Títulos em Ficção Literária

Paris, janvier 1907. Albert arpente frénétiquement les rues du 11e arrondissement. Marthe, la fillette de 12 ans qu'il accompagnait à un spectacle de music-hall à Ba-Ta-Clan, s'est volatilisée. Avec Marissi, la mère de l'enfant, il se rend au commissariat afin de signaler la disparition. Alors que les plus hautes instances de l'État envisagent l'abolition de la peine de mort, l'enquête sur la disparition de Marthe piétine et l'opinion publique gronde.

Ana et Auguste forment un couple parfait. Tout juste mariés, ils profitent du soleil balinais : Ana admire l'océan Indien tandis qu'Auguste peint. Soudain, tout s'effondre : un tremblement de terre survient et, dans la panique, Auguste court récupérer sa toile, lâchant la main d'Ana. Après le passage du tsunami, le jeune homme reste introuvable, et comme les autres disparus arrachés à la terre ferme, les autorités le déclarent bientôt décédé.

Joan Didion s'apprête à dîner avec son mari, l'écrivain John Gregory Dunne, quand ce dernier s'écroule, victime d'une crise cardiaque foudroyante. Pendant une année entière, elle essaie de se résigner à la mort de son compagnon et de s'occuper de leur fille, gravement malade. Dans un récit sobre et sans complaisance, l'auteur raconte la folie du deuil et disséque, entre sécheresse clinique et monologue intérieur, une expérience indicible – et sa rédemption par la littérature.

Jatgeir has come from Vaim to the big city, Bjørgvin, on his wooden boat, Eline, named after the long-lost love of his teenage years. He intends to buy a needle and thread to sew a button but he is cheated, twice. That night, while sleeping on his boat, he hears a familiar voice: unexpectedly, it is Eline, who wants to come home to Vaim with him. She leaves a note for her husband Frank, packs her bags and runs away while he is out fishing.

Eleonora of Somerset Hall: A Victorian Romance of Love, Betrayal, and Freedom In Victorian England, Lady Eleonora Somerset is trapped in a gilded cage where her beauty is a commodity and her future a transaction. But beneath her exquisite gowns beats a heart yearning for a fierce, untamed freedom. A loveless marriage teaches her that to survive, she must take control. Her rebellion begins with a stolen, forbidden book, awakening a desire that will change everything. Her quest for freedom leads her from a passionate affair with a charismatic officer to the ruthless salons of Paris.

Rosa sa di avere un vuoto nella memoria, un lungo intervallo di tempo che segna con una riga netta la fine della sua adolescenza: la ragazzina vitale, inquieta, fantasiosa è diventata una giovane diligente e fin troppo responsabile. Quei mesi – persi, cancellati – sono gli stessi in cui i genitori, spaventati dalla sua esuberanza e dai cattivi risultati a scuola, l'avevano ricoverata in una clinica del sonno, come usava negli anni settanta. Ora che Rosa è una donna matura, dopo anni trascorsi all'estero in missioni umanitarie, rientra in Italia.

Trash Can Terry is a period fiction book in the late 80s and early 90s. It is a story of a budding romance between Lucas and Autumn. As their love evolves, they receive wisdom and guidance from an unlikely person, a local homeless man called Trash Can Terry. Their empathy and genuine concern for Terry is pure.

Beloved New York Times bestselling author Lisa See draws on the vibrancy and turmoil of post-Civil War Los Angeles to tell the story of three Chinese women who managed to survive and, eventually, thrive, despite all odds. In 1870, three Chinese women arrive in the small, dusty, and violent...

Berl Pickett is living in the small town of Livingston, Montana. The son of Pentecostal rug-shampooers, Pickett has never been the social toast of the town, but when he is accused of negligent homicide in the death of his former lover, he finds himself ostracized by his colleagues and realizes just how small his little village truly is. But fortunately for Berl, the very thing that sets him apart—his inability to follow the pack—proves to be his saving grace. With this inglorious hero, McGuane has created an unforgettable voyager.

