Literary Fiction

Combining magic, wisdom, and wonder into an inspiring tale of discovery, this is a modern classic narrated by the inimitable Jeremy Irons.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of two Oprah Book Club Picks—She’s Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True—Wally Lamb comes the propulsive story of a young father who, after an unbearable tragedy, reckons with the possibility of atonement for the unforgivable.

Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water is set in Kerala, on South India’s Malabar Coast, and follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning—and in Kerala, water is everywhere....

Piranesi lives in the House. Perhaps he always has....

For too long, Opaline, Martha and Henry have been the side characters in their own lives. But when a vanishing bookshop casts its spell, these three unsuspecting strangers will discover that their own stories are every bit as extraordinary as the ones found in the pages of their beloved books....

On the eve of his marriage to the beautiful Mercedes, having that very day been made captain of his ship, the young sailor Edmond Dantès is arrested on a charge of treason....

Born a generation apart and with very different ideas about love and family, Mariam and Laila are two women brought jarringly together by war, by loss, and by fate....

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, this novel about a resilient and courageous woman has become a Broadway show and a cultural phenomenon....

Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honor of the powerful businessman Mr. Hosokawa. Roxanne Coss, opera's most revered soprano, has mesmerized the international guests with her singing.

The ruling Asharites of Al-Rassan have come from the desert sands, but over centuries, seduced by the sensuous pleasures of their new land, their stern piety has eroded.....

The Rachel Incident is an all-consuming love story. But it's not the one you're expecting. It's unconventional and messy. It's young and foolish. It's about losing and finding yourself. But it is always about love.

Meghann Dontess is a woman haunted by heartbreak. Twenty-five years ago she was forced to make a terrible choice, one that cost her everything, including the love of her sister, Claire....

Bathroom salesman Matt is at a crossroads. He has lost his job, he is about to be made homeless and his girlfriend has left him. He wants his luck to change and he wants things to go back to how they were.

Taking us from Afghanistan in the final days of its monarchy to the present, The Kite Runner is the unforgettable story of the friendship between two boys growing up in Kabul.

The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959....

Sam Hill always saw the world through different eyes. Born with red pupils, he was called “Devil Boy” or Sam “Hell” by his classmates; “God’s will” is what his mother called his ocular albinism....

Flynn was only a teenager when her parents were killed in a terrible accident. Too young to lose her parents, too young to take on responsibility for her younger sister Kaiya, too young to protect Kaiya from the harshness of their new lives in the following years....

To the Lighthouse is a landmark work of English fiction....

Is it possible to write a sidesplitting novel about the breakup of the perfect marriage? If the writer is Nora Ephron, the answer is a resounding yes....

One of the 20th century's enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize-winning career....

Six years after four family members died of arsenic poisoning, the three remaining Blackwoods live together in pleasant isolation. But one day a stranger arrives....

Angela Carter spins subversively dark and sensual versions of familiar fairy tales and legends in her literary masterpiece....

Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey are unquestionably two of the greatest epic masterpieces in Western literature....

This acclaimed new translation of Dostoyevsky's 'psychological record of a crime' gives his dark masterpiece of murder and pursuit a renewed vitality, expressing its jagged, staccato urgency and fevered atmosphere as never before....

In 1942, Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse - mathematical genius and young Captain in the US Navy - is assigned to Detachment 2702. It is an outfit so secret that only a handful of people know it exists, and some of those people have names like Churchill and Roosevelt....

Dolphin Westward spent her childhood as the supporting character in the story of her beautiful, wild, volatile mother Marigold. Now thirty-three, she’s painfully aware that not much has changed. She lives in a tiny bedsit, works in a tattoo shop by day and collects her illustrated mum from police stations by night. Dol yearns to climb out of the rut she is stuck in, but has no idea where to begin. Could gardener Lee and his daughter Ava be her chance for a wholesome family life? Or maybe a steamy romance with roguish actor Joel is just what she needs.

Literatur muss nicht kompliziert oder voll von Fremdwörtern und langen Sätzen sein. Alle können mit Geschichten in Einfacher Sprache etwas Neues erfahren. Einfache Sprache ist eine Sprache, die wir verlernt haben. Der Herausgeber Hauke Hückstädt hat das Experiment fortgesetzt und 12 namhafte Autor:innen dafür gewonnen.

The Magnificent Ambersons tells the story of the rise and fall of a wealthy Midwestern family as America transitions from a genteel, aristocratic society to a fast-paced, industrial age. At the center is George Amberson Minafer, the spoiled heir of the proud Amberson family, who struggles to accept change and the loss of his family's social status.

Between the Acts is Virginia Woolf’s final novel, set in a quiet English village just before World War II. The story unfolds over the course of one day, as villagers prepare for and perform an outdoor pageant that reflects the history of England. Beneath the surface of this seemingly simple event, tensions rise—between family members, within relationships, and in the looming shadow of war.

With a past she’s desperate to leave behind and a baby on the way, she’s found a new home, deep in the forest, hidden from the world. But when the time comes to go to the hospital, she has no idea that Beckett, the quiet, steady taxi driver who braves the blizzard to reach her, will change everything. As Mary adjusts to life with her newborn, she finds herself drawn into a local close-knit community she never expected to be part of. Beckett is always there ­– dependable, patient and offering a friendship she doesn’t know how to accept but slowly comes to rely on.

