
Contracted: A Wife For The Bedroom
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A witty romantic-adventure novel by English writer Helen Fielding. After the huge success of Bridget Jones, she introduces a new heroine, Olivia Joules - the surname as a unit of energy, a symbol of her vitality.
In the first book of the novel, we meet Dorothea Brooke, a 19-year-old girl who wants a great life dedicated to good. She marries the old scholar Casaubon, thinking that he will help her in her intellectual work, but the marriage brings disappointment.
The Quiet American (1955) is set in Vietnam in the 1950s, during the French colonial struggle against the insurgents. Through the atmosphere of Saigon, Greene creates a tense story of love and political intrigue, with a strong critique of the Vietnam War
"The Impressionist" by Hari Kunzru, a debut novel published in 2002, tells the story of Pran Nath Razdan, a boy of hybrid descent – the son of an English father and an Indian mother, raised as the heir of a wealthy Kashmiri Brahmin near the Taj Mahal.
Mistakenly kidnapped and tied to a ceiling beam, Sam Jones tries to remember her special love adventure. The painful blows, along with her innate humor, will encourage the heroine to focus all her peace of mind on solving life's problems.
In her cult classic, Helen Fielding writes with wit, self-deprecation, and realism, transforming the everyday frustrations of the modern single woman into a universal comedy about love, self-esteem, and societal pressures.