Literary Fiction Psychological

Barcelona, años noventa. A., un reconocido escritor argentino, recluido en su casa por una enfermedad degenerativa, ha puesto el punto final a su última novela y teme no llegar a verla publicada. Convencido de que su fama se debe a un malentendido con respecto a su obra, que todos leen de forma equivocada, decide convocar mediante su poderosa agente literaria a un joven crítico, con la esperanza de que esta "última vez" alguien acierte a leerlo en la clave correcta.

Heather is a single mom who has always done what's best for her daughter, Chloe. From birth up to the age of seventeen, Chloe has never been any trouble, until one night when she calls her mother with some shocking news. There's been an accident. And now there's a dead body. As always, Heather puts her daughter's safety before all else, but this is one time when she goes too far. Instead of calling the emergency services, Heather hides the body, saving her child from police interviews and public outcry.

Kopenhagen, 1968: Lise Mundus, Kinderbuchautorin und Mutter dreier Kinder, entgleitet ihr Alltag. Sie meint, Stimmen zu hören und Gesichter zu sehen. Sie ist überzeugt, dass ihr Mann sie verlassen wird, vor allem aber hat sie Angst, dass sie nie wieder schreiben wird. Als sie in die Klinik geht und sich behandeln lässt, beginnt sie sich zu fragen, ob Wahnsinn wirklich etwas ist, wovor sie sich fürchten muss - oder ob er nicht auch eine Form von Freiheit für sie bereithält. In "Gesichter" macht Ditlevsen die Verschiebungen in der Wahrnehmung einer Frau, die seelisch erkrankt, meisterlich erfahrbar.

"Forvandlingen" er en roman om at vende tilbage til hverdagen efter en overfaldsvoldtægt. K. er en ung norsk forfatter bosiddende i Paris. Efter voldtægten tilbringer hun nogle måneder i Oslo omgivet af nære venner og familie, før hun returnerer til Paris og forsøger at leve 'normalt' igen. K. har ofte taget nogle anderledes valg, drevet af åbenhed og eventyrlyst. Hun har rejst meget alene, mødt nye mennesker, lært nye sprog. Hun tænker på sit liv på samme måde som de historier, hun skriver.

Sam, a reclusive underachiever with a long track record of failed marriages and aspirations, must face, in one short spurt of time, the imminent prospects of middle age, professional outplacement, and unwanted responsibilities toward both his father and his son, two men from whom he has made a long and careful effort to distance himself. A Place Apart is at once witty and wry and beautiful, filled with vivid description and sharp dialogue. It hits solidly on dilemmas faced daily by many people in many places by telling a compelling story of one man in one place.

Philip Roth nos introduce en una historia íntima y universal sobre la pérdida, el arrepentimiento y el estoicismo.

La anécdota es simple: Elisheva, la esposa de Shaul, se ausenta de casa cada tarde para ir a nadar, o eso es lo que ella dice, pero su marido imagina cosas bien distintas: ve a su esposa con otro hombre, nota sus caricias, oye sus palabras, sabe -como todos los seres celosos creen saber- que con ese hombre Elisheva se atreverá a juegos que nunca ha experimentado con él.

Esteban Sotomayor va por la vida seguro, todo lo confiado que puede estarlo alguien entrado en la mediana edad que ha conseguido convertirse no solo en un hombre de negocios exitoso y adinerado, sino además en un personaje acostumbrado a someter al mundo a su voluntad. Pero, lo sabemos, la vida nos da sorpresas, de las buenas y las malas, que nos obligan a replantearlo todo.

Nach zwei Jahrzehnten kehren die Brüder Benjamin, Pierre und Nils zum Ort ihrer Kindheit zurück - ein Holzhaus am See -, um die Asche ihrer Mutter zu verstreuen. Eine Reise durch die raue, unberührte Natur wie auch durch die Zeit. Im Kampf um die Liebe der Mutter, die abweisend und grob, dann wieder beinahe zärtlich war, haben die Jungen sich damals aufgerieben bis zur Erschöpfung. Heute fühlen sie sich so weit voneinander entfernt, dass es kein Aufeinander-Zu mehr zu geben scheint. Und doch ist da dieser Rest Hoffnung, den Riss in der Welt zu kitten, wenn sie sich noch einmal gemeinsam in die Vergangenheit vorwagen.

Unfinished Business focuses on an ordinary suburban office worker, fundamentally weak but always keeping his eyes fixed on some horizon where a heightened, romantic, better world must surely exist. Faced with the regular stuff of life - work, aspiration, marriage, age, divorce, bereavement - his ordinary plight is sharpened, becoming increasingly urgent. Having lived in a modern condition, confusing pleasure with happiness, wanting the dream to deliver, what do you do when you notice the shadows begin to lengthen on the lawn?

