Contemporary Fiction

Andrew Yancy—late of the Miami Police and soon-to-be-late of the Monroe County sheriff’s office—has a human arm in his freezer. There’s a logical (Hiaasenian) explanation for that, but not for how and why it parted from its shadowy owner....

McMillan revisits Savannah, Gloria, Bernadine, and Robin fifteen years later....

The quiet 1960s midwestern life of the Land family is upended when son Davy kills two marauders who have come to harm the family. The morning of his sentencing, Davy escapes from his cell....

A riveting novel that traces the intertwined fates of the picture-perfect Richardson family and the enigmatic mother and daughter who upend their lives....

The Bluest Eye, published in 1970, is the first novel written by Toni Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature.....

On a brisk fall night in a New York apartment, 35-year-old Billie West hears terrified screams. It's her lifelong best friend Cassie Barnwell, one floor above, and she's just realized her infant daughter has gone missing....

STOP. You should not have touched this flyer with your bare hands. NO, don't put it down. It's too late. They're watching you. My name is David Wong. My best friend is John....

The New York Times best-selling novel from Garth Stein - a heart-wrenching but deeply funny and ultimately uplifting story of family, love, loyalty, and hope - a captivating look at the wonders and absurdities of human life...as only a dog could tell it....

In I Almost Forgot About You, Dr. Georgia Young's wonderful life--great friends, family, and successful career--aren't enough to keep her from feeling stuck and restless. When she decides to make some major changes in her life, including quitting her job as an optometrist and moving house....

When it comes to law and order, East Texas plays by its own rules - a fact that Darren Mathews, a black Texas Ranger, knows all too well....

Charlie Asher has been recruited for a new job, an unpleasant but utterly necessary one: Death....

In Smoke and Mirrors, Gaiman's imagination and supreme artistry transform a mundane world into a place of terrible wonders....

The 2:00 a.m. call is the first time Lexie Vidler has heard her sister's voice in years. Annie is a drug addict, a thief, a liar - and in trouble, again....

Astrid is the only child of a single mother, Ingrid, a brilliant, obsessed poet who wields her luminous beauty...

There's a secret to mastery that you may have never heard, a single little thing that only the very best in the world know how to do....

Anything Is Possible explores the whole range of human emotion through the intimate dramas of people struggling to understand themselves and others....

Brooklyn Melody James has finally gotten the punishment she deserves after leaving a web of lies, heartache, and betrayal behind her. As her life slips away, Brooklyn remembers the events that shaped her into the cold, calculating creature she became....

A week on an island sounds like the stuff of beach dreams, but for Paisley Royce, it's a nightmare. Her little sister is marrying her ex-college sweetheart, and Paisley is serving as maid of honor. To add insult to injury, nobody will let Paisley forget she's single.

Au grand jeu du destin, Mimo a tiré les mauvaises cartes. Né pauvre, il est confié en apprentissage à un sculpteur de pierre sans envergure. Mais il a du...

What Estrella knows of life comes from her mother, who survived abandonment by her husband in a land that treats her as if she were invisible, even though she and her children pick the crops of the farms that feed its people. But within Estrella, seeds of growth and change are stirring....

When Esther Greenwood wins an internship at a New York fashion magazine in 1953, she is elated, believing she will finally realise her dream to become a writer....

For years, guitarist Quinn Porter has been on the road, chasing gig after gig, largely absent to his twice-ex-wife Belle and their odd, Guinness records-obsessed son....

It is the early 1960s in a country village in Ireland. Caithleen Brady and her attractive friend, Baba, are on the verge of womanhood and dreaming of spreading their wings....

As a teenage runaway and child of an addict, Christy-Lynn learned the hard way that no address was permanent, and no promise sacred. For a while, she found a safe haven in her marriage to bestselling crime novelist Stephen Ludlow - until his car skidded into Echo Bay....

On a lake deep in the Minnesota woods, Kathy Wade comforts her husband John, a rising political star, after a devastating electoral defeat. Then Kathy vanishes, along with their boat....

Charming and heroic, there’s nothing about Gabriel Woodruff that Avery Burke doesn’t love. His warm brown eyes, his generosity, that small scar above his lip. The newspaper photo of him carrying her from a burning home only adds to the romance of it all. A fairytale beginning and a picture-perfect marriage practically guarantees Avery and Gabriel a ride into the sunset. But every relationship has flaws, and what they ignored while they were busy being flawless eventually surfaces. The unraveling begins with the smallest tug on the tiniest string.

A soli ventidue anni, Grace Allen si è posta un obiettivo ambizioso: affrontare il suo passato traumatico e superare ogni timore, decidendo così di prendere in mano le redini della sua vita. In questo percorso di rinascita, il destino le presenta Samuel Callaghan. Con una corporatura intimidatoria, un corpo ricoperto di tatuaggi, otto anni in più di lei e la responsabilità di una sorellina affidata alle sue cure, Cal è decisamente una sorpresa inaspettata. Nonostante le differenze evidenti, Grace si trova ad affezionarsi a Cal con sorprendente facilità.

「すみれがぼくにとってどれほど大事な、かけがえのない存在であったかということが、あらためて理解できた。すみれは彼女にしかできないやりかたで、ぼくをこの世につなぎ止めていたのだ」　「旅の連れ」という皮肉な名を持つ孤独な人工衛星のように、誰もが皆それぞれの軌道を描き続ける。

L’anno in cui ho incontrato 70 sconosciuti e consigliato loro il libro ideale. Nanako è in piena crisi esistenziale. Separata da poco dal marito, non ha più una casa: vaga tra capsule hotel, internet café aperti fino a tardi e super sento, i bagni pubblici a pagamento. Il lavoro non va meglio: all’eccentrica libreria Village Vanguard di Tōkyō, di cui è direttrice, le vendite languono. Disillusa e disamorata, Nanako si rende conto di quanto la sua vita sia diventata angusta, senza rapporti personali al di là dei colleghi e senza prospettive. C’è solo una passione che le permette di andare avanti: quella per i libri.

Wenige Autoren können ihre eigenen Texte so gut lesen wie Jan Weiler: lebendig, witzig, mit Selbstironie. Erfolgreich und allein – so steht der Architekt Peter Munk mit 51 Jahren da. Beziehungsweise liegt da, mit einem Herzinfarkt auf der Rolltreppe in der dritten Etage eines Kaufhauses. Er überlebt, doch es gibt niemanden, den er vom Krankenhaus aus benachrichtigen möchte. In der Rehaklinik trägt sein Therapeut ihm auf, in seiner Selbsterforschung bei den Menschen zu beginnen, die ihn zu dem Mann gemacht haben, der er ist.

その年の七月、丸田君はスマホに奇妙なメッセージを受け取った。現実に起こりうるはずのない言い掛かりのような予言で、彼にはまったく身におぼえがなかった。

Was aussieht wie Magie ist einfach ein Teil des Lebens, den wir noch nicht verstehen ... Als Grace, eine pensionierte Mathematiklehrerin, von einer fast vergessenen Freundin ein heruntergekommenes Häuschen auf einer Mittelmeerinsel erbt, siegt ihre Neugier. Ohne Rückflugticket, Reiseführer oder einen Plan fliegt sie nach Ibiza. Zwischen den rauen Hügellandschaften und goldenen Stränden der Insel macht Grace sich auf die Suche nach Antworten über das Leben ihrer Freundin – und das Rätsel ihres Todes.

明日見つむぎはごく幼い頃に父と母を亡くし、母方の親戚である奈緒に引き取られた。奈緒は心に不調を抱えながらも「義母」としてつむぎを懸命に育てる一方、心の距離を取ることにはこだわり、「母」と呼ばれることをかたくなに拒んでいた。

相田愛奈は、正しいことがなにより強いと信じている。無職の彼女の銀行口座には、幸運に得た約２億円があるにもかかわらず、節制した生活を続けている。その一方で、福祉団体等には多額の寄付をしていた。

人はなぜ、身に余る位や物を望むのか。 「この者は、〈またうど〉の者なりーー」 徳川家重の言葉を生涯大切にし続けた老中・田沼意次。 彼は本当に、賄賂にまみれた悪徳政治家だったのか？

Uno strappo che sembrava impossibile da ricucire, una famiglia che nel corso degli anni ritrova la strada nella forza dei legami. Ci sono libri che ti entrano dentro, che ti accompagnano per mano nella vita di tutti i giorni. È ciò che succede con l'esordio magnetico di Roberta Recchia, una storia da cui non ci si stacca, con protagonisti vivi, autentici. Come Marisa e Stelvio Ansaldo, che nella Roma degli anni Cinquanta si innamorano nella bottega del sor Ettore, il padre di lei.

Jim Beam aveva un fratello, una sorella e una madre. Del padre non seppe mai niente. La mamma era seria, preoccupata, sempre nervosa. Aveva paura e non si riposava mai: aveva paura di non riuscire a mantenere i propri figli, aveva paura che uno di loro si ammalasse. Aveva paura di un sacco di cose. Invece Jim non aveva paura di niente, tranne della noia. Abitavano appena fuori Lovelock, in un posto che si chiamava Cottonfarm.

