Títulos en Ficción contemporánea

Der sensationelle Nummer-1-Bestseller aus Großbritannien: Das fulminante Meisterwerk von Booker-Prize-Finalistin Ali Smith. England im Herbst 2016: Das Land hat einen historischen Sommer hinter sich, die Nation ist tief gespalten, und Angst macht sich breit. Mitten in dieser Zeit des Umbruchs besucht die junge Kunsthistorikerin Elisabeth einen alten Weggefährten im Heim. Daniel ist ein Jahrhundert alt. Er war einst ihr Nachbar und hat ihr als Kind die Welt der Fantasie eröffnet.

あの『いま、会いにゆきます』よりも好きだという人が数多くいます。堤幸彦氏の映画『恋愛寫眞』との競作として世に出、その後『ただ、君を愛してる』と題して再度映画化され、物語の完成度とともに、恋することの切なさや美しさをリリカルに描いた傑作恋愛小説として35万部を突破した、市川拓司氏のもう一つの傑作です。

明治時代創業の老舗古本屋・東京バンドワゴンは本日も大騒ぎ！　先々代の時代に錚々たる文士が寄稿して編まれ、強盗殺人までも引き起こした〈呪いの目録〉。ずっと封印されていたその目録を狙う不審な男がうろつきはじめた――。

On Emilia Morris's thirteenth birthday, her mother Rachel moves into a tent at the bottom of their garden. From that day on, she never says another word. Inspired by her vow of silence, other women join her and together they build the Community. Eight years later, Rachel and thousands of her...

A compassionate and surprisingly funny novel that is impossible to put down and even harder to forget, from the award-winning author of Islands. Meg and Nina are two sisters living very different lives. Meg is super organised and possibly OCD; Nina is so depressed she is living like a homeless...

A moving and original debut novel. Observant, warm and extraordinary. 'There is an other-worldly quality about the Abrolhos which is beyond the reach of ordinary storytelling. Emily Brugman has captured them, staked them to the page in all their isolation and aridity and scoured indifference...

A Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick 'a primal roar of a novel' - Riley Sager, NYT bestselling author of The Last Time I Lied 'serrated as a kitchen knife, and twice as sharp' - AJ Finn, bestselling author of The Woman In The Window If only you'd listened to us, none of this would...

A cache of unsent love letters from the 1950s is found in a suitcase on a remote island in this mysterious love story by Top 10 bestselling author, Kayte Nunn 1951. In the shadow of the Second World War, Esther Durrant, a young mother, is committed to an isolated mental asylum by her husband...

A wardrobe of Dior gowns, a secret kept for sixty-five years, and the three women bound forever by war... from the New York Times bestselling author of The French Photographer England, 1939 Talented pilot Skye Penrose joins the British war effort where she encounters her estranged sister...

It's 1982 in Australia. THE MAN FROM SNOWY RIVER is a box office hit and Paul Hogan is on the TV. In a seaside suburb, housewife Theresa takes up swimming. She wants to get fit; she also wants a few precious minutes to herself. So at sunrise each day she strikes out past the waves. From the same...

Nineteen-year-old Billy Lynn is home from Iraq. And he's a hero. Billy and the rest of Bravo Company were filmed defeating Iraqi insurgents in a ferocious firefight. Now Bravo's three minutes of extreme bravery is a YouTube sensation and the Bush Administration has sent them on a nationwide...

By the winner of the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Fiction. Since her sister died, Meg has been on her own. She doesn’t mind, not really — not with Atticus, her African grey parrot, to keep her company — but after her house is broken into by a knife-wielding intruder, she...

The stunning new novel from Costa-Novel-Award-winning novelist Maggie O'Farrell: a portrait of an Irish family in crisis in the legendary heatwave of 1976.

'It does not disappoint.' - The Guardian When Mina receives an urgent call from her best friend back in Melbourne, her world is turned upside down. Her reclusive mother, Elaine, has left the house for the first time in twelve years. Mina drops everything to fly home, only to discover that Elaine...

Tutto si guasta, si incrina, invecchia, si rompe. Sohara Mamoru, che è nato sull'isola più piccola dell'arcipelago di Izu ed è il tuttofare della comunità, lo sa. Durante i tre giorni che precedono il Capodanno, si svolge la storia di un uomo che ha sempre messo davanti alla propria realizzazione la felicità altrui. In quella goccia di terra sovrastata da un vulcano dormiente e coperta da boschi di camelie, Sohara sogna (e di nascosto realizza) piccoli atti magici. Aggiusta case, guardrail, lampioni e, insieme, persone.

Marek è disoccupato, ma nella vita ha fatto un po’ di tutto: il camionista, l’idraulico, il giardiniere, il manovale, sempre per una paga da fame. Sua mamma si è spezzata la schiena per fargli prendere il diploma, e a cosa è servito? Forse però ha trovato l’occasione per cambiare vita: ha letto sul giornale che cercano braccianti per raccogliere pomodori nel Sud Italia e non ci pensa due volte, lascia Cracovia per inseguire il sogno di un lavoro sicuro. Non ha idea di quello che troverà.

Cosa sta succedendo a Sasha? A trentatré anni ha un ottimo lavoro, almeno sulla carta, che però le toglie tutte le energie. Si sente terribilmente stanca, non frequenta più gli amici, di amore e sesso non vuole neanche sentir parlare, ha attacchi di panico e prova un senso di vuoto e di profondo disorientamento. In poche parole, non ce la fa più. È esaurita. Così un giorno, di punto in bianco, scappa a gambe levate dal suo ufficio determinata a non tornare indietro. Incoraggiata da sua madre e piena di buoni propositi, decide di partire per cercare di riprendersi dal burnout.

La dolça existència és l'indret just on la realitat es troba amb la ficció «la fantasia, allà on tot té solució, on res dolent pot succeir, on les persones mai deceben i els herois mai traeixen». Un relat travessat per la cerca de la bellesa i el pes de la memòria. El vent i la llum daurada de Cadaqués, els matins al Casino, el magnetisme dels actors i productors, el flirteig, els restaurants de platja, els llibres de capçalera... Tot es barreja en un vaivé constant entre realitat i invenció, entre passat i present, entre allò que es viu i allò que es recorda.

Compton Magna and Nether Bagot sit high on the Fosse Hills to either side of the Gloucestershire/Warwickshire border, just half a mile apart. They form the backdrop to this rich story of secrets and rivalries, as glamorous Ronnie Ledwell returns to take up the reins of her father's horse...

Alberto Chimal nos sorprende con un thriller escalofriante y original donde el horror sobrenatural se confunde con la violencia de una época marcada por las prohibiciones y la manipulación ideológica. México, 1972. Los años del miedo y la represión hacia los estudiantes todavía no se...