Títulos en Narrativa literaria

One of Jon Fosse’s most acclaimed novels, Boathouse is told from the perspective of an unnamed narrator leading a largely hermit-like existence until he unexpectedly encounters a long-lost childhood friend and his wife. Told partially in a stream-of-consciousness style and with an atmosphere reminiscent of a gripping crime novel, Boathouse slowly unravels the story of a love triangle leading to jealousy, betrayal, and eventually death.

A child who will be named Johannes is born. An old man named Johannes dies. Between these two points, Jon Fosse gives us the details of an entire life, starkly compressed. Beginning with Johannes's father's thoughts as his wife goes into labor and ending with Johannes's own thoughts as he embarks upon a day in his life when everything is exactly the same yet totally different, Morning and Evening is a novel concerning the beautiful dream that our lives have meaning.

Vowing to honour her dead father's memory, 23-year-old Wanda throws herself into the Polish resistance, risking her life to transport ammunition for the uprising against the Nazis. But a clandestine meeting with an informant reveals a shocking twist. The man before her is the very soldier who took her father's life. Claiming to be a double agent, the informant sparks doubt, forcing Wanda to make a life-altering decision: trust the man she hates most in the world or jeopardize her network's crucial mission.

In an old-fashioned fishing community on Morecambe Bay, change is imperceptibly slow. Treacherous tides sweep the quicksands, claiming everything in their path. As a boy, Arthur had followed in his father’s and grandfather’s footprints, learning to read the currents and shifting sands. Now retired and widowed, though, he feels invisible, redundant. His daughter wants him in a retirement home. No one listens to his rants about the newcomers striking out nightly onto the bay for cockles, seemingly oblivious to the danger. When Arthur’s path crosses Suling’s, both are running out of options.

For more than fifty years, Wendell Berry has been telling us stories about Port William, a mythical town on the banks of the Kentucky River, populated over the years by a cast of unforgettable characters living in a single place over a long time. In A Place in Time, the stories dates range from 1864, when Rebecca Dawe finds herself in her own reflection at the end of the Civil War, to one from 1991 when Grover Gibbs's widow, Beulah, attends the auction as her home place is offered for sale.

A groundbreaking work of science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human emissary’s mission to Winter, an unknown alien world whose inhabitants can choose—and change—their gender. His goal is to facilitate Winter’s inclusion in a growing intergalactic civilization. But to do so, he must bridge the gulf between his own views and those of the completely dissimilar culture that he encounters.

In the middle of a raging storm in Alaska, Bess stops to tie her shoes. And just like that, the boy is lost, gone in a flash, swallowed up by the snow. Bess is a California girl, while Benedict, with whom she and the boy live, is the last in his family’s long line of rugged Alaskans. Benedict knows better than to venture out in such weather. But he has no choice. He must find Bess and the boy before it’s too late.

When Myriam and Allison fall in love at a show in a run-down punk house, their relationship begins to unfold through a series of hypotheticals. What if they became mothers by finding a baby in an alley? What if the only cure for Myriam’s depression was Allison’s flesh? What if they were B-list celebrities, famous for writing a book about building healthy lesbian relationships? How much darker—or sexier—would their dynamic be if one were a power-hungry CEO, and the other her lowly employee?

After Bexhet Konar escapes fascist Hungary and crosses the ocean to find Jozef, the man who saved his life in 1919, he falls in love with Jozef's daughter, Hannah, enlists in World War II, and is drawn into a personal war of revenge. Many years later, their youngest son, Samuel, is taken prisoner in Vietnam and returns home with a heroin addiction and deep physical and psychological wounds. As Samuel travels his own path toward healing, his son will graduate from Annapolis as a Marine on his way to Iraq.

Följ med till ett vinterklätt Kanelholmen i Stockholms pittoreska skärgård, där kärleken gnistrar och drömmar går i uppfyllelse. Ofelia är en av Sveriges mest lästa deckarförfattare med flera försäljningssuccéer i bagaget. När hon ska påbörja sin tionde bok är dokumentet i datorn emellertid lika blankt som skrivhjärnan. Så snart orsaken till skrivblockeringen går upp för henne beslutar hon sig för att ta en paus från allt.

