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The Trial (Franz Kafka)
Franz Kafka · 2014
The TrialFranz KafkaThe Trial, original German title: Der Process, is a novel written by Franz Kafka in 1914 and 1915 but not published until 1925. One of Kafka's best-known works, it tells the story of a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, with the nature of his crime revealed to neither him nor the reader.Like Kafka's other novels, The Trial was never completed, although it does include a chapter which brings the story to an end. Because of this, there are some inconsistencies and discontinuities in narration within the novel, such as disparities in timing.After Kafka's death in 1924 his friend and literary executor Max Brod edited the text for publication by Verlag Die Schmiede. The original manuscript is held at the Museum of Modern Literature, Marbach am Neckar, Germany. In 1999, the book was listed in Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century and as No. 2 of the Best German Novels of the Twentieth Century.
Play It As It Lays
Joan Didion · 1970
Falling Angels
Tracy Chevalier · 2002
The Stranger Albert Camus
Albert Camus · 2021
Memories of My Melancholy Whores
Gabriel García Márquez · 2014
AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN eBOOK! A New York Times Notable Book On the eve of his ninetieth birthday a bachelor decides to give himself a wild night of love with a virgin. As is his habit–he has purchased hundreds of women–he asks a madam for her assistance. The fourteen-year-old girl who is procured for him is enchanting, but exhausted as she is from caring for siblings and her job sewing buttons, she can do little but sleep. Yet with this sleeping beauty at his side, it is he who awakens to a romance he has never known. Tender, knowing, and slyly comic, Memories of My Melancholy Whores is an exquisite addition to the master’s work.
Violeta (Spanish Edition)
Isabel Allende · 2022
<p> <b>La épica y emocionante historia de una mujer cuya vida abarca los momentos históricos más relevantes del siglo XX.</b> </p> <p> <p> <b>Desde 1920 -con la llamada «gripe española»- hasta la pandemia de 2020, la vida de Violeta será mucho más que la historia de un siglo.</b> </p> <p>Violeta viene al mundo un tormentoso día de 1920, siendo la primera niña de una familia de cinco bulliciosos hermanos. Desde el principio su vida estará marcada por acontecimientos extraordinarios, pues todavía se sienten las ondas expansivas de la Gran Guerra cuando la gripe española llega a las orillas de su país sudamericano natal, casi en el momento exacto de su nacimiento.</p> <p>Gracias a la clarividencia del padre, la familia saldrá indemne de esta crisis para darse de bruces con una nueva, cuando la Gran Depresión altera la elegante vida urbana que Violeta ha conocido hasta ahora. Su familia lo perderá todo y se verá obligada a retirarse a una región salvaje y remota del país. Allí Violeta alcanzará la mayoría de edad y tendrá su primer pretendiente...</p> <p>En una carta dirigida a una persona a la que ama por encima de todas las demás, Violeta rememora devastadores desengaños amorosos y romances apasionados, momentos de pobreza y también de prosperidad, pérdidas terribles e inmensas alegrías. Moldearán su vida algunos de los grandes sucesos de la historia: la lucha por los derechos de la mujer, el auge y caída de tiranos y, en última instancia, no una, sino dos pandemias.</p> <p> <b>Vista con los ojos de una mujer poseedora de una pasión, una determinación y un sentido del humor inolvidables que la sostienen a lo largo de una vida turbulenta, Isabel Allende nos regala, una vez más, una historia épica furiosamente inspiradora y profundamente emotiva.</b> </p>
O Amor Nos Tempos Do Colera
Gabriel Garcia Marquez · 1998
Um homem se apaixona pela tranca de uma menina de familia. O idilio dura algumas cartas, mas ao conhecer seu admirador, a moca rejeita-o e casa com outro. O amor, porem, persiste e dura a vida inteira. Nesta fabula de realismo-fantastico, Gabriel Garcia Marquez mostra que a paixao nao tem idade.
Chatices Do Amor
Young, Fernanda · 2024
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My Year of Rest and Relaxation: A Novel
Ottessa Moshfegh · 2019
Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Time, NPR, Vice, Bustle, The New York Times, The Guardian, Kirkus Reviews, Entertainment Weekly, The AV Club, & Audible A New York Times Bestseller • New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century “One of the most compelling protagonists modern fiction has offered in years: a loopy, quietly furious pillhead whose Ambien ramblings and Xanaxed b*tcheries somehow wend their way through sad and funny and strange toward something genuinely profound.” — Entertainment Weekly “Darkly hilarious . . . [Moshfegh’s] the kind of provocateur who makes you laugh out loud while drawing blood.” —Vogue From one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, a novel about a young woman's efforts to duck the ills of the world by embarking on an extended hibernation with the help of one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature and the battery of medicines she prescribes. Our narrator should be happy, shouldn't she? She's young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, works an easy job at a hip art gallery, lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like the rest of her needs, by her inheritance. But there is a dark and vacuous hole in her heart, and it isn't just the loss of her parents, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her best friend, Reva. It's the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong? My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a powerful answer to that question. Through the story of a year spent under the influence of a truly mad combination of drugs designed to heal our heroine from her alienation from this world, Moshfegh shows us how reasonable, even necessary, alienation can be. Both tender and blackly funny, merciless and compassionate, it is a showcase for the gifts of one of our major writers working at the height of her powers.
