Literary Fiction

Combining magic, wisdom, and wonder into an inspiring tale of discovery, this is a modern classic narrated by the inimitable Jeremy Irons.

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

Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water is set in Kerala, on South India’s Malabar Coast, and follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning—and in Kerala, water is everywhere....

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

The Fountainhead studies the conflict between artistic genius and social convention, a theme Ayn Rand later developed into the idealistic philosophy knows as Objectivism....

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....

A full-cast BBC Radio dramatisation of Arundhati Roy's Booker Prize-winning novel—plus bonus interview with the author....

The Mahabharata endures as the great epic of India. But while Jaya is the story of the Pandavas, told from the perspective of the victors of Kurukshetra, Ajaya is the narrative of the ‘unconquerable’ Kauravas, who were decimated to the last man....

Kitne Pakistan? is a 2000 Hindi novel by Kamleshwar, a noted 20th-century Hindi writer. A pioneer of the Nayi Kahani (New Story) movement of the 1950s, and later a screenwriter for Hindi cinema, Kamleshwar’s novel deals with a vast expanse of human history....

Piranesi lives in the House. Perhaps he always has....

Beneath the streets of London there is another London. A subterranean labyrinth of sewers and abandoned tube stations. A somewhere that is Neverwhere....

Lata Mehra, a university student, is under pressure from her mother to get married - but not to just anyone she happens to fall in love with....

The Picture of Dorian Gray is the story of a man who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for eternal youth....

Collected here for the first time are the stories and speeches of David Foster Wallace as read by the author himself....

Saleem Sinai is born on the stroke of midnight on 14th-15th August 1947, at the exact moment that India and Pakistan become separate, independent nations....

Dorothea Brooke is an ardent idealist who represses her vivacity and intelligence for the cold, theological pedant Casaubon....

On the surface, this is a biography of an accomplished seeker who mastered the practices of yoga and brought a system for understanding the mysteries of body, mind, and spirit to students in the West....

A man returns to the town where a baffling murder took place 27 years earlier, determined to get to the bottom of the story....

One day 14-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond her home....

Written initially in French, later translated by the author into English, Molloy is the first book in Dublin-born Samuel Beckett's trilogy....

When Anju invites Sudha, a single mother in Calcutta, to come live with her and her husband, Sunil, in California, Sudha foolishly accepts, knowing full well that Sunil has long desired her....

Victor Hugo's tale of injustice, heroism and love follows the fortunes of Jean Valjean, an escaped convict determined to put his criminal past behind him....

Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened....

On the eve of his marriage to the beautiful Mercedes, having that very day been made captain of his ship, the young sailor Edmond Dantès is arrested on a charge of treason....

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

Ирландская писательница и журналистка Мейв Бинчи (1940–2012) хорошо известна не только на своей родине, но и во всем мире. Перу Бинчи, помимо рассказов, принадлежит 16 романов, ее книги неизменно становились бестселлерами и не раз получали престижные международные премии. В 1970-х годах Бинчи опубликовала три сборника рассказов, и довольно успешно, но настоящая слава пришла к ней после выхода первого романа Зажги свечу (1982).

将軍の鷹狩りの下準備をするお鳥見役には、幕府の密偵と言う裏の役割があった。江戸郊外、雑司ヶ谷の組屋敷で暮らす矢島家は、当主が任務のため旅たち、留守宅を女房珠世が切り盛りしている。

【原作　太宰治】戦後の無頼派作家。代表作に「走れメロス」「津軽」「お伽草子」「人間失格」などがある。

Raggiunta ormai l'età della pensione, Nathan Glass ritorna a Brooklyn, la città dov'è nato e che ha lasciato quasi sessant'anni prima. Ha un solo e preciso desiderio, quello di cercare un buon posto per morire. Ma il caso ha deciso per lui diversamente. Gli amori infelici del nipote Tom, le avventure del libraio-falsario Harry Brightman, l'apparizione improvvisa della piccola Lucy, che rifiuta di svelare dove si trova sua madre, sorella di Tom.

