Book type: fiction (6505)
6431.
Yo Sigo Contando Los Días by Georgi Bardarov ES
BulgariaDescription:
This novel is based on a true story, the love between a Christian man and a Muslim woman in the midst of the horror of the Bosnian war and the longest blockade in the history of humanity of a city: that of Sarajevo ́s. The two protagonists, Bosko Brkic and Admira Ismic, are known as the "Romeo and Juliet of Sarajevo". The novel recounts the last hours of their attempt to escape from besieged Sarajevo, on May 19, 1993, while in this context a retrospective is made, both of their relationship, and of the disintegration of Yugoslavia and the senselessness of the war.
6432.
Yo voy, tú vas, él va by Jenny Erpenbeck ES
GermanyDescription:
A Richard, profesor universitario alemán con una exitosa carrera profesional a sus espaldas, le ha llegado el momento de la jubilación. Desde el escritorio de su casa, mientras contempla el lago tras la ventana, se pregunta cómo llenar todo el tiempo libre del que dispondrá. Se entera entonces de la existencia de un campamento de refugiados en Berlín y decide echar una mano. Allí escuchará historias desgarradoras y esperanzadas de jóvenes llegados desde países lejanos, que vienen huyendo de la guerra y la miseria. Pero la comunicación no siempre es fácil, y en más de una ocasión se producen ma... continue
6433.
Yo! by Julia Alvarez EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
The American odyssey of Yo, a Dominican woman writer whose family arrived in the U.S. as refugees from a dictatorship. The novel follows her youth, with its energy and optimism, and the setbacks as she grows older, including two divorces.
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Yona - Prinzessin der Morgendämmerung 01 by Mizuho Kusanagi DE
JapanDescription:
Als einzige Tochter von König Il ist Yona die Prinzessin eines kleinen Reiches namens Koka. Zur Feier ihres 16. Geburtstags kehrt ihr Cousin Su-won, in den sie schon lange verliebt ist, in den Palast zurück. Doch er verfolgt einen finsteren Plan: In der Nacht ermordet Su-won Yonas Vater mit seinem Schwert. Yona muss die schreckliche Tat mit ansehen, kann jedoch mit ihrem Leibwächter und Jugendfreund Hak vor den einfallenden Soldaten fliehen. Aber auch außerhalb des Palastes lauern viele Gefahren ...
6435.
Yoruba Girl Dancing by Simi Bedford EN
NigeriaDescription:
"Yoruba Girl Dancing is at once acerbic and moving and painfully honest about the cost of emigration and adjustment."--The Washington Post Born into a privileged Nigerian family, Remi Foster has a life in Africa that is a celebration of love and family, eccentricity and ritual. But at the age of six she is uprooted when her father sends her to a posh all-girls boarding school in England. There, the only black in a school of perfect English girls, she navigates the labyrinth of race, caste, and culture, enduring taunting classmates and foreign holidays celebrated with strangers. Finally, caught... continue
6436.
You Are Here by David Nicholls EN
Country: Europe / 
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
From the internationally bestselling and Booker Prize-longlisted author of One Day, one of the most enduring love stories of its generation, comes an uplifting and unputdownable love story about second chances. Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way . . . Michael is coming undone. Adrift after his wife's departure, he has begun taking himself on long, solitary walks across the English countryside. Becoming ever more reclusive, he'll do anything to avoid his empty house. Marnie, on the other hand, is stuck. Hiding alone in her London flat, she avoids old friends and any reminders of he... continue
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You Can Smile on Wednesdays by Zdravka Evtimova EN
Description:
Zdravka Evtimova's novel You Can Smile on Wednesdays focuses on day-to-day lives of three sisters Luba, Sara and Pirina who live in the small Bulgarian town of Radomir. Pirina sings songs that have no tunes, but can ease loneliness and pain; Sara has numerous boyfriends. One of them builds a church for her in which loners go to pray and soon find love. Luba reads all the time, so much that she absents herself from real world, a fact that makes her attractive in some illogical yet convincing way. We never go in the same river twice -- the river does not follow the route that universe has mapped... continue
6438.
You Can't Go Home Again by Thomas Wolfe EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Novelist George Webber is driven from his hometown when his successful autobiographical novel infuriates the family and friends he has depicted in it.
6439.
You Do Understand (Slovenian Literature Series) by Andrej Blatnik EN
SloveniaDescription:
Partly parables, partly fairy tales, You Do Understand is a comedy of errors for a species of talkers who’ve never learned to listen. This collection of sharp, spare, occasionally absurd, cruel, touching, and yet always generous short-short fictions addresses the fundamental difficulty we have in making the people we love understand what we want and need. Demonstrating that language and intimacy are as much barriers between human beings as ways of connecting them, Andrej Blatnik here provides us with a guided tour of the slips, misunderstandings, and blind alleys we each manage to fall foul of... continue
6440.
You Dreamed of Empires : A Novel by Álvaro Enrigue EN
Country: North America / 
Mexico
Mexico
Description:
“Short, strange, spiky and sublime… [Enrigue] is clearly a major talent.” – Dwight Garner, The New York Times From the visionary author of Sudden Death, a hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story. One morning in 1519, conquistador Hernán Cortés entered the city of Tenochtitlan – today's Mexico City. Later that day, he would meet the emperor Moctezuma in a collision of two worlds, two empires, two languages, two possible futures. Cortés was accompanied by his nine captains, his troops, and his two translators: Friar Aguilar, a taciturn, former slave, and Malinalli, a strategic, former ... continue