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In 1937, fourteen-year-old Korean schoolgirl Sangmi is abducted by the Japanese army and forced into sexual slavery. Her hope of finding the French father she has never known accompanies a struggle to survive wartime Asia. Based on testimony, the novel connects personal endurance with a history of exploitation.
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Cristina Kahlo narrates this fictional portrait of her sister Frida, tracing a relationship shaped by affection, rivalry and conflicting loyalties. Frida’s art, physical suffering and marriage to Diego Rivera emerge through an intimate family perspective that complicates the familiar image of the celebrated painter.
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Tsukiko unexpectedly encounters a former teacher in a bar. Shared drinks, meals and seasonal excursions gradually turn their awkward acquaintance into something less easily defined. The difference in their ages and their guarded habits give shape to a relationship built through small meetings rather than grand declarations.
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Amélie begins a year at a Japanese corporation, hoping that working in the country of her birth will fulfil a long-held dream. Instead, strict hierarchies, misunderstandings and a difficult relationship with her superior turn the job into a succession of increasingly humiliating assignments.
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A mysterious house and a strange ritual draw Óscar Drai and Marina into an unsettling investigation. Their discoveries connect an obscure past with illness, betrayal and affection, turning a youthful adventure into a story haunted by memory.
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Quiet, observant Charlie begins high school while struggling with loss and memories he cannot fully understand. New friendships draw him toward music, first love and experiences beyond the sidelines, as his letters trace the difficulty of taking part in his own life.
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Thirteen-year-old Margarita writes to a girl whose brother has been kidnapped. Their growing friendship coincides with unsettling changes at home. As she notices her parents behaving strangely, Margarita faces questions about trust, family loyalty and the responsibility of acting on what she discovers.
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Two half-brothers follow sharply different paths through the second half of the twentieth century: one toward scientific abstraction, the other toward restless sexual pursuit. Their parallel lives become a bleak examination of intimacy, individualism and the promises of modern freedom.
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Sold as a child to a geisha house, Sayuri recounts her training and the rivalries that shape her life in twentieth-century Japan. This fictional memoir follows the distance between private desire and a profession governed by appearances, patronage and carefully cultivated skills.
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In seventeenth-century Madrid, veteran soldier Diego Alatriste survives by hiring out his sword. An assignment to ambush two foreign travellers changes when conflicting orders arrive, drawing him into a conspiracy that reaches beyond the city’s streets to the rival courts of Europe.
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Tomás Eloy Martínez follows the extraordinary fate of Eva Perón’s embalmed body, blending historical investigation with fiction. The people drawn into its custody and concealment reveal a country in which political power, collective memory and the figure of Evita remain inseparable.
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A family waits for an organ donor, young people prepare for a Bruce Springsteen concert, and a reckless driver endangers strangers. During one night, these separate lives begin to converge. The novel connects youthful expectations with the fragility of life and the possibility of saving someone through another family’s loss.
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Inspired by the flight of a group of Ethiopian children, this novel follows a journey for survival through a continent scarred by violence. The adventure opens onto the human and political forces behind displacement, asking what happens to vulnerable lives when war destroys their ordinary world.
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Toru Okada’s search for a missing cat becomes a search for his wife and for realities hidden beneath suburban Tokyo. Strange encounters and memories of Japan’s war in Manchuria draw the private collapse of a marriage into a larger story of violence, history and uncertain identity.
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Jasmine and Camelia grow up within an aristocratic Cairo household after the Second World War. Refusing the futures their family expects, one pursues medicine in America while the other turns to dance. Their divergent paths reveal the pressures facing women in a changing Egypt.
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In Rome, Babi’s ordered life as a diligent student collides with Step’s appetite for speed and risk. Their attraction draws together two teenagers from very different worlds, testing the limits of family expectations, loyalty and the belief that first love can overcome every obstacle.
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This omnibus gathers the first three Cienfuegos novels. A young goatherd from La Gomera joins Columbus's voyage and finds himself facing the dangers and upheavals of the Americas. His resourcefulness carries the adventure across unfamiliar lands, while encounters between peoples reveal the ambition and violence driving European expansion.
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Unexpected letters introduce fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen to questions about identity and the origins of the world. A mysterious correspondence becomes a journey through Western philosophy, while the puzzle of her own circumstances makes the ideas increasingly personal.
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Two badly wounded Vietnam veterans become neighbours in a hospital ward decades after the war. Over a day and a night, their conversation moves through childhood, love and memory, examining the lives they have carried beyond the battlefield.
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The construction of a cathedral binds together lives in the fictional English town of Kingsbridge during the twelfth century. Builders, clergy and local families pursue conflicting ambitions against a background of political upheaval, as an immense architectural project reshapes their world.
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