From the widely acclaimed author of White Tears, a bold new novel about searching for order in a world that frames madness as truth. After receiving a prestigious writing fellowship in Germany, the narrator of Red Pill arrives in the...
Psychological fiction
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Author:Kunzru, HariSummary: - Author:Saravia, AlejandroSummary:
Traumatized by his past as a Bolivian soldier who, in a sudden coup d'etat, was forced to participate in atrocities, Alfredo flees to Montreal, haunted by the dead. He rides the Montreal metro and pours his guilt and shame into his...
- Author:Horner, PatrickSummary:
Relic species extinct everywhere else on the planet thrive on a remote archipelago. Evolution requires isolation, and these islands offer the perfect environment for genetic variation to take place, fostering new and unique forms of...
- Author:Pawlowicz, JuliaSummary:
Trois grandes vagues – la mort de son père, la disparition de sa mère, la passion amoureuse – secouent la vie de Maria. Désormais seule avec son frère, dans une Amérique qu’elle n’a pas choisi d’habiter, elle cherche à se reconstruire....
- Author:Clayton, MelindaSummary:
As recounted in Appalachian Justice, Jessie is an adult survivor of horrendous childhood abuse. At the age of thirteen, she was rescued by reclusive mountain woman Billy May Platte. Now forty-seven, Jessie is outwardly successful but...
- Author:Lim, S.L.Summary:
'A coiled spring of a novel, Revenge hits you right between the eyes.' MALCOLM HARRIS, author of Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials and Shit is Fucked Up and Bullshit: History Since the End Of History...
- Author:Ogawa, YōkoSummary:
An aspiring writer moves into a new apartment and discovers that her landlady has murdered her husband. Elsewhere, an accomplished surgeon is approached by a cabaret singer, whose beautiful appearance belies the grotesque condition of...
- Author:Magini, RogerSummary:
Ce roman au ton intimiste propose une réflexion sur l’oubli et la banalisation de l’horreur. Assis à la terrasse d’un café de Cholula, l’antique Cité Sacrée du Mexique, un journaliste écrit un article sur « Hiroshima, soixante ans plus...
- Author:Wren, JacobSummary:
Who hasn't, at one time or another, considered killing a billionaire? Rich and Poor is a novel of a man who washes dishes for a living and decides to kill a billionaire as a political act. It is literature as political theory...
- Author:Givhan, JenniferSummary:
Burgeoning Chicana artist Eva Santos Moon is at one of her lowest points, suffering from disorienting blackouts. When her husband is arrested for the murder of their friend, Eva doesn't know whom to trust.
- Author:Donoghue, EmmaSummary:
To five-year-old Jack, Room is the entire world. It's where he was born, where he and his Ma eat and play and learn. There are endless wonders that let loose Jack's imagination—the snake under Bed that he constructs out of eggshells,...
- Author:De Nikolits, LisaSummary:
Rotten Peaches is a gripping epic filled with disturbing and unforgettable insights into the human condition. Love, lust, race and greed. How far will you go? Two women. Two men. One happy ending. It takes place in Canada, the U.S. and...
- Author:Woods, StuartSummary:
Will Lee ran from a life of Southern wealth and privilege to spend a peaceful summer on the coast of Ireland. But there is no peace in this beautiful, troubled land. Restless and dissatisfied, Will dreams of shipbuilding and sailing on...
- Author:Howard, Catherine RyanSummary:
LIGHTS. Feeling her stardom fading, struggling soap-actress Adele Rafferty is ready to give up on her dreams when she gets a last-minute offer to play the lead in upcoming horror film Final Draft. Could this be her big break? Will she...
- Author:Woods, JaneSummary:
Set in a small town in Quebec, Running Downhill Like Water is made up of four interconnected stories spanning fifty years of the lives of four people whose prospects have been violently shattered. Lucy, a perennial misfit, is thwarted...
- Author:Dupuis-Morency, ClaraSummary:
Having followed the brilliant virologist Régnier from Montreal to Marseille many years ago, Sadie now works as a researcher in a lab, spending most of her time among microscopic creatures who teach her about life as a parasite. By day...
- Author:Yarbrough, SteveSummary:
Yarbrough tells the story of a Mississippi history teacher who's determined to unravel the truth about one tragic day in 1962. Even as he pursues an affair with a long-lost friend, he wonders if she could hold the missing piece to this...
- Author:Moreno, CarolineSummary:
En écrivant un roman sur le destin tragique d’Emma Jouve, une actrice de cinéma ayant succombé à la chirurgie esthétique, Constance Labelle comprend à quel point ce personnage lui ressemble. Elle décide alors de se plonger dans son...
- Author:McPherson, ChristianSummary:
Christian McPherson’s exciting new novel is a portrait of a woman coming unglued after devastating events send her spiraling out of control. Between popping pills and drinking vodka, Julie Cooper tries her best to do what she has always...
- Author:Alvarez, JuliaSummary:
A best-selling, Latin-American author living in Vermont, Alma stays behind when her husband travels to the Dominican Republic to help fight AIDS. She needs the time to work on her latest book, but she has terrible writer's block. Soon,...
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