Contemporary Fiction

Der junge Arzt Dr. Roy Basch verbringt sein erstes Praxisjahr im "House of God". Voller Enthusiasmus und Erwartungen, beseelt von dem Wunsch...

When Esther Greenwood wins an internship at a New York fashion magazine in 1953, she is elated, believing she will finally realise her dream to become a writer....

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

Border Roads Organization is responsible for building roads in Himalaya at huge heights, where no other country perhaps can build roads....

Aavarana: The Veil is a story of a free-spirited and rebellious young woman, Lakshmi, who marries the man she is deeply in love with. Amir, her husband, requests she convert to Islam....

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....

Ein universeller Roman über Genuss, Lebenskunst und die Geschichte einer weiblichen Befreiung. Für alle LeserInnen von Han Kangs...

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....

I forget what took me to Fosterganj in the first place. Destiny, perhaps, although I'm not sure why destiny would have bothered to guide an itinerant writer to an obscure little hamlet in the hills....

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....

Four Chinese women, drawn together by the shadow of their past, meet in San Francisco to play mah jong, invest in stocks, eat dim sum, and to "say" stories to each other....

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....

Ein Silvesterabend in New York: Cleo, Mitte zwanzig, britische Kunststudentin, Bohémienne a.k.a. ewig pleite, trifft Frank, Mitte vierzig, Amerikaner...

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

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....

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....

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....

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

Twenty-five-year-old Jinni lives in Mumbai, works in a hip animation studio and is perfectly happy with her carefree and independent existence. Until her bossy grandmother shows up....

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....

Elämänmakuinen romaani pysähtymisen tarpeesta ja uuden suunnan löytämisestä. Erään poikkeuksellisen kostean illan jälkeen tunnettu influensseri My...

In this incandescent novel, V.S. Naipaul takes us deeply into the life of one man, an Indian who, uprooted by the bloody tides of Third World history....

There's a secret to mastery that you may have never heard, a single little thing that only the very best in the world know how to do....

Vapaus pukee halvan takin ja kalliit aurinkolasit, se on lähdössä. En voi tehdä mitään, mikä pakottaisi sen sittenkin muistamaan minut...

Two young manager graduates, with nothing similar in family backgrounds and temperament, join a New York international bank on the same day - and take entirely different routes to success....

London, 1974: Die siebzehnjährige Pippa St George, Tochter aus gutem Hause, wird von ihrer besten Freundin auf ein Konzert im dunklen, schmutzigen London geschleppt. Dort trifft sie auf Oz, den Sänger der Punkband, der für alles steht, was ihre Familie verachtet. Gegen alle Konventionen und gegen jede Logik verlieben sich die beiden ineinander, doch dann werden sie von der harten Realität eingeholt. London, Gegenwart: Online-Redakteurin Gilly ist überglücklich, als sie eine erschwingliche Wohnung in einem viktorianischen Mietshaus in Camden findet.

Eliza, 51, schreibt Briefe an Joan, die Nachbarin, die offenbar ihren Mann und ihre Kinder verlassen hat, und die sie eigentlich kaum kennt. Briefe mit besten Ratschlägen – voller ungeschminkter Wahrheiten, schlafwandlerisch sicher gesetzter Seitenhiebe und Exzentrik. Antwort bekommt Eliza nie, was ihre Schreibwut eher anstachelt. Als ihr Mann Henry plötzlich auszieht, geraten die Briefe zu immer wilderen, fiebrigen Bekenntnissen einer zutiefst einsamen, in ihrem Leben gefangenen Frau, der nicht unbedingt zu trauen ist.

京都市中京区の薄暗い路地にある「中京こころのびょういん」。心の不調を抱えてこの病院を訪れた患者に、妙にノリの軽い医者が処方するのは、薬ではなく、本物の猫だった！？

半年の任期で離島の診療所に派遣された、三一歳の外科医・雨野隆治。島ではあらゆる病気を診なければならず、自分の未熟さを思い知る。束の間の息抜きを楽しんだ夏祭りの夜に、駐在所の警官から電話が。

第170回直木賞候補！ 激動の戦前戦後を生きた女性たちの大河小説。裕福な家に嫁いだ千代と、その家の女中頭の初衣。「家」から、そして「普通」から逸れてもそれぞれの道を行く。

『同姓同名』が中国でベストセラー、TikTokで話題、中学生ビブリオバトルでチャンプ本に！

ぶたぶたシリーズは、こんな人にオススメです。・最近ちょっとツイてないと思っている。・不思議なことが好き。・美味しいものが大大大好き。・小さな日常が大切だ。

A la memòria de la protagonista d’aquest llibre es barregen els records viscuts amb aquells altres només escoltats d’esquitllada en dinars familiars, en converses a porta tancada i en el silenci de les paraules no dites. Can Sunyer, cau d’oblit i d’històries, de persones, records i objectes que ja no hi són, és al bell mig d’aquesta mitologia familiar que és Aquella nena de les paraules, en el fons un relat sobre els silencis que van impactar la vida d’una nena des de ben aviat. I és que, després de la guerra, els silencis i els buits en la història s’havien tornat més profunds i difícils.

Thank You for Burning is a scintillating satirical debut novel that clears the air on modern day coal barons and their political protectors who are choking our children's future. This scorching tale follows three vastly different Americans who end up following their hearts to preserve and protect their country's future.

宝島。その昔、海賊たちが奪った財宝を島々に隠し、そのありかを地図に残した。その地図が歳月を経て、今、目の前に在るとしたら-絶海の孤島に埋められた宝探しの物語は大人も子どもも夢あふれる永遠のロマンだろう。

L’educazione sentimentale di un giovane uomo che, per sfuggire all’asfissiante supervisione paterna, decide di frequentare l’università di Trieste. La gioventù, in quella città celeste al crocevia di diverse culture, diviene la stagione dell’immortalità, delle nuove scoperte, delle amicizie inossidabili. E di amori smisurati e sofferti. La Trieste descritta minuziosamente tra le pagine di questo romanzo è un luogo dall’identità composita e dal confine sempre incerto, come i protagonisti di queste pagine, giovani studenti entusiasti con il futuro tutto da inventare.

Petite fille, elle rêvait d’être astronaute. Et puis la vie l’a éloignée de son rêve… Et si c’était encore possible, que sera-t-elle prête à sacrifier pour s’approcher des étoiles ?

Eher zufällig wird Andreas Durrer zum gefeierten Künstler – als "Dürrst" jedoch droht er bald an sich selbst unterzugehen. Sein Weg vom Jugendlichen, der seiner Oberschichtsherkunft den Rücken zukehrt, über besetzte Häuser, unzählige Partys, Vernissagen und Betten meist fremder Männer bis in die psychiatrische Klinik und wieder hinaus ist kein linearer. Das Leben ist eine wilde Tour, auf der Dürrst ab und an das Ziel aus den Augen, doch fast nie die Hoffnung verliert.

美奈子が夫の希久夫に遺した国産名車。カーナビの履歴を巡る旅で美奈子の想いが見えてくる。藤沢、松本、尾道、モナコ……往年の名女優、伝説のエンジニアの人生と交錯する愛と絆の物語。

銀座のとある路地の先、円筒形のポストのすぐそばに佇む文房具店・四宝堂。創業は天保五年、地下には古い活版印刷機まであるという知る人ぞ知る名店だ。