Literary Fiction

This story, dazzling in its simplicity and wisdom, is about an Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago who travels from his homeland in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of treasure....

The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness....

A living picture of the entire life of the Indian farmer - his aspiration and despair, his sincerity and religious piety, his helplessness and innocence....

अंदलुशिया में रहनेवाले एक आम चरवाहे सैंतियागो की ये कहानी स्पेन से होते हुए मिस्र के रेगिस्तान जा पहुँचती है....

Big Brother is watching you.... 1984 is the year in which it happens. The world is divided into three superstates....

In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than 100 years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time.... 

When he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki....

A masterpiece from the Orange Prize-winning, New York Times number one best-selling author of Commonwealth and Bel Canto: a story of love, family, sacrifice and the power of place....

Dashing young Edmond Dantès has everything: a fine reputation, an appointment as captain of a ship, and the heart of a beautiful woman....

It was his first big murder case - and one of the bloodiest and most violent crimes LAPD detective Danny McGuire would ever encounter....

On 21 June 1922, Count Alexander Rostov - recipient of the Order of Saint Andrew, member of the Jockey Club, Master of the Hunt - is escorted out of the Kremlin, across Red Square and through the elegant revolving doors of the Hotel Metropol....

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late 20s, the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born.... 

Connell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in rural Ireland. The similarities end there; they are from very different worlds....

One of the 20th century's enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize-winning career....

From the Orange Prize-winning, internationally best-selling author of The Song of Achilles comes the powerful story of the mythological witch Circe, inspired by Homer's Odyssey....

Heathcliff, an orphan, is brought to Wuthering Heights, where he is raised alongside Catherine. They soon become lovers and inseparable soul mates. However, Catherine chooses to marry Edgar Linton, an antithesis to Heathcliff, mainly out of her desire for social status....

Yeongdo, Korea - 1911. In a small fishing village on the banks of the East Sea, a club-footed, cleft-lipped man marries a 15-year-old girl. The couple have one child: their beloved daughter, Sunja....

Ted Wallace is an old, sour, womanising, cantankerous, whisky-sodden beast of a failed poet and drama critic, but he has his faults too....

The smartest murder-mystery you will ever hear....

A heartfelt comedy of manners, Diksha Basu's debut novel unfolds the story of a family discovering what it means to be nouveau riche in modern India....

The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo. A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver's enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her....

A novel of extraordinary intelligence and heart, a masterful depiction of heartbreak and a dark and haunting examination of the tyranny of experience and memory....

Lydia is the favourite child of Marilyn and James Lee - a girl who inherited her mother's bright-blue eyes and her father's jet-black hair....

Eighteen-year-old Debbie White lives on a dairy farm with her mother, Maeve, and her uncle, Billy. Billy sleeps out in a caravan in the garden with a bottle of whiskey and the stars overhead for company....

Sumire is in love with a woman 17 years her senior. But whereas Miu is glamorous and successful, Sumire is an aspiring writer who dresses in an oversized second-hand coat and heavy boots like a character in a Kerouac novel.... 

9月初旬の、ある蒸し暑い晩のこと。私はいつもの習慣で、白梅軒というカフェで冷やしコーヒーをすすっていた。そして大通りを挟んで真向こうの古本屋…そこには美人と評判の細君がい

A story of homecoming, this engrossing novel opens with a young, city-based lawyer setting out on her first visit to ancestral country. Candice arrives at ‘the place where the rivers meet’, the camp of the Eualeyai where in 1918 her grandmother Garibooli was abducted. As Garibooli takes up the story of Candice’s Aboriginal family, the twentieth century falls away. Garibooli, now renamed Elizabeth, is sent to work as a housemaid, but marriage soon offers escape from the terror of the master’s night-time visits.

Di cosa è fatta una vita? Di domeniche pigre in cui non rispondiamo al telefono per rimanere sul divano abbracciando un libro appena iniziato. Di ore spese inutilmente a cercare le sigarette, le chiavi della macchina, gli occhiali da sole, perché si sa che spesso le cose si spostano per farci dispetto. Di mattine in cui scopri allo specchio che in una notte hai preso cinque anni e non ti resta che tifare per un po’ d’indulgenza. 

Il ne veut plus faire confiance. Elle a décidé de tourner la page. Pour ne plus souffrir, Sanders s'est retranché derrière une épaisse carapace. Les filles viennent, puis s'en vont, et elle ne fait pas exception. C'est une révélation qui va bouleverser ses certitudes et le mettre face à la réalité de ses sentiments. Enfin prêt à croire de nouveau en l'avenir, il fera tout afin que l'objet de son obsession lui revienne, et ce, malgré le manque de tact dont il a fait preuve par le passé.

Julius Hertzfeld, brillante professore di psichiatria presso l'università della California scopre di avere poco più di un anno di vita. Che fare quando la vita spensierata termina di colpo? Julius Hertzfeld non ha dubbi: continuerà a occuparsi dei suoi pazienti e a cercare di ridestare, nella terapia di gruppo, il sentimento della vita dentro di loro. Sa, anche, che non si sottrarrà all'ultima sfida rappresentata dal suo paziente più ostico.

