Literary Fiction

Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water is set in Kerala, on South India’s Malabar Coast, and follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning—and in Kerala, water is everywhere....

For too long, Opaline, Martha and Henry have been the side characters in their own lives. But when a vanishing bookshop casts its spell, these three unsuspecting strangers will discover that their own stories are every bit as extraordinary as the ones found in the pages of their beloved books....

Combining magic, wisdom, and wonder into an inspiring tale of discovery, this is a modern classic narrated by the inimitable Jeremy Irons.

One of the 20th century's enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize-winning career....

Meghann Dontess is a woman haunted by heartbreak. Twenty-five years ago she was forced to make a terrible choice, one that cost her everything, including the love of her sister, Claire....

The first glimpse of the sea on Marine Drive filled my heart, if not my head. I turned away from the red shadow....

The people who call End of the Line need hope. They need reassurance that life is worth living. But some are unlucky enough to get through to Laura. Laura doesn’t want them to hope. She wants them to die....

The striking novel Blood Meridian offers an unflinching narrative of the brutality that accompanied the push west on the 1850s Texas frontier....

Two rural families flee to the city and find themselves sharing a great, breathing, shuddering joint called Cloudstreet, where they begin their lives from scratch....

On the eve of his marriage to the beautiful Mercedes, having that very day been made captain of his ship, the young sailor Edmond Dantès is arrested on a charge of treason....

All she wanted was the truth, but she'll wish she never found out....

In a post-apocalyptic America, a father and his young son walk toward the coast. Their relationship comes to represent goodness in a world of utter devastation....

Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of 20th-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future, narrated here by Academy Award-winning actor Tim Robbins....

Taking us from Afghanistan in the final days of its monarchy to the present, The Kite Runner is the unforgettable story of the friendship between two boys growing up in Kabul.

JRR Tolkien’s legacy of short stories which inhabit the realm of The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion, on audio for the first time....

Unlike the rest of her family, Maggie Walsh has always done the right thing....

Before the Swallows Come Back is a story of love, found family, and redemption that will break your heart and have it soaring time and time again as you sit on the edge of your seat desperately hoping.

Six years after four family members died of arsenic poisoning, the three remaining Blackwoods live together in pleasant isolation. But one day a stranger arrives....

Sterling is an ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens - until the day its complacency is shattered by an act of violence....

Beren was a mortal man, but Lúthien was an immortal Elf. Her father, a great Elvish lord, was deeply opposed to Beren, and imposed on him an impossible task that he must perform before he might wed Lúthien....

The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959....

Greater in power, broader in scope, and more intensely emotional than any of the author's previous works, For Whom the Bell Tolls stands as one of the best war novels of all time....

With this warning, Sybylla confesses to her rich and handsome suitor that she is given to writing stories and bound, therefore, on a brilliant career....

At times stern, at other times patient, at times perceptive, at other times in sad denial, Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher, deplores the changes in her little town of Crosby, Maine, and in the world at large, but she doesn’t always recognize the changes in those around her....

Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest has left an indelible mark on the literature of our time....

Thea Rogers has dedicated her life to her career in corporate law. Apart from her colleague and long-time friend-with-benefits Alasdair, she’s forgone friendships and relationships, and now she’s on track to become her firm’s youngest ever female partner. She should be ecstatic. But when a senior partner dies unexpectedly, Thea realises the people at his funeral are only there out of duty. Suddenly, Thea can’t shake the question: if she disappeared tomorrow, would anyone care?

È un plotone di giovani ragazzi quello comandato dal maresciallo Antonio René. L'ultimo arrivato, il caporalmaggiore Roberto Ietri, ha appena vent'anni e si sente inesperto in tutto. Per lui, come per molti altri, la missione in Afghanistan è la prima grande prova della vita. Al momento di partire, i protagonisti non sanno ancora che il luogo a cui verranno destinati è uno dei più pericolosi di tutta l'area del conflitto: la forward operating base (fob) Ice, nel distretto del Gulistan.

それは、彼女と僕だけの秘密です――世界に隠された恋と後悔の物語。迷い、悩み、嫉妬し、決断をしては、傷つき合う。恋の輝きと世界に隠された理不尽を鮮烈に描いたくラブストーリー。

Everything in Edith’s life is approaching disaster. Her writing career is stagnant. Her love life is a mess. Her ex, Tessa, is marrying a man. Her teeth are rotting in her skull. And her best friend, Val, is dead. Still Life volleys between the present and recent past, chronicling the lives of three women—one cis, two trans, all forever entwined.

