Book type: fiction (6131)
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PortugalDescription:
Terminado em 1953 e inédito até depois da morte do autor, Claraboia narra com aguda percepção psicológica o dia a dia e as angústias dos moradores de um modesto prédio de apartamentos em Lisboa, e revela um Saramago em pleno domínio da narrativa. Primavera de 1952. Um prédio de seis apartamentos numa rua modesta de Lisboa é o cenário principal das histórias simultâneas que compõem este romance da juventude de José Saramago. Os dramas cotidianos dos moradores - donas de casa, funcionários remediados, trabalhadores manuais - tecem uma trama multifacetada, repleta de elementos do consagrado estil... continue
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Clean by Alia Trabucco Zerán EN
Country: South America / 
Chile
Chile
Description:
'A masterclass in suspense' PAULA HAWKINS 'A spellbinding nightmare' FERNANDA MELCHOR 'A book of intense power' PHILIPPE SANDS The shockingly compulsive new novel from the International Booker-shortlisted author of The Remainder. Clean begins with an inescapable fact: a girl has died. Told by Estela, a maid to a wealthy, middle class family who speaks to us from a locked room, we hear of her plight and the circumstances that led to this moment. As we enter into her account of her daily existence, we see how her apparently simple life begins to sour, but would that drive her to the unthinkable?... continue
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Clerise of Haiti by Marie-Therese Labossiere Thomas EN
Country: North America / 
Haiti
Haiti
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A young domestic worker devoted to her prominent urban employers in Les Cayes, Haiti, Clerise progressively renounces the traditional values of her rural background. When she later marries and opens a small business, class conflicts and divided loyalties develop amid the terror of the Duvalier regime, and she is ultimately caught in the escalation of violence. Clerise of Haiti is a story of three generations of Haitian women, and covers a thirty year span ending in the late 1970s. Full of humor and resilience, Clerise's unique perspective into the upper classes and the world of the poor explor... continue
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Cliënt E. Busken by Jeroen Brouwers NL
IndonesiaDescription:
De bejaarde E. Busken verblijft tegen zijn wil in de gesloten afdeling van een verzorgingscentrum waar men niet spreekt van patiënten, maar van cliënten. Is hij dement? In ieder geval is hij geïnterneerd om af te kicken van een verscheidenheid aan verslavingen. Hij zegt niets en lijkt ook niets te horen. Roerloos in zijn rolstoel staart hij voor zich uit, terwijl hem inmiddels niets ontgaat van wat er om hem heen plaatsvindt en dat hij inwendig van snerpend commentaar voorziet. Met zijn medebewoners bemoeit hij zich niet, louter in beslag genomen door zijn eigen ongericht door elkaar wentelend... continue
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Climbing Clouds : Stories and Poems from the Bahamas by Telcine Turner EN
Country: North America / 
Bahamas
Bahamas
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A collection of short stories and poems, most of which have been written by college students.
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Cloud and Wallfish by Anne Nesbet EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
"Noah Keller has a pretty normal life until one wild afternoon when his parents pick him up from school and head straight for the airport, telling him on the ride that his name isn't really Noah and he didn't really just turn eleven in March ... As Noah, now 'Jonah Brown,' and his parents head behind the Iron Curtain into East Berlin, the rules and secrets begin to pile up so quickly that he can hardly keep track of the questions bubbling up inside him: who, exactly, is listening--and why?"
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Cloud Cuckoo Land : A Novel by Anthony Doerr EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
A "novel about children on the cusp of adulthood in a broken world who find resilience, hope, and story ... [They] are trying to figure out the world around them, and to survive. In the besieged city of Constantinople in 1453, in a public library in Lakeport, Idaho, today, and on a spaceship bound for a distant exoplanet decades from now, an ancient text provides solace and the most profound human connection to characters in peril"--
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AustraliaDescription:
From award-winning author Tim Winton comes an epic novel that regularly tops the list of best-loved novels in Australia. After two separate catastrophes, two very different families leave the country for the bright lights of Perth. The Lambs are industrious, united, and--until God seems to turn His back on their boy Fish--religious. The Pickleses are gamblers, boozers, fractious, and unlikely landlords. Change, hardship, and the war force them to swallow their dignity and share a great, breathing, shuddering house called Cloudstreet. Over the next twenty years, they struggle and strive, laugh ... continue