Résultats pour "Novelle" dans Littérature, romans et fiction

A roguish sorceress uses her cunning and courage on a quest for redemption in this collection of linked fantasy novellas by the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic and The Bewitching. Yalxi is a ruthless sorceress possessed not only of talent but also an arcane artifact: a pearl...

In a sweeping saga of music and vengeance, the acclaimed author of The Vampire Chronicles draws readers into eighteenth-century Italy, bringing to life the decadence beneath the shimmering surface of Venice, the wild frivolity of Naples, and the magnetic terror of its shadow, Vesuvius. This is...

“Extraordinary . . . No one but Chaim Potok could have written this strangely sweet, compelling, and deeply felt novel.”—The Cleveland Plain Dealer In his powerful My Name is Asher Lev, Chaim Potok gave the world an unforgettable character and a timeless story that The New York Times Book...

For Davita Chandal, growing up in New York in the 1930s and '40s is an experience of indescribable joy—and unfathomable sadness. Her loving parents, both fervent radicals, fill her with the fiercely bright hope for a new, better world. But the deprivations of war and the Depression take their...

An upcoming title from the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group...

Emily Austin, the bestselling “queen of darkly quirky, endearingly flawed heroines” (Sarah Haywood, author of The Cactus), returns with a luminous new novel following a librarian who comes back to work after a mental breakdown only to confront book-banning crusaders in an empowering story of...

Instant Bestseller A moving story about two very different sisters, and a love letter to childhood, growing up, and the power of imagination—from the bestselling author of Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead and Interesting Facts About Space. Sigrid hates working at the Dollar Pal but...

From the acclaimed author of The Unpassing, a tender and meticulously observed novel, following three generations of women learning to navigate a near-future California. Kina lives in a hamlet sealed off from the pollutants and allergens that plague the outside world, subsisting on a regulated...

“[Chaim] Potok writes powerfully about the suffering of innocent people caught in the cross-fire of a war they cannot begin to understand. . . . Humanity and compassion for his characters leap from every page.”—San Francisco Chronicle As the Chinese and the army of the North sweep south...

The long-awaited new novel from the award-winning author of The Parcel. An unforgettable, heartbreaking, often darkly funny story of a boy growing up in Bombay, India against the backdrop of the 1990s riots. As a city turns savage, a young boy’s mind turns against him. Anosh Irani’s new...

A young woman struggles to come to terms with the consequences of a first love that changed her forever—and led to the fracture of her family. Kari and her twin brother, Matt, are fresh out of high school when their family rents a summer cottage in the sleepy lake town of Culver Point. It...

"Alex is one of the truly great Scandinavian storytellers. He writes with compassion and curiosity about childhood, and the vulnerability of being small, in a way like no other I know. This is a novel that stays with you, you'll put it down and call your parents, or text your kids. And you'll...

On an ordinary afternoon, a woman sees her partner murdered in the street. Time freezes. She lifts his body from the pavement, cradles him home, disinfects each inch of skin—and sits down to begin. As he witnesses his own funeral from beyond, their two voices—living and dead—lament a lifetime of bone-grinding labor in a society that devours everyone whole. But the woman is no longer willing to bow before law, God, or money. In an act of love and rebellion, she transforms his body into her own, entombing him within her flesh so that he may live again.

From the incomparable Anne Tyler, a wise, gently humorous, and deeply compassionate novel about a schoolteacher, who has been forced to retire at sixty-one, coming to terms with the final phase of his life. Liam Pennywell, who set out to be a philosopher and ended up teaching fifth grade, never...

From New York Times bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe comes the highly anticipated sequel to the bestseller Where the Rivers Merge, the concluding novel in the sweeping multigenerational epic that celebrates one intrepid woman’s life in the twentieth-century American South. It’s 1988 and...

Juicy, fizzy and ripe for the picking, My Darling Clementine surveys a woman who is obsessed, unraveling, and utterly convinced she’s turning into a clementine—a sticky debut that exposes the dark underbelly of romantic fantasies and asks how far is too far to go in the name of love. Inara...

“Casually dazzling . . . thoroughly riveting.”—Entertainment Weekly The luminous and unforgettable first novel about an amnesiac professor that introduced an astonishing voice in fiction, now available in a beautiful paperback edition for a new generation to discover. Samson Greene, a...

In this enthralling modern fairy tale from the acclaimed author of The Devil's Grip, two orphaned sisters grapple with the dark side of their Swedish village and the possibility of escape. After losing their parents in a car accident as toddlers, Jolly and Peggy grow up with a foster family in a...

The feuding Brown sisters are haunted by secrets. Just before a dinner at their mother's idyllic holiday cottage, Susannah Brown disappears, in this gripping psychological thriller by a dazzling new talent. The Brown sisters: Lucy, Susannah, Tara. Each is haunted—by disgrace (Lucy), vanity...

For fans of The Light Between Oceans, this “exquisitely written, true book of wonders” (Geraldine Brooks, Pulitzer Prize-winning author) explores the aftermath of World War II in an Australian seaside town, and the mysterious poem that changes the lives of those who encounter it. In 1948, in...