Contemporary fiction genre books (552)
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Pizza Girl : A Novel by Jean Kyoung Frazier EN
Country: Asia / 
South Korea
South Korea
Description:
In the tradition of audacious and wryly funny novels like The Idiot and Convenience Store Woman comes the wildly original coming-of-age story of a pregnant pizza delivery girl who becomes obsessed with one of her customers. Eighteen years old, pregnant, and working as a pizza delivery girl in suburban Los Angeles, our charmingly dysfunctional heroine is deeply lost and in complete denial about it all. She's grieving the death of her father (whom she has more in common with than she'd like to admit), avoiding her supportive mom and loving boyfriend, and flagrantly ignoring her future. Her world... continue
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Please Look After Mom : A Novel by Kyŏng-suk Sin EN
Country: Asia / South Korea
South Korea
Description:
Follows the efforts of a family to find the mother who went missing from Seoul Station and their sobering realizations when they recall memories that suggest she may not have been happy.
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Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov EN
RussiaDescription:
In this moving, amusing story of a seeming born loser at odds with the New World, there is all the pathos of a generation cruelly and irrecoverably severed from its past.
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Příspěvek k dějinám radosti by Radka Denemarková CS
Country: Europe / 
Czech Republic
Czech Republic
Description:
The suicide of a wealthy elderly man soon proves to be improbable. The perceptive policeman tirelessly searches for the real reasons for the strange death, which will lead him to the mysterious house under Petrin. The mysteries and motives increase as the hours spent with the young widow increase. The main characters are three, perhaps four women, educated, bold and devoted to a higher justice, according to which the victim and the culprit lose their original duality. And the burning question echoes: how much more violence and wars await us before all this human misfortune finally becomes huma... continue
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Prosopagnosia by Sònia Hernández EN
SpainDescription:
A sly and playful novel about the many faces we all have. Fifteen-year-old Berta says that beautiful things aren't made for her, or that she isn't destined to have them, or that the only things she deserves are ugly. It's why her main activity, when she's not at school, is playing the "prosopagnosia game"--standing in front of the mirror and holding her breath until she can no longer recognise her own face. An ibis is the only animal she wants for a pet. Berta's mother is in her forties. By her own estimation, she is at least twenty kilos overweight, and her husband has just left her. Her whol... continue
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Quichotte : A Novel by Salman Rushdie EN
IndiaDescription:
***SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019*** In a tour-de-force that is both an homage to an immortal work of literature and a modern masterpiece about the quest for love and family, Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie has created a dazzling Don Quixotefor the modern age. Inspired by the Cervantes classic, Sam DuChamp, mediocre writer of spy thrillers, creates Quichotte, a courtly, addled salesman obsessed with television, who falls in impossible love with the TV star Salman R. Together with his (imaginary) son Sancho, Quichotte sets off on a picaresque quest... continue
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Radio Sarajevo by Tijan Sila DE
Country: Europe / 
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Description:
„Eine Jugend zwischen Blauhelmen und Bon Jovi. Tijan Sila erzählt rau, verletzlich, unverstellt.“ (Micky Beisenherz) Brutal ehrlich beschreibt er das Leben und Überleben im belagerten Sarajevo. „Dies ist die Geschichte meiner Kindheit und meines Kriegs.“ Als im April 1992 der Krieg beginnt, ist Tijan Sila nur zehn Jahre alt, doch bis heute kann er sich an den Geruch von gezündetem Sprengstoff erinnern. Während Sarajevo in Flammen steht, wird aus dem Jungen, der er damals war, ein junger Mann. Er streift durch die Ruinen der ausgebombten Stadt und sammelt Dinge, die von den Geflohenen und Gesto... continue
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Ragged Company by Richard Wagamese EN
Country: North America / 
Canada
Canada
Description:
Four homeless persons befriended by a journalist while taking shelter in a movie theater enlist his help after finding a winning lottery ticket.
330.
Real Life by Adeline Dieudonne EN
BelgiumDescription:
This international bestseller by French author Adeline Dieudonné is one girl's bitingly funny coming-of-age tale within a violent, savage family.