World Literature

When he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki....

This audiobook, read by Audie award-winning narrators, includes unabridged recordings of all Fyodor Dostoyevky's greatest works: 15 novels and novellas, 18 short stories, a short study of Dostoyevsky by Virginia Woolf, and two books of non-fiction - his Letters and European travel journal....

In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than 100 years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time....

Ram Rajya. The Perfect Land. But perfection has a price. He paid that price....

Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water is set in Kerala, on South India’s Malabar Coast, and follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning—and in Kerala, water is everywhere....

Ella Rubinstein has a husband, three teenage children, and a pleasant home. Everything that should make her confident and fulfilled. Yet there is an emptiness at the heart of Ella's life - an emptiness once filled by love....

Hidden in Jinbocho, Tokyo is a booklover's paradise. On a quiet corner in an old wooden building lies a shop filled with hundreds of second-hand books....

There Are Rivers in the Sky is a rich, sweeping novel set between the 19th century and modern times, about love and loss, memory and erasure, hurt and healing, centred around three enchanting characters living on the banks of the River Thames and the River Tigris....

India, 3400 BCE. The ancient kingdom of Mithila is divided by corruption, resentment, and poverty. An abandoned baby is found in a field protected by a vulture from a pack of wolves....

Magical and uplifting, What You Are Looking for Is in the Library is about the wondrousness of libraries and the power of books for change. Highlighting all the tiny comforts of being alive, it is a story that no listener will ever forget....

One day, 14-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find two notes in her mailbox, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions....

In 1982 Murakami began running to keep fit. Here he reflects on his running experiences....

Six friends are selling home appliances to the US from a call centre in India. Each one has an issue with love....

From the author of the multimillion-copy bestseller Normal People, a n exquisitely moving story about grief, love and family. Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common.

Ten-year-old Abdullah would do anything for his younger sister. In a life of poverty and struggle, Pari is the only person who brings Abdullah happiness. When their father sets off with Pari across the desert to Kabul in search of work, Abdullah is determined not to be separated from her....

The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness....

Haruki Murakami’s highly anticipated first novel in six years follows the narrator as his enduring memory of his formative teenage relationship leads him to the mysterious City, and a disruption to the barriers between the real and shadow worlds.

One day, 14-year-old Sophie finds two notes in her mailbox: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that beginning, she becomes obsessed with philosophical questions....

Yeongju did everything she was supposed to, go to university, marry a decent man, get a respectable job. Then it all fell apart. Burned out, Yeongju abandons her old life, quits her high-flying career, divorces her husband, and follows her dream. She opens a bookshop....

An immensely powerful and bitingly satirical retelling of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of Huck’s friend, the enslaved Jim.

The Mountains Sing tells an enveloping, multigenerational tale of the Trần family, set against the backdrop of the Việt Nam War....

A transcendental debut novel from a multiple prize-winning poet; Martyr! is a story of mothers and sons, empires, and what it might mean to strive for love in a world that feels consumed by loss....

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late 20s, the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born....

The author, Devdutt Pattanaik, introduces listeners to the varied aspects and representations of Shiva, and then sets about interpreting them....

'यार जादूगर' हिंदी साहित्य की मुख्य धारा के उपन्यासों में विषय-वस्तु के लिहाज से एकदम नया और चौंकाने वाली कहानी है। कल्पना की जमीन पर बोया गया ऐसा यथार्थ जो मानवीय संबंधों और उसके मनोविज्ञान पर दार्शनिकता की गाँठ खोलता रेशा.

Lucy Maud Montgomery (November 30, 1874 – April 24, 1942), published as L. M. Montgomery, was a Canadian author best known for a series of novels beginning in 1908 with Anne of Green Gables . The book was an immediate success. The title character, orphan Anne Shirley, made Montgomery famous in her lifetime and gave her an international following. The Promissory Note: Ernest Duncan swung himself off the platform of David White's store and walked whistling up the street. Life seemed good to Ernest just then. Mr.

Elle devra tout quitter pour vivre à nouveau. Seule survivante de l'accident qui a coûté la vie à son fiancé et ses meilleurs amis, Fanny doit à présent réapprendre à vivre. Comment expliquer à ses proches la culpabilité d'être toujours là ? L'impossibilité de renouer avec la joie ? Pour honorer la mémoire de celui qu'elle aimait et échapper à sa douleur, elle décide de réaliser son rêve à lui et de partir au Canada...

In der schriftlich fixierten Sprachanwendung ist Albert Ehrenstein den meisten zeitgenössischen Autoren um Lichtjahre voraus, dennoch ist er bis heute nahezu unbekannt. Gepaart mit herrlicher Situationskomik und einem großartigen Verständnis für Menschen und Gesellschaftsstrukturen entsteht so eine bemerkenswerte Prosa, welche ihren poetischen Glanz auf diesem Hörbuch in Form der folgenden Erzählungen erstrahlen lässt: Captain ist ein Hund, der in der Lage ist seinem Herrn, dem Ich-Erzähler, seine Gedanken mitzuteilen.

