Book type: fiction (6147)
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Dunkelgrün fast schwarz by Mareike Fallwickl DE
AustriaDescription:
Raffael, der Selbstbewusste mit dem entwaffnenden Lächeln, und Moritz, der Bumerang in Raffaels Hand: Seit ihrer ersten Begegnung als Kinder sind sie unzertrennlich, Raffael geht voran, Moritz folgt. Moritz und seine Mutter Marie sind Zugezogene in dem einsamen Bergdorf, über die Freundschaft der beiden sollte Marie sich eigentlich freuen. Doch sie erkennt das Zerstörerische, das hinter Raffaels stahlblauen Augen lauert. Als Moritz eines Tages aufgeregt von der Neuen in der Schule berichtet, passiert es: Johanna weitet das Band zwischen Moritz und Raffael zu einem fatalen Dreieck, d... continue
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NorwayDescription:
Ein Serienkiller findet seine Opfer über die Dating-App Tinder. Die Osloer Polizei hat keine Spur. Der einzige Spezialist für Serientäter, Harry Hole, unterrichtet an der Polizeihochschule, weil er mehr Zeit für seine Frau Rakel und ihren Sohn Oleg haben möchte. Doch Holes alter Chef Mikael Bellmann kennt Olegs Vergangenheit und setzt Hole unter Druck. Der Kommissar gibt schließlich nach und arbeitet hochkonzentriert mit seinen Leuten an dem Fall. In einer Atmosphäre der Angst zögern viele Frauen, sich weiter über die App zu verabreden. Die schlimmsten Befürchtungen werden wahr, als tatsächlic... continue
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Dusk by F. Sionil Jose EN
Country: Asia / 
Philippines
Philippines
Description:
With Dusk (originally published in the Philippines as Po-on), F. Sionil Jose begins his five-novel Rosales Saga, which the poet and critic Ricaredo Demetillo called "the first great Filipino novels written in English." Set in the 1880s, Dusk records the exile of a tenant family from its village and the new life it attempts to make in the small town of Rosales. Here commences the epic tale of a family unwillingly thrown into the turmoil of history. But this is more than a historical novel; it is also the eternal story of man's tortured search for true faith and the larger meaning of existence. ... continue
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Dust by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor EN
KenyaDescription:
An audacious and beautiful novel that is both a unique family saga and a spellbinding story of the country of Kenya
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Dust Child by Que Mai Phan Nguyen EN
VietnamDescription:
From the internationally bestselling author of The Mountains Sing, a propulsive and moving tale of wartime love, family, and loss, as an American GI, two Vietnamese bargirls, and an Amerasian man are forced to make decisions during and after the Việt Nam War that will reverberate throughout each other’s lives.
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Dying in a Mother Tongue by Roja Chamankar EN
IranDescription:
This collection of poetry by the celebrated southern Iranian poet and filmmaker Roja Chamankar (b. 1981) introduces English-speaking readers to one of the most accomplished and well-loved poets of her generation. Chamankar’s work blends surrealism and the southern coastal landscape of the poet’s upbringing with everyday experiences in rapidly urbanizing Tehran. While locating herself in the modernist tradition of Iranian poets like Forugh Farrokhzad and Ahmad Shamlu through form and imagery, Chamankar infuses this tradition with concerns unique to a generation that grew up in post-revolutionar... continue
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Dykette : A Novel by Jenny Fran Davis EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
An addictive, absurd, and darkly hilarious debut novel about a young woman who embarks on a ten-day getaway with her partner and two other queer couples Sasha and Jesse are professionally creative, erotically adventurous, and passionately dysfunctional twentysomethings making a life together in Brooklyn. When a pair of older, richer lesbians—prominent news host Jules Todd and her psychotherapist partner, Miranda—invites Sasha and Jesse to their country home for the holidays, they’re quick to accept. Even if the trip includes a third couple—Jesse’s best friend, Lou, and their cool-girl flame, D... continue
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Earth and Ashes by Atiq Rahimi EN
Country: Asia / 
Afghanistan
Afghanistan
Description:
When the Soviet army arrives in Afghanistan, the elderly Dastaguir witnesses the destruction of his village. Haunting in its spareness, "Earth and Ashes" is a tale of devastating loss, but also of human perseverance in the face of madness and war.
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Eartheater by Dolores Reyes ES
Country: South America / 
Argentina
Argentina
Description:
Electrifying and provocative, visceral and profound, a powerful literary debut novel about a young woman whose compulsion to eat earth gives her visions of murdered and missing people--an imaginative synthesis of mystery and magical realism that explores the dark tragedies of ordinary lives. Set in an unnamed slum in contemporary Argentina, Earth-eater is the story of a young woman who finds herself drawn to eating the earth--a compulsion that gives her visions of broken and lost lives. With her first taste of dirt, she learns the horrifying truth of her mother's death. Disturbed by what she w... continue
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Earthlings by Sayaka Murata EN
JapanDescription:
From the beloved author of cult sensation Convenience Store Woman, which has now sold more than one million copies worldwide and has been translated into thirty-three languages, comes a spellbinding and otherworldly novel about a woman who believes she is an alien Sayaka Murata's Convenience Store Woman was one of the most unusual and refreshing bestsellers of recent years, depicting the life of a thirty-six-year-old clerk in a Tokyo convenience store. Now, in Earthlings, Sayaka Murata pushes at the boundaries of our ideas of social conformity in this brilliantly imaginative, intense, and abso... continue