Contemporary Literature & Fiction
azw3 |eng | 2020-04-06 | Author:Linda Boström Knausgaard [Knausgaard, Linda Boström]

- PART TWO - I REMEMBER THE taxi ride. And the room we came into. Urban’s hand on my shoulder. How he squeezed it. Calmly. As calmly as only he ...
( Category: Literary Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2008-01-22 | Author:Yoko Ogawa & Stephen Snyder

DORMITORY I became aware of the sound quite recently, though I can't say with certainty when it started. There is a place in my memory that is dim and obscure, ...
( Category: Contemporary Literature & Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3, pdf |eng | 1935-01-01 | Author:Georges Bataille [Bataille, Georges]

Her low voice rose up with great feeling, biting off the last words to end on a note of heartrending weariness: Ah, why in this world through which we stray ...
( Category: Contemporary Literature & Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1992-10-04 | Author:Haruki Murakami & Philip Gabriel (translator)

10 The river flowed swiftly past cliffs, in places forming small waterfalls, in others coming to a halt in pools. The surface of these pools faintly reflected the weak sun. ...
( Category: Contemporary Literature & Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3, epub |eng | 1952-01-01 | Author:Amos Tutuola [Tutuola, Amos]

∨ The Palm-wine Drinkard ∧ 19 The work of the faithful-mother in the white tree After she had related her story, then she told one of her servants to give ...
( Category: Contemporary Literature & Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2010-12-01 | Author:Barry Hannah [Hannah, Barry]

Hey, Have You Got a Cig, the Time, the News, My Face? HIS DREAMS WERE NOT GOOD. E. DAN ROSS HAD CONSTANT NIGHTmares, but lately they had run at him ...
( Category: Contemporary Literature & Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1945-01-01 | Author:Ivo Andríc

XIV Life in the town beside the bridge became more and more animated, seemed more and more orderly and fuller, assuming an even pace and a hitherto unknown balance, that ...
( Category: Action & Adventure Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1979-01-01 | Author:J.G. Ballard [Ballard, J.G.]

Later, while I rested in my bedroom above the river, I thought of my third vision that afternoon, of my lordship of the deer. Although I had not eaten for ...
( Category: Contemporary Literature & Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-07-15 | Author:Charles Baxter [Baxter, Charles]

In the act of dying, Quilty visually brings forth Lolita. There she is, her visual traceries coming out of his mouth. He has taken her innocence, and it’s inside him. ...
( Category: World Literature October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2009-08-25 | Author:Hervé le Tellier [Tellier, Hervé le]

Yves pauses, has a drink of water. On the rue de Turenne, Stan walks past his wife’s car without noticing it, and hails a taxi. Yves looks briefly at Anna, ...
( Category: Literary Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2011-01-31 | Author:Ryu Murakami & Ralph McCarthy (translator)

They rode the tandem bicycles down a dirt road to the courts and rented rackets and balls at the little log-cabin-style office from a young man with no shortage of ...
( Category: Contemporary Literature & Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1975-01-01 | Author:Nawal el Saadawi [Saadawi, Nawal el]

* * * At the end of the day I found myself walking down a street without knowing where I was. It was a clean, paved thoroughfare, which ran along ...
( Category: Politics & Government October 18,2021 )
azw3, pdf |eng | 1988-01-01 | Author:Mary Gaitskill

That night she went to a group show at a small gallery in Soho that included work by her friend Sandra. As usual, she was one of the few non-artists ...
( Category: Literary Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1967-01-01 | Author:Ladislav Fuks

IX ‘Oh, what a Christmas this year,’ Mr. Kopfrkingl smiled at Lakmé in the dining-room. She was at that very moment wiping the chair-seats. Then he glanced at the corner ...
( Category: Literary Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1978-01-02 | Author:J.G. Ballard

Total Noon: Eniwetok The blocks now occupied positions on an endlessly revolving circus wheel. They carried him upwards into the sky, from where he could see the whole island and ...
( Category: Contemporary Literature & Fiction October 18,2021 )