Fiction: general and literary

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En los días grises de la pandemia, Lorenzo Abravanel regresa a Sevilla, la ciudad de sus orígenes, con una maleta llena de sueños postergados y la intención de dedicarse a escribir e ilustrar cuentos infantiles.

In the war-torn villages of South Sudan, hope is an elusive luxury.

The book delves into the life and reign of King Charles I, exploring his childhood, accession to the throne, and the major events during his rule, including the tumultuous relationship with Parliament that ultimately led to conflict.

As you travel - through space or time - you need A Short Collection of Short Stories to take with you.

In der Heil- und Pflegeanstalt Randlingen herrscht Unruhe.

This is one of the black book cover series, a venture into the unknown and probable.

Band mit Erzählungen, der auf dem Originalmanuskript Pětr Wjeńka basiert, welches 1986 zur Veröffentlichung vorgesehen war, dann jedoch nicht erschien, weil der Autor einen Antrag auf Ausreise in die damalige BRD gestellt hatte.

Ninguén sabía os motivos polos que unha moza de refinado encanto e elevada altura, tanto física coma intelectual, se fora convertendo nun repulsivo esperpento, nun animal.

Ramiro Bernardez, un joven argentino de familia acomodada, regresa al bochorno del Chaco despues de haber estudiado en Francia.

Las tensiones sociales y políticas que se producen en España a raíz de la revolución de 1868 adquieren un tratamiento nuevo y original en "La Tribuna" (1882).

Conocido sobre todo por sus célebres Viajes de Gulliver, ya publicados en esta colección, Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) fue un satírico mordaz y un polemista incansable.

Un feito histórico, o secuestro máis longo cometido por ETA no Estado español, é o punto de partida desta novela.

En Lisboa, fronte á foz do Texo, un escritor retirado recibe un sobre que contén unha nota e un cartafol cheo de follas atropeladamente manuscritas.

Mörderjagd statt RuhestandEs muss nicht immer ein Seniorenheim sein!

Os de «Final feliz» son relatos en carne viva, un mando de historias para espertar conciencias ou establecer a ponte entre o real e o imaxinario, entre o que non se conta e o que agroma do subconsciente.

A vida de Dina Souto, que traballa como bolseira nun xornal, abala nunha contradición permanente: intentar ser unha persoa normal ou deixarse levar pola violencia brutal que prendeu nela durante a infancia e que lle gusta máis do que quere recoñecer.

Carolina Ernau é unha muller que loita por sobrevivir nunha cruel guerra fratricida onde os gañadores, ademais de tratar de aniquilar fisicamente os vencidos, pretenden impedir que pensen e imaxinen.

Escrita en la "década prodigiosa" de la narrativa española del XIX, que vio la aparición de novelas como "La Regenta", "Fortunata" y Jacinta" o "Los Pazos de Ulloa" -todas ellas en esta colección-, "Un viaje de novios" (1881) supuso una primera aproximación de Emilia Pardo Bazán (1851-1921) a los dominios del realismo-naturalismo.

Luciana e Brown unen os seus destinos, marcados polo amor, o narcotráfico e a violencia, nos límites dunha das favelas de Sao Paulo.

É pouco coñecido o vínculo do escritor Antonio Noriega Varela, alcumado «O poeta da montaña», cunha vetusta construción situada no Alfoz do Castrodouro.

Lúa Lóngora é unha pianista recoñecida e admirada no mundo enteiro.

ANTES DE JUBILARSE, HARRY BOSCH INVESTIGA UN CRIMEN IMPOSIBLE Y UNA CONSPIRACIÓN POLÍTICA EN SU PROPIO DEPARTAMENTO A Harry Bosch le han dado tres años para retirarse de la policía de Los Ángeles, y quiere volcarse en nuevos casos como nunca antes.

¿Así que todavía quedan auténticas heroínas, con las que uno puede cruzarse en la calle, hablar y llegar a conocer?

A condutora da Kawasaki negra chega a Santa Mariña de Augas Novas sen intención de ficar, inmersa nunha fuxida que a fixo abandonar Berlín ás présas e levando consigo pouco máis que o portátil e unhas mudas.

Con «O tradutor de sombras», volve a narrativa singular da escritora Moncha Fuentes á actualidade para arrastrar o lector nunha novela hipnótica que comeza en Ourense e remata en Vigo pouco antes do inicio da pandemia.

Miguel é un mozo novo, orfo de nai, que será criado polos avós baixo unha disciplina férrea baseada na autoridade propia da ditadura franquista.

This classic collection of Japanese ghost and folk stories is of enormous importance to the field of Japanese studies.

Every year away from the eyes of moral and respectful people a game is held in which only one may survive.

Jerusalem—a city steeped in millennia of history and conflict—is alive with preparations for Passover.

She can't bear to tell her mother about her tragedy.

The Legends and Myths of Hawaii, by King David Kalakaua, who lived from 1836 to 1890, is a remarkable work.

Written in eight days, in December 1905, and published in the January 1906 issue of the magazine Teikoku Bungaku (Imperial Literature), Shumi no iden (The Heredity of Taste) is Soseki Natsume's only anti-war work.

Twenty Four Eyes is a deeply pacifist Japanese novel based on the perversion and inhumanity of modern war.

A Great Classic of Japanese literature and the masterpiece of novelist Ihara Saikakunow in a completely new and revised edition with introduction by noted scholar David J.

"e;Lane Dunlop's translations read elegantly, and his selection of modern Japanese Stories is both fresh and persuasive.

This classic collection of Japanese ghost and folk stories is of enormous importance to the field of Japanese studies.

Discover the thrilling exploits of this unlikely hero in China's most famous traditional novel.

The Legends and Myths of Hawaii, by King David Kalakaua, who lived from 1836 to 1890, is a remarkable work.

First published as Hanamushiro in 1948, the setting for The Flower Mat is eighteenth-century Japan, a time when familes were bound together by a rigid code of honor and individual lives were of necessity valued far less than the interests of the group.

This collection of Japanese haiku by an American expat is an important contribution to the world of poetry.

Life with Max Danger is never dull as all readers of the first, best-selling volume of his adventures as an expatriate in Tokyo will know.

This classic Japanese story by Soseki Netsumethe foremost novelist of the Meiji Periodis a masterpiece of Japanese literature.

Written in eight days, in December 1905, and published in the January 1906 issue of the magazine Teikoku Bungaku (Imperial Literature), Shumi no iden (The Heredity of Taste) is Soseki Natsume's only anti-war work.

The River With No Bridge (Hashi no nai kawa) explores with outspoken frankness a subject still taboo in Japan: the intolerance and bigotry faced daily by Japans largest minority group, the burakumin.

Revered as one of the great literary classics of Japan, The Tales of Ise is an anonymous tenthcentury collection of Japanese poems and prose.

This collection of Japanese literature features the works of noted Japanese novelist Koda Rohan.

For fans of Ann Patchett and Louise Erdrich, a contemporary women's fiction novel set in northern Wisconsin about one grief-stricken family's journey toward redemption and forgiveness in a rural town divided by the past.

Eliza Orzeszkowa was a trailblazing Polish novelist who, alongside Leo Tolstoy and Henryk Sienkiewicz, was a finalist for the 1905 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Each of the realistic worlds Billy Kahora brings us in the short stories and novella that make up The Cape Cod Bicycle War and Other Stories explores the tensions and transitions of characters moving between youthful folly and a precarious adulthood.