After the best-selling Arthur George and Nothing to Be Frightened Of, Julian Barnes returns with fourteen stories about longing and loss, friendship and love, whose mysterious natures he examines with his trademark wit and observant eye.From an imperial capital in the eighteenth century to Garibaldi's adventures in the nineteenth, from the vineyards of Italy to the English seaside in our time, he finds the 'stages, transitions, arguments' that define us. A newly divorced real estate agent can't resist invading his reticent girlfriend's privacy, but the information he finds reveals only his callously shallow curiosity. A couple come ...
En una despoblada zona rural de Estonia, en 1992, recuperada la independencia de la peque?a rep?blica b?ltica, Aliide Truu, una anciana que malvive sola junto al bosque, encuentra en su jard?n a una joven desconocida, exhausta y desorientada. Se trata de Zara, una veintea?era rusa, v?ctima del tr?fico de mujeres, que ha logrado escapar de sus captores y ha acudido a la casa de Aliide en busca de una ayuda que necesita desesperadamente. A medida que Aliide supera la desconfianza inicial, y se establece un fr?gil v?nculo entre las dos mujeres, ...
"A truly stunning novel, both heartbreaking and optimistic." – Lara VapnyarSoon to be published in twenty-five languages, Sofi Oksanen's award-winning novel Purge is a breathtakingly suspenseful tale of two women dogged by their own shameful pasts and the dark, unspoken history that binds them.When Aliide Truu, an older woman living alone in the Estonian countryside, finds a disheveled girl huddled in her front yard, she suppresses her misgivings and offers her shelter. Zara is a young sex-trafficking victim on the run from her captors, but a photo she carries with her soon makes it clear that ...
Palahniuk's 10th novel (after Snuff) is a potent if cartoonish cultural satire that succeeds despite its stridently confounding prose. A gang of adolescent terrorists trained by an unspecified totalitarian state (the boys and girls are guided by quotations attributed to Marx, Hitler, Augusto Pinochet, Idi Amin, etc.) infiltrate America as foreign exchange students. Their mission: to bring the nation to its knees through Operation Havoc, an act of mass destruction disguised as a science project. Narrated by skinny 13-year-old Pgymy, the propulsive plot deconstructs American fixtures, among them church (religion propaganda distribution outlet), spelling bees (forced battle to list ...
Огонь сам пришел ко мне, избрал меня. Дождался, подкараулил на границе моих снов, моих мыслей, стал явью. Материя – и это известно каждому школьнику – есть форма энергии. Связанной, сдерживаемой, приведенной в состояние покоя. Но жаждущей свободы. История времен представляет собой путь от упорядоченной энергии к неупорядоченной. Вселенная есть не что иное, как гигантский полыхающий взрыв. И все, что обладает формой, стремится навстречу своей гибели. Каждая вещь застонет от благодарности, если ее наконец-то предадут огню. Огонь – это химический экстаз Вселенной.
Initialement pr?vu pour une trilogie qui aurait compris, outre L'homme qui rit, roman consacr? ? l'aristocratie, un volume sur la monarchie, Quatrