Books written by female authors (2905)
2701.
Una casa llena de gente by Mariana Sández ES
Country: South America / 
Argentina
Argentina
Description:
La literatura es, ni más ni menos, una casa llena de gente, o al menos lo es para Leila Ross, traductora y escritora frustrada para quien el tiempo se organiza en y para los libros. Sin embargo, su vida es bastante más compleja que eso: ha de enfrentarse a las demandas de lo doméstico y de una madre de lo más exigente, la temible Granny, orgullosa inglesa de nacimiento, pragmática y criticona. Y luego está la casa, el castello donde vivirá toda la familia, y que irá dando forma a una trama que avanza a través de lo no dicho, lo sug... continue
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Una forma de vida by Amélie Nothomb ES
BelgiumDescription:
Presentación del editor: Todo empieza cuando una novelista llamada Amélie Nothomb recibe una carta de uno de sus lectores, un soldado norteamericano, Melvin Mapple, que le escribe desde Irak. Mapple contrae una enfermedad, común entre los soldados. Y es la existencia de este padecimiento lo que deja al lector en estado de shock, lo hechiza y lo sume en un relato alucinante en el que, como en otras novelas de Nothomb, el protagonista absoluto es el cuerpo. Un cuerpo distinto, repudiado, que, para sobrevivir, alumbrará una nueva identidad, Scherezade, con la que el yo desdoblado de Mapple inicia... continue
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Una mañana perdida by Gabriela Adameşteanu ES
RomaniaDescription:
Una mañana perdida es una novela monumental, al modo de las de Dostoievski o Mann.
Sus 566 páginas son engañosas; si no fuera por su letra pequeña y escasos márgenes, podría tener cerca de mil.
Pero no sólo por eso; la cantidad de personajes y vínculos, en general evocados por los diálogos o relatos en primera persona, conforman un árbol difícil de seguir.
La novela puede dividirse en tres partes: la primera en los años ’70 con el paseo matinal de Vica Delca, que sale de visita, y al no encontrar a nad... continue
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Honduras2705.
Unbowed: A Memoir by Wangari Maathai EN
KenyaDescription:
Born in a rural Kenyan village in 1940, Wangari Maathai was already an iconoclast as a child, determined to get an education even though most African girls then were uneducated.
2706.
Unburnable : A Novel by Marie-Elena John EN
Country: North America / 
Antigua and Barbuda
Antigua and Barbuda
Description:
Set partly in contemporary Washington, D.C., and post-World War II Dominica, this debut novel deftly intertwines the cultures of blacks in the United States and the West Indies as an extraordinary multigenerational family saga unfolds.
2707.
Uncertain Kin by Janice Lynn Mather EN
Country: North America / 
Bahamas
Bahamas
Description:
From Governor General's Literary Award finalist Janice Lynn Mather comes this mesmerizing collection of linked stories that explores the beauty and brutality of being alive. SET AGAINST THE VIVID backdrop of The Bahamas, these eighteen luminous and haunting stories introduce us to women and girls searching for certainty and belonging as they navigate profound upheaval. The characters are bold and big-hearted, complex and intimately familiar. They grapple with the bonds of kinship and the responsibilities of parenthood, with grief, longing, betrayal, coming of age and what it means to be a woma... continue
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Under a Red Sky : Memoir of a Childhood in Communist Romania by Haya Leah Molnar EN
Description:
The author shares her early memories of being a Jewish child living in postwar Bucharest, Romania, and the eccentric and opinionated adults who surrounded her and who would do anything to keep her safe while living in this communist country.
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Under Lock & Skeleton Key : A Secret Staircase Mystery by Gigi Pandian EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
"Wildly entertaining." —The New York Times Book Review A Lefty Nominee for Best Mystery Novel Known for her wonderfully addictive characters, multiple award-winning author Gigi Pandian introduces her newest heroine in this heartfelt series debut. Under Lock & Skeleton Key layers stunning architecture with mouthwatering food in an ode to classic locked-room mysteries that will leave readers enchanted. An impossible crime. A family legacy. The intrigue of hidden rooms and secret staircases. After a disastrous accident derails Tempest Raj’s career, and life, she heads back to her childhood home i... continue
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under the net by iris murdoch EN
Country: Europe / 
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
The sea: turbulent and leaden, transparent and opaque, magician and mother... When Charles Arrowby, over sixty, a demi god of the theatre- director, playwright and actor - retires from his glittering London world in order to `abjure magic and become a hermit', it is to the sea that he turns. He hopes at least to escape from `the woman' - but unexpectedly meets one whom he loved long ago. His Buddhist cousin, James, also arrives. He is menaced by a monster from the deep. Charles finds his `solitude' peopled by the drama of his own fantasies and obsessions.