Christophe s'ennuyait tellement dans son travail qu'il décida de troquer son emploi de banquier pour celui d'architecte. À peine son cabinet ouvert, il se trouva très vite prisonnier de cette nouvelle ambition créative et s'enlisa peu à peu, sans que personne ne puisse rien faire pour l'arrêter.

George Lamming—one of the Caribbean’s most powerful literary voices—reimagines the age of European exploration to expose the deep scars of conquest, which Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, perennial contender for the Nobel Prize, calls “one of the great political novels in modern ‘colonial’...

Sandwich meets The Wedding People in this irresistible comedy of manners as three generations of a family—a snail scientist, a soon-to-be divorcee, her teenage daughter, a hapless conman, and their feckless patriarch—descend on a ritzy Lake Michigan vacation island When the Pickford siblings...

AN ASTONISHING LOVE STORY FROM JENNA BUSH HAGER’S NEW VENTURE, THOUSAND VOICES From the award-winning author of Songs in Ursa Major comes an epic, decade-spanning love story that blazes through the worlds of acting and comedy, and charts a connection so powerful it might just break space and...

An epic literary debut that follows one family across four centuries from France, to Acadia, to the bayous of Southern Louisiana—a poignant examination of belonging, place, and how individual, self-interested acts of moral compromise contribute to cycles of injustice and destruction. In...

'You walk and the harvest moon casts the clearest of shadows. You are nervous. With a moon like that, it is not a night for escaping. It is a night made better for hunting runaway girls.' Himalayas: Unknown Year 'Ten thousand strands of trouble', says Bird's father, watching as Bird's sister braids her hair. On the eve of her 14th year, that trouble finds Bird. Fleeing her home to escape an arranged marriage, she attempts to vanish into a crowd of pilgrims – not knowing that violence is circling, and that it already has its eyes on her.

Brought to you by Penguin. London, 1990. Zivoin is newly arrived in a strange country. The dependable oldest son, he works all hours of the day and night, sending every penny he can save back to his family. On the news, he watches his homeland, Yugoslavia, slowly fracturing. Thousands of miles...

La solitudine di Anna è una casa sempre aperta e piuttosto affollata. C'è la coinquilina Micol, vent'anni più giovane di lei, irresistibile, votata all'artificio, dotata di un'intelligenza da volpe e di una fiducia entusiasta nella monogamia. E poi gli amanti e le amanti, gli indispensabili amici, una specie di foresta che resiste a tutte le tempeste. Ma soprattutto i cani: la sua adorata Mina, sdegnosa e vibrante, sette cuccioli rosa, i cani incontrati per strada e nei parchi, e un certo Frodo, dallo sguardo troppo umano, che un giorno d'inverno si lancia da una terrazza. È un prodigio?

Un par un, des clients commencent à écrire dans ce journal leurs joies, leurs chagrins et leurs espoirs. Des voisins qui n'étaient autrefois que des visages anonymes choisissent de répondre et, peu à peu, de s'entraider. La laverie devient le lieu de rencontres précieuses qui vont bouleverser la vie de ceux qui en poussent la porte.

将軍の鷹狩りの下準備を担うお鳥見役の矢島家。あるじの伴之助と妻・珠世の周りにはうれしい知らせが続いていた。次女の初産、嫁の懐妊、幼いころから親しくしてきた石塚家長女の結婚＿＿。幾多の苦難とつらい別れを乗り越え、やっと訪れた穏やかな日々。だが「来るものは拒まず」が信条の珠世のもとには、又も次々と難題が降りかかり・・・・・。

Sie findet eine Stelle in einem Verlag, auch nicht schlecht, und München ist eine schöne Stadt, vor allem im Sommer. Im Vorzimmer des Verlegers sitzt Charlotte ganz nah am Zentrum der Macht. Dass der seine Assistentinnen oft auswechselt, kriegt sie schnell mit. Aber sie entwickelt ein gutes Verhältnis zu ihrem Chef, der ihre Stärken erkennt, ihr vertraut.