Mostrando títulos en Ficción Contemporánea

Una oda al disparate como antídoto a la incertidumbre y el desamor. Javiera es una joven chilena que ha llegado a Barcelona gracias a una beca de posgrado en Literatura. Estudiar es el pretexto más decente, y genuino, que ha encontrado para dejar su país y descubrir el hemisferio del bienestar. Pero la disponibilidad apabullante de libros en la biblioteca y de papel higiénico en los supermercados se ve contrarrestada por unas condiciones habitacionales tan desastrosas como las del Cono Sur, aunque el doble de caras.

松川律は三十一歳の刑事で、シングルマザーの竹本澄音とつきあっている。澄音の五歳の娘・海音との距離も縮まり結婚を真剣に考えたところで、澄音から自分の父親には前科があると告げられて――。ラーメン店を経営する姉一家との交流や同期刑事とのやりとりなどを小気味よく織り交ぜながら、若き刑事の二年の月日を描く。スカイツリーの見える東京・下町で繰り広げられる心温まる人生の物語。

People start dropping dead around Charlie, giant ravens perch on his building, and it seems that everywhere he goes, a dark presence whispers to him from under the streets. Strange names start appearing on his nightstand notepad, and before he knows it, those people end up dead, too. Yup, it seems that Charlie Asher has been recruited for a new job, an unpleasant but utterly necessary one: Death.

Since she was a little girl, the wind has dictated every move Vianne Rocher has made, buffeting her from place to place, from the small French village of Lansquenet-sous-Tannes to the crowded streets of Paris. Cloaked in a new identity, that of widow Yanne Charbonneau, she opens a chocolaterie on a small Montmartre street, determined to still the wind at last and keep her daughters, Anouk and the baby, Rosette, safe.

Un an après avoir quitté l’Élysée, Dan Lehman, ancien président de la République, n’est plus que l’ombre de lui-même. Le couple iconique qu’il formait avec l’actrice Hilda Müller n’est qu’une façade. Alcoolique, menacé par des affaires judiciaires, il tente de revenir sur la scène médiatique tandis que Hilda tient le rôle principal d’un film qui pourrait être sélectionné au festival de Cannes. Mais les fractures de leur vie privée brouillent les frontières entre drame personnel et fiction. Avec ce nouveau roman puissant, Karine Tuil sonde les mécaniques cruelles du pouvoir.

Una historia sobre mujeres que disfrutan de la vida sin pedir permiso. Andrea era una veinteañera impetuosa y atrevida cuando emprendió su gran proyecto vital junto con su mejor amiga, Nieves: un estudio de arquitectura. Dos mujeres jóvenes y valientes que se enfrentaban solas a un mundo de hombres. Cuarenta años después, Andrea sigue sintiéndose igual de joven y valiente, pero la sociedad se empeña en apartarla. Con la incómoda sensación de que ya no sirve para nada, ve pasar los días desde su atalaya de «señora bien» de la que procede por nacimiento.

He is Dexter Mayhew, tall, dark and (she can't deny it) handsome. She is Emma Morley, bottled red hair, wilfully badly dressed, all principles and no action. Could this be the dawn of the rest of their lives? Or are Dex and Em living proof that - despite an unlikely beginning - men and women really can be just good friends?

Four chronically homeless people - Amelia One Sky, Timber, Double Dick and Digger - seek refuge in a warm movie theater when a severe Arctic front descends on the city. During what is supposed to be a one-time event, this temporary refuge transfixes them. They fall in love with this new world and, once the weather clears, continue their trips to the cinema. On one of these outings they meet Granite, a jaded and lonely journalist who has turned his back on writing “the same story over and over again” in favor of the escapist qualities of film, and an unlikely friendship is struck.

Carrie has it all: a stellar career, a gorgeous heart-surgeon boyfriend and an apartment in the city. But when something happens that forces her to question her ability to do her job, the only way she can see through the mess is to get far away from everything. Carrie is thrust into a very different life in Magnolia Creek. She’s knee-deep in renovations at her house at the top of the hill; she’s sharing time and space with her ex, Owen; and newcomer Noah gets under her skin from day one.

Late one summer evening, antiquarian bookseller Adam Snow is returning from a client visit when he takes a wrong turn. He stumbles across a derelict Edwardian house, and compelled by curiosity, approaches the door. Standing before the entrance, he feels the unmistakable sensation of a small cold hand creeping into his own, ‘as if a child had taken hold of it’. At first he is merely puzzled by the odd incident but then begins to suffer attacks of fear and panic, and is visited by nightmares.

Mysterious, funny, insightful, and heartbreaking, these are tales of expatriates and exiles, wise children and straying saints. They compose a secret history, both intimate and panoramic, of modern times, and offer a kaleidoscopic impression of the world within a world that is Paris.

鎌倉で小さな文具店を営むかたわら、手紙の代書を請け負う鳩子。今日も風変わりな依頼が舞い込みます。友人への絶縁状、借金のお断り、天国からの手紙……。身近だからこそ伝えられない依頼者の心に寄り添ううち、仲違いしたまま逝ってしまった祖母への想いに気づいていく。

Helga Crane yearns to become more than she is and to feel the world more intensely. She consequently dismisses her native Chicago, New York's Harlem, Copenhagen even. She also passes on opportunities for extended family, for marriage, and for true love. What is always latent in this truly outstanding work; is how much the background of 1920's American racial segregation defines Helga's malaise, and how much - paradoxically - is of herown doing.

She has built a good life: a husband who adores her, a daughter she is fiercely proud of, a home with warmth and love at its heart. But things were not always so good, and the truth is that she has done things she can never admit.

Vírgenes y toxicómanos es una de las novelas más aterradoras, desconcertantes y misteriosas escritas por Mario Mendoza. Anton Echeverry, un padre ejemplar y un profesional comprometido con la defensa de los derechos humanos, sufre una crisis profunda tras la muerte de su esposa en extrañas circunstancias. Su mundo se resquebraja y lo único que logra frenar su caída al abismo es su hijo Martín, un brillante estudiante de Sociología, que quedó discapacitado en un accidente años atrás.

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 (a hero to some, a cold-blooded murderer to others) escapes from his cell, and the Lands set out in search of him. Their journey is touched by serendipity and the kindness of strangers, and they cover territory even more extraordinary than the Badlands, where they search for Davy from their Airstream trailer.

独ソ戦が激化する1942年、モスクワ近郊の農村に暮らす少女セラフィマの日常は、突如として奪われた。急襲したドイツ軍によって、母親のエカチェリーナほか村人たちが惨殺されたのだ。

When an injured teenager goes missing at a remote bushland campground, local journalist Abby Bardot is determined to expose the area’s dark history. The girl bears a striking resemblance to the victims of three brutal murders that occurred 20 years ago, and Abby fears the killer is still on the loose. But the newspaper Abby works for wants to suppress the story for fear it will scare off tourists to the struggling township. Haunted by her own turbulent memories, Abby is desperate to learn the truth and enlists the help of Tom Gabriel, a reclusive crime writer.

For Meridian Wallace - and many other smart, driven women of the 1940s - being ambitious meant being an outlier. Ever since she was a young girl, Meridian had been obsessed with birds, and she was determined to get her PhD, become an ornithologist, and make her mother's sacrifices to send her to college pay off. But she didn't expect to fall in love with her brilliant physics professor, Alden Whetstone. When he's recruited to Los Alamos, New Mexico, to take part in a mysterious wartime project, she reluctantly defers her own plans and joins him.

【累計百万部突破!第152回直木賞受賞作】 　僕はこの世界に左足から登場した――。