Títulos em Literatura Mundial

Juan Buganvilla emerge como un símbolo de la lucha, la dignidad y la resistencia. A través de su vida, marcada por el amor, el desarraigo y el sacrificio, Juan Buganvilla se convierte en una figura emblemática de aquellos que, aun en tiempos de odio y represión, se aferran a su inocencia y sus ideales. Con una prosa poética y evocadora, Emilio González Déniz nos transporta a la España del siglo XX, donde la historia de Buganvilla se entrelaza con los destinos de una nación fracturada.

Лесник Василий Весёлкин, получает важное правительственное задание - найти древесину для авиационной фанеры. Вспомнив, что еще в детстве он слышал рассказ о некой заповедной Корабельной чаще, которую не рубят, а берегут как святыню: «в этой сосновой чаще все деревья ровные и высокие, а стоят они так часто, что, если даже дерево срубить, оно не падает, а остаётся стоять меж других, как живое». Веселкин решает отыскать это уникальное место, чтобы использовать древесину вековых сосен для нужд советской авиации.

Kimiko Halim thinks happy endings only exist in fairy tales. But her late grandmother’s will specifies settling down as a condition to inherit her yarn store, and the family’s legacy is the only thing that matters. Kim’s plan is simple: find a guy, date him until the store is hers, then gently uncouple from the poor, unsuspecting victim. But the clock is ticking, and her dates have been more frogs than princes. When Rob Carmichael, a perpetual groomsman and self-proclaimed proponent of happily-ever-afters, overhears Kim’s cynical view of love, he’s baffled.

À Paris, entre coulisses et salons, une courtisane en vogue règne sous un parfum de camélias. Quand un jeune homme sincère franchit le miroir de ce monde brillant, s’ouvre une passion qui bouscule l’étiquette, l’argent et la réputation. Chuchotements de théâtre, soupers tardifs, lettres brûlantes: un amour naît à contretemps, hanté par la morale d’une société qui ne pardonne rien. Dans un récit confié par un témoin privilégié, se dessinent le prix du désir, la dignité et la tentation d’un autre destin.

Meet Detective Inspector Zoe Finch. She's ambitious, determined, and damaged. And she's about to uncover evidence that could make her career... or get her sacked.

Saeed Teebi’s intense, engrossing stories plunge into the lives of characters grappling with their experiences as Palestinian immigrants to Canada. A doctor teaches his girlfriend about his country, only for her to fall into a consuming obsession with the Middle East conflict. A math professor risks his family’s destruction by slandering the king of a despotic, oil-rich country. A university student invents an imaginary girlfriend to fit in with his callous, womanizing roommates. A lawyer takes on the impossible mission of becoming a body smuggler.

العشاق الثلاثة لزكي مبارك هو رحلة أدبية تأخذنا إلى عوالم الحب العذري النقي، من خلال قصص ثلاثة من رموز العشق العربي: جميل بن معمر، وكُثيّر بن عبد الرحمن، والعباس بن الأحنف. يقدم زكي مبارك سردًا ساحرًا لحياة هؤلاء الشعراء، كاشفًا عن تجاربهم العاطفية التي نبضت بنقاء الحب وسموه. في هذا الكتاب، يغوص مبارك في أشعارهم، محللًا كيف جسدت كلماتهم أسمى معاني الحب بعيدًا عن نزعات المادة، لتتحول قصائدهم إلى رموز خالدة للعشق الصادق. العشاق الثلاثة ليس مجرد دراسة عن الحب، بل هو لوحة أدبية تعكس رهافة المشاعر العربية وتدعو القارئ للتأمل في جماليات الشعر العذري وألقه.[]p

In Liliana Colanzi’s singular collection of short stories, set in a Latin America at once real and otherworldly, human vice contaminates every second. Amid eerie near-future landscapes, in communities both ordinary and uncanny, and during the very real fallout of a nuclear disaster, Colanzi’s characters must contend with a poisoned legacy.

