Romance genre books (451)


271.

Pădurea norvegiană by Haruki Murakami RO

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / Japan flag Japan
Description:
Romanul Pădurea norvegiană, care-și împrumută titlul de la un hit al formației Beatles, Norwegian Wood, are ca fond atmosfera social-politică agitată a anilor '60. Narațiunea opune acestui laitmotiv dur momente de o intimitate emoțională răscolitoare. Povestea lui Toru Watanabe urmăreste firul implicațiilor psihologice născute din dragostea imposibilă pentru iubita prietenului mort. Totul se petrece pe fundalul unor episoade marcate la tot pasul de scene erotice în camere sordide de cămin studențesc, de afișe și de discuri cu Jim Morrison, Miles Davis sau Bach, de lecturi d... continue

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Palmeras en la Nieve by Luz Gabás ES

Rating: 4 (5 votes)
Country: Europe / Spain flag Spain
Description:
Es 1953 y Kilian abandona la nieve de la montaña oscense para iniciar junto a su hermano, Jacobo, el viaje de ida hacia una tierra desconocida, lejana y exótica, la isla de Fernando Poo. En las entrañas de este territorio exuberante y seductor, le espera su padre, un veterano de la finca Sampaka, el lugar donde se cultiva y tuesta uno de los mejores cacaos del mundo. En esa tierra eternamente verde, cálida y voluptuosa, los jóvenes hermanos descubren la ligereza de la vida social de la colonia en comparación con una España encorsetada y gris; comparten el duro trabajo necesario para conseguir ... continue


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Parachutes by Kelly Yang EN

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Country: Asia / China flag China
Description:
A wealthy Chinese teen is sent to America on her own to attend private school. Claire is a rich 11th grader in Shanghai; Dani is a scholarship student at a private school in Southern California who helps her mother clean houses. When Claire is parachuted into America to finish high school and Dani's mother needs the income from a boarder, they become unlikely housemates.

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Passion Simple by Annie Ernaux FR

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Country: Europe / France flag France
Description:
Un Don Juan à éclipses, venu de l'Est, fait souffrir une nouvelle Bovary. Sur le thème de l'attente amoureuse, un roman sentimental de type "Harlequin", investi, avec une autorité sobre, par une intellectuelle. La critique est partagée. J.-F. Josselin, du ##Nouvel Observateur##, dit que ce petit livre est "aussi charmant qu'inutile."

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Patul lui Procust by Camil Petrescu RO

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Romania flag Romania
Description:
Triunghiuri amoroase sunt destule in amandoua romanele lui Camil Petrescu de dinainte de razboi. Combustibilul care pune dorinta in miscare este, in amandoua, vanitatea. Daca pasiunea se analizeaza si formeaza obiectul prozei psihologice, vanitatea se reflecta in gesturi si formeaza obiectul prozei comportiste. Camil Petrescu, atat de dator lui Proust in tezele lui despre roman, nu-i datoreaza mare lucru in romane ca atare. Patul lui Procust e romanul unor vanitati ranite: a doamnei T. si a lui Fred Vasilescu, in primul rand. Tocmai ale celor carora Autorul le da cuvantul, pe care-i indeamna s... continue

277.

Payback's a Witch by Lana Harper EN

Rating: 4 (2 votes)
Country: Europe / Serbia flag Serbia
Description:
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina meets The L Word in this fresh, sizzling New York Times bestselling rom-com by Lana Harper. Emmy Harlow is a witch but not a very powerful one—in part because she hasn't been home to the magical town of Thistle Grove in years. Her self-imposed exile has a lot to do with a complicated family history and a desire to forge her own way in the world, and only the very tiniest bit to do with Gareth Blackmoore, heir to the most powerful magical family in town and casual breaker of hearts and destroyer of dreams. But when a spellcasting tournament that her family serves ... continue

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Perto do coração selvagem by Clarice Lispector PT

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Ukraine flag Ukraine
Description:
O surgimento de Perto do coração selvagem, em 1943, causou grande impacto no cenário literário brasileiro, proporcionando à autora aclamação imediata da crítica e de seus colegas escritores. Houve quem encontrasse no livro a influência de Virginia Woolf, ao passo que outros apostavam em Joyce, seguindo a falsa pista da epígrafe da qual Clarice pinçou seu título: "Ele estava só. Estava abandonado, feliz, perto do coração selvagem da vida." Ambos os grupos estavam errados, apesar do uso do fluxo de consciência pela escritora estreante a justificar tais correlações. Ocorre, no entanto, que esse h... continue

279.

Pictures of You : A Novel by Emma Grey EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Oceania / Australia flag Australia
Description:
A PEOPLE Magazine's Best Book of November 2024 A November 2024 Book of the Month Selection What would you do if you could start over? Imagine having a second chance with the one you never forgot. From the author of the global breakout bestseller The Last Love Note comes the story of a young woman struggling to piece her life back together in the wake of a tragic accident, and the man who gives up everything to help her. Evie Hudson should be grieving her dead husband, but since the car crash that claimed his life and landed her in the hospital, she can’t remember him at all. The only person wh... continue

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Place on Dalhousie, The by Melina Marchetta EN

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Country: Oceania / Australia flag Australia
Description:
When Rosie Gennaro first meets Jimmy Hailler, she has walked away from life in Sydney, leaving behind the place on Dalhousie that her father, Seb, painstakingly rebuilt for his family but never saw completed. Two years later, Rosie returns to the house and living there is Martha, whom Seb Gennaro married less than a year after the death of Rosie's mother. Martha is struggling to fulfil Seb's dream, while Rosie is coming to terms with new responsibilities. And so begins a stand-off between two women who refuse to move out of the home they both lay claim to. As the battle lines are drawn, Jimmy ... continue