Book type: fiction (5716)
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Yellow Wallpaper & Other Stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
In the Longsellers collection, you will find the most read and loved books of all time.Published in 1892, The Yellow Wallpaper, became a classic whenever we talk about feminist literature.The story, told in the format of a diary, tells the story of a woman confined to a room in a country house, under the pretext of treating a condition of "depression and hysteria. Lonely and having her life closely controlled by her husband, she begins to obsess over the wallpaper in her room.Charlotte Perkins Gilman is regarded as pioneer in American feminism. Also known for the utopian feminist novel Herland... continue
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Yellowface : A Novel by R. F. Kuang EN
ChinaDescription:
So what if June edits Athena's novel and sends it to her agent as her own work? Doesn't this piece of history deserve to be told, whoever the teller? That's what June claims, and the New York Times bestseller list seems to agree. But June can't get away from Athena's shadow, and emerging evidence threatens to bring June's (stolen) success down around her
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Yes, Chef by Waitlyn Andrews EN
SpainDescription:
I've sworn off romantic relationships, stifling family expectations, and self-doubt. The trifecta, really. Returning home to run the family business is inevitable, but that doesn't mean I can't spend some time carving out my own path to culinary success. In Paris. Because who doesn't love Paris? Because Paris has the best food scene in the world. And I want to earn this my way, damn it. The first four months of living abroad go exactly as planned. Working at one of the chicest, up-and-coming restaurants in France—not to brag—I know a Michelin star is within reach if I keep my head down, focus,... continue
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Country: South America / 
Chile
Chile
Description:
In San Agustín de Tango, you can never be sure what's waiting around the corner. Over the course of a single day – the day before today – the hero of this novel and his adored wife embark on a journey through the absurd and the surreal, encountering a choir of monkeys and a carnivorous ostrich, travelling from the studio of an artist obsessed with the colour green to the waistcoat pocket of a pot-bellied man. All the while, the tolling of the bell in the city square pushes their whirlwind adventure towards its fateful conclusion... A brilliant and bizarre work from an overlooked great of 20th ... continue
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Yo serví al rey de Inglaterra by Bohumil Hrabal ES
Country: Europe / 
Czech Republic
Czech Republic
Description:
En la década de 1930, en Praga, un joven aprendiz de camarero, Jan, logra su primer trabajo dispuesto a convertirse en dueño de un hotel e ingresar en el selecto club de los millonarios. Listo y ambicioso, todo lo supeditará a alcanzar el éxito y el reconocimiento social. Pero el punto de vista de Jan es a menudo equivocado: se casa con una alemana que adora a Hitler justo cuando las tropas nazis entran en Praga, y se convierte en millonario justo cuando en su país se implanta el comunismo. Con un brillante sentido del humor y escenas hilarantes, Hrabal nos cuenta las picarescas peripecias del... continue
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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.
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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
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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 ...
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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