Títulos em Ficção Literária

One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years • A modern masterpiece about love and kinship, about living in an America birthed from slavery. Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison gives life to characters who struggle with what society tells them to be, and the love they...

Author of the National Book Award-winning All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy is one of the most provocative American stylists to emerge in the last century. The striking novel Blood Meridian offers an unflinching narrative of the brutality that accompanied the push west on the 1850s Texas frontier.

Iona, courrier du cœur dans un magazine féminin, n'aurait jamais songé à enfreindre la Règle no2 de l'Usager du Train de Banlieue (" ne jamais adresser la parole à son voisin ") si " Macho-Stylé de Surbiton " n'avait manqué de s'étouffer lors de leur trajet matinal. Cet évènement inattendu aura-t-il le pouvoir de changer la vie des passagers du train de 8h05 ?

Aidy's just punched a co-worker, but he hasn't got time to deal with the fallout. With a deadline fast looming, he must get home, knuckle down, and finish the story he's been working on, a story he hasn't been able to stop thinking about. Set across one weekend, About to Fall Apart is the exhilarating story of a man of mixed heritage - living on the Irish border - as he tries to stay positive, reconnect with his children, and maybe, even, find his own birth mother.

Eigentlich hat Evan Keogh alles. Als gefeierter Fußballprofi lebt er ein glanzvolles Leben in der Londoner High Society. Ein Leben, von dem viele träumen. Doch dann muss er sich vor Gericht in einem Missbrauchsskandal verantworten. Und der Prozess fördert in Evan zutage, was er am liebsten längst vergessen hätte: die eigene Vergangenheit. Er realisiert, dass er vor Jahren nicht nur vor der Enge seiner Heimatinsel geflohen ist, sondern vor sich selbst.

Mutter ist schon lange kinderlos und hat nun auch noch ihre Stimme verloren. Sie muss sich gänzlich neu erfinden, um wieder stark und laut zu werden. Erst ein Zahn-, dann ein Ortswechsel sind nötig, damit sie wieder Boden gewinnt und sich einrichten kann in ihrem Leben.

『この世界の片隅に』の作者、こうの史代の感動の名作コミック、ノベライズ版。『夕凪の街』昭和30年、広島に原爆が投下されてから10年。母・フジミと暮らす皆実は、会社の同僚男性・打越と親しくなる。

Pour Aurelia, une sorcière de 23 ans, il n’est pas facile de trouver un équilibre entre sa vie normale et sa vie magique. Elle vient d’être acceptée comme étudiante à l’université de Cambridge et espère pouvoir enfin y vivre normalement... À condition de respecter une règle : ne jamais révéler qu’elle est une sorcière. Mais le jour où une amie d’Aurelia est retrouvée avec une épée plantée dans le thorax, la jeune femme comprend qu’elle est en danger. Un redoutable ennemi chasse les sorcières pour s’emparer de leurs pouvoirs.

Elle est vive et franche, styliste célébrée, investie dans sa famille. Il est secret, caustique, célibataire et séduisant, chroniqueur de la vie artistique parisienne. A la faveur d’une interview, leur complicité est immédiate. Un deuxième rendez-vous, des coups de téléphone, bientôt Marianne et Cyril se parlent tous les jours. L’art, la littérature, leurs admirations, leurs inquiétudes, leurs enfances, leurs amours : la conversation est libre et intime.

After years of survival and devastating loss, the promise of a new settlement in North Dakota feels like salvation. A chance for my children to reclaim some semblance of normalcy, studying and making friends again, and for me to find new purpose, reporting on this strange new world we’re living in for a newspaper. I’m even forming new friendships as I grow closer to Jack Norman, the settlement’s deputy leader. But I can’t help feeling haunted by what—and who—we left behind.

From Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich, a captivating collection of short stories It was as though I was chosen—marked out by the python’s kiss for wisdom or maybe sorrow. Or perhaps, I think now, a sense of the ridiculous in extremes of experience. Also, I...

A companion to Ursula K. Le Guin's award-winning Hainish novels—including The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed—Five Ways to Forgiveness tells the story of the planet Werel and its colony planet Yeowe, and how their societies are shaped by the legacies of slavery and revolution.

On the occasion of his eightieth birthday, one of our great novelists delivers a playful and profound work about memory, love, and the writer's endgame. Shortly after our narrator, a writer named Julian, begins this compact book by discussing the workings of involuntary memory, he interrupts...

A full-frontal confrontation of the ways we perform desire and shame—from the downright bizarre to the frighteningly relatable—by the award-winning author of A Sharp Endless Need An employee at a hunting ground where people pay to act out hate crimes prepares to meet their girlfriend’s...

Souvenirs from Another Life, the first full-length collection of short fiction by Leah Browning, features an abundant selection of stories. Relationships are at the forefront: those between friends, siblings, partners, or parents and children, as well as the more tangential relationships between neighbors or coworkers.

A lonely young Brit working on a novel is charmed by his landlady and her bohemian lodgers. He rooms with an English runaway and want-to-be star, the delightfully decadent Sally Bowles, and holidays on the Baltic coast with a repressed Englishman and his swaggering German lover.

George is heartbroken after the death of his lover, Jim. A professor of English in sunny, suburban California, George grieves in solitude, surrounded by easy-going, uncomprehending youth. Beneath his British restraint, waves of sorrow and anger surge. He doggedly persists with the routines of his past life, heading out to work, to the gym, on again to dinner. From his solitude springs defiance; he will triumph over loneliness and alienation, he will find love again, he will feel joy.

From the highly acclaimed author of How Can I Help You, a New York Times Best Thriller of the Year: a singular take on the domestic suspense novel that follows a 1960s housewife turned amateur photographer who begins to fear for her life when she notices the dark silhouette of a man in the...

Marianna e Chiara crescono a pochi passi, nella Bari popolare degli anni Novanta, in due famiglie che sembrano agli antipodi - una ruvida e irrequieta, l'altra ordinata e colta, apparentemente perfetta - ma che si rivelano uguali nel modo in cui tradiscono, soffocano, feriscono. Tra le due ragazze nasce subito un legame assoluto, fatto di intesa e di coraggio, di un bisogno vitale di raccogliersi a vicenda.

In this “vivid and immersive” (Liz Moore) debut, Eli Raphael conjures the windswept coast of Washington State and a boarding school steeped in privilege and deadly secrets—a remarkable story of grief, power, and the dangerous price of belonging. It is true that I wished him dead dozens of...