El protagonista de esta novela es uno de los personajes más memorables de la literatura norteamericana: Ignatius Reilly –una mezcla de Oliver Hardy delirante, Don Quijote adiposo y Tomás de Aquino perverso, reunidos en una persona–, que a los treinta años aún vive con su estrafalaria madre, ocupado en escribir una extensa y demoledora denuncia contra nuestro siglo, tan carente de «teología y geometría» como de "decencia y buen gusto"; un alegato desquiciado contra una sociedad desquiciada.

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.

Rings um die Hacienda Rosa Blanca von Hacinto Yañez in Mexiko wird nach Öl gebohrt, was aber die Farm, die ganz im Einklang mit der Natur bewirtschaftet wird, bisher wenig beeinträchtigt hat. Ihre Bewohner führen ein gutes und bescheidenes Leben, die Farm ist ihnen Heimat und Leben. Doch alles ändert sich, als ihr Besitzer ermordet wird und sich Chaney C. Collins, Präsident der Condor Oil Company, die Farm widerrechtlich aneignet, denn die Ölgesellschaft ist eine Firma mit gewaltigem Appetit.

Die wilde Schönheit der Nordseeküste, ein geheimnisvolles Schiffswrack und zwei Frauen, verbunden durch das Meer. St. Peter, 1955: Tillas Welt ist das Meer. Sie will nicht heiraten, sondern tauchen. Nicht eingeengt werden, sondern die Freiheit der Wellen spüren. Dabei entdeckt sie in der Tiefe der Nordsee ein altes Schiffswrack, von dem sich die Fischer seit Generationen Legenden erzählen. In Tilla wächst der unbändige Wunsch, seine Geheimnisse zu lüften. Auf einer Nordseeinsel, 1633: Die junge Nes sucht mit ihrer Mutter in einem Beginenkonvent Zuflucht vor ihrer Vergangenheit.

Helena will ein letztes Mal ihren Vater besuchen und findet in Netes Hotel mehr als nur eine neue Aufgabe. Gedske droht durch den Verlust ihrer Tochter auseinanderzufallen und entdeckt auf einer Reise eine ungeahnte Kraft. Therese befreit gegenüber einer Pfarrerin ihre Liebe zu Aron, und Caroline erkämpft sich nach dem Unfall ihres Manns die zu sich selbst... In diesen Erzählungen überfällt die Klarheit die Figuren mitunter oder reißt Gewissheiten ein, aber sie öffnet stets neue Wege.

Lorenzo è un ragazzo di ventinove anni, come tanti altri della sua generazione condannato a un perenne senso di inadeguatezza e instabilità, uniche costanti dei suoi giorni. Dopo l'università si barcamena fra lavoretti in nero e una lunga teoria di giornate vuote passate insieme ai suoi compagni votati a passatempi autodistruttivi. Pervaso da un profondo senso di abbandono dopo la fine della sua relazione con Margherita, Lorenzo si fa convincere da Franz, l'amico di sempre, a partecipare a un viaggio organizzato per persone che vogliono ritrovare se stesse.

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.

La obra más exitosa de Haruki Murakami. Un conmovedora historia sobre la juventud, los primeros amores y el dolor que implica el paso a la madurez. Mientras aterriza en un aeropuerto europeo, Toru Watanabe, un ejecutivo de 37 años, escucha una vieja canción de los Beatles que le hace retroceder a su juventud, al turbulento Tokio de los años sesenta. Con una mezcla de melancolía y desasosiego, Toru recuerda entonces a la inestable y misteriosa Naoko, la novia de su mejor y único amigo de la adolescencia, Kizuki.

In this immersive novel, Zuravleff weaves Russian fairy tales and fables into a family saga within the storied American landscape. The challenges facing immigrants-and the fragility of citizenship-are just as unsettling and surprising today as they were 100 years ago.

In the rural South, a retired colonel in an upscale retirement community grieves the sudden death of his wife on the tennis court. On the other side of the highway, an elderly Black woman grieves the murder of her niece by a white man. Between them lies an abandoned field where three centuries of crimes are hidden, and only she knows the explosive secrets buried there. When the colonel runs into her car, causing a surprising amount of damage, it sparks a feud that sets loose the spirits in the Field, both benevolent and vengeful.

Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has come to so dominate our lives; about how our desire for entertainment affects our need to connect with other people; and about what the pleasures we choose say about who we are.