In between dating, shopping, drinking, dancing and having fun, the girls of Riyadh live by Saudi Arabia’s strict cultural traditions. Well, not quite... They’re still trying to be good Muslims and please their families. But can you be a 21st century woman and a Saudi woman? A full-cast dramatisation of Rajaa Alsanea's best-selling novel, revealing the social, romantic, and sexual tribulations of four young women from the elite classes of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

溜め池近くの植え込みから、ビニールシートに包まれた男の惨殺死体が発見された！　警視庁捜査一課の警部補・姫川玲子は、これが単独の殺人事件で終わらないことに気づく。捜査で浮上した謎の言葉「ストロベリーナイト」が意味するものは？

「売れない作家の夫に三行半」「スナックママの妻に愛想が尽きた」おしどり夫婦が消えた！？

30年ぶりにアメリカから帰国し、武蔵野の一角・うらはぐさ地区の伯父の家にひとり住むことになった大学教員の沙希。そこで出会ったのは、伯父の友人で庭仕事に詳しい秋葉原さんをはじめとする、一風変わった多様な人々だった。

恋愛リアリティショー「DTOPIA」新シリーズの舞台はボラ・ボラ島。ミスユニバースを巡ってMr.LA、Mr.ロンドン等十人の男たちが争う──時代を象徴する圧倒的傑作、誕生！

Der junge Krieger Phaidros rettet in Theben ein ausgesetztes Baby, von dem eine ganz eigenartige Faszination ausgeht, vor dem sicheren Tod und bringt es zum Tempel der Artemis, in dem verwaiste Kinder aufgezogen werden. Jahre später, Troja ist gefallen und die Soldaten um Phaidros rüsten die Schiffe zur Heimfahrt. Da begegnen sie auf einer Insel einem seltsam schönen Jüngling und nehmen ihn gefangen. Ihm droht nun das Los als Sklave verkauft zu werden, - was für ein Frevel! Das Kentern des Schiffs ist erst der Beginn einer verheerenden Rache des gedemütigten Dionysos.

小学６年生の十和は、家族の幸せの形がわからない。楽しい母、やさしい父、かわいい妹。それなのに、どうして心がこんなに荒（すさ）むのか。中学受験に挑む娘と父の姿を通して、家族の成長を描く感動作。

It's no ordinary existence on the rugged isle of Muckle Flugga. The elements run riot and the very rocks that shape the place begin to shift under their influence. The only human inhabitants are the lighthouse keeper, known as The Father, and his otherworldly son, Ouse. Them, and the occasional lodger to keep the wolf from the door.

Ami Shah is on the brink of life-changing success. Her skin-care empire, Amala, is set for a dream acquisition by a Fortune 500 company, and she has just been nominated for a ChangeMaker Award, the most revered entrepreneurial honor. There's just one problem: she's a complete and utter fraud. Twenty years ago, abandoned orphan Monica Joseph made a decision that forever changed the course of her life—she stole her wealthy classmate's identity and moved abroad to build her life on someone else's name.

その女は愛する男を殺し、陰部を切り取り逃亡した──脚本家の吉弥は、少年時代に昭和の猟奇殺人として知られる「阿部定事件」に遭遇。以来、ゆえあって定の関係者を探し出し、証言を集め続けてきた。

As I walk through the front door of my daughter Scarlett's house, looking forward to the birthday lunch we have planned, nothing can prepare me what I see. Andrew is here too, my best friend's husband ... Scarlett and Andrew say they are in love. Despite the 25-year age gap, they want to be together. My best friend Philippa and I have known each other for 50 years. Our daughters are more like sisters. We know everything about each other. And Philippa's the only person in the world who knows my darkest secret. She'd decided to leave Andrew. They'd drifted apart.

Johannes Gottstein flieht 1796 nach New York. Der junge Pfarrer war zu freigeistig, wurde exkommuniziert. In den frisch gegründeten USA soll «John» eine Expedition des vermögenden Oliver Hancock begleiten, der das «American Incognitum» aufspüren will – ein Mammut in einem unzugänglichen Landstrich, dessen Entdeckung Reichtum, ja ewigen Ruhm verheißt. Dreizehn Männer ziehen los, ein bunter Haufen. Sie erleben Eisstürme, Überfälle, begegnen Natives. Die waghalsige Reise fordert bald ihre Opfer.

In 1924, Alice tells a terrible lie to reinvent herself, seeking refuge in the ill-fated Western Australian Group Settlement Scheme. But the past is not so easily erased. Decades later, Jarrah begins to unravel the mystery of Alice's silence. Following a trail of buried secrets from Australia to England, she pieces together a hidden past—one that forces her to question everything she thought she knew about family and identity.

Life is hard in Ireland in 1867. Eliza Carthy moves with her lighthouse-keeper husband James and sons Peter and Joseph to the remote island of Skellig Michael. When assistant keeper Edmund and his wife Ruth arrive, Eliza hopes for respite. But her new neighbours are not what she'd expected.