Showing titles in World Literature

The international bestseller. A masterful tale of doppelgängers, betrayal and uncovering who you are. 'A mind bending thriller about personhood, homeland nostalgia, global migration, and all forms of alienation' – R. F. Kuang, author of Yellowface and Katabasis 'Brilliantly realised...

Gracie Davies is at an all-time low. After a devastating loss, the last thing she needs is a colleague hinting over coffee that it’s time to lose her baby weight. Then her boyfriend betrays her, and her world totally falls apart. Rebuilding her life from scratch–with the support of her free-spirited sister, an unorthodox therapist, and a feisty new friend–Gracie finally begins to get her mojo back. Add in a passionate fling with handsome landscaper Ed, a fairytale encounter with a Hollywood film star and the persistence of her adulterous ex, and life is anything but predictable…

Situated in a rapidly gentrifying district of Seoul, Yeonnam-Dong's Smiley Laundromat is a place where the extraordinary stories of ordinary residents unfold. Furnished with a coffee machine, a full bookshelf, and warm lighting, it is a haven from the world for many locals. And when a notebook is left behind there, it becomes a place that brings people together. One by one, customers start jotting down candid diary entries, opening their hearts and inviting acts of kindness from neighbours who were once just faces in the crowd. But there is a darker story behind the notebook...

Three generations of Palestinian-American women living in Brooklyn are torn between individual desire and the strict mores of Arab culture in this heart-wrenching story of love, intrigue and courage. Set in an America at once foreign to many and staggeringly close at hand, A Woman Is No Man is a story of culture and honour, secrets and betrayals, love and violence. It is an intimate glimpse into a controlling and closed cultural world and a universal tale about family and the ways silence and shame can destroy those we have sworn to protect. 

It begins with a message: a telephone call informing Krishan that his grandmother's former care-giver, Rani, has died in unexpected circumstances, at the bottom of a well in her village in the north, her neck broken by the fall. The news arrives on the heels of an email from Anjum, an activist...

Brought to you by Penguin. You always told me that writing is life itself. After many years abroad, Hatoko reluctantly returns to Kamakura to take over the stationery store left to her by her late grandmother. As the custodian of the store, she also inherits the profession of public scribe, a...

Considered by Rumi to be "the master" of Sufi mystic poetry, Attar is best known for this epic poem, a magnificent allegorical tale about the soul's search for meaning. He recounts the perilous journey of the world's birds to the faraway peaks of Mount Qaf in search of the mysterious Simorgh, their king. Attar's beguiling anecdotes and humor intermingle the sublime with the mundane, the spiritual with the worldly, while his poem models the soul's escape from the mind's rational embrace.

Three timeless short stories by Munshi Premchand, the master of Hindi storytelling, brought to life in one warm, heartfelt narration. Meet an old woman’s quiet longing in Boodhi Kaaki, a moment of tender humanity in Jhaanki, and the quiet questions of courage in Kaayar. Premchand’s gift for...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. A man lies awake remembering. Then, decades later, he tastes a madeleine dipped in tea and the whole vanished world of his childhood at Combray rises up complete — the garden, the church steeple, the two walks, the agony of waiting for his mother's...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. At a small pension on the Riviera, ten years before the war, the guests are scandalised: Madame Henriette, a respectable married woman, has run off with a young Frenchman she met only the day before. Around the dinner table the argument turns ugly, and...

Between the years 3000 BCE and 1500 AD many Ethiopians and Yemenites settled in West Africa. The relationship of these distant regions was remote but powerful. For this reason, Ethiopian traditions, customs, and culture, are still prevalent in West Africa today, even sharing a belief that they...

Lover's Dream is a Story about Purpose, a lovely woman. Who loves her urban novels, she really loves her book crush Kazama. Purpose is currently is a bad relationship with a lover who keeps cheating on her. One day she meets a man who looks exactly like her book crush and his name is Kazama. But...

Предисловие к новелле «Одиночество». Как можно прожить много лет вместе? Меня часто об этом спрашивают. Раньше я думала, что секрет в любви. Потом поняла — нет...

Human civilization has come of age. Today, we enjoy unprecedented comfort and convenience compared to our predecessors a couple of centuries ago. Yet, human relationship, like animals in the wild, has largely remained primordial in nature. Regardless of the narratives and justifications, brutal...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Your company hits a problem nobody can solve. Then someone without a title says, "Let me try." What do you do? Eighteen hundred years ago, an alliance of powerful lords faced that choice. An enemy warrior named Hua Xiong had cut down general after...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Summary When Charlotte Hargreaves inherits her uncle’s hotel in the Pennine town of Drayton Top, she intends to sell it and return to Birmingham. Instead, she finds herself drawn into the life of the town, reopening the hotel and uncovering secrets...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Bernard Profitendieu, enfant de bonne famille, découvre qu'il est le fruit d'une rencontre sans grand lendemain, et que l'homme qu'il a toujours considéré son père de sang ne l'est pas. Mu par la tristesse et déçu par le mensonge, il écrit une...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In this book of poetry, you’ll get a glimpse into the author’s mind and his dreams of a better world. With bloody fingers, he points to the issues he feels are too often ignored and speaks directly to those in power. With a brave voice, he offers...

Il codice Invisibile. di Roberto Remondi Esiste un limite oltre il quale il linguaggio si arrende. Per tutta la vita un programmatore ha inseguito la perfezione: eliminare una riga dopo l'altra, comprimere algoritmi sempre più complessi fino a ridurli alla loro essenza. Ma ogni conquista gli...

El murmullo de las abejas llega ahora como una audioserie narrada con más de 70 voces (incluidas las de Sofía Segovia y su nieta Elena), un diseño sonoro monumental y música original que dan vida a una versión fresca, innovadora e inmersiva, que le una voltereta a la entrañable novela de Sofía Segovia.