An orphan leaves Dark Ages London, taking a dangerous journey and posing as a Jew to study medicine in Persia, in "an adventurous and inspiring tale" (Library Journal). A child holds the hand of his dying mother and is terrified, aware something is taking her. Orphaned and given to an itinerant barber-surgeon, Rob Cole becomes a fast-talking swindler, peddling a worthless medicine. But as he matures, his strange gift - an acute sensitivity to impending death - never leaves him, and he yearns to become a healer.

David Copperfield war Charles Dickens der liebste Roman, es ist auch sein persönlichster. Das Buch hat Generationen von Lesenden in seinen Bann geschlagen, vielen war und ist es prägende Jugendlektüre, große Autorinnen und Autoren – Leo Tolstoi, Virginia Woolf, Vladimir Nabokov, Elias Canetti – verehrten ihn ein Leben lang. Es ist zunächst eine Leidensgeschichte im viktorianischen England. Nach dem Tod des Vaters geboren und nach einer unseligen Neuvermählung der Mutter muss der junge David eine höllenhafte Schulzeit durchleiden, wird bereits als Zehnjähriger zur Arbeit gezwungen.

Esilarante e stranamente tenero, l’esperimento di “ibernazione” narcotica di una giovane donna, aiutata e incoraggiata da una delle peggiori psichiatre della storia. New York, all’alba del nuovo millennio. La protagonista gode di molti privilegi, almeno in apparenza. È giovane, magra, carina, da poco laureata alla Columbia e vive, grazie a un’eredità, in un appartamento nell’Upper East Side di Manhattan. Ma c’è qualcosa che le manca, c’è un vuoto nella sua vita che non è semplicemente legato alla prematura perdita dei genitori o al modo in cui la tratta il fidanzato che lavora a Wall Street.

Es la madrugada del 1 de septiembre de 1939 cuando el continente europeo despierta enmudecido por la marcha de miles de soldados alemanes hacia Polonia, a la que acabarán conquistando y anexionando con una guerra relámpago. Italia se mantiene al margen mientras que Reino Unido y Francia declaran inmediatamente la guerra a Hitler. Sin embargo, testigo de la rapidez del ejército nazi y cada día más presionado por los altos cargos fascistas, Mussolini se convence de que todo terminará pronto y en abril de 1940 decide también involucrarse en el conflicto.

Ihr weltveränderndes Geheimnis kann nicht mehr lange verborgen bleiben. Elloren Gardner verbirgt das mächtigste Geheimnis in ganz Aerda - sie ist die Schwarze Hexe der Prophezeiung und dazu bestimmt, zu triumphieren ... oder als ultimative Waffe der Zerstörung eingesetzt zu werden. Getrennt von allen, die sie liebt, isoliert und gejagt, muss Elloren sich an die letzte Person wenden, der sie vertrauen kann - Kommandant Lukas Grey.

Widower Sir Adam Wilson has put off remarrying in favor of seeing to his textile business and the tenants farmers who work the fields. At thirty-five and a father of a young daughter, he can no longer ignore his need for an heir. When he discovers how his grandfather found his Lady Wilson, he decides to do the same—run a bride contest at the local fair.

Seine Exzellenz Eugène Rougon (Son excellence Eugène Rougon. Übersetzt von Armin Schwarz) Eugène Rougon hatte als republikanischer Minister des Innern im Jahr 1851 den Staatsstreich unterstützt, in dessen Zuge Staatspräsident Charles Louis Napoléon Bonaparte zum Kaiser Napoléon III. ausgerufen wurde. Rougons Karriere ist auf ihrem Höhepunkt. Zola begleitet Rougon durch seine politischen Machtkämpfe, die selbst vor dem Kaiser nicht Halt machen.

Magdalena desaparece un domingo lluvioso en ausencia de sus padres. Tras casarse “en broma” durante una ceremonia secreta con Enrique, este la extrae en contra de su voluntad de su casa paterna. Guiadas por Crimen y castigo de Dostoievski, sus lecturas de Sherlock Holmes y su cultura hollywoodesca, Rosa y Estefanía buscarán a su hermanita en los barrios bajos de la ciudad de México y luego en Europa, donde finalmente se reunirán.

