Contemporary fiction genre books (508)
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Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O'Neill EN
Country: North America / 
Canada
Canada
Description:
“A beautiful book. . . . There are phrases in here that will make you laugh out loud, and others that will stop your heart. A definite triumph.” — David Rakoff, author of Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish The international bestseller by Heather O'Neill, the Giller-shortlisted author of Daydreams of Angels and The Girl Who Was Saturday Night. A blend of Girl, Interrupted and Thirteen, Lullabies for Little Criminals is a heartbreaking and wholly original novel about a young girl fighting to preserve a bruised innocence on the feral streets of a big city Baby, all of thirteen years old,... continue
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Luster : A Novel by Raven Leilani EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Sharp, comic, disruptive, tender, Raven Leilani's debut novel, Luster, sees a young black woman fall into art and someone else's open marriage Edie is stumbling her way through her twenties—sharing a subpar apartment in Bushwick, clocking in and out of her admin job, making a series of inappropriate sexual choices. She's also, secretly, haltingly figuring her way into life as an artist. And then she meets Eric, a digital archivist with a family in New Jersey, including an autopsist wife who has agreed to an open marriage—with rules. As if navigating the constantly shifting landscapes of contem... continue
213.
Maame : A Today Show Read With Jenna Book Club Pick by Jessica George EN
GhanaDescription:
An unforgettable debut about a young British Ghanaian woman as she navigates her twenties and finds her place in the world, for readers of Queenie and The Other Black Girl.
214.
MAD COUNTRY by Samrat Upadhyay EN
NepalDescription:
If you see Orwell and Kafka together walking down a street, you are in the world of Samrat Upadhyay's Mad Country. The editor of an investigative magazine contends with the trauma of a disappeared colleague, a political tragedy that vies for her attention with a more domestic crisis: a friend who's suicidal over a divorce. An American hippie in Kathmandu in the 1980s undergoes a drastic identity change, only to discover that the metamorphosis brings its own heartbreak. A young man forms a bond with an African woman who has inexplicably appeared on the streets of the city. A wealthy Nepali boy-... continue
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Made You Up by Francesca Zappia EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Reality, it turns out, is often not what you perceive it to be—sometimes, there really is someone out to get you. For fans of Silver Linings Playbook and Liar, this thought-provoking debut tells the story of Alex, a high school senior—and the ultimate unreliable narrator—unable to tell the difference between real life and delusion. Alex fights a daily battle to figure out what is real and what is not. Armed with a take-no-prisoners attitude, her camera, a Magic 8 Ball, and her only ally (her little sister), Alex wages a war against her schizophrenia, determined to stay sane long enough to get ... continue
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Maestro by Peter Goldsworthy EN
AustraliaDescription:
Against the backdrop of Darwin, that small, tropical hothouse of a port, half-outback, half-oriental, lying at the tip of northern Australia, a young and newly arrived southerner encounters the 'maestro', a Viennese refugee with a shadowed past. The occasion is a piano lesson, the first of many. 'I enjoyed Maestro enormously. Besides its thoughtfulness and bright sensuality, it has a playful quality, a love of jest, which appealed to me very much.' Helen Garner, SYDNEY REVIEW On release, MAEStRO was hailed 'a splendid achievement, a wise, deeply felt novel that continues to haunt well after on... continue
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Magnolia Parks by Jessa Hastings EN
Description:
She is a beautiful, affluent, self-involved and mildly neurotic London socialite. He is Britain's most photographed bad-boy lothario who broke her heart. But Magnolia Parks and BJ Ballentine are meant to be, and everyone knows it. They're in the stars... just suspended in a strange kind of love that looks like hurting each other a lot of the time: She dates other people to keep him at bay; he sleeps with other girls to get back at her for it. But at the end of their every sad endeavour to get over one another, it's still each other they crawl back to. But their dysfunction is catching up with ... continue
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Costa Rica220.
Marrom E Amarelo by Paulo Scott, Alceu Chiesorin Nunes PT
Country: South America / 
Brazil
Brazil
Description:
" Um romance impactante, sem paralelos na literatura contemporânea, sobre dois irmãos marcados pela discriminação racial no Brasil. Os irmãos Federico e Lourenço são muito diferentes. Federico, um ano mais velho, é grande, calado e carrega uma raiva latente. Lourenço é bonito, joga basquete e é “muito gente boa”. Federico é claro, “de cabelo lambido”. Lourenço é preto. Filhos de pai preto, célebre diretor-geral do instituto de perícia do Rio Grande do Sul, eles crescem sob a pressão da discriminação racial. Lourenço tenta enfrentá-la com naturalidade, e Federico se torna um incansável ativista... continue