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Traumatized by his reeducation at the hands of his former best friend, and struggling to assimilate into French culture, the Sympathizer finds Paris both seductive and disturbing. As he falls in with a group of left-wing intellectuals he meets at dinner parties given by his French Vietnamese “aunt”, he finds stimulation for his mind but also customers for his narcotic merchandise. But the new life he is making has perils, whether the self-torture of addiction, the authoritarianism of a state locked in a colonial mindset, or the paradox of how to reunite his two closest friends.

"Al mattino la superficie del fiume splende come se migliaia di fogli d'oro stropicciati scorressero sull'acqua." Sei bozzoli di preziosa seta esistenziale. Sei fili tesi dal destino. Sei racconti intorno al tempo, alla guarigione, al fato. Sei racconti tessuti in una Tokyo sfolgorante di luci notturne e pulsante di vita. Tutti feriti, chi da un trauma infantile, chi da un abbandono, chi da una storia d'amore tormentata, i protagonisti si sono chiusi in un guscio che li protegge ma insieme li separa dal mondo.

In late 2000, a young boy in Ahmedabad dreams of owning a business. To accommodate his friends' passion, he opens a cricket shop. However, nothing comes easily in a turbulent city. To realise their goals, they will have to face it all - religious politics, calamities, unacceptable love and, above all, their own mistakes. Will they make it? Can an individual's dreams overcome the nightmares of real life? Can we succeed despite mistakes?

From New York Times bestselling author James Rollins and award-winning suspense novelist Rebecca Cantrell comes a disturbing story of vengeance, bloodshed, and creatures that prowl the night. In the haunted, war-torn highlands of Afghanistan, amid the ruins of Shahr-e-Gholghol, an archaeology...

One of the most celebrated and controversial authors in America delivers his first novel—a sweeping chronicle of contemporary Los Angeles that is bold, exhilarating, and utterly original. Dozens of characters pass across the reader's sight lines—some never to be seen again—but James Frey...

Ditado pelo espírito Lucius, este romance mostra que nossas dificuldades têm a função de desfazer as ilusões que impedem a felicidade e revela que somos responsáveis por tudo o que nos acontece. Com base no enredo original do livro impresso, que desde o lançamento figura no ranking dos mais vendidos, a versão em audionovela conta com abertura de Zibia Gasparetto e é narrada de forma dramatizada por atores profissionais, com diálogos que prenderão o ouvinte do começo ao fim, proporcionando uma envolvente experiência.

Damasco suona magica e favolosa, e continua a suonare così mentre si riempie di violenza e di fantasmi. Nessuno meglio di Suad Amiry poteva raccontare il fulgore del passato per aprire una porta sul presente. Il racconto comincia nel 1926, nel palazzo di Jiddo e Teta - marmi colorati, soffitti a cassettoni, fontane che bisbigliano nell'ombra -, comincia quando, dopo trent'anni di matrimonio, Teta torna per la prima volta ad 'Arrabeh, il villaggio da cui era partita poco più che bambina per andare in sposa al ricco e nobile mercante damasceno Jiddo.

Come si fa a dimenticare a comando? Com'è possibile perdere per strada la memoria di una storia, se prima non si ha la pazienza di recuperarla passando al setaccio tutto quanto l'ha riempita da venticinque anni a questa parte? È quello che si accinge a fare lo Scrittore, seduto su una sedia all'inizio della Rambla e proprio nessuna voglia di scrivere e di vivere come gli altri. Contraltare di questa sua volontà di oblio programmatico e globale è la figura cicciuta e tracagnotta dell'especialista, un docente universitario "che di sé non ha mai saputo niente di essenziale.

An unexpected love story from Marc Levy, international bestselling author of The Last of the Stanfields, and the most widely read French author in the world.

The narrator of Rob Doyle's Threshold has spent the last two decades traveling, writing, and imbibing drugs and literature in equal measure, funded by brief periods of employment or "on the dole" in Dublin. Now, stranded between reckless youth and middle age, his travels to far-flung places have acquired a de facto purpose: to aid the contemporary artist's search for universal truth.

Love Is Blind meets You’ve Got Mail in this laugh-out-loud romantic comedy following two thirty-somethings who meet on a blind dating app—only to realize that their online chemistry is nothing compared to their offline rivalry. Perpetually cheerful and eager to please, Gracie Cooper strives...

“A wedding planner dies and leaves the business to his wife—and his mistress. What could possibly go wrong? A charming rom-com to kick off your summer.”—People An Elin Hilderbrand Entertainment Weekly Summer Reading Pick “The book-equivalent of a perfect first date... Highly highly...

An Oprah.com Best Romance Novel of 2019! “Perfect for readers who love the dishy women's fiction of Candace Bushnell.” —Booklist From the author of the New York Times bestselling Stiletto and Oxford series, the first in a sizzling new series following the unlikely friendship of three Upper...

Electrifying, sharp, and darkly funny, Mariel Franklin's first novel, Bonding, is a story of sex, tech, and pharmaceuticals in the tangle of our digital age. This program is read by Ellie Kendrick, best known for roles in the BBC's The Diary of Anne Frank, the 2010's Upstairs Downstairs, and the...

A raw, honest and distinctive novel that dissects the heartbreak, passion, insecurity, obsession, betrayal and joy of modern relationships. For readers of Sally Rooney, Jacqueline Maley, Diana Reid and anyone who has experienced love or heartache in equal measure. 'Do you think much about love?...

Joost (29) is bandagist. Hij ontfermt zich over de zieke benen van ouderen in Amsterdam, de stad die hem en zijn vrienden geen woning kan bieden. Het contrast tussen zijn zwervende bestaan en dat van zijn patiënten, die zijn gebonden aan hun grote en volgestouwde huizen, wordt steeds groter. De bandagist is een roman over eenzaamheid en geborgenheid, over herinneren en vergeten.

1970s Greenwich Village: Leah Levinson can’t help worshipping the girls who torment her at school. Her perilous, magnetic friendships with Rainey Royal and Angeline Yost—girls she fears yet cannot resist—leave her desperate to shift the balance of power and affection. Meanwhile, Leah's emotionally estranged mother, Helen, secretly rents a room uptown where she lives out a second life. And Rainey—whose chaotic upbringing fills her with artistic inspiration and dread—decides to risk everything on an act of vengeance in a legendary artists' building.

Maggie, Roxanne e Candice, più o meno coetanee, lavorano in un'importante rivista di Londra e per nulla al mondo rinuncerebbero al loro rito: una volta al mese si ritrovano al Manhattan Bar dove, tra un cocktail e l'altro, si confrontano in un frizzante teatrino di chiacchiere e confidenze. Sembrano donne pienamente realizzate, così padrone di sé nel lavoro e nel privato, ma dietro le apparenze ognuna di loro recita una parte, nascondendo alle altre aspetti importanti della propria vita.

A small-town woman’s journey of self-discovery takes an unexpected detour when she inherits a Brooklyn brownstone—complete with one hot next-door neighbor—in this sexy, emotional contemporary romance. When you least expect it, love comes knocking… Holland Davenport is ready to go beyond...

Sophy Stevens is moving to Australia. Turning thirty has found her unexpectedly out of a job, out of a relationship, and just in need of Something Different - and Australia, where she can finally meet her grandparents and surprise them on their wedding anniversary, looks like the perfect answer...if she can save up the money for the plane ticket. So when her feckless, absent dad Johnno offers her a job at his vintage clothes shop in Primrose Hill, she can't turn it down.