facade lies a cold-hearted, rigidly conservative monster....

The late Binodini Thakur had been very clear that she would never agree to sell her hissa in her Bauji's big old house on Hailey Road....

A week on an island sounds like the stuff of beach dreams, but for Paisley Royce, it's a nightmare. Her little sister is marrying her ex-college sweetheart, and Paisley is serving as maid of honor. To add insult to injury, nobody will let Paisley forget she's single.

For Abhijeet, Saurav, Shruti, Garima life is about to change. They have the most sought after jobs in the country - jobs that will pay for designer clothes, shoes, watches, holidays in foreign locations...all the things they’ve ever wanted....

Incidence & its consequence is a typical cycle, however the interpretation of consequence might be different for each individual.....

La protagonista de Boulder és una dona atreta per la solitud com per un imant. Es guanya la vida fent de cuinera en un buc - la situació...

Astrid is the only child of a single mother, Ingrid, a brilliant, obsessed poet who wields her luminous beauty...

Von der Autorin des Bestsellers Die sieben Männer der Evelyn Hugo und Daisy Jones & The Six kommt ein epischer neuer Roman über die außergewöhnlichen Anstrengungen, die wir unternehmen, um über unsere Grenzen hinaus zu leben und zu lieben. Joan Goodwin sieht zu den Sternen auf, seit sie denken ...

Ana tiene cuarenta y tres años, es viuda y está viviendo una situación insostenible en su trabajo. En su casa la esperan cada día su hijo Pablo, un adolescente que se siente ahogado en su propia inseguridad, y su padre, José, un médico jubilado que en el atardecer de su vida lucha por encontrar un nuevo sentido a su existencia. Un viaje de vacaciones a Grecia se convertirá en algo transformador para los cuatro. Allí, vivirán una inesperada y fantástica aventura que les sumergirá en las profundas enseñanzas de la sabiduría clásica.

千華子を人質にとられ練は、ニコと名乗る少年から危険なマヤの儀式への参加を強制された。それは生死をかけて争う苛酷なレース。刻一刻と過ぎる時間。制限時間まで残りわずか――。しかし、そのとき国全体をさらに揺るがすとんでもないことが起こった。

夜の街のルール、私がご案内しましょう＞＞＞紀伊國屋書店　新宿本店＜＜＜＞＞＞新書部門（6月4週）　第１位！！＜＜＜欲望渦巻く新宿・歌舞伎町では、日々、多様な事件が起きている。

この異常が、私たちの日常 未知の細菌がもたらした毒素が猛威をふるい続け数百年。世界の人口は激減し、人類の平均寿命は25歳にまで低下した。

性加害の告発が開けたパンドラの箱――MeToo運動、マッチングアプリ、SNS……世界の急激な変化の中で溺れもがく人間たち。対立の果てに救いは訪れるのか?「わかりあえないこと」のその先を描く、日本文学の最高到達点。

“地方創生の真実”を暴く！大ベストセラー『震える牛』『ガラパゴス』に連なる樫山順子シリーズ最新刊！北海道警から山梨県警に異動した樫山順子は、大規模農場開発に怪しい動きを嗅ぎつけた。

Jimmy está a punto de embarcarse en el mayor compromiso de su vida. Tiene tanto miedo de perder a su amada Christy que ha decidido desertar del ejército y correr tras ella para pedirle matrimonio. Ella está aterrorizada, pero no tanto por el hecho de que va a tener un bebé, sino porque, si acepta a Jimmy, puede que acabe teniendo dos.

Mutter ist schon lange kinderlos und hat nun auch noch ihre Stimme verloren. Sie muss sich gänzlich neu erfinden, um wieder stark und laut zu werden. Erst ein Zahn-, dann ein Ortswechsel sind nötig, damit sie wieder Boden gewinnt und sich einrichten kann in ihrem Leben.

Época actual. Logroño Manuela, una abogada racional, recibe una llamada que lo cambiará todo: Palmira, su abuela, supuestamente muerta hace más de treinta años, quiere reencontrarse con ella. Incrédula pero cautivada, acepta la cita, sin imaginar que esta decisión la arrastrará al corazón de una conspiración europea enterrada en la historia familiar. Décadas atrás, entre Europa y Puerto Rico Palmira, una mujer adelantada a su tiempo, huye con su familia hacia América tras cometer un acto desesperado en la posguerra española.

Geoff Rickly’s debut novel Someone Who Isn’t Me is a feverish journey through the psyche of someone who no longer recognizes himself. When Geoff hears that a drug called ibogaine might be able to save him from his heroin addiction, he goes to a clinic in Mexico to confront the darkest and most destructive versions of himself. In this modern reimagining of the Divine Comedy, survival lurks in the darkest corners of Geoff’s brain, asking, will he make it? Can anyone?

第12回日経「星新一賞」ジュニア部門準グランプリ 受賞作　また本部かられんらくがきた。ぼくは、いそいで目的地へ向かった。見つけた。小さな子うさぎだ。

第12回日経「星新一賞」ジュニア部門優秀賞 受賞作　さわさわと音を立てて揺れる木々の隙間で、小鳥が飛んでいる。木立の前には池があって、揺れる水面(みなも)に空が映っている。CGと機械を駆使した空間投影技術。

第12回日経「星新一賞」ジュニア部門グランプリ 受賞作　大きな筒の中で頭の先からつま先までゆっくりとスキャンする。スキャンの時間は5分程度、結果が出るのは約30分後。本当に便利な世の中だ。僕は今「将来ドック」を受けている。

第12回日経「星新一賞」一般部門優秀賞（関電工賞）受賞作　私と彼の出会いは二〇二八年、当時私たちが通っていた私立幼稚園の廊下だった。「家族の思い出」をテーマに園児たちが描いた絵が壁に飾られていた。

第12回日経「星新一賞」一般部門優秀賞（HEBEL HAUS賞）受賞作　箱暮らし　　十月下旬で日に日に寒さが厳しくなっていた。目の前にはうまそうな火鍋が煮え立っている。中華街の老舗で、本場四川（しせん）の味だと評判の店だ。