Alma Alt, the sheltered youngest daughter of an interfaith, interracial Jewish-Mexican couple, rarely ventures far from her home on a wealthy tree-lined street in Ottawa, where nothing ever happens. The one time she did, striking out to visit her older sister, Marnie, in Montreal, things ended in disaster as she found out that beautiful, blonde Marnie had been lying about their family’s background, trying to pass herself off as white. The unintended fallout from that betrayal leads to a devastating accident, one that claims Alma’s arm and someone’s life.

Jérôme et Alissa, cousins et adolescents, s'aiment d'un amour platonique. Ils se retrouvent régulièrement pendant leurs vacances dans une maison familiale, en Normandie. Le reste de l'année ils entretiennent leur amour par des échanges épistolaires compliqués. Jérôme et Alissa vivent un amour fait d’élan pur et de don mystique où le rêve et l’exaltation sont omniprésents. Cette relation s’épanouit dans une ferveur religieuse partagée. De fiançailles, il est question à plusieurs reprises sans jamais les concrétiser.

In seven and a half interlinked stories, Aaron Kreuter’s Rubble Children tackles Jewish belonging, settler colonialism, Zionism and anti-Zionism, love requited and unrequited, and cannabis culture, all drenched in suburban wonder and dread. Sometimes realist, sometimes not, the book revolves around Kol B'Seder, a fictional Reform synagogue in the Toronto suburb of Thornhill.

Jazz band na sala da gente é a história romanceada do avô judeu de Alexandre, Eduardinho Staut, que nos anos 30 e 40, foi músico da pequena orquestra do interior de São Paulo "Pinhal Jazz", assim como dono da funerária da cidade de Pinhal. Texto de orelha de Ronaldo Cagiano: "A obra de estreia de Alexandre Staut, tem uma linearidade, tanto da temática da narrativa quanto da linguagem, essa fluente e diáfana.

A moonshining hermit. A reluctant pilot. A $5 million plunder. Owen discovers a murdered corpse at a college-run archaeological dig in the Utah outback but when he and a Park Service pilot try to reach the sheriff for help, their plane is shot from the sky. Owen must ditch the aircraft in the Colorado River, where he is saved by a gin-brewing recluse named Relic.

More than forty million Americans claim Irish ancestry. This lively illustrated book, divided into parts exploring myths, legends, and folktales, explains for the U.S. audience the importance of storytelling in Irish culture in particular. In ancient Ireland, a good storyteller was so valued that he would be a member of the aos dána, the bards, and would be welcomed into every village because he came bearing tales.

The second and concluding volume of Noël Coward's legendary autobiography includes Future Indefinite and the unfinished Past Unconditional. With his trademark wit, Coward delivers anecdotes about his travels in South America, Hollywood encounters with an array of contemporary stars and directors, and his later theatrical successes, including the Broadway triumph of Design For Living.

From one of Spain’s most widely read and acclaimed authors, My Clavicle: And Other Massive Misalignments is a provocative and vulnerable semi-autobiographical novel rendering a memorable portrait of pain, health anxiety, and menopause.

Max Kitson is a world-renowned pianist, and his twin sister, Natasha, is his manager and minder. But when, in 1957, at age 20, the former prodigy begins making uncharacteristic mistakes, he abruptly cancels his latest world tour. Without consulting Natasha, Max arranges to stay in the home of an enigmatic French patron, never realizing that Henri has been his sister’s lover.

Gilmer Mesa es el gran descubrimiento de la literatura colombiana de los últimos años. Tiene un estilo propio, una prosa desgarradora y rebelde que logra darle encanto a la tristeza, el abandono y la injusticia que son los espantos trágicos de los colombianos. Esta novela narra el germen doloroso de la identidad de nuestro país: los desaparecidos, los olvidados y el amor iracundo que los impulsa a sobrevivir.

The Death Ship tells the story of an American sailor, stateless and penniless because he has lost his passport, who is harassed by police and hounded across Europe until he finds an "illegal" job shoveling coal in the hold of a steamer bound for destruction.

Set in Seoul in 2008, Tailbone follows the story of an unnamed teenage girl who, after years of struggling with her alcoholic father’s abuse, and what she sees as her mother’s cowardice, decides to run away. At a boarding house for single women, the narrator is pulled into the orbit of one of the other girls living there: an older girl named Juju, whose beauty and hardscrabble determination greatly impress the narrator.