An unflinching allegorical novel that explores trauma, women's rights, and religious tradition. In the slums of Tehran, seven-year-old Sara witnesses the horrific murder of her sister Setayesh, an event leaves her in shock and...
Literary fiction
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Author:Baniahmadi, BaharanSummary: - Author:Heti, SheilaSummary:
Here we are, just living in the first draft of creation, which was made by some great artist, who is now getting ready to tear it apart. In this first draft, a woman named Mira leaves home for school. There, she meets Annie, whose...
- Author:Johnson, Mat.Summary:
Recently canned professor of American literature Chris Jaynes has just made a startling discovery: the manuscript of a crude slave narrative that confirms the reality of Edgar Allan Poe’s strange and only novel, The Narrative of Arthur...
- Author:Chaput, SimoneSummary:
Que serions-nous sans le secours de ce qui n'existe pas ? Ce titre, emprunté à Paul Valéry, est le sésame qui nous ouvre les portes de ce roman cousu de fils d'or. Avec une écriture tressée de brins d'histoires, évoluant en spirales...
- Author:Wagamese, RichardSummary:
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...
- Author:Vermette, KatherenaSummary:
*Longlister for the 2024 Giller Prize* From the author of the nationally bestselling Strangers saga comes a heartrending story of two Michif sisters who must face their past trauma when their mother is called out for false claims to...
- Author:Van Pelt, ShelbySummary:
Staying busy has helped Tova cope ever since her son disappeared decades ago. So when her husband dies, she takes a job at the aquarium, where she meets Marcellus, an octopus that deduces what happened to her son.
- Author:Etter, Sarah RoseSummary:
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Named a Best Book of 2023 by Time , Huffington Post , Kirkus , and more * A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * A Roxane Gay Audacious Book Club Selection * A Marie Claire Book Club Pick A surreal...
- Author:Williams, JimSummary:
After the death of his wife, Peter abandons his life in Toronto for one of exile in Rock Reject, a mountain-top asbestos mine in northern British Columbia. He soon witnesses the devastating effects of mining on the health of his fellow...
- Author:Thúy, Kim.Summary:
Vignettes describe a journey from a palatial residence in Saigon to a crowded and muddy Malaysian refugee camp, and onward to a new life in Quebec. There, the young girl feels the embrace of a new community, and revels in the chance to...
- Author:Helwig, DavidSummary:
Birdsong, wind: here by the ocean every noise was surrounded by silence that reached all the way to the stars. Monica studied the white shingled building above the slope of green lawn, deep bays rising two storeys on each side of the...
- Author:Andraos, MaryseSummary:
Entre une mère à l'amour brutal, son amie fidèle et des amoureux·ses qui voudraient la sauver, Naïma suit le mouvement sans savoir ce que signifierait vivre une vie qu'elle pourrait dire sienne. Traquant sans relâche la lumière...
- Author:Ferguson, GenkiSummary:
Set in 1999 Japan, Satellite Love is a heartbreaking and beautifully unconventional debut novel about a girl, a boy, and a satellite--and a bittersweet meditation on loneliness, alienation, and what it means to be human. On the eve of...
- Author:Shraya, VivekSummary:
A "Globe 100" Best Book of the Year (The Globe and Mail) Lambda Literary Award finalist In the beginning, there is no he. There is no she. Two cells make up one cell. This is the mathematics behind creation. One plus one makes one. Life...
- Author:Pamuk, OrhanSummary:
Awaiting the arrival of her grandchildren in her home outside Istanbul, bed-ridden widow Fatma shares memories and grievances with her late husband's illegitimate son until his nephew, a right-wing nationalist, involves the family...
- Author:Ernaux, AnnieSummary:
In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensnared in an all-consuming passion. Blurring the line between fact and fiction, an unnamed narrator attempts to plot the emotional and...
- Author:Coetzee, J. M.Summary:
A bicycle accident changes Paul Rayment's solitary, self-sufficient life. Although his right leg is amputated, he refuses a prosthesis. Sixtyish, single, and childless, he must learn to navigate anew, physically and mentally, and...
- Author:Sloan, RobinSummary:
In his much-anticipated new audiobook, Robin Sloan does for the world of food what he did for the world of books in Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour BookstoreLois Clary is a software engineer at General Dexterity, a San Francisco robotics...
- Author:Creelman, ElizabethSummary:
In the mid-1970s, tensions simmer beneath the surface of a small town in rural Massachusetts. But sixteen-year-old identical twin sisters April and Pilgrim live happily on their parents' farm. Their father recruits a young Bahamian...
- Author:Mandel, Emily St. JohnSummary:
One snowy night a famous Hollywood actor slumps over and dies onstage during a production of King Lear. Hours later, the world as we know it begins to dissolve. Moving back and forth in time-from the actor's early days as a film star to...
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