Books written by female authors (3290)
1491.
Country: Europe / 
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
The fourth novel from the phenomenally talented Alice Oseman - one of the most authentic and talked-about voices in contemporary YA.
Peru1493.
Loving Sabotage by Amélie Nothomb EN
BelgiumDescription:
I lived everything daring those three years: heroism, glory, treachery, love, indifference, suffering, humiliation. It was China; I was seven years old." So announces the narrator of Loving Sabotage, Amelie Nothomb's critically acclaimed novel about a young girl who seems already stripped of illusions. The daughter of diplomats posted to Peking in the mid-seventies, she charges about the grim confines of the gated government enclave battling tirelessly against boredom, concocting a fantasy life as rich as her surroundings are bleak. During one of her tours of duty in a war that has broken out ... continue
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SwedenDescription:
70 år gamle Ulf Norrstig er pensjonert skogvokter og formann i det lokale jaktlaget. Han bor med kona Inga, som han har vært gift med i nesten to tiår. De to snakker ikke nødvendigvis så mye, men de deler en kjærlighet for både bøker og naturen. Et møte med en ulv i skogen en tidlig morgen skal vise seg å få store konsekvenser for alle i den svenske bygda, ikke minst Ulf selv. Boka er nominert til Nordisk Råds Litteraturpris og har blitt kåret til årets beste bok av Dagens Nyheter i Sverige. Omtalen er utarbeidet av BS.
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Luciernaga : Premio Lumen de novela 2024 by Natalia Litvinova ES
BelarusDescription:
Natalia Litvinova, escritora bielorrusa afincada en Buenos Aires (Argentina), ha sido galardonada con el II Premio Lumen de novela 2024 por la obra Luciérnaga. El jurado ha destacado: «Una voz deslumbrante y conmovedora, con la difícil cualidad de la sencillez. En la tradición de la mejor literatura rusa, pasa del realismo a lo mítico con naturalidad y sabe recurrir al humor y la ironía para narrar una historia que todavía no habíamos leído. La guerra y la emigración, la vida en Bielorrusia (“el país que se rompe... continue
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Lucy : A Novel by Jamaica Kincaid EN
Country: North America / 
Antigua and Barbuda
Antigua and Barbuda
Description:
Lucy, a teenage girl from the West Indies, comes to America to work as an au pair for a wealthy couple. She begins to notice cracks in their beautiful façade at the same time that the mysteries of own sexuality begin to unravel. Jamaica Kincaid has created a startling new heroine who is destined to win a place of honor in contemporary fiction.
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Luisa in Realityland by Claribel Alegría, Pedro Caubet, Darwin Flakoll, Erik Flakoll EN
Country: North America / 
Nicaragua
Nicaragua
Description:
Claribel Alegria combines poetry, fiction, and historical narrative about her early childhood in Santa Ana, El Salvador.
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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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AustriaDescription:
In post-World War II Austria, Gerti, a woman on the verge of a breakdown due to her husband's relentless sexual attentions, wanders away from home one day and is rescued by an ambitious young man who turns out to be much like her husband.
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Lust, Caution by Eileen Chang EN
ChinaDescription:
In 1940s Shanghai, beautiful young Jiazhi spends her days playing mahjong and drinking tea with high society ladies. But China is occupied by invading Japanese forces and things are not always what they seem in wartime. Jiazhi’s life is a front. A patriotic student radical, her mission is to seduce a powerful employee of the occupying government and lead him to the assassin’s bullet. Yet as she waits for him to arrive at their liaison, Jiazhi begins to wonder if she is cut out to be a femme fatale and coldly take Mr Yi to his death. Or is she beginning to fall in love with him? A passionate ta... continue