Domestic fiction genre books (128)
1.
A Disobedient Girl : A Novel by Ru Freeman EN
Sri LankaDescription:
Longing for sophistication in spite of her limited prospects as a servant, Sri Lankan-born Latha strives for the dignity and freedoms enjoyed by the privileged daughter of her employers, while Biso, a devoted mother, flees her abusive husband in search of a better life in the mountains. A first novel.
2.
A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing : A Novel by Eimear McBride EN
IrelandDescription:
The dazzling, fearless debut novel that won the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and the book the New York Times hails as “a future classic”. In scathing, furious, unforgettable prose, Eimear McBride tells the story of a young girl’s devastating adolescence as she and her brother, who suffers from a brain tumor, struggle for a semblance of normalcy in the shadow of sexual abuse, denial, and chaos at home. Plunging readers inside the psyche of a girl isolated by her own dangerously confusing sexuality, pervading guilt, and unrelenting trauma, McBride’s writing carries echoes of Joyce, O’Brien,... continue
3.
A Girl Returned by Donatella Di Pietrantonio EN
ItalyDescription:
"Told with an immediacy and a rare expressive intensity that has earned it countless adoring readers and one of Italy's most prestigious literary prizes, A Girl Returned marks the English-language debut of an extraordinary literary talent. Set against the stark, beautiful landscape of Abruzzo in central Italy, this is a compelling story about mothers and daughters, about responsibility, siblings, and caregiving. Without warning or explanation, an unnamed 13-year-old girl is sent away from the family she has always thought of as hers to live with her birth family: a large, chaotic assortment of... continue
4.
A House for Mr Biswas by V. S. Naipaul EN
Country: North America / 
Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago
Description:
Born the wrong way into a world that greeted him with little more than a bad omen, Mohun Biswas has spent his 46 years striving for independence. Shuttled from one residence to another after his father's death, and married into the domineering Tulsi family, he longs for a place of his own.
5.
A Replacement Life : A Novel by Boris Fishman EN
BelarusDescription:
Winner of the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award Winner of the American Library Association's Sophie Brody Medal Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award A singularly talented writer makes his literary debut with this provocative, soulful, and sometimes hilarious story of a failed journalist asked to do the unthinkable: Forge Holocaust-restitution claims for old Russian Jews in Brooklyn, New York. Yevgeny Gelman, grandfather of Slava Gelman, “didn’t suffer in the exact way” he needs to have suffered to qualify for the restitution the German government has been paying out to Holocaust survivors... continue
6.
A Week in Winter by Maeve Binchy EN
Description:
The Sheedy sisters had lived in Stone House for as long as anyone could remember. Set high on the cliffs on the west coast of Ireland, overlooking the windswept Atlantic Ocean, it was falling into disrepair - until one woman, with a past she needed to forget, breathed new life into the place. Now a hotel, with a big warm kitchen and log fires, it provides a welcome few can resist. Winnie is generally able to make the best of things, until she finds herself on the holiday from hell. John arrived on an impulse after he missed a flight at Shannon. And then there's Henry and Nicola, burdened with ... continue
7.
All that's left unsaid by Tracey Lien EN
AustraliaDescription:
2022 LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE FINALIST AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A Phenomenal Book Club Pick! For fans of Everything I Never Told You and The Mothers, a deeply moving and unflinching debut following a young Vietnamese-Australian woman who returns home to her family in the wake of her brother’s shocking murder, determined to discover what happened—a dramatic exploration of the intricate bonds and obligations of friendship, family, and community. Just let him go. These are the words Ky Tran will forever regret. The words she spoke when her parents called to ask if they should let her younger broth... continue
8.
Am Gletscher by Halldór Laxness DE
IcelandDescription:
Ein Pfarrhaus in nordischer Gletschereinsamkeit ist der Schauplatz dieses ironisch-weisen Romans des isländischen Nobelpreisträgers Halldor Laxness. Ein junger Theologe, vom Bischof zur Aufklärung mysteriöser Vorfälle dorthin entsandt, sieht sich mit Reden und Taten konfrontiert, die er nicht versteht. Die bodenständige Esoterik der Einheimischen lässt sich mit seinem Tonbandgerät nicht einfangen, und die frappierende, humane Logik des Lebens am Gletscher ist so offenbar, dass sie leicht übersehen werden kann. Es ist dieselbe Logik, die auch die Sag... continue
9.
An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen EN
NorwayDescription:
"In one of his most provocative essays, Ibsen offers a rebuke to the Victorian notion of community as well as to the blessings of democracy. His An Enemy of the People creates a situation in which one must stand alone to face the forces allied against him." "In a coastal town, a community-minded physician has promoted the development of public baths in order to attract tourists. When he discovers that the water supply for the baths is contaminated and attempts to publicize the failing and correct it, he encounters political cowards, sold-out journalists, shortsighted armchair economists, and a... continue
10.
And the Mountains Echoed : A Novel by Khaled Hosseini EN
Country: Asia / 
Afghanistan
Afghanistan
Description:
An unforgettable novel about finding a lost piece of yourself in someone else. Khaled Hosseini, the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, has written a new novel about how we love, how we take care of one another, and how the choices we make resonate through generations. In this tale revolving around not just parents and children but brothers and sisters, cousins and caretakers, Hosseini explores the many ways in which families nurture, wound, betray, honor, and sacrifice for one another; and how often we are surprised by the actions of those clo... continue