«Если я останусь» рассказывает о 17-летней девушке по имени Мия, чья жизнь полностью изменилась после того, как в автокатастрофе погибает вся её семья. У неё была такая красивая, безоблачная и полная жизнь, музыкальный талант, прекрасный любящий парень Адам, эта трагедия во время Рождественских праздников становится для неё страшным ударом. Весь рассказ — это интуитивное чувство Мии, которая видит, как её собственное тело вытащили из под обломков на месте аварии, а её присутствие оборачивается каким-то внетелесным опытом. В то время, как Мия выжила в этой аварии, все её близкие погибли, а она оказалась в каком-то месте между мирами, где её тело, разум и душа пытаются решить, куда пойти. Пока её тело в коме, Мия пытается осознать, что произошло и что ей нужно сделать: вернуться к жизни без своей семьи или покинуть этот мир и объединиться с ними. Everybody has to make choices. Some might break you. For seventeen-year-old Mia, surrounded by a wonderful family, friends and a gorgeous boyfriend decisions might seem tough, but they’re all about a future full of music and love, a future that’s brimming with hope. But life can change in an instant. A cold February morning . . . a snowy road . . . and suddenly all of Mia’s choices are gone. Except one. As alone as she’ll ever be, Mia must make the most difficult choice of all. Gripping, heartrending and ultimately life-affirming, If I Stay will ...
Best known today for his exciting blockbuster novels, Sidney Sheldon is the author of The Best Laid Plans, Nothing Lasts Forever, The Stars Shine Down, The Doomsday Conspiracy, Memories of Midnight, The Sands of Time, Windmills of the Gods, If Tomorrow Comes, Master of the Game, Rage of Angels, Bloodline, A Stranger in the Mirror, and The Other Side of Midnight. Almost all have been number-one international bestsellers. His first book, The Naked Face, was acclaimed by the New York Times as "the best first mystery of the year" and received an Edgar Award. Most of his novels have ...
Told in the uproariously entertaining voice readers have come to expect from Jen Lancaster, follows Amish-zombie-teen- romance author Mia and her husband Mac (and their pets) through the alternately frustrating, exciting, terrifying-but always funny-process of buying and renovating their first home in the Chicago suburbs that John hughes's movies made famous. Along their harrowing renovation journey, Mia and Mac get caught up in various wars with the homeowners' association, meet some less-than-friendly neighbors, and are joined by a hilarious cast of supporting characters, including a celebutard ex- landlady. As they struggle to adapt to their new surroundings- with Mac taking on the renovations himself- Mia and Mac will discover if their marriage is strong enough to survive months of DIY renovations.
Вторая часть тетралогии «Дороги свободы» «Отсрочка» повествует о начале войны в Европе. Чехословакия предана. Война неминуема. Герои Сартра оказываются перед лицом смерти. Жизнь как бы сравнялась со смертью по своей «неестественности». И на глазах читателя совершается стремительная метаморфоза: от неприятия смерти герои приходят к неприятию жизни.
A vederlo da lontano, Belcolle sembra un paese da cartolina, una barca arenata su una montagna verde, e sullo sfondo il mare di Cefal?. Ma da vicino ? ben altra cosa: d’inverno ? gelido e nevoso, e per tutto l’anno ? abitato da persone taciturne e diffidenti, «genti di montagna». Son cinque anni che il maresciallo Antonio Brancato, «un omo preciso al quale piaciva che tutto stava al posto indovi doviva stare», ? a capo della Stazione dei Carabinieri di questo isolato paesino siciliano. Cinque anni non facili, ma durante i quali il maresciallo Brancato ? riuscito a guadagnarsi la confidenza e ...
"Illywhacker is such an astonishing novel, of such major proportions, that before saying anything else one must record gratitude for its existence." – Geoffrey Dutton, Bulletin"The finest and funniest picaresque novel yet written in Australia" – Peter Pierce National Times"A great tottering tower of a novel which stands up astonishingly against all the odds." – Victoria Glendinning, London Sunday Times"It is impossible to convey in a review the cumulative brilliance and accelerating hilarity of the prose." – Nicholas Spice, London Review of Books"Awesome breadth, ambition and downright narrative joy…Illywhacker is a triumph." – Curt Suplee, ...