大学院を卒業後、新卒で入社した会社を春指みなとは九ヶ月で辞めた。所属していた総務二課は、社員の意識向上と企業風土の改善を標榜していたが、朝礼で発表された社員の「気づき」を文字に起こし、社員の意識調査のアンケートを「正の字」で集計するという日々の仕事は、不要で無意味に感じられた。部署の飲み会、上司への気遣い、上辺だけの人間関係──あらゆることに限界が来たとき、職場のトイレから出られなくなったのだ。

Dopo il 2026. Vista da lontano sembra una costruzione da fiaba: una lunga linea fortificata di un bianco abbacinante che attraversa quattro Stati nordafricani. Oltre, una striscia di terra desertificata chimicamente; oltre ancora, il Mediterraneo. Benvenuti al Muro, invalicabile barriera per i dannati della Terra che tentano di oltrepassarla ma anche meta turistica alternativa per i ricchi del mondo: la soluzione radicale al problema dell’immigrazione clandestina.

第４５回野間文芸新人賞受賞作　疾走する想像力で注目を集める新芥川賞作家が描く、馬と人類の壮大な歴史をめぐる物語。

Provokant, radikal und eine erzählerische Ausnahmeerscheinung. Am Ende bleibt die Frage: Was ist ein Menschenleben wert? Gaea Schoetersʼ preisgekrönter Roman ist von einer außerordentlichen erzählerischen Wucht. Die Tiefenschärfe, mit der sie die Geräusche und Gerüche der Natur beschreibt, lässt einen sinnlich erleben, was einen moralisch an die Grenzen zwischen Richtig und Falsch führt. Hunter, steinreich, Amerikaner und begeisterter Jäger, hatte schon fast alles vor dem Lauf. Endlich bietet ihm sein Freund Van Heeren ein Nashorn zum Abschuss an.

大手出版社の文芸編集者・俊太郎と、華々しいデビューを飾ったものの鳴かず飛ばずの作家・豊隆は幼馴染みだった。いつか仕事を。

秋山菜々子は、神奈川で看護師をしながら一人息子の航太郎を育てていた。湘南のシニアリーグで活躍する航太郎には関東一円からスカウトが来ていたが、選び取ったのはとある大阪の新興校だった。

高校入学を機に、琵琶湖畔の街・石走にある日出本家にやって来た日出涼介。本家の跡継ぎとしてお城の本丸御殿に住まう淡十郎の“ナチュラルボーン殿様”な言動にふりまわされる日々が始まった。

書店に勤める青年、月原一整は、人づきあいは苦手だが、埋もれていた名作を見つけ出して光を当てることが多く、店長から「宝探しの月原」と呼ばれ、信頼されていた。

Manchmal muss man sich verlaufen, um anzukommen. Der neue große Liebesroman von Bestseller-Autor David Nicholls! Marnie steckt fest. Sie arbeitet allein in ihrer Londoner Wohnung, kämpft mit den langen Nachmittagen und einem Leben, das zunehmend an ihr vorbeizuziehen scheint. Michael ist dabei, sich zu verlieren. Er leidet unter der Trennung von seiner Frau, zieht sich immer mehr zurück und unternimmt lange, einsame Spaziergänge im Moor.

Morir es tan difícil como inevitable. También para los que sobreviven. El primer día que tuve que limpiarle el culo a mi padre, me mentí diciéndome que era igual que cuando se lo limpiaba a mi hijo: venga, Carmen, que es lo mismo; va, Carmen, que es tu padre; venga, mujer, que ese hombre te limpió el culo a ti. Me lo repetía como quien está a punto de correr para darse impulso y saltar. Es lo mismo, Carmen. Hazlo ya. Pero no. No es lo mismo. Si Pedro Simón fuera un panadero, diríamos que la masa madre de sus novelas son las relaciones familiares.

平成３年に発生した誘拐事件から30年。当時警察担当だった新聞記者の門田は、旧知の刑事の死をきっかけに被害男児の「今」を知る。再取材を重ねた結果、ある写実画家の存在が浮かび上がる。

"Papá acaba de matar a mamá". Tras la conmoción por la inaudita noticia que le dio su hermana, el primogénito alerta a la policía y toma el primer tren. Atenazado por el remordimiento por haberse ido a la capital a estudiar danza y haber dejado a la pequeña Léa con sus inestables padres, una vez en casa se topa con la dura realidad: policías, el cuerpo de su madre, su padre fugitivo y su hermana traumatizada. Tras el shock, el hijo retrocede en el tiempo para intentar indagar cómo terminaron en esta pesadilla. Las señales estaban ahí, pero nadie quiso verlas.

Una provocazione, un furto in casa di conoscenti, ecco l’evento che apre a Goliarda Sapienza le porte del carcere romano di Rebibbia. Accolta con sospetto dalle compagne di cella per i mocassini alla moda e la camicetta di seta che indossa, la scrittrice comprende presto, però, che in prigione, dove ipocrisie e illusioni vengono meno, può finalmente essere se stessa.