William Stoner wird 1891 als Sohn armer Farmer in Missouri geboren. Das Landwirtschaftsstudium lässt er ohne Reue hinter sich, als er seine Liebe zur Literatur entdeckt. Hart arbeitet er für seinen Aufstieg, bringt es bis zum Professor. Doch sonst ist sein Leben enttäuschungsreich: Seine Ehefrau entpuppt sich als gefühlskalte Intrigantin, die seine enge Beziehung zur Tochter zerstört, die leidenschaftliche Liebe zu einer Studentin muss er aufgeben. Und ein Widersacher an der Uni setzt alles daran, Stoners Reputation zu beschädigen. Ein großartiger Roman über einen Mann, der seine Würde durch alle Widernisse rettet.

Dieses Hörbuch vereint drei feinsinnige Erzählungen von Siegfried Lenz. Gelesen von der Schauspielerin Angela Schmid, wirkt es wie Balsam für die Ohren. Die im Nachhinein für das ZDF verfilmte Titelerzählung "Die Flut ist pünktlich" ist eine feinfühlige Geschichte über eine Dreiecksbeziehung, die für alle Beteiligten zum Verhängnis wird. Darüber hinaus beinhaltet dieses Hörbuch zwei weitere Erzählungen: "Herr und Frau S. in Erwartung ihrer Gäste" und "Die Lampen der Eskimos".

Un roman puissant sur les blessures de l'enfance jamais cicatrisées, et qui questionne sur la maternité, la parentalité. Un roman d'aujourd'hui, à tension psychologique. Par l'auteur de "On n'efface pas les souvenirs". Il y a un avant et un après dans la vie d'Olivia. Gynécologue dans une clinique parisienne, elle élève seule, heureuse, ses trois enfants. Mais un jour, confrontée à l'insoutenable, elle fait un choix insensé qui met en danger sa propre famille et va fragiliser son existence et celle des siens.

Devastated at his wife’s death and stricken at raising two girls and a boy on his own, Arthur Delaney places his children in a Halifax orphanage and runs off to join the Union Army in the American Civil War. The trauma of battle and three years in a disease-ridden prisoner-of-war prison changes his perspective on life and family.

Con il suo caratteristico stile ironico e surreale, ricco di riferimenti colti e soluzioni linguistiche originali, Roberto Barbolini torna con una nuova raccolta di racconti che esplorano il tragicomico intreccio fra le "basse voglie" del corpo e il richiamo insopprimibile del sacro nell’epoca della sua impossibilità. 

È un mattino cristallino come tanti a Miden. Una ragazza bussa alla porta di una coppia con un'accusa di abuso sessuale. L'accusato è il suo ex professore di filosofia. La compagna del professore aspetta un figlio. Sono entrambi approdati a Miden da un paese straniero, sprofondato nel Crollo: una devastante crisi economica. Miden è la società ideale che li ha accolti, un nuovo Eden di eguaglianza e benessere, una piccola comunità laica e razionalista, tanto solidale quanto inflessibile. Il professore e la studentessa hanno avuto una storia in passato.

Luca Sabatini ritorna al paese natale in Abruzzo dopo quarant'anni di prigione: il vero colpevole del delitto ha confessato in punto di morte. L'intero borgo però non perdona a Luca quel presunto "peccato" che è stato foriero di rovina per tutti, né gli perdona di non aver tentato di difendersi. Uomo mite, Luca sopporta la solitudine sorretto dal segreto ricordo di un amore impossibile. Solo Andrea Cipriani, antifascista e capo partigiano appena tornato dall'esiilio, cerca di comprendere.

Die kunstvolle Lesung von Gudrun Landgrebe und Mario Schneider bringt uns die Figuren und Schauplätze nahe und lässt uns eintauchen in die Paradiese von gestern. Ihre Stimmen erzählen mit Leichtigkeit und Kraft von der Liebe, dem Tod und den Verlockungen unserer neuen Zeit. Ella und René sind jung und frisch verliebt. Sie kommen aus Ostdeutschland und verbringen, kaum dass die Mauer gefallen ist, ihren ersten gemeinsamen Urlaub in Südfrankreich. Dabei geraten sie auf das heruntergekommene Weinschloss der Madame de Violet. Als deren Sohn Alain auftaucht, ein aalglatter Geschäftsmann, stoßen drei Weltanschauungen aufeinander.

La narradora de esta historia es alguien que sabe escuchar, porque entiende que todo el mundo necesita ser escuchado, y esa virtud será fundamental en la situación que va a tener que afrontar. Y es que en el centro de esta novela hay dos amigas. Y una enfermedad. La narradora visita en el hospital a una amiga que padece un cáncer terminal y decide instalarse con ella en su casa para acompañarla en sus últimos días. Las dos conversan, ven películas, leen, recuerdan la infancia, ríen y hablan de sus complicadas y no siempre satisfactorias relaciones personales. 

O carte despre modul în care traumele din copilărie ajung să ne domine și să sufoce maturitatea. O poveste care probabil reprezintă realitatea multor familii de aici și de aiurea: amprenta lăsată asupra viitorului unui copil de un părinte autoritar, violent și incapabil să își depășească neputințele. O istorie a metamorfozei unei personalități abuzate de violență și frică, o privire emoționantă asupra maternității înăbușite de stereotipuri și a unei iubiri care putea să fie perfectă, dacă protagoniștii săi ar fi trăit prezentul (clipa).