Die Freundinnen Nina und Franziska wohnen im selben Haus am Weinheimer Marktplatz. Aus einer Sektlaune heraus gründen sie mit vier anderen Frauen den Klub der Spinnerinnen – jede von ihnen hat eine spezielle Macke. Als Nina ihre Handtasche verliert, beginnt die verhängnisvolle Bekanntschaft mit Andreas Haase. Er begnügt sich nicht mit dem üblichen Finderlohn, er möchte mehr. Die Solidarität ihrer Busenfreundin ist gefragt.

How much do you want to remember? Now, what if you could never forget? Tom Donner is 40 years old. He’s not a great man, but he has a good job. A beautiful wife and two healthy children. A paid-off home. Diversified investments. By any measure, he has led a charmed life. So, why is he so unhappy? For Tom, the distant past is still the present. From his earliest failures to his greatest triumphs, each major event of his life is as fresh in his mind as the day it happened. This is a problem, and it will have to be dealt with...chemically.

Adriaan Vroklage soll auf die Insel Rozenburg fahren, um bei Verwandten Lebensmittel zu holen. Als er spät nach Hause zurückkehrt, findet er seine Eltern verzweifelt vor. Sie haben ihn für tot gehalten, denn im Hafenbecken wurde die von Schiffsschrauben zerstückelte Leiche eines kleinen Jungen gefunden. Irgendjemand hatte Adriaan zuvor dort in der Nähe gesehen. Von nun an dreht sich Adriaans Leben um Schuld, Sühne, Verdammnis und Erlösung, da der Junge glaubt, zu Unrecht zu leben. Er will die Familie des Toten kennenlernen.

Inside the rising tech microcosms of Seoul, Singapore, Japan, and India, far from the mendacity of Silicon Valley, a serial tech entrepreneur pursues a last-ditch attempt to build something great: COMPASS, an open-source network platform that Microsoft has labeled “reckless”. At stake are his reputation, his dwindling bank account, and his 15-year relationship with the only woman he’s ever loved - a woman in the midst of reckoning with who she is and what really matters to her in the face of the narcissism and destructiveness of the technology world.

Imagine this: you’re 60 years old, divorced, broke. You’ve squandered away being the husband and father you should’ve been to your wife and children in your quest for status among your architect peers. Don't worry: that’s all about to change. Unfortunate encounters with large trucks on the highway have a way of altering your plans, like jettisoning you back into the past to wake up next to a woman you dated in college. You’re also about to realize she hasn’t aged a day - and neither have you. Thirty years stripped away, just like that.

Ali turned towards the cottage, anger flooding through her. She’d believed she and Meg were friends; that they’d bonded over a vision of motherhood...a world where your baby deserved everything you could give it. She’d pulled Meg’s words - Meg’s life - around her, like a comfort blanket. But that shared vision had never existed. And Ali was alone now, with nothing to protect her.

Rasmus Smith is a New Yorker looking for a way out. Alli is a newcomer seeking a way in. They crash into each other and are spun in the opposite direction. To find their way, Rasmus and Alli try to change each other. If they succeed, who will they become? It’s a question they avoid up until the shocking moment when they must battle with who they used to be.

As a wealthy, young real-estate developer in Los Angeles, T. lives an isolated life. He has always kept his distance from people - from his doting mother to his crass fraternity brothers - but remains unaware of his loneliness until one night, while driving to Las Vegas, he hits a coyote on the highway. The experience unnerves him and inspires a transformation that leads him to question his business pursuits for the first time in his life, to take a chance at falling in love, and to begin breaking into zoos across the country....

A brooding fugitive hides out in a crumbling hotel that was once filled with celebrities enjoying the successes of postwar America. He is a racist with a criminal past, an anti-hero who reflects on the ruins of the South and simultaneously on the life of a German performance artist called “Jupp”. The fictional Jupp is a thinly-veiled cipher for the late real-life German artist, Joseph Beuys.

To everyone who knows her, 28-year-old Marcia leads the perfect life. But beneath the shiny surface lurks another reality. Plagued by panic attacks brought on by her family's wartime legacy and exacerbated by the news, Marcia is convinced that "demons" occupy her closet - and her mind. Determined to conceal her secret life, Marcia is pushed closer and closer to a breaking point. Desperate to rid herself of her "demons", she concocts a plan, hoping to be reborn as a new person. Soon, she discovers this creates its own problems. Can she find another path out of her psychic pain?