What do you call that imposter which sullenly creeps inside you, stealing away the tranquility of your heart and soul; that too at the tender age of thirteen? If not enigma, then how do you typify that imposter, which intrudes into your morbid life, invigorates it with its charisma, drags you into the deep crevices of longing and keeps you forlorn for reasons unknown to you? Set in the backdrop of the nineties, the story revolves around Rahul, a just-above-the-poverty-line boy, whose life is an unceasing tryst with unhappiness, until that enigma called LOVE comes like an oasis, infusing fresh zeal to his tattered life, only to leave him desolate and forlorn, for reasons beyond the cognizance of his heart and mind. Will he ever know why his love deserted him? What happens when his long lost love resurrects in his life, which is now blissfully complete with a beautiful family? What happens when he is ripped in the abattoir of his heart? Languidly immerse yourself into this enigmatic tale of love, longing and betrayal.

This is the story of the most successful Soviet and post-Soviet Kyrgyz family, which casted light to some great secrets of all happy, stable, and healthy social environments and even revealed the enigmas of our nature and universe that needs to know for majority to catch up the blue bird of fortune and be happy and fruitful in any time, country, and living situation and condition.

The Clarks Tooley boots are lost inside the ocean of people waving in one direction or another as the planes depart and arrive at Denver International Airport. On the spur of a moment, Elisa remembered! It was just beyond any belief what was happening! That chapter of her life she thought was long buried or cremated and ashes spread into a long ago dead past, was, in fact, creepingly reopening its door. Not just to alarm and panic, but to threaten, like a brute, the present and the near future. The past is back! The hijab had dropped down to the feet of the pedestal. Caution: sharp teeth primed to bite!

From André Aciman, the author of Call Me by Your Name (now a major motion picture and the winner of the OscarTM for Best Adapted Screenplay) comes “a sensory masterclass, absorbing, intelligent, unforgettable” (Times Literary Supplement). André Aciman, hailed as a writer of “fiction at its most supremely interesting” (The New York Review of Books), has written a novel that charts the life of a man named Paul, whose loves remain as consuming and as covetous throughout his adulthood as they were in his adolescence. Whether the setting is southern Italy, where as a boy he has a crush on his parents’ cabinetmaker, or a snowbound campus in New England, where his enduring passion for a girl he’ll meet again and again over the years is punctuated by anonymous encounters with men; whether he’s on a tennis court in Central Park, or on a New York sidewalk in early spring, his attachments are ungraspable, transient, and forever underwritten by raw desire—not for just one person’s body but, inevitably, for someone else’s as well. In Enigma Variations, Aciman maps the most inscrutable corners of passion, proving to be an unsparing reader of the human psyche and a master stylist. With language at once lyrical, bare-knuckled, and unabashedly candid, he casts a sensuous, shimmering light over each facet of desire to probe how we ache, want, and waver, and ultimately how we sometimes falter and let go of those who may want to offer only what we crave from them. Ahead of every step Paul takes, his hopes, denials, fears, and regrets are always ready to lay their traps. Yet the dream of love lingers. We may not always know what we want. We may remain enigmas to ourselves and to others. But sooner or later we discover who we’ve always known we were.

A four-part story of passion and betrayal in the Mediterranean—voted one of the Modern Library’s 100 Best Novels of the twentieth century. The Alexandria Quartet is a striking and sensuous masterpiece, breathing vivid life into each of its unforgettable characters and the dusty Mediterranean city in which they live. Set in Alexandria, Egypt, in the years before, during, and after World War II, the books follow the lives of a circle of friends and lovers, including sensitive Darley, passionate Justine, philosophical Balthazar, and elegant Clea. Written in Durrell’s trademark evocative prose, these four novels explore the central theme of modern love, building into a remarkable whole that the New York Times hailed as “one of the most important works of our time.” This ebook features a new introduction by Jan Morris.

Hotaru is a 16-year-old high school first-year who has always been ambivalent about love, preferring instead to have a lively life with her family and friends. So when she sees her schoolmate, Hananoi-kun, sitting in the snow after a messy, public breakup, she thinks nothing of offering to share her umbrella. But when he asks her out in the middle of her classroom the next day, she can't help but feel that her life is about to change in a big way ...

Among the most brilliant fictional works of the twentieth century, Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet is at once a culmination of modernist literature and an exploration of the conscious construction of truth and reality. Structured to reflect Einstein's relativity theory, the Alexandria Quartet is an intricate interweaving of linguistic resources. Using M. A. K. Halliday's systemic linguistic theory of text analysis, (Re)constructing Reality probes the inner workings of Durrell's masterpiece to bring us closer to an understanding of how meaning is created. In the process, this book provides insight into both the Alexandria Quartet itself, as well as into the linguistic nature of literary composition.