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A young woman in a suburb of Paris, after a sudden illumination, asks her husband to leave and begins to live alone with her eight-year-old son.
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Short Letter, Long Farewell
A young Austrian writer travels across America, from Providence to California, followed, or so he believes, by his estranged wife, who has left him a note telling him not to look for her.
Territory of Light
Separated from her husband, a young woman moves with her two-year-old daughter into a fourth-floor Tokyo apartment flooded with light, and over twelve chapters, one for each month, tries to make a life there.
An Unnecessary Woman
Aaliya Saleh, seventy-two and alone in her Beirut apartment, has translated a book a year into Arabic for fifty years and shown them to no one.
Outline
A British novelist flies to Athens one summer to teach a writing course, and the people she meets, from her neighbour on the plane to her students, tell her the stories of their lives.
Thérèse Desqueyroux
Acquitted of trying to poison her husband, Thérèse Desqueyroux travels home through the pine forests of the Landes, rehearsing the confession she means to make to him.
Larry's Party
Larry Weller, an ordinary florist from Winnipeg, discovers a passion for garden mazes, and the novel follows him chapter by chapter from 1977 to 1997.
Near to the Wild Heart
A young woman's interior world unfolds through impressionistic fragments of memory and sensation.
Tirra Lirra by the River
Nora Porteous, in her seventies, comes home to the Brisbane house where she grew up after decades in Sydney and London, and remembers her life.
The Stone Diaries
The life of Daisy Goodwill, born in Manitoba in 1905 at the moment her mother dies, told by herself and by others up to her death in Florida in the 1990s.
Rosshalde
On the estate of Rosshalde, the celebrated painter Johann Veraguth lives estranged from his wife, his one joy their small son Pierre, as a friend urges him to leave for India.
So Long a Letter
After her husband's death, a Senegalese schoolteacher writes to her oldest friend about the day he took a second wife and the life she rebuilt afterward.
Independence Day
A real estate agent in suburban New Jersey tries to find meaning in ordinary American life during one Fourth of July weekend.