Contemporary fiction genre books (552)
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Summer Brother by Jaap Robben EN
Country: Europe / 
Netherlands
Netherlands
Description:
In this honest, tender account of brotherly love, thirteen-year-old Brian is tasked with caring for his disabled older brother.
382.
JapanDescription:
Anzu acaba de modelar y hornear un delicado jarrón de arcilla. Está satisfecha, lo exhibirá en su próxima exposición, y, como su forma le recuerda la de una campanilla, lo llama Suzuran. Porque Anzu es una joven y reputada ceramista consagrada al mundo de la loza tradicional japonesa. Está divorciada, vive con su hijo preadolescente y, por más que le insistan sus amigas, no quiere volver a enamorarse. Su apacible vida cotidiana, en una ciudad junto al mar del Japón y al pie del monte Daisen, se ve alterada de pronto cuando su hermana mayo... continue
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Swallow the Air by Tara June Winch EN
AustraliaDescription:
When May's mother dies suddenly, her and her brother Billy's loss leaves them both searching for their place in the world. While Billy takes his own destructive path, May sets off to find her father and her Aboriginal identity.
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Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy EN
Country: Europe / 
Switzerland
Switzerland
Description:
The story of a fourteen-year-old girl living in a boarding school in postwar Switzerland.
385.
GambiaDescription:
Book of the Year 2016: 'Brilliant' Guardian 'Superb' Financial Times 'Virtuosic and breathtaking' Times Literary Supplement 'There is still no better chronicler of the modern British family than Zadie Smith' Telegraph An ambitious, exuberant new novel moving from north west London to West Africa, from the multi-award-winning author of White Teeth and On Beauty Two brown girls dream of being dancers - but only one, Tracey, has talent. The other has ideas: about rhythm and time, about black bodies and black music, what constitutes a tribe, or makes a person truly free. It's a close but complicat... continue
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Tail of the Blue Bird by Nii Ayikwei Parkes EN
GhanaDescription:
Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 2009.
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Terra e cinzas by Atiq Rahimi, FLAVIA NASCIMENTO PT
Country: Asia / 
Afghanistan
Afghanistan
Description:
Um ancião num vale esquecido à beira de um rio ressecado. Um menino que não ouve mais. Uma cabana de vigia à entrada de uma mina. E mais nada, além do ressecado do vale desértico. Do escritor e cineasta afegão Atiq Rahimi, este é um panfleto anti-guerra, onde o velho e seu neto estão aguardando, num passar do tempo raro na literatura mundial, uma carona para a mina onde está trabalhando o filho do primeiro e pai do segundo, com a incumbência de anunciar a ele que a família morreu num ato de guerra. O pano de fundo é o conflito gerado durante o regime pró-soviético no início dos anos 80. Mas os... continue
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That Hair by Djaimilia Pereira De Almeida EN
AngolaDescription:
A Best Translation of the Year at World Literature Today That Hair is a family album of sorts that touches upon the universal subjects of racism, feminism, colonialism, immigration, identity and memory. Finalist for the 2021 PEN Translation Prize “The story of my curly hair,” says Mila, the narrator of Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida’s autobiographically inspired tragicomedy, “intersects with the story of at least two countries and, by extension, the underlying story of the relations among several continents: a geopolitics.” Mila is the Luanda-born daughter of a black Angolan mother and a white P... continue
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The Alternatives : A Novel by Caoilinn Hughes EN
IrelandDescription:
“A tale about sisterhood, a novel of ideas, a chronicle of our collective follies, a requiem for our agonizing species, The Alternatives unfolds in a prose full of gorgeous surprises and glows with intelligence, compassion, and beauty.” —Hernan Diaz From the writer Anthony Doerr calls “a massive talent,” the story of four brilliant Irish sisters, orphaned in childhood, who scramble to reconnect when the oldest disappears into the Irish countryside The Flattery sisters were plunged prematurely into adulthood when their parents died in tragic circumstances. Now in their thirties—all single, all ... continue
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The Anthropologists by Aysegül Savas EN
TurkeyDescription:
"Like Walter Benjamin, Aysegül Savas uncovers trapdoors to bewilderment everywhere in everyday life; like Henry James, she sees marriage as a mystery, unsoundably deep. The Anthropologists is mesmerizing; I felt I read it in a single breath." -Garth Greenwell “Savas is an author who simply, and astoundingly, knows.” -Bryan Washington Asya and Manu are looking at apartments, envisioning their future in a foreign city. What should their life here look like? What rituals will structure their days? Whom can they consider family? As the young couple dreams about the possibilities of each new listin... continue