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Un romanzo di formazione che segue la crescita interiore del giovane Walter, un ragazzo che attraversa fuoco, terra e vento per conoscere sé stesso. Fuoco è la voce di Andrea, che per lui è ben più di un amico, è la sua voce interiore, la sua finestra sul mondo. Proprio questa amicizia dà a Walter il coraggio necessario per lasciare la piccola città dov'è nato, approdare a Roma e reinventarsi una vita. Terra è il suolo poco docile, quello della capitale, città caotica e complessa, angolo di un paradiso apparente, preludio di un vuoto dei corpi e dell'anima.

Stalin è un ragazzino di periferia, sta per compiere diciotto anni. Ha capelli corti, baffi enormi che gli sono valsi il soprannome e gravi problemi nella gestione della rabbia. Il suo quartiere è "un'intera palette di grigio", dove ogni cosa sembra ripetersi all'infinito, e lui trascorre le giornate con Jean, un vecchio depresso che lo sfrutta subdolamente, oppure con Bianca, una ragazza cieca verso cui nutre un amore platonico. Quando, in seguito a un litigio, Stalin malmena il suo patrigno, le circostanze lo spingono a scappare di casa, portando Bianca con sé.

Tra i bambini della Tonnara, un quartiere povero di Palermo, Saro spicca per la sua intelligenza. Ha solo dieci anni ma sogna in grande: vuole fare il carabiniere come suo zio Mario, nonostante l'odio che il padre nutre per quell'uomo e per la divisa che indossa. Il migliore amico di Saro, Carmelo, detto 'u Cinese, è un tredicenne affetto da sindrome di Down, che vive in una povera casa insieme alla nonna. I loro giorni trascorrono in strada, tra giochi sotto il sole, le angherie dei ragazzi più grandi e piccoli furti, quando la fame si fa sentire. Finché una sera tutto cambia.

"Questo breve e intenso primo libro di Erri De Luca porta già impressi in ogni frase - mi sembra - i segni di un vero scrittore: un tono di voce che appena si coglie diventa inconfondibile, e la integrità di uno sguardo che sa mettere nel giusto fuoco i pensieri e i sentimenti. Qui la memoria non è consolazione, ma è un dramma, e il tempo gioca un suo gioco crudele stabilendo distanze insormontabili tra chi narra e la materia del proprio racconto. Una luce bianca e densa come quella che filtra da nuvole alte bagna queste pagine.

American-born Catherine knows little of her Croatian mother's early life. When Marijana dies of ovarian cancer, 22-year-old Catherine finds herself cut off from the past she never really knew. As Catherine searches for clues to her mother's elusive history, she discovers that Marijana was orphaned during WWII, nearly died as a teenager, and escaped from Communist Yugoslavia to Rome, and then South America. Through travel and memory, history and imagination, Catherine resurrects the relatives she's never known.

Temilola is a kind-hearted boy from the upper echelons of Nigerian society who wakes up alone in the middle of Lagos and discovers that he has lost his memory. He soon finds that this is the least of his problems, as he must now attempt to survive the dangerous streets of Lagos.

Convencido de que para alguien con sus aspiraciones literarias podía convenir vivir en el país de Franz Kafka y de Milan Kundera, el joven Eugen Salmann acepta la propuesta que le hacen de irse al este europeo. Ni de lejos sospecha este aprendiz de escritor que en Praga no conseguirá ni abrir una nueva filial para su empresa ni escribir una sola línea. Más aún: como si fuera un personaje de Kafka, más que escribir una novela… ¡se encuentra viviendo dentro de una! Las ficciones se hacen realidad y se tornan peligrosas.

A la protagonista de esta novela le dan una terrible noticia y, desesperada, con todo perdido, ha de tomar una decisión: Huir. Ser libre. Así emprende un camino hacia ninguna parte, hacia su interior, hacia su liberación, que le llevará a descubrir el sentido final y esencial de su existencia, el valor real de las cosas y los recuerdos, la importancia de los sueños y los mitos y, cuando menos se lo esperaba, el amor, un amor apasionado que le hará vivir cada momento con ansias renovadas.

La Judit té gairebé dotze anys i un do per dibuixar. Viu amb la seva mare i el seu avi a Ginebra. El seu pare, un famós pintor, va marxar a Hongria quan era petita. La Judit està preparant-se per a un concurs de dibuix quan, inesperadament, els escacs es creuen en el seu camí i comença a aficionar-s’hi. La Judit jugarà moltes partides, però una d’elles li canviarà la vida: la que jugarà contra Mr. Aliyat, un estrany mestre dels escacs, nascut a l’Iran, que es comunica a través de notes enigmàtiques.

