Contemporary Fiction

¿Cómo mantener una amistad intacta cuando el Alzheimer se va llevando consigo las bases del lenguaje, la memoria y las experiencias compartidas?La ...

Glasgow. 2007. Emo culture is thriving, but fifteen-year-old Cathy OKellys world couldnt be more insular. Its her first day at high school. Bullied...

ucharest, before and during World War II, where Bernard Davidescou lives with his parents and his older brother on Triumph Street, in the middle of...

Woven through all these tales are the unique histories and mythologies of the regions of Southern Italy, encompassing Sicily, Calabria, Cantania, B...

I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.Sylvia Plath's ...

Bjorn Hansen, a respectable town treasurer, has just turned fifty and is horrified by the thought that chance has ruled his life. Eighteen years ag...

Young Hans arrives with one suitcase in a squalid village on the eastern edge of empire-a surreal postwar Austria. His uncle has died, and accordin...

Over ten rainy nights, Thomas, an ex-bargeman who used to be skipper of his own boat, walks the muddy fields of the landlocked German interior and ...

Klaus Merz is one of the most prominent, prolific, and versatile Swiss writers working today. Celebrated as a master of concise, condensed sentence...

Golden Richards, husband to four wives, father to twenty-eight children, is having the mother of all midlife crises. His construction business is f...

When life stops making sense, its time to raise the anchor and follow the tide. Twenty-two years of marriage, and all Becca Larkins divorce settle...

A swoony contemporary western romance, Rancho de Amor brings city sensibilities and country values together in a hilarious and heartfelt story of f...

Three subtly connected stories converge in this chimerical debut, each burrowing into a turning point in a persons life: a young woman gives a mela...

Yona Stern has traveled from New York to Israel to make amends with her estranged sister, a stoic ideologue and mother of five who has dedicated he...