Títulos em Ficção Literária

In this charming patchwork of fever dreams and memories, Pirkko Saisio transports us to the 1950s Finland of her youth, where she navigates life as an only child of communist parents. Convinced she will grow up to become a man, a young Pirkko keeps trying and failing to meet the expectations of the adults around her. But as she discovers that she can be the narrator of her own story, it is in language that she finds a refuge and a way to be seen at last.

Quand on a vingt ans et des poussières, comment concilier l'amour fou, l'impasse des rêves et les conséquences d'un meurtre ? Du grand Cauwelaert : retour sur l'itinéraire d'un écrivain pas comme les autres.

Laura ha da poco compiuto diciotto anni, ha capelli neri e lunghi e grandi occhi a mandorla. È inquieta e bellissima, e sogna una vita oltre la linea dell'autostrada, magari in un piccolo appartamento nel centro di una grande città. Romina, due anni più piccola, la ammira e la imita, sogna insieme a lei. Entrambe vivono in un luogo in cui il tempo sembra fermarsi e dove il dolore e gli sguardi della gente scavano solchi profondi come l'aratro nella terra. Lo sa bene la loro madre, la signora Nives, che ha sempre vissuto ascoltando il ritmo delle stagioni e il respiro della campagna.

In the summer of 2020, as Germany slowly emerges from lockdown, a young Japanese woman studying in Göttingen waits at the train station to meet an old friend. Nomiya died a decade earlier in the Tōhoku tsunami, but he has suddenly returned without any explanation. The reunited friends share a past that's a world away from the tranquillity of Göttingen. Yet Nomiya's spectral presence destabilises something in the city...

Twenty-two of Greene's very best stories are collected here, each of them bearing the hallmark themes that characterise his great novels: innocence and vengeance, love and hate, pity and violence. Writer and Greene aficionado, Yiyun Li, has arranged the stories into pairs, to be read together in contrast or in harmony – as a duel or a duet.

17歳の少女が自ら警察に保護を求めてきた。その背景を探る刑事に鑑識から報告が入る。少女が生活していたマンションの浴室から、大量の血痕が見つかったのだった。やがて、同じ部屋で暮らしていた女も警察に保護される。

Bonita è una giovane studentessa di Delhi in viaggio in Messico per imparare lo spagnolo. Seduta su una panchina del Jardín di San Miguel de Allende, all'ombra della maestosa cattedrale, si gode l'estraneità di un luogo mai visitato. Non conosce nessuno lì, e nessuno la conosce. Eppure un'anziana donna in abiti tradizionali, loquace ed eccentrica, l'avvicina con accalorata familiarità, affermando di rivedere in lei la figlia della sua cara amica, Rosarita, conosciuta proprio lì tanti anni prima, quando Rosarita era arrivata dall'India, come ora sua figlia, per seguire la sua vocazione di pittrice.

1796. Cora, an orphan newly arrived from Jamaica, has never felt cold like this. In the depths of winter, everyone in her community huddles together in their homes to keep warm. So when she sees a shadow slipping through the trees, Cora thinks her eyes are deceiving her. Until she creeps out into the moonlight and finds the tracks in the snow. Agnes is in hiding. On the run from her former life, she has learned what it takes to survive alone in the wilderness. But she can afford no mistakes.

Elly does not believe God loves her. It’s what she was once told. So, she decides, one morning over a bowl of celery, that she must find another one that does. From Essex and Cornwall to the streets of New York, spanning the decades from 1968 to the events of 9/11, we follow Elly’s gradual loss of innocence through the evolving secrets she shares with her lifelong confidante, her brother Joe, and her increasing concern for an unusual best friend, Jenny Penny, who bears secrets of her own.

In California’s central valley, five women and one man join to discuss Jane Austen’s novels. Over the six months they get together, marriages are tested, affairs begin, unsuitable arrangements become suitable, and love happens. With her eye for the frailties of human behavior and her ear for the absurdities of social intercourse, Karen Joy Fowler has never been wittier nor her characters more appealing. The result is a delicious dissection of modern relationships.

Als es kurz vor Weihnachten bei Annett an der Tür klingelt und jemand einen älteren Mann bei ihr abgeben will, ist sie vollkommen überrumpelt. Obwohl sie dem Herrn noch nie begegnet ist, soll sie ihn bei sich aufnehmen. So steht es in der Eilverordnung der Regierung. Die Altenpflege streikt, alle Seniorenheime müssen geschlossen werden. Auch wenn Annett eigentlich helfen möchte, überfordert der neue Mitbewohner die Familie schnell und es ist klar: Er kann nicht bleiben. Aber wohin mit ihm? Plötzlich scheint eine Lösung in Sicht: Annett erfährt, dass ihr 93-jähriger Gast einen Sohn hat.