DESPRE AUDIOBOOK: Finalist The Folio Prize 2022 & The Orwell Prize 2022. Naratoarea din Adunare este o tânără britanică de culoare. Ea se pregătește să participe la o petrecere extravagantă în grădina familiei iubitului său, situată într-o regiune rurală îndepărtată, în Anglia. În același timp, se gândește cu grijă la piesele din care este alcătuită. Pe măsură ce trec clipele și viitorul bate la ușă, nu se poate gândi decât la o întrebare: oare e timpul să renunțe la toate? Adunare este povestea poveștilor pe care le trăim.

Стройная красивая брюнетка снимает номер в захудалой островной гостинице с видом на томную голубую лагуну. Днем она посещает могилу матери на вершине холма, а ближе к ночи развлекается в гостиничном баре под звуки сальсы и болеро. Она давно и счастливо замужем, но каждый год в один из дней августа переправляется на пароме на далекий остров, чтобы провести жаркую ночь со случайным любовником. Головокружительный, радостно чувственный роман Увидимся в августе – нежданный подарок от одного из величайших писателей, которых когда-либо знал мир.

It is the story of a Family halfheartedly searching for a missing relation who does not want to be found, while just off-stage, World War I is raging on the continent. It is a story about ordinary people trying to live ordinary lives in extraordinary times. The things they do are less important than the ways in which they do them: often comic, occasionally tragic, but always touching and true to life. It reminds us that Poetry and Romance can be found anywhere, hidden beneath the surface of the most commonplace things.

Six amusing and endearing stories which will make you laugh and cry, and awaken your memories of another day. The perfect book for a day on the beach while basking in balmy ocean breezes, or a mountain vacation ensconced in a cozy cabin. This is a work of fiction, but like the fiction of Hemingway and many others, it is partly autobiographical. Themes of joy, and guilt, and great adventures, and just plain fun are embodied, and as the metaphors sing, you are carried off to another place.

В начале двадцатого века франко-канадская семья Пеллетье переезжает в Колорадо вслед за отцом, устроившимся на работу на мраморный карьер. Пеллетье-старший, возмущенный принятой на карьере потогонной системой, пытается объединить рабочих в профсоюз, но сталкивается с яростным сопротивлением владельцев компании. Его дочь, семнадцатилетняя Сильви Пеллетье, умная, дерзкая и решительная девушка, которая сотрудничала с местной газетой и писала статьи о невыносимых условиях труда в каменоломне, искренне хочет следовать идеалам семьи, но почти против воли влюбляется в наследника мраморной империи.

Луиза Мэй Олкотт — американская писательница, автор знаменитого романа "Маленькие женщины", который принес ей мировую славу и любовь читателей. До сих пор книга остается одним из самых значимых произведений американской литературы. Роман "Роза и ее братья" был написан Олкотт в 1875 году. В нем рассказана трогательная история девочки, потерявшей своих родителей и вынужденной жить с дальними родственниками в большой семье. Поначалу Розе приходится нелегко. И правда, что прикажете делать одинокой тихой девочке с целой толпой невероятно заботливых тетушек и бабушек?

Cвежайший роман современного классика Колма Тойбина, титана ирландской и мировой литературы, лауреата многих престижных премий, неоднократного финалиста Букера, автора таких международных бестселлеров, как Волшебник и Мастер. Пятнадцать лет назад его роман Бруклин — тихая одиссея молодой ирландки Эйлиш Лейси, отправившейся из родного Эннискорти в Нью-Йорк, — покорил сердца читателей всего мира, а экранизация Бруклина, поставленная Джоном Краули по сценарию самого Тойбина и Ника Хорнби, получила три "Оскара".

過去のブログ記事が炎上中のラーメン評論家、夢を語るだけで行動には移せないフリーター、もどり悪阻とコロナ禍で孤独に苦しむ妊婦、番組の降板がささやかれている落ち目の元アイドル……いまは手詰まりに思えても、自分を取り戻した先につながる道はきっとある。この世を生き抜く勇気がむくむくと湧いてくる、全６篇。