Tr?dler, ein junger M?userich, verl??t seine angestammte Hecke. Auf abenteuerlichen Wegen gelangt er zum »Haus«, in dem bereits eine bunte M?usegesellschaft lebt - auf Kosten der »Nacktlinge«, der Menschen, deren Speisekammer sie nur zu gern bestiehlt. Um aber so recht aus dem vollen sch?pfen zu k?nnen, beschlie?en die Tiere, unter denen Tr?dler eine immer bedeutendere Rolle spielt, die »Nacktlinge« zu vertreiben ...»Ein wunderbares, witziges Buch. Lesen Sie es, und Sie werden niemals mehr eine Mausefalle kaufen.« Im Leben einer jeden Maus kommt die Zeit, in der sie ihren ...
Michael Pinson – jeden z tanatonaut?w – w wyniku katastrofy samolotowej zmienia si? w… anio?a str??a. Musi odt?d zajmowa? si? trzema „klientami”, jednocze?niej staraj?c si? zg??bi? zagadk? istot i raj?w pozaziemskich. Jego nowe zaj?cie to praca na pe?ny etat.Miejsce zatrudnienia: Raj. Gdy mija pierwszy szok, Michael u?wiadamia sobie, ?e bycie anio?em to nie tylko przyjemno?ci, tym bardziej ?e odpowiada za trzech do?? upartych ?miertelnik?w: Venus, ameryka?sk? aktork? cierpi?c? na uporczywe migreny; Igora, rosyjskiego ?o?nierza i kr?la pokera; oraz wiecznie zatrwo?onego Jacques’a. Co wi?cej, jego mentor, Edmond Wells, wyra?nie daje mu do zrozumienia, ?e jego anielskim obowi?zkiem jest spe?nianie wszystkich, nawet najbardziej bezsensownych ?ycze? podopiecznych.
Faktem jest, ?e cywilizacja mr?wek jest niedo?cigniona, je?li chodzi o budow? i organizacj? miast. Nie wszyscy zdajemy sobie jednak spraw?, jak pot??ne kr?lestwa zdo?a?a przez wieki stworzy?, jak zadziwiaj?ce technologie opracowa? i jak? sztuk? wojenn? posi???. Bernard Werber swoj? bestsellerow? powie?ci? otwiera przed nami drzwi do alternatywnej rzeczywisto?ci pe?nej niezg??bionych do tej pory tajemnic i zagadek. To zaproszenie do ?wiata, po kt?rym co dzie? st?pamy, a kt?rego zdajemy si? nie dostrzega?. Pozwala spojrze? na cz?owieka spojrzeniem nie-cz?owieczym, z perspektywy stworze? du?o ...
Na prze?omie wiek?w, w odleg?ym zak?tku Indii, angielski urz?dnik s?u?by cywilnej poznaje m?od? hindusk? podczas wyj?tkowo ci??kiej ulewy. Dziewi?? miesi?cy p??niej, rodzi si? dziecko. Jego przysz?o?? jawi si? niepewnie. Jasny kolor sk?ry Prana Natha jest odbierany jako symbol szlachetnego urodzenia, jednak?e, gdy jego prawdziwe pochodzenie wychodzi na jaw zostaje wyrzucony z domu ojca. Sprzedany parze eunuch?w, trafia do za?ciankowego Pend?abu i staje si? przyn?t? w dynastycznych intrygach rozwi?z?ego dworu hinduskiego. W ko?cu ucieka do Bombaju, gdzie odnajduje ...
