Contemporary Fiction

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....

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....

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

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

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

Dans la forêt de Bellécorce, au creux du chêne où Archibald Renard tient sa librairie, chaque animal qui le souhaite peut déposer le livre qu'il a écrit et espérer qu'il soit un jour acheté. Depuis que ses souvenirs le fuient, Ferdinand Taupe cherche désespérément à retrouver l'ouvrage qu'il a écrit pour compiler ses mémoires, afin de se rappeler les choses qu'il a faites et les gens qu'il a aimés. Il en existe un seul exemplaire, déposé à la librairie il y a des années. Mais justement, un mystérieux client vient de partir avec.

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。

千葉県富津市の清掃会社に勤める町谷亜八（ハチ）は、過去に傷害事件を起こし執行猶予中の身だ。ようやく手に入れた「まっとうな暮らし」からはみ出さぬよう生きている。

『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！

Paradossale? Surreale? Distopico? Probabilmente sì. Tutto quello che non è conforme alle regole ci appare eccezionale oppure reietto. E’ difficile accettare di convivere con quello che consideriamo diverso da noi in un modus sociale che, pur imponendo dei canoni stereotipati, ci sottopone periodicamente e con sempre maggior intensità a qualcosa di diverso, forse proprio per essere giudicato, senza rendersi conto che un giorno potrebbero essere quelli che oggi consideriamo diversi a giudicare noi.

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。

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。

Martha ist eine beeindruckende Frau, die es aus ärmsten Verhältnissen zu bescheidenem Wohlstand gebracht hat. Aber die Erinnerung an die Entbehrungen ihrer Kindheit als »Verdingkind« bei einer Bauernfamilie im Berner Umland lässt sie nie los: Keine Schwäche zeigen. Arbeiten ohne Unterlass. Hart sein zu sich und anderen. Das prägt auch ihre Söhne, die es in der Nachkriegszeit unbedingt zu etwas bringen wollen. Und ihre Enkel, die dagegen rebellieren und es erstmals wagen, sich ein anderes, ein freieres Leben zu erträumen.

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 ?