Manuela Penarrocha té tretze anys. Asseguda en una cadireta baixa al portal de casa seva, cus les espardenyes com ningú. La nena d’ulls grisos i cabells d’or recorda el seu pare. Ell, per fer la guerra, n’ha portat unes com aquestes, com la resta de carlistes, homes d’espardenya, garrot, trabuc i navalla a la faixa. Vol abraçar-lo, sentir l’escalfor del seu petó al front. Enyora la mirada dura i alhora plena de tendresa, el seu riure estrident.

A young boy comes of age within the confines of post-civil-war Beirut, with conflict and comedy lurking round every corner. Adam dreams of becoming an astronaut, but who has ever heard of an Arab on the moon? He battles with his father, a book-hoarding journalist with a penchant for writing eulogies, his closest friend, Basil, a Druze who is said to worship goats and believe in reincarnation, and a host of other misfits and miscreants in a city attempting recover from years of political and military violence.

In a nameless Hungarian town, teenagers on a competitive swim team occupy their after-training hours with hard drinking and fast cars, hash cigarettes and marathons of Grand Theft Auto, the meaningless sex and late-night exploits of a world defined by self-gratification and all its attendant recklessness. Invisible to their parents and subject to the whims of an abusive coach, the crucible of competition pushes them again and again into dangerous choices. When a deadly accident leaves them second-guessing one another, they’re driven even deeper into violence.

Zindagi 50-50's young writer Bhagwant Anmol manages to cover sensitive topics which tug at the very fabric of our society. In Bali Umar he has managed to do the same. At the center of the novel are a child’s innocence, his shenanigans, and a child’s raging curiosity to fathom everything about life. The main protagonists of the novel are children, and the plot is set in a village. The novel is an attempt to address societal-political and caste angle issues through the medium of children.

A Hindi translation of Ruskin Bond’s A Handful of Nuts by Rachna Bhola ‘Yamini’, this novel is the story of a 21-year-old writer in a small town in India. Alternately witty, poignant, tender and hilarious, the tale begins with the writer describing his simple and frugal life in Dehra. He occupies a tiny room, spending his days eating at the roadside restaurants, watching cinema and reading all English publications he can find. His goal is to find avenues to get his short stories published, and though he finds plenty such publications, none of those pay well.

You know that old saying “opposites attract” - well, no one ever tells you what happens after the attraction part. Do opposites stick together forever? Or do they just self-combust? And then there’s the third option: Someone or something forces them apart. Look, the third option isn’t happening to us. I will end the bastard who thinks he can keep me from her. I only need to worry about one thing.... Epic, soul-crushing self-destruction. Because I screw up everything I touch. Even her.

Shay Gable hated my guts, and I hated hers, too. We went out of our way to avoid one another at all times. When she came in my direction, I went the other. When we locked eyes, she’d turn and walk away. All of that changed the day I was presented with a challenge. It started out as a stupid bet: make Shay fall in love with me before I fell in love with her first. That was an easy bet for me to win. I didn’t love. I hardly liked. Yet slowly the game started to shift. Shay made me crave things I never knew I wanted.

Marlene Beckmann ist 31 Jahre alt und lebt das Leben, das sie sich gewünscht hat. Auf die Frage, wie es ihr geht, antwortet sie meistens: "Super, und dir?" Marlene hat sich äußerlich im Griff. Bis sie ihren ersten richtigen Job als Social Media Managerin in einem multinationalen Unternehmen antritt. Bis sie vor lauter Überstunden kein Privatleben mehr hat. Bis der Druck schließlich zu groß wird.

A uniquely American story told in powerful, evocative prose, The Beauty of Your Face navigates a country growing ever more divided. Afaf Rahman, the daughter of Palestinian immigrants, is the principal of Nurrideen School for Girls, a Muslim school in the Chicago suburbs. One morning, a shooter - radicalized by the online alt-right - attacks the school.

When Frankie’s mother dies, he tells his teacher. But he can't seem to get anyone at his school in southern England to listen to him. So the six-year-old comes up with a plan: go to France, find a police station and ask the officers to ring his father. Thus a stowaway’s view of the sea opens Pauline Holdstock’s eighth novel, narrated in turns by Frankie - who likes cheese, numbers, the sea when it’s pink, and being alone when he feels bad - and a cast of characters that includes his worried Gran, his callous teacher and his not-so-reliable father.

Sable Ursu has just turned 18, which means she is ready to breed. Within the confines of her world, a patriarchal cult known as the Den, female fertility and sexuality are wholly controlled by Men. In the season they come of age, Sable and her friends Mamie and Dinah are each paired with a Match with the purpose of conceiving a child. Sable is paired with Ambrose, the son of a favoured Man in the Den. Others are not so lucky.