Résultats Éditeur "Penguin Audio" dans Littérature du monde

Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghetto nerd. From his home in New Jersey, where he lives with his mother and sister, Oscar dreams of becoming the Dominican J. R. R. Tolkien and, most of all, of finding love. But he may never get what he wants, thanks to the Fuku: the curse that has haunted Oscar's family for generations, dooming them to prison, torture, tragic accidents, and, above all, ill-starred love. Oscar is just its most recent victim.

A landmark modern classic about the Korean American immigrant experience and the dawn of Los Angeles’s Koreatown A Penguin Classic Kim Ronyoung (Gloria Hahn, 1926–1987) tells the story of Haesu and Chun, immigrants who fled Japanese-occupied Korea for Los Angeles in the decade prior to...

"You may devour this work in one sitting, but you'll be thinking about it for a long, long time."—Vaishnavi Patel, New York Times bestselling author of Kaikeyi "Exquisitely wrenching [and] as elegantly constructed as a finger trap...A triumph." —Shelley Parker-Chan, bestselling author of She...

“Mr. Murakami’s novels are filled with entertaining psychopaths.” —The New York Times From the master of the psychothriller and author of In the Miso Soup, a savage and stunning novel of two boys coming of age in the seedy underbelly of Japanese society One hot summer day, two women...

Named a Best Book of the Year by Time, The Washington Post, and Harper's Bazaar “A tender, spiky family saga about love in all its mysterious incarnations.” —Lorrie Moore, author of A Gate at the Stairs and Birds of America “Absolutely luminous . . . Weaves the transience of suburbia...

“Engaging . . . Ogden is both incisive and eloquent.” —The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) A fascinating and intimate inquiry into Edgar Allan Poe’s shadowy life and horrifyingly compelling work—and why we are drawn to darkness in art Since Edgar Allan Poe’s mysterious...

Harlem in the 1970s: the black soul of New York City. Tish is nineteen and the man she loves - her lifelong friend and the father of her unborn child - has been jailed for a crime he did not commit. As their families come together to fight for his freedom, will their love be enough?

From the Pulitzer Prize finalist, a story of guilt, innocence, and a boy on the cusp of adolescence “A tour de force… One of contemporary American literature’s major chroniclers of manhood.” —The Atlantic "[A] knockout... Lee reinvents himself with each book." —The Boston Globe...

“Thank you for your interest in our school, but we regret to inform you that…” you’re not special. You’re too average. You’re boring. She’ll have to show them just how interesting she can be. Elizabeth Zhang is well aware of her place in the world. She’s in the 10th percentile...

A debut novel by the critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Light of Days, following two very different Jewish women in Warsaw in the late 1930s as they unexpectedly come together in their search for love, meaning, and a sense of home, and as they grapple with the storm...

Featuring a foreword by MJ Lenderman Harry Crews’s savagely funny and gritty portrait of discipline, obsession, control, and power Shereel Dupont, formerly the secretary Dorothy Turnipseed, trains rigorously at the behest of her boss turned personal trainer Russell (“Muscle”) Morgan...

A mother and son travel to a dilapidated cabin in the woods that haunts more than just her memories in this new unnerving horror from the author of The Whistler and Sisters of the Lost Nation. Nell Marin swore she would never return to the place where part of her died. The passing of her...

From TikTok phenomenon Whitney Hanson, a brand-new collection of poems exploring the cadences of love, loss, grief, and healing i am finally finding a balance, a great harmony between the loss and the love, between who i was and who i have become In this exquisite poetry collection, Whitney...

In the grip of existential malaise, 25-year-old Daphne moves to Berlin for a fresh start. Far from resolving her quarter-life crisis, things take a turn for the worse. Because Daphne doesn't just have to navigate all the archetypal experiences of an outsider in the big city—acquiring friends and lovers, grappling with the language and a whole new way of life. A series of mysterious and troubling events are in motion—starting with a brick hurled through her bedroom window in the dead of night—and a further unravelling ensues.

Nosy shopkeeper turned amateur detective Vera Wong can’t resist solving a murder, even while she’s on vacation, in this delightful mystery from USA Today bestselling author Jesse Q. Sutanto. Chinese mother and detective extraordinaire Vera Wong delights in meddling, which happily has led her...

A super-criminal - as deadly as she is beautiful - wagers all in an epic battle with a master detective, Akechi Kogoro. No trick is too elaborate, no disguise too fantastic as the two perfectly matched antagonists take turns to outwit each other.

An Instant USA Today bestseller! When school sweethearts reunite in an unexpectedly bumpy quest for the smoothest spirit, they’ll prove that nothing pairs better with tacos than tequila. San Diego-based model and influencer Jaime Montez isn’t the heir—or even the spare—to his family’s...

In Tokyo, 16-year-old Nao has decided there's only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates' bullying. But before she ends it all, Nao first plans to document the life of her great grandmother, a Buddhist nun who's lived more than a century. A diary is Nao's only solace - and will touch lives in ways she can scarcely imagine. Across the Pacific, we meet Ruth, a novelist living on a remote island who discovers a collection of artifacts washed ashore in a Hello Kitty lunchbox - possibly debris from the devastating 2011 tsunami.

"Raise a glass: The first great book-club novel of 2016 has arrived.” —USA Today, 4/4 stars “A female, funny Henry James in Asia, Janice Y. K. Lee is vividly good on the subject of Americans abroad.” —The New York Times Book Review “Sex and the City meets Lost in Translation.”...

A girl awakens to the ruthlessness of her powerful family, and the complicity that sustains it For seven-year-old Nyla, her family’s lush Karachi garden has always been domain enough. Then one day her father brings home a surprise: a girl whose rhyming name—Lyla—seems to confirm their...