８つの物語の「軌跡」を奇跡の構成力で描き切った、『同志少女よ、敵を撃て』を超える最高傑作。底が抜けた社会の地獄で、あなたの夢は何ですか？

Es gibt keinen Weg, der nicht irgendwann nach Hause führt Am Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs wird mitten in Deutschland ein kleiner Junge gefunden, der nichts über sich selbst und seine Herkunft weiß. Sein Alter wird geschätzt, er bekommt den Namen Hartmut und wächst in einem katholischen Kinderheim auf, in dem viel Ordnung und noch mehr Zucht herrscht. Dort lernt er die etwas ältere Kriegswaise Margret kennen, die ihn schon im Heim zu beschützen versucht. Die beiden werden zu einer unverzichtbaren Stütze füreinander und beschließen, sich nie wieder loszulassen.

In a town full of suffering poor people, a swallow who was left behind after his flock flew off to Egypt for the winter meets the statue of the late "Happy Prince", who has never experienced true sorrow, for he lived in a palace where sorrow was not allowed to enter. Viewing various scenes of people suffering in poverty from his tall monument, the Happy Prince asks the swallow to take the ruby from his hilt, the sapphires from his eyes, and the gold leaf covering his body to give to the poor.

Once upon a time, there was a kind and honest man named Hans. He lived alone in a tiny cottage. Hans was a little man who owned a beautiful garden, where he grew flowers of all kinds and colours which were sold in the market to make some money. He enjoyed the company of another man called Hugh, a miller who used to visit Hans very often during the summer time and with whom he shared thoughts about friendship and loyalty. Hans was so devoted to Hugh that he even gifted him whole bunches of flowers from his own garden.

The Cabman's Story (sub-titled The Mysteries of a London "Growler") is a short story written by Arthur Conan Doyle first published anonymously in the Cassell's Saturday Journal on 17 May 1884. A cabman tells one of his clients three stories he experienced. The first one is about a dead passenger, the second about a passenger with a mysterious box, and the last one tells the story of a passenger who is a terrorist.

Eigentlich haben Ben und Esther alles, was sie brauchen: eine lebendige Beziehung zu Jesus Christus und wichtige Funktionen in ihrer Gemeinde – dem göttlich funkelnden Safespace, in dem der Pastor teure Sneaker trägt, seine Frau Highlights aus der Predigt auf Instagram teilt und Gott uns so sehr liebt, dass er seinen einzigen Sohn hingab, und so weiter. Doch Ben hat ein Problem, das zwischen ihm und seinem göttlichen Vater steht. Niemand weiß davon, nicht mal seine Schwester Esther. Je verzweifelter er sich aus den Fängen der Sünde befreien will, desto mehr tyrannisiert sie sein Leben.

Victoire et Jérôme mènent une existence heureuse. Ensemble depuis dix ans, ils s'apprêtent à se marier aux Ormes, une élégante maison de famille en Touraine. Mais à un mois de l'événement, en pleine nuit, Jérôme percute une silhouette au bord de la route. Une seconde d'inattention qui pourrait bouleverser des vies entières. Peut-on tout pardonner à ceux qu'on aime ? Quelles sont les erreurs qui changent une trajectoire ?

Une première œuvre lumineuse sur la recherche de vérité, les souvenirs et la fragilité des évidences. Anna Zeller a été tirée au sort pour devenir jurée aux assises. Une expérience aussi vertigineuse qu'inédite. Appelée à juger un couple au casier vierge dans un procès pour empoisonnement et meurtre, la jeune femme va voir resurgir son passé. Un passé qui la transporte vingt ans plus tôt, sur une aire de jeux en Bretagne. Le jour où Anna Boulanger est devenue Anna Zeller. Les jurés ont une semaine pour décider du destin des accusés et s'emparer de leur troublante histoire.

During her lifetime, Irish American writer Mary Lavin was a prominent literary figure. Throughout the 1940s, ’50s, and ’60s, her stories were frequently featured in The New Yorker, compared to the works of Chekhov, James, and Wharton, and celebrated in major publications, ranging from The New York Times to The Irish Times. Lavin won prestigious awards, such as the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Katherine Mansfield Prize, and her influence extends to many of today’s great fiction writers.