Contemporary fiction genre books (508)
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La ruta del huracán by Care Santos ES
SpainDescription:
Aida, una chica de 13 años, viaja con su padre a El Salvador. Allí vive un gran choque cultural y conoce un sinfín de cosas nuevas, desde los sabores de las comidas a los volcanes en erupción. Se trata de un mundo por descubrir donde la naturaleza parece dictar sus propias normas. Tanto es así que, sin previo aviso, estalla la peor catástrofe meteorológica que ha vivido Centroamérica en los últimos años: el huracán Mitch. Aunque las dimensiones del huracán son tremendas, Aida, sin pensarlo demasiado, se lanza, en compañía de su amigo Roque, desde El Salvador pasando por Honduras, hasta llegar ... continue
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Lady Oracle by Margaret Atwood EN
Country: North America / 
Canada
Canada
Description:
From the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments—the "brilliant and funny" story (Joan Didion, bestselling author of Let Me Tell You What I Mean) of a woman whose attempts to escape herself become instead an occasion for confronting the self-deception that has driven her since childhood Joan Foster is a woman with numerous identities and a talent for shedding them at will. She has written trashy gothic romances, had affairs with a Polish count and an absurd avant-garde artist, and played at being a politically engaged partner to her activist husband. After a volume of her ... continue
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Las voladoras by Mónica Ojeda PT
Country: South America / 
Ecuador
Ecuador
Description:
Mónica Ojeda tem sido reconhecida por seu modo peculiar de narrar o horror. Nesse sentido, em entrevista à jornalista Andrea Aguilar para o El país, a autora defende: a geografia determina a forma como se vê e como se conta o mundo. Este conjunto de oito contos parte da geografia avassaladora dos Andes equatorianos e aborda, impiedosamente, questões que passam pelas relações de amizade, de vizinhança e familiares em geral, atravessadas por elementos como a sexualidade, a violência, a dor, a vida e a morte. Em Voladoras , encontramos criaturas que sobem nos telhados de suas casas e voam, terrem... continue
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Late Nights on Air by Elizabeth Hay EN
Country: North America / Canada
Canada
Description:
The Scotiabank Giller Prize–winning novel from Elizabeth Hay. Harry Boyd, a hard-bitten refugee from failure in Toronto television, has returned to a small radio station in the Canadian North. There, in Yellowknife, in the summer of 1975, he falls in love with a voice on air, though the real woman, Dido Paris, is both a surprise and even more than he imagined. Dido and Harry are part of the cast of eccentric, utterly loveable characters, all transplants from elsewhere, who form an unlikely group at the station. Their loves and longings, their rivalries and entanglements, the stories of their p... continue
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Le dieu du carnage by Yasmina Reza FR
FranceDescription:
Théâtre avec quatre personnages: deux femmes, deux hommes.
Cuba
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Les cerfs-volants de Kaboul by Khaled Hosseini FR
Country: Asia / 
Afghanistan
Afghanistan
Description:
En plus de nous révéler l'Afghanistan contemporain, le romancier réussit une très belle histoire d'amour en ce lieu difficile. [SDM].
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Les Malaquias by Andréa Del fuego FR
Country: South America / 
Brazil
Brazil
Description:
Nuit d’orage dans la Serra Morena - la « montagne impraticable » du Brésil. La foudre s’abat sur une maison, ne laissant aucune chance au couple endormi. Leurs trois enfants, en revanche, survivent. L’aîné est embauché dans l’exploitation de café voisine. La fille est adoptée par une riche Arabe de Rio de Janeiro. Pour le benjamin, les difficultés ne font que commencer : se révélant atteint de nanisme, il ne quittera jamais l’orphelinat tenu par des religieuses françaises. Une fois adulte, la fratrie va chercher à se retrouver. Leurs vies se construisent, se croisent et se chevauchent, bouscul... continue