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bildungsroman
In literary criticism, a Bildungsroman () is a literary genre that focuses on the psychological and moral growth and change of the protagonist from childhood to adulthood (coming of age). The term comes from the German words ('formation' or 'education') and ('novel').
Half of a Yellow Sun
2006 novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Notebook
1986 novel written by Ágota Kristóf
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
novel by Mario Vargas Llosa
A Mind at Peace
Turkish novel
The Sorrow of Belgium
1983 novel by Hugo Claus
Theologus Autodidactus
novel by Ibn al-Nafis
Closely Watched Trains
novella by Bohumil Hrabal
The Empusium
2022 novel by Olga Tokarczuk
Pelle the Conqueror
novel by Martin Andersen Nexø
Fifth Business
1970 novel by Robertson Davies
Fasana-e-Azad
Fasana-e-Azad (; , also romanized as Fasana-i-Azad) is an Urdu novel by Ratan Nath Dhar Sarshar. It was serialized in Avadh Akhbar between 1878 and 1883 before it was published in four large volumes by the Nawal Kishore Press. The story follows a wandering character named Azad and his companion, Khoji, from the streets of late-nineteenth-century Lucknow to the battlefields of the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) in Constantinople and Russia. The work's status as a novel has been debated, but it is thought by most scholars to be one of the first novels (or a proto-novel) in Urdu.