She used to be someone else, but now she’s arrived in Vegas, where she can start again. It won’t do to let the past leak in. It’s the Sixties now. She’s going to become Joan. She makes a list: Buy a new dress (fitted, floral). Dye her hair (dark). Curl it. Buy red lipstick. Buy cigarettes and a lighter, too: Joan, she decides, is a smoker. There’s no need to dwell on why she’s here, what went before. She is just moving forward, one foot in front of the other, becoming that new person. Joan.

A celebration of beloved American author Wendell Berry, the five stories in Fidelity return listeners to Berry's fictional town of Port William, Kentucky, and the familiar characters who form a tight-knit community within.

Escaping her troubled past and moving into a seaside cottage on a windswept island off Cape Cod with her Abuela, all Delilah wants now is a place of her own - and she’s paid a high price for it... But her wild, colourful garden and scandalous affair with married man Alan have her neighbours talking. And when she crosses paths with the reclusive Anton - who has a secret of his own - sparks fly. Will the past catch up with them? A delicate yet haunting novel about love, trauma, and identity, Becoming Delilah is perfect for fans of Priscilla Oliveras and Brit Bennett.

För bästa vännerna Marilyn, Linda och Betty börjar inte december på bästa sätt. Marilyns ex meddelar att eftersom julen faller på hans vecka med barnen vill han bryta traditionen att fira tillsammans och istället fira med sin nya flickvän. Lindas man häver ut sig att han vill skiljas för han har träffat någon annan. Och Betty – hennes cancer är tillbaka... Julen är på intåg men julstämningen är svår att finna när livet har vänts upp och ner. Betty bestämmer sig för att inte berätta för sin familj och vänner om beslutet att vägra behandling, vilket är lättare sagt än gjort.

En fängslande berättelse om förlust, förlåtelse och kärlek från bästsäljande författaren Glendy Vanderah. Ellis Abbeys liv förändras i ett ögonblick. För bara en kort stund lämnar hon sin nyfödda dotter Viola utan uppsikt och när hon återvänder är dottern borta. I ett redan krisande äktenskap blir förlusten för stor att hantera och Ellis sjunker ner i sorg, skuld och missbruk. Övertygad om att hon bara är en börda för sin familj lämnar hon sin man och sina två unga söner och ger sig långt in i vildmarken, trots den enorma längtan efter sina barn. I en avlägsen del av Washington möter vi Raven.

Linda, en ung, rodløs kvinder, kæmper for at finde sin plads i tilværelsen. Da hun – tilsyneladende – kommer til at slå sin elskede ihjel, gemmer hun sig i en kælder. Her går hendes fornemmelse for tid og sted langsomt i opløsning, og efterhånden bliver man tvunget til at sætte spørgsmålstegn ved hendes virkelighedssans.

Igennem 44 korte prosastykker følger vi en række mennesker, der lever i en kold og upersonlig storbyverden. De længes alle efter nærhed, men ingen af dem formår for alvor at række langt nok ud til at nå hinanden.

Martha har en garnbutik. Hendes søn, Mikkel Emil, går i gymnasiet og synger i smug, og hendes demente mor, Gudrun, er netop kommet på plejehjem. På skift følger vi de tre generationer i en dansk familie gennem hverdagens sorger og glæder i slutningen af 1980’erne.

Yayoi, a nineteen-year-old woman from a seemingly loving middle-class family, has lately been haunted by the feeling that she has forgotten something important from her childhood. Her premonition grows stronger day by day and, as if led by it, she decides to move in with her mysterious aunt, Yukino.

1964 Karachi, Pakistan. Rozeena will lose her home—her parents' safe haven since fleeing India and the terrors of Partition—if her medical career doesn't take off soon. But success may come with at a price. Meanwhile the interwoven lives of her childhood best friends—Haaris, Aalya, and Zohair—seem to be unraveling with each passing day. The once small and inconsequential differences between their families' social standing now threaten to divide them. Then one fateful night someone ends up dead and the life they once took for granted shatters.