Contemporary

Tom Hansen looks back through his addiction to drugs in this semi-memoir novel through 80s and 90s Seattle. Crossing paths with major celebrities, Hansen pens his descent into addiction with ferocious, honest intent.

In the relentless summer heat, four abruptly orphaned children retreat into a shadowy, isolated world, and find their own strange and unsettling ways of fending for themselves.

On Christmas Eve 2012, in Paris, the novelist Édouard Louis was raped and almost murdered by a man he had just met. Its aftermath made him a stranger to himself and sent him back to the past he had sworn to leave behind.

The love triangle of one young widow, two men, and the mother-in-law seemingly orchestrating the relationship.

One autumn morning, Jia Jia walks into the bathroom of her lavish Beijing apartment to find her husband drowned in a shallow bath with only a fish drawing left as a clue.

Presenting itself as an investigation into the suicide of a close friend, Levé gives a striking portrait of a man, with all his talents and flaws, who chose to reject his life, and all the people who loved him, in favour of oblivion.

Juan knows little of the interior life of his father Ranz; but when Juan marries, he begins to consider the past anew, and begins to ponder what he doesn’t really want to know.

Natsuki isn’t like the other girls. Fleeing the suburbs for the mountains of her childhood, Natsuki prepares herself with a reunion with Yuu. Will he still remember their promise? And will he help her keep it?