Résultats pour "The Names" dans Fiction contemporaine

In Find Me, Aciman shows us Elio's father, Samuel, on a trip from Florence to Rome to visit Elio, now a gifted classical pianist. A chance encounter on the train upends Sami's visit and changes his life forever. Elio soon moves to Paris, where he, too, has a consequential affair, while Oliver, a New England college professor with a family, suddenly finds himself contemplating a return trip across the Atlantic. Aciman is a master of sensibility, of the intimate details and the nuances of emotion that are the substance of passion. 

The new novel from the author of Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 Once Ko Mani dreamt of becoming a professional gymnast. Life, however, had other plans for her. Today she has an office job and lives with her parents in the same house and poor part of Seoul in which she grew up. When she unexpectedly...

Das Mädchen ist tot, die Haushälterin wird vernommen. Zum ersten Mal hören alle Estela zu. Szene um Szene offenbart sich ein schwindelerregendes Kammerspiel unüberbrückbarer Klassenunterschiede. Sieben Jahre hat Estela im Haus der fremden Familie gelebt, hat tagein, tagaus für sie gesorgt. Die weiße Schürze ist zu einer zweiten Haut geworden, die dünnen Wände ihres Zimmers rücken immer näher. Doch sie ist nicht die einzige Gefangene des Hauses: Im leeren Blick des Mädchens sieht Estela ihre eigene Einsamkeit gespiegelt.

‘To play the country-game, we have to choose a country. Everybody wants to be the USA and Britain and Canada and Australia and Switzerland and them. Nobody wants to be rags of countries like Congo, like Somalia, like Iraq, like Sudan, like Haiti and not even this one we live in – who wants...

charming and inspiring "dogography" written from the point of view of Eric, an outspoken and memorable Pomeranian. From his birth on a remote dog breeding farm, deep inside rural New South Wales, Australia through his formative years in Singapore and into old-age, you will get to know, and love, Eric and the family that raises him.

Brad spends his days swinging a hammer and his weekend nights pouring drinks just to keep his nose clean. At only 21, he's already had enough trouble to last him a lifetime. But when he realizes the boy upstairs has new injuries that coincide with loud shouting matches from that apartment, he knows he has to do something to help.

Joon is a young Korean immigrant living in the Bronx of the 1980s. Her parents have crumbled under the weight of her father's infidelity and mental illness has rendered her mother nearly catatonic. So Joon, at the age of 13, decides she's better off on her own and sets out on a harrowing and sometimes tragic journey, exposing herself to all the pain and difficulty of a life lived on the margins.