Literary Fiction

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

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....

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....

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

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....

Nel and Sula's devotion is fierce enough to withstand bullies and the burden of a dreadful secret. It endures even after Nel has grown up to be a pillar of the black community and Sula has become a pariah....

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

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

Benedict Cumberbatch reads the enduring classic of Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis. Gregor Samsa wakes to discover that he has turned into a large, monstrous insect-like creature....

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....

The fifth volume in CSA Word's massively popular complete and unabridged ‘Short Stories’ collection is bound to please....

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

After 18 years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the ageing Dr Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England....

It was The Magic Mountain (Der Zauberberg) that confirmed Thomas Mann as a Nobel prizewinner for literature and rightly so, for it is undoubtedly one of the great novels of the 20th century....

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

The Mountains Sing tells an enveloping, multigenerational tale of the Trần family, set against the backdrop of the Việt Nam War....

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....

This is a story of Nandini and Bhaskar, a prosperous middle aged couple leading a good, meaningful and successful life....

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

As best-selling author Anand Neelakantan peels back the layers of Valmiki’s timeless saga, stories of ambition, love, devotion and courage shine through, inviting listeners to look at the women anew....

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....

Gondolin, beautiful but undiscoverable, is central to the enmity of two of the greatest powers in the world....

On a rainy day, a rich young man picks up a hapless college girl in his car, seduces her and drops her in her street. On realising her daughter's plight, the girl's mother pours a bucketful of water on her head, saying that she has been purified by this act....

Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of 20th-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future, narrated here by Academy Award-winning actor Tim Robbins....

Una maravillosa muestra del talento narrativo de Murakami que nos abre las puertas a otras realidades y nos lleva de la mano a mundos fantásticos. Un hombre que se obsesiona con la insólita y misteriosa desaparición del elefante de un zoo, un abogado en paro que recibe el encargo de su mujer de encontrar a su gato, una pareja de recién casados que deciden atracar un MacDonald's en plena noche, una curiosa digresión sobre los canguros, un enano diabólico que baila, un joven empeñado en burlarse de su futuro cuñado, un pirómano confeso.

Ecrite avec la sensibilité et l'émotion caractéristiques de l'œuvre de Zweig, Lettre d'une inconnue explore les thèmes de l'amour, de la passion et de l'obsession. Elle interroge aussi la nature humaine à travers l'histoire poignante de cette femme obsédée par un homme qui ne l'a pourtant jamais remarquée.

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.

Ottobre 1945. L'anno scolastico inizia in ritardo. È il primo dell'Italia liberata e non è semplice ripartire dalle macerie. La maestra Gilla guarda con angoscia quei muri che fino a poche settimane prima alloggiavano nazisti. È arrivata a Borgo di Dentro per sfuggire alle bombe che martoriavano la sua Genova, e come tanti giovani ha combattuto e ha rischiato la vita, scommettendo sulla costruzione di un futuro migliore che altri compagni non vedranno.

Ein irisches Dorf auf dem Land. Geschichten aus einer unbeschwerten Zeit. Das perfekte Hörbuch für alle, die dem Alltag entfliehen wollen... Endlich ist Barry Laverty fertig mit seinem Medizinstudium. Voller Elan tritt der frischgebackene Arzt seine erste Stelle an. Doch Ballybucklebo ist nicht Belfast, die Uhren ticken etwas anders in dem abgeschiedenen Dorf in Nordirland. Und auch an seinen neuen Chef muss Barry sich erst gewöhnen. Dr. O'Reillys oberste Regel: sich niemals von einem Patienten etwas sagen lassen! Statt Schmerztabletten verordnet er lieber Vitaminpillen.

In a rented room outside Plymouth in 1685, a daughter is born as her half-brother is dying. Her mother makes a decision: Mary will become Mark, and Ma will continue to collect his inheritance money. Mary’s dual existence as Mark will lead to a role as a footman in a grand house, serving a French mistress; to the navy, learning who to trust and how to navigate by the stars; and to the army and the battlegrounds of Flanders, finding love among the bloodshed and the mud. But none of this will stop Mary yearning for the sea.

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。

Un insegnante d’arte quasi quarantenne riceve una telefonata a tarda sera: l’ospite d’onore del convegno che ha organizzato il suo istituto ha perso il volo, e toccherà a lui sostituirlo la mattina dopo.

It is 1938 and for Manod, a young woman living on a remote island off the coast of Wales, the world looks ready to end just as she is trying to imagine a future for herself. The ominous appearance of a beached whale on the island's shore, and rumours of submarines circling beneath the waves, have villagers steeling themselves for what’s to come. Empty houses remind them of the men taken by the Great War, and of the difficulty of building a life in the island's harsh, salt-stung landscape.

【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。

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.

La suite des aventures hors normes de Noam, un héros puissant et inoubliable, au cœur de ce que l’humanité a de plus beau à offrir.

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.