The Housemaid
Freida McFadden · 2022
Martyr!: A novel
Kaveh Akbar · 2024
<b><i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER • SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • ONE OF <i>THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S </i>10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR <b>• <b>A<b> <i>TIME</i> MUST-READ BOOK OF THE YEAR</b></b> • </b>A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a remarkable search for a family secret that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum. Electrifying, funny, and wholly original<i>, Martyr!</i> heralds the arrival of an essential new voice in contemporary fiction.<br><br>“Kaveh Akbar is one of my favorite writers. Ever.” —Tommy Orange, Pulitzer Prize–nominated author of <i>There There</i><br><br>“The best novel you'll ever read about the joy of language, addiction, displacement, martyrdom, belonging, homesickness.” —Lauren Groff, best-selling author of <i>Matrix</i> and <i>Fates and Furies</i></b><br><br>Cyrus Shams is a young man grappling with an inheritance of violence and loss: his mother’s plane was shot down over the skies of the Persian Gulf in a senseless accident; and his father’s life in America was circumscribed by his work killing chickens at a factory farm in the Midwest. Cyrus is a drunk, an addict, and a poet, whose obsession with martyrs leads him to examine the mysteries of his past—toward an uncle who rode through Iranian battlefields dressed as the angel of death to inspire and comfort the dying, and toward his mother, through a painting discovered in a Brooklyn art gallery that suggests she may not have been who or what she seemed.<br><br>Kaveh Akbar’s <i>Martyr!</i> is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves, others.
Dias Perfeitos (Em Portugues do Brasil)
Raphael Montes · 2014
Eu que nunca conheci os homens (Portuguese Edition)
Jacqueline Harpman · 2021
Vespera (Em Portugues do Brasil)
Carla Madeira · 2021
The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka · 2009
"The Metamorphosis" (original German title: "Die Verwandlung") is a short novel by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. It is often cited as one of the seminal works of fiction of the 20th century and is widely studied in colleges and universities across the western world. The story begins with a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, waking to find himself transformed into an insect.
Who Killed My Father
Edouard Louis · 2019
Darling Girls
Sally Hepworth · 2024
A thrilling page-turner about sisterhood, secrets, love and murder by Sally Hepworth, the New York Times bestselling author of The Soulmate and The Mother-in-Law.<br/><br/>It’s not just secrets buried at Wild Meadows.<br/><br/>For as long as they can remember, Jessica, Norah and Alicia have been told how lucky they are. Rescued from their own family tragedies, they were raised by a loving foster mother on an idyllic farming estate and given an elusive second chance for a happy family life.<br/><br/>But the girls’ childhood wasn’t quite the fairy tale everyone thinks it was. And when a body is discovered under the home they grew up in, the three foster sisters find themselves thrust into the spotlight as key witnesses.<br/><br/>It’s time for them to return home as adults. The only question is are they innocent victims or the prime suspects for murder?<br/><br/>With darkly comic timing and insidiously twisting plots, Sally Hepworth’s novels are guaranteed to keep you turning the pages . . .
Sputnik Sweetheart
Haruki Murakami · 2001
Tudo é Rio
Carla Madeira · 2023
Suor, Sangue, Lágrimas, Saliva, Sémen. Tudo Flui Sem Parar. Lucy é A Prostituta Mais Concorrida Da Cidade. Dalva, Por Contraste, é De Origem Familiar E Muito Tradicional, Mulher De Venâncio, Senhor De Uns Ciúmes Doentios. Lucy E O Casal, Dalva E Venâncio, Protagonizam Um Triângulo Amoroso Que Se Afasta Dos Lugares-comuns Dos Romances E Nos Faz Questionar, Sob Formas Surpreendentemente Originais, Quais Os Verdadeiros Limites Do Perdão, Até Onde Pode Ir A Intensidade De Um Amor, De Que Valores Se Reveste A Importância Da Família E, Acima De Qualquer Outra Coisa Nesta História, Quão Forte Ou Fraca Pode Ser A Afeição Entre Mulheres. Neste Seu Impressionante Primeiro Livro, A Escritora Brasileira Carla Madeira Socorre-se De Uma Linguagem Sem Pudores Ou Complexos, Com Uma Narrativa Madura, Mas Ao Mesmo Tempo Poética E Imagética; E Dessa Forma Incorpora Todos Os Extremos, Sem Ideias Básicas De Certo E Errado, Apresentando-nos O Extraordinário Mundo De Mulheres Fortes, Fracas, Com Problemas E Soluções, Com Sentimentos E Desejos Reais.