Sad Tiger is built on the facts of a series of devastating events. Neige Sinno was seven years old when her stepfather started sexually abusing her. At nineteen, she decided to break the silence that is so common in all cultures around sexual violence. This led to a public trial and prison for her stepfather, and Sinno started a new life in Mexico.

Event planner Hattie Norwood only came back home to Mountain View, South Carolina to support her parents as they receive word that the family peanut farm is infertile. This news doesn’t come as a surprise to Hattie, and she plans to return to Charlotte at the weekend’s end. But then the town councilwoman begs Hattie to use her event planning prowess to help Mountain View put on a musical benefit to stop the construction of the new Carolina Panthers stadium.

In his fourth book of poems, award-winning poet Garrett Hongo sees coastlines and waters, skylines and ancestral lines for what they inspire and teach.

A few weeks after the 2016 election, at Thanksgiving with his daughter’s family, Rhys Kinnick snapped. After an escalating fight about politics, he hauled off and punched his conspiracy theorist son-in-law. Horrified by what he'd done, by the state of the country and by his own spiraling mental health, Rhys chucked his smartphone out a car window and fled for a cabin in the woods, off the grid and with no one around—except a pack of hungry raccoons. Now, seven years later, Kinnick’s old life is about to land right back on his crumbling doorstep.

"Platero y Yo" , is probably Juan Ramón Jiménez's most popular book. A unique creation in short chapters of poetic narrative where emotions are reflected in relation to the interaction in between a man, his donkey and the nature of the village where they live: Moguer, in the south of Spain in Andalucía. Happiness and sadness are expressed in a simple yet profound way inspired by day to day experiences of life.

Lucy Maud Montgomery (November 30, 1874 – April 24, 1942), published as L. M. Montgomery, was a Canadian author best known for a series of novels beginning in 1908 with Anne of Green Gables . The book was an immediate success. The title character, orphan Anne Shirley, made Montgomery famous in her lifetime and gave her an international following. The Parting of The Ways: Mrs. Longworth crossed the hotel piazza, descended the steps, and walked out of sight down the shore road with all the grace of motion that lent distinction to her slightest movement.

Роман «Город Эн» описывает десять лет из жизни мальчика, живущего в одном из провинциальных городов на западе России. Главный герой рассказывает о своих близких, об учебе в гимназии, смерти отца, первой влюблённости, поисках друзей и важнейших исторических событиях, которые так же оказывают влияние на процесс его взросления.

Lucy Maud Montgomery (November 30, 1874 – April 24, 1942), published as L. M. Montgomery, was a Canadian author best known for a series of novels beginning in 1908 with Anne of Green Gables. The book was an immediate success. The title character, orphan Anne Shirley, made Montgomery famous in her lifetime and gave her an international following. The Growing Up of Cornelia: Aunt Jemima gave me this diary for a Christmas present. It's just the sort of gift a person named Jemima would be likely to make. I can't imagine why Aunt Jemima thought I should like a diary.

Lucy Maud Montgomery (November 30, 1874 – April 24, 1942), published as L. M. Montgomery, was a Canadian author best known for a series of novels beginning in 1908 with Anne of Green Gables . The book was an immediate success. The title character, orphan Anne Shirley, made Montgomery famous in her lifetime and gave her an international following. The Genesis of the Doughnut Club: When John Henry died there seemed to be nothing for me to do but pack up and go back east.

Camí de sirga és un quadre de Brueghel on cada personatge pogués parlar. El llibre comença amb l’enderrocament de la casa número 20 de la baixada de la Ferradura, que desencadena la fi de la vila vella de Mequinensa. Però aquesta explicació simple es trenca de seguida. ¿Com mor un poble? Més que erigir mitologies de circumstància, Moncada fa sonar l’orquestra de destins dels que hi vivien.

Tras el misterioso hundimiento de una islita deshabitada en medio del Océano Pacífico, una expedición científica al mando del doctor Tadokoro explora el lecho submarino de la Fosa del Japón a bordo de un batiscafo capaz de descender hasta los diez mil metros de profundidad. Con la tétrica sensación de viajar recluidos en un ataúd metálico con destino a un cementerio de las profundidades, se adentrarán con su nave en unas aguas que ejercen una presión espantosa, cual monstruo imbuido de la voluntad de estrujarlos entre sus garras.

Considerată de mulți critici o satiră întunecată și o tragedie poetică, „Voința și norocul" marchează poate cel mai înalt prag al imaginației și al realismului lui Fuentes. În această nouă critică social-politică, aflăm povestea prieteniei dintre Iosua Nadal și Ierihon, care se întâlnesc în adolescență și încearcă să trăiască altfel decât ceilalți, dar aleg drumuri diferite pentru a-și îndeplini scopul.