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Umami constituye una propuesta literaria original en su afán por explorar la amplia gama de sensaciones y emociones que el ser humano - en distintas etapas de la vida - experimenta. Una novela coral en la que los personajes aprenden a reinventarse para hacer frente a las adversidades y superar sus pérdidas. Ana quiere plantar una milpa en su traspatio, en pleno Distrito Federal. Pero en la tierra hay altos contenidos de plomo y la privada donde vive está plagada de ausencias. Su hermana murió, sus papás están de luto, y sus hermanos de campamento.

For more than 20 years, Ella has learned to live without her mother, Maggie, who disappeared into a fog of mental illness when Ella turned 10. Despite this trauma, Ella has forged ahead, becoming a veterinarian, getting married, and most of all, developing a deep, trusting bond with her father, John, a ferry captain in Seattle. Ella’s contented life is shattered when her father is hit by a car and killed. Going through his papers, she learns that her father maintained a secret relationship with her mother.

Anna è una bambina di cinque anni. Con i genitori e il fratellino, Stick, di poco più piccolo, sta facendo una bella vacanza sull'isola di Bates, un paradiso naturale al centro del meraviglioso lago canadese di Opeongo. La radura dove si fermano per la notte è un incanto. Anna stringe a sé Stick e dice buonanotte al papà e alla mamma, che si ritirano nella loro tenda. La notte è tiepida, trasparente, e i suoni che provengono dal bosco accompagnano fin dentro i sogni più dolci.

Seit dem Tod seiner Frau und den ewigen Streitereien mit seinem Sohn vertreibt Cathal Flood jeden, der sich ihm nähern will. Einst Antiquitäten- und Kuriositätenhändler ist er längst zum Messie verkommen. Sein Sohn hofft, ihn auf Dauer in ein Altenheim verfrachten zu können. Die Neueste in der Riege erfolgloser und unterbezahlter Sozialbetreuer, die Cathal zur Räson bringen soll, ist Maud Drennan. Unter den wüsten Beschimpfungen des Alten zieht sie beherzt gegen Dreck und Müll zu Felde. Doch trotz aller Unerschrockenheit ist ihr Bridlemere unheimlich.

Manaka, ventitré anni, è cresciuta in una casa circondata da un grande giardino, a pochi passi dalla casa di Hiroshi che, dopo essere stato il compagno di giochi dell'infanzia e l'amico intimo dell'adolescenza, è diventato suo marito. La loro vita sembra procedere senza scosse fino alla morte del nonno di Hiroshi con cui il ragazzo ha sempre vissuto, dopo essere stato lasciato da entrambi i genitori che avevano deciso di far parte di una setta religiosa in America.

Nahid has six months left to live. Or so the doctors say. At 50, she is no stranger to loss. But now, as she stands on the precipice of her own death - just as she has learned that her daughter, Aram, is pregnant with her first child - Nahid is filled with both new fury and long-dormant rage. Her life back home in Iran, and living as a refugee in Sweden, has been about survival at any cost. How to actually live, she doesn’t know; she has never had the ability or opportunity to learn.

Home alone with her eccentric home-brewing father and a Jack Russell, she is just getting her life back on track when her job at the local museum is threatened by her first love and nemesis, Councillor David Barton, who intends to sell the beautiful old building to a pub chain. But help is at hand from her colleagues: Jackie, a former Greenham Common warrior; Tish, a flamboyant historian; and Carol, mega-flirt. Plus newcomer and former campaigner Tom. Who happens to be a widower. And quite sexy.

August 1914: Der Erste Weltkrieg beginnt, und Konstantin muss an die Front. Sein Vater ist unfähig, das Gut zu führen, das bald hochverschuldet ist. Die Verbindung von Katharina mit dem Kaiserneffen Ludwig von Preußen wird nun zur Überlebensfrage. Doch Ludwig tritt nicht nur seiner Verlobten Katharina zu nahe... Es droht ein Skandal! Katharina setzt ihre ganze Hoffnung auf eine Rettung durch den Industriellensohn Julius. Doch soll eine Ehe mit ihr ihm nur den Eintritt in den Adelsstand ermöglichen? Und dann ist da noch der Kutscher Albert, der sein Geheimnis nur im Dorf Greifenau klären kann.

"Il me reste quelques rêves à réaliser et le moment est venu de m'y atteler. Je vous aime très fort. À très bientôt ! Maman." Léna n'en revient pas. Comment sa mère, qui l'a convoquée pour passer Noël dans la maison de son enfance, a-t-elle pu disparaître en ne lui laissant que ce message sibyllin ? La voilà donc coincée dans le petit village de Vallenot au cœur des Alpes de Haute-Provence et condamnée à passer la fête qu'elle hait plus que tout, entourée de sa famille pour le moins... haute en couleur ! Mais les fêtes de famille ont le don de faire rejaillir les secrets enfouis.