Winner of 1971 Booker Prize«V. S. Naipaul tells stories which show us ourselves and the reality we live in. His use of language is as precise as it is beautiful.» – The London Times«A Tolstoyan spirit…The so-called Third World has produced no more brilliant literary artist.» – John Updike, The New Yorker«The coolest literary eye and the most lucid prose we have.» – The New York Review
When they sent Garnet Montrose to Vietnam they told him he’d go out a boy and come back a man. But he comes back a freak, so hideously scarred that no one can stand to look at his face. The explosion which destroyed his company has skinned him alive.Living as a recluse on a storm-battered Virginia farm, he dreams of the days when he was eighteen and king of the local dance hall, kept alive by his obsession with the untouchable Georgina Rance. It seems this half-life will never end – until the arrival of Daventry, offering him total love or total destruction…‘A marvellous tour-de-force. A novel that engages as it entertains, draws the reader in as it draws something out of him. In other words, a very impressive book’ – Publishers Weekly.‘Mr Purdy writes like an angel, with accuracy, wit and freshness, but a fallen angel, versed in the sinful ways of men’ – The Times.
The second collection of short stories.Call them transcripts of dreams or deadly accurate maps of the tremor zones of the psyche, the seven stories in this collection engage and implicate us in the most fearful ways imaginable. A two-timing pornographer becomes an unwilling object in the fantasies of one of his victims. A jaded millionaire buys himself the perfect mistress and plunges into a hell of jealousy and despair. And in the course of a weekend with his teenage daughter, a guilt-ridden father discovers the depths of his own blundering innocence.At once chilling and beguiling, and written in prose of lacerating beauty, is a tour de force by one of England’s most acclaimed practitioners of literary unease.Review
ist eine Erz?hlung von Franz Kafka, die im Oktober 1914 entstand und 1919 ver?ffentlicht wurde. Einem Forschungsreisenden wird das Rechtssystem einer Strafkolonie vorgef?hrt. Es besteht darin, dass jeder Angeklagte unabh?ngig von seiner Schuld von einem Apparat in minuti?sem Ablauf stundenlang gefoltert und dann get?tet wird. Den Apparat beschreibt Kafka als ?berdimensionalen Parlograph in der Funktionsweise eines Phonographen mit vibrierender Metallplatte und Nadel. Dieser Apparat ist der Hauptgegenstand der Erz?hlung, er repr?sentiert die Einheit von Schrift und Tod.Die Erz?hlung entstand im Oktober 1914 w?hrend eines Arbeitsurlaubs, als Kafka eigentlich an dem ...
A compelling novel of desire, secrecy, and sexual identity, is a story of unfulfilled love—tormented, funny, and affecting—and an impassioned embrace of our sexual differences. Billy, the bisexual narrator and main character of In One Person, tells the tragicomic story (lasting more than half a century) of his life as a “sexual suspect,” a phrase first used by John Irving in 1978 in his landmark novel of “terminal cases,” The World According to Garp.His most political novel since and , John Irving’s is a poignant tribute to Billy’s friends and lovers—a theatrical cast of characters who defy category and convention. Not least, In One Person is an intimate and unforgettable portrait of the solitariness of a bisexual man who is dedicated to making himself “worthwhile.”* * *
George Saunders has earned enthusiastic acclaim and a devoted cult-following with his first two story collections and the recent novella The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil. With his new book, In Persuasion Nation, Saunders ups the ante in every way, and is poised to break out to a wide new audience.The stories In Persuasion Nation are easily his best work yet. "The Red Bow,"about a town consumed by pet-killing hysteria, won a 2004 National Magazine Award and "Bohemians," the story of two supposed Eastern European widows trying to fit in in suburban USA, is included in ...
Just three months ago Maddy O"Hara had been the freelance photojournalist to call for coverage of an international crisis. But now she's stuck at the far edge of the Chicago flyover, tapping in to what maternal instincts she can summon to raise her late sister's 8 year old daughter. She's also working for a small-time television station that wants warm-and-fuzzy interest pieces, Maddy, on the other hand, wants a story.And then she finds it-a photo of a deadman in Amish clothing hanging from a tree. Her instincts tell her there's a lot more to this than anyone wants to let on
