Títulos en Coming of age

One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years A modern masterpiece about love and kinship, about living in an America birthed from slavery. Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison gives life to characters who struggle with what society tells them to be, and the love they...

Great Expectations follows Pip's life from a plucky but poor and put-upon child in the Kent marshes, to a young man with "great expectations" in London and the choices he must make as a result of his winding journey. On the way, we meet some of Dickens' most memorable and unique characters - the mysterious and brutal Magwtich; eternally heartbroken Miss Havisham; and her cold-hearted child Estella.

It is summer in Tokyo. Claire finds herself dividing her time between tutoring twelve-year-old Mieko, in an apartment in an abandoned hotel, and lying on the floor at her grandparents': daydreaming, playing Tetris, and listening to the sounds from the street above. The heat rises; the days slip by. The plan is for Claire to visit Korea with her grandparents. They fled the civil war there over fifty years ago, along with thousands of others, and haven't been back since. 

Tan desternillante como el mejor Ignatius Reilly y tan mordaz como un Pablo Tusset alucinado, Pachi Poncela nos presenta la historia de un treintañero gris y anodino que, desesperado por salir de la jaula que se ha construido en la vida, se inventa una nueva identidad. Sin embargo, su mentira irá creciendo hasta alcanzar proporciones incontrolables, un Babel de mis voces mentirosas que solo llegará a tambalearse por medio de una cosa: el amor de la enigmática Flora.

In un attimo fatale, come il Lord Jim di Conrad, il giovane Billy Parham inaugura la sua storia. Siamo alle soglie della Seconda guerra mondiale, Billy e Boyd sono figli di un piccolo allevatore del New Mexico, autoritario e taciturno. Catturata una lupa che si sta accanendo sul bestiame della famiglia, Billy decide di non consegnarla al padre, che la ucciderebbe, ma di riportarla sulle montagne messicane per restituirla al suo mondo.

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Mit großen Hoffnungen ist die 18-jährige Sheridan Grant aus Nebraska nach New York gezogen, um Sängerin zu werden. Doch Sheridans eigene Musik interessiert niemanden, die Karriere in einer Girl-Group endet, bevor sie richtig begonnen hat. Eine schicksalhafte Begegnung gibt Sheridans Leben jedoch eine neue Richtung.

Twenty years ago, Oona left the island of Inis for the very first time. A wind-blasted rock of fishing boats and turf fires, where girls stayed in their homes until they became mothers, the island was a gift for some, a prison for others. Oona was barely more than a girl, but she promised herself she would leave the tall tales behind and never return. Rich, haunting, and rooted in Irish folklore, The Island Child is a spellbinding debut novel about identity and motherhood, freedom and fate, and the healing power of stories.

Un conocido profesor de teatro, llamado Simón Cátero, embarca en un proyecto a cuatro alumnos suyos. Se trata de crear un espejo de carne y hueso. Los cuatro tienen la impresión de ser usurpadores, habitantes privilegiados de la ciudad; ninguno se atreve a merecer su futuro; los cuatro desean que el proyecto dé un sentido a sus existencias privadas, individuales. Cuando el proyecto fracase, se verán obligados a afrontar la decisión de construir sus vidas.

En la Barcelona más actual, los jóvenes componentes de un grupo musical y sus amigos se enfrentan a situaciones cotidianas y otras no tanto: el descubrimiento del sexo, el autismo producido por la tecnología, el suicidio inducido... el retrato sin concesiones de una juventud muy real.

Korea's brightest literary star sets this complex and nuanced coming-of-age story against the backdrop of Korea's industrial sweatshops of the 1970s and takes on the extreme exploitation, oppression, and urbanization that helped catapult Korea's economy out of the ashes of war. But it was girls like Shin's heroine who formed the bottom of Seoul's rapidly changing social hierarchy, forgotten and ignored.

As the daughter of a drug dealer, Wavy knows not to trust people, not even her own parents. It's safer to keep her mouth shut and stay out of sight. Struggling to raise her little brother, Donal, eight-year-old Wavy is the only responsible adult around. Obsessed with the constellations, she finds peace in the starry night sky above the fields behind her house until one night her stargazing causes an accident. After witnessing his motorcycle wreck, she forms an unusual friendship with one of her father's thugs, Kellen, a tattooed ex-con with a heart of gold.

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This quintessential coming-of-age novel describes the early life of Stephen Dedalus. It is set in Ireland during the 19th century, which was a time of emerging Irish nationalism and conservative Catholicism. Highly autobiographical in nature, the work is also notable for its being the first one in which Joyce uses innovative “stream of consciousness” writing style. A Portrait... follows Stephen Dedalus from his babyhood into early adulthood.

Immune to the consequences of immorality, five privileged young men in Bogotá bond over a shared code: worship drugs and drink, exploit women, and scorn the underclass. As males, they declare the right to freedom of pleasure. As friends, only disloyalty to each other is forbidden. When a little girl from the slums disappears, the limits of a perverse and sacred bond will be tested in ways none of them could have imagined.

One morning, Deming Guo's mother, an undocumented Chinese immigrant named Polly, goes to her job at the nail salon and never comes home. No one can find any trace of her. With his mother gone, 11-year-old Deming is left with no one to care for him. He is eventually adopted by two white college professors who move him from the Bronx to a small town upstate. They rename him Daniel Wilkinson in their efforts to make him over into their version of an "all-American boy".

Living on her family’s gorgeous lakeside estate in Cornwall, England, Alice Edevane is a bright, clever, inquisitive, innocent, and precociously talented fourteen-year-old who loves to write stories. But the mysteries she pens are no match for the one her family is about to endure ...One midsummer’s eve, after a beautiful party drawing hundreds of guests to the estate has ended, the Edevanes discover that their youngest son, Theo, has vanished without a trace.

In this follow-up novel to the bestselling Ten Tiny Breaths, Livie Cleary faces a new set of challenges as she navigates freshman year at Princeton, wild parties, and the gorgeous rowing team captain who is everything she doesn’t want in a guy—or so she thinks… “Make me proud.” These...

El Vendedor de Suenos evoca las tribulaciones de Chino, un joven del Harlem hispano en busca del amor, de reafirmacion de identidad. Su relacion con Bodega, un capo magnanimo, un bandido generoso, lo sumerge en un mundo de intrigas y violencia.

“Much like Donna Tartt’s The Secret History, M. L. Rio’s sparkling debut is a richly layered story of love, friendship, and obsession...If We Were Villains will keep you riveted through its final, electrifying moments.” --Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney, New York Times bestselling author of...