Summoned to their magnificent family home on the shores of Lake Ontario - a paradisiacal mansion perched on an escarpment above the city - three adult sisters, Georgina, Jax, and Pippa, come together in what seems like an act of family solidarity. Pregnant and unwell, the youngest, Pippa, has left her husband and four young children in New Zealand and returned home to heal. But home to this family means secrets, desire, and vengeance - and feasting on the sexual appetites and weaknesses of others. Each daughter has her own particular taste, and overlaying everything is their parents, with unquenchable desires and cravings of their own.

Mag die Erinnerung auch gehen, die Liebe bleibt. Tom ist ratlos: Sein Großvater Florian hat Alzheimer und lehnt jede Hilfe ab. Während bei Florian das Gestern verschwindet, sucht Tom im Heute verzweifelt eine Pflegerin. Doch keine will bleiben, denn sobald Tom die Wohnung verlässt, wird der charmante alte Herr zum Ekelpaket. Bis Ani vor der Tür steht. Ohne Wohnung, dafür mit Liebeskummer. Alle Versuche, Ani zu vergraulen, scheitern. Allmählich beginnt Florian sich ihr zu öffnen und gegen das Vergessen anzuerzählen. Vor allem von seiner großen Liebe Greta.

Marie è una bellissima diciannovenne che gode a suscitare l'invidia delle sue coetanee. Quando va in sposa a un giovane benestante, non si rassegna alla nascita di Diane, l'incantevole figlia che attira su di sé l'attenzione di tutti, come non si rassegna a una vita che sembra deludere le sue aspettative. Amélie Nothomb torna a regalarci un romanzo crudele, mettendo a nudo con precisione millimetrica i meccanismi più distruttivi dell'animo umano. "Colpisci il tuo cuore" è la storia di un amore assoluto. L'amore di una figlia per la madre, la sua ricerca di tenerezza, di conferme.

Alexandre Trudeau se questionne. Sa femme semble s'être lassée de lui; ses enfants le considèrent comme un primate d'une autre époque, bon qu'à payer les comptes; sa carrière de journaliste stagne et manque de piquant. Tel un passager resté sur le quai, il regarde défiler sa vie, les mains dans les poches. Comment en est-il arrivé là?

The powerful forces of science and family collide when geneticist Paige Robson finds her world in upheaval: Her eight-year-old son Miles is struggling to fit in at his new school and begins asking questions about his biological father that Paige can’t answer - until fate thrusts the anonymous donor she used into their lives.

On a miserable November day in 1967, two women disappear from a working-class town on the Fraser River. The community is thrown into panic, with talk of drifters and murderous husbands. But no one can find a trace of Bette Parsons or Alice McFee. Even the egg seller, Doris Tenpenny, a woman to whom everyone tells their secrets, hears nothing. Ten-year-old Lulu Parsons discovers something, though: a milk-stained note her mother, Bette, left for her father on the kitchen table.

À l'aube de la quarantaine, Claire Aubry remet tout en question. Son rythme de vie endiablé, son mariage, sa condition de mère, sa carrière d'infirmière... A-t-elle vraiment eu la liberté de choisir sa réalité, ou est-ce plutôt le destin qui a déterminé le cours des choses? Par un étrange phénomène se manifestant en l'espace d'une nuit, Claire sera catapultée dans des vies alternatives qui auraient pu être la sienne si elle avait emprunté des chemins différents.

Hotelmanagerin Annabelle hat gerade einen Superjob in Singapur ergattert, als sie das elterliche Hotel in den Alpen übernehmen soll. Fest entschlossen, den Familienbetrieb zu verkaufen, reist sie in die verschneite Heimat. Dort wollen mächtige Investoren das verträumte Bergdorf touristisch aufmöbeln - doch dann kommt einer nach dem anderen ums Leben. Wer steckt dahinter? Und welche Rolle spielt Lennard, der zwielichtige Nachbarssohn? Ein mörderischer Wettlauf um das familiäre Glück beginnt.

After a life that rubbed up against the century’s great events in New York City, Mexico, and Montreal, 96-year-old Cassandra MacCallum is surviving well enough, alone on her island, when a young Burmese woman contacts her, claiming to be kin. Curiosity, loneliness, and a slender filament of hope prompt the old woman to accept a visit. But Nang’s story of torture and flight provokes memories in Cass that peel back, layer by layer, the events that brought her to this moment - and forces her, against her will, to confront the tragedy she has refused for half a century.

Dr. Erica Bauer - an identical twin - studies twins at the university in Vancouver. Through the course of her research, she meets a set of preteen twins who are evidently fraternal, but who insist emphatically that they are identical. Their mother, Karen Oxley, is a West Van single mum whose life is on the wrong road - and who discovers an urgent need to put it back on the right one. As Erica sets out to help the twins, their family’s lives become increasingly intertwined with hers in unexpected ways.

When Paula Gadd’s husband of almost 30 years dies, just days away from the seventh anniversary of their son Christopher’s death, her world falls apart. Grieving and bereft, she is stunned when a young woman approaches her at the funeral service and slips something into her pocket. A note suggesting that Paula’s husband was not all that he seemed....