Book type: fiction (5993)


5391.

The World of the End by Ofir Touché Gafla EN

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Country: Asia / Israel flag Israel
Description:
The American debut of a bestselling Israeli novel about a man who crosses into another world for the sake of love.

5392.

The Wren, the Wren : From the Booker Prize-Winning Author by Anne Enright EN

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Country: Europe / Ireland flag Ireland
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024 WINNER OF THE WRITERS' PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024 Carmel had been alone all her life. The baby knew this. They looked at each other, and all of time was there. The baby knew how vast her mother's loneliness had been. 'A magnificent novel' SALLY ROONEY Nell is a young woman with adventure on her mind. As she sets out into the world, she finds her family history hard to escape. For her mother, Carmel, Nell's leaving home opens a space in her heart, where the turmoil of a lifetime begins to churn. Over them both falls the long shadow of Carmel's famo... continue


5394.

The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswany EN

Rating: 4 (7 votes)
Country: Africa / Egypt flag Egypt
Description:
Reveals the political corruption, sexual repression, religious extremism, and modern hopes of Egypt today through the lives of several people who live in the Yacoubian building.
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5395.

The Year of the Hare by Arto Paasilinna EN

Rating: 1 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Finland flag Finland
Description:
The wacky, satirical adventures of a journalist and his rabbit friend.

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The Year of the Rabbit by Tian Veasna EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / Cambodia flag Cambodia
Description:
One family's quest to survive the devastation of the Khmer Rouge Year of the Rabbit tells the true story of one family’s desperate struggle to survive the murderous reign of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. In 1975, the Khmer Rouge seized power in the capital city of Phnom Penh. Immediately after declaring victory in the war, they set about evacuating the country’s major cities with the brutal ruthlessness and disregard for humanity that characterized the regime ultimately responsible for the deaths of one million citizens. Cartoonist Tian Veasna was born just three days after the Khmer Rouge take... continue

5397.

The Yield by Tara June Winch EN

Rating: 5 (3 votes)
Country: Oceania / Australia flag Australia
Description:
"After a decade in Europe August Gondiwindi returns to Australia for the funeral of her much-loved grandfather, Albert, at Prosperous House, her only real home and also a place of great grief and devastation. Leading up to his death Poppy Gondiwindi has been compiling a dictionary of the language he was forbidden from speaking after being sent to Prosperous House as a child. Poppy was the family storyteller and August is desperate to find the precious book that he had spent his last energies compiling. The Yield also tells the story of Reverend Greenleaf, who recalls founding the first mission... continue

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The Young Man That Challenged Death by Santos Chavez EN

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The reason that made me write this book is the following. I been walking for over 20 years over a dark path in my life. I want to send a messege to all the children that had been abuse around the world. For them to belive on their self because on the end of the path their is a special light for each of them. I also want to explain a bit about all the despites of all our Central American brothers that risk everything to get to the United States. Many adventures many pathways we went through. Mamy mothers cried for what had been there treasures. Dreams that have been impossible. To the friends w... continue

5399.

The Youth of God : A Novel by Hassan Ghedi Santur EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Africa / Somalia flag Somalia
Description:
The Youth of God tells the story of Nuur, a sensitive and academically gifted seventeen-year-old boy growing up in Toronto's Somali neighbourhood, as he negotiates perilously between the calling of his faith and his intellectual ambitions. This intensely moving novel is also a powerful allegory of the struggle for the soul of Islam in modern times.

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The Zahir : A Novel of Obsession by Paulo Coelho EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Description:
The narrator of The Zahir is a bestselling novelist who lives in Paris and enjoys all the privileges money and celebrity bring. His wife of ten years, Esther, is a war correspondent who has disappeared along with a friend, Mikhail, who may or may not be her lover. Was Esther kidnapped, murdered, or did she simply escape a marriage that left her unfulfilled? The narrator doesn't have any answers, but he has plenty of questions of his own. Then one day Mikhail finds the narrator and promises to reunite him with his wife. In his attempt to recapture a lost love, the narrator discovers something u... continue