All Fours: A Novel
Miranda July · 2024
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER<br/><br/>The New York Times bestselling author returns with an irreverently sexy, tender, hilarious and surprising novel about a woman upending her life<br/><br/>“A frank novel about a midlife awakening, which is funnier and more boldly human than you ever quite expect….the bravery of All Fours is nothing short of riveting.”—Vogue<br/><br/>“A novel that presses into that tender bruise about the anxiety of aging, of what it means to have a female body that is aging, and wanting the freedom to live a fuller life…Deeply funny and achingly true.” —LA Times<br/><br/>“All Fours possessed me. I picked it up and neglected my life until the last page, and then I started begging every woman I know to read it as soon as possible.” —The Cut<br/><br/>“July’s novel is hot and weird and captivating and one of the most entertaining, deranged, and moving depictions of lust and romantic mania I’ve ever read.” —New York Magazine<br/><br/>A semi-famous artist announces her plan to drive cross-country, from LA to NY. Thirty minutes after leaving her husband and child at home, she spontaneously exits the freeway, checks into a nondescript motel, and immerses herself in an entirely different journey.<br/><br/>Miranda July’s second novel confirms the brilliance of her unique approach to fiction. With July’s wry voice, perfect comic timing, unabashed curiosity about human intimacy, and palpable delight in pushing boundaries, All Fours tells the story of one woman’s quest for a new kind of freedom. Part absurd entertainment, part tender reinvention of the sexual, romantic, and domestic life of a forty-five-year-old female artist, All Fours transcends expectation while excavating our beliefs about life lived as a woman. Once again, July hijacks the familiar and turns it into something new and thrillingly, profoundly alive.
All About Love: New Visions
bell hooks · 2018
A New York Times bestseller and enduring classic, All About Love is the acclaimed first volume in feminist icon bell hooks' "Love Song to the Nation" trilogy. All About Love reveals what causes a polarized society, and how to heal the divisions that cause suffering. Here is the truth about love, and inspiration to help us instill caring, compassion, and strength in our homes, schools, and workplaces.<br/>“The word ‘love’ is most often defined as a noun, yet we would all love better if we used it as a verb,” writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting and on fire in All About Love. Here, at her most provocative and intensely personal, renowned scholar, cultural critic and feminist bell hooks offers a proactive new ethic for a society bereft with lovelessness--not the lack of romance, but the lack of care, compassion, and unity. People are divided, she declares, by society’s failure to provide a model for learning to love.<br/>As bell hooks uses her incisive mind to explore the question “What is love?” her answers strike at both the mind and heart. Razing the cultural paradigm that the ideal love is infused with sex and desire, she provides a new path to love that is sacred, redemptive, and healing for individuals and for a nation. The Utne Reader declared bell hooks one of the “100 Visionaries Who Can Change Your Life.” All About Love is a powerful, timely affirmation of just how profoundly her revelations can change hearts and minds for the better.
Cem Anos De Solidao
Gabriel Garcia Marquez · 2008
O livro mais importante de Gabriel Garcia Márquez. Neste que é um dos maiores clássicos da literatura, o prestigiado autor narra a incrível e triste história dos Buendía – a estirpe de solitários para a qual não será dada “uma segunda oportunidade sobre a terra” e apresenta o maravilhoso universo da fictícia Macondo, onde se passa o romance. É lá que acompanhamos diversas gerações dessa família, assim como a ascensão e a queda do vilarejo. Para além dos artifícios técnicos e das influências literárias que transbordam do livro, ainda vemos em suas páginas o que por muitos é considerado uma autêntica enciclopédia do imaginário, num estilo que consagrou o colombiano como um dos maiores autores do século XX.<br/><br/>Capa comum: 448 páginas<br/>Editora: Record; Edição: 108 (1 de abril de 1977)<br/>Idioma: Português<br/>ISBN-10: 9788501012074<br/>ISBN-13: 978-8501012074<br/>ASIN: 8501012076<br/>Dimensões do produto: 21 x 13,6 x 2,8 cm<br/>Peso de envio: 481 g
Simple Passion
Annie Ernaux · 2011
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A New York Times Notable Book 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 physical course of her 2 year relationship with a married foreigner where every word, event, and person either provides a connection with her beloved or is subject to her cold indifference. With courage and exactitude, she seeks the truth behind an existence lived entirely for someone else, and, in the pieces of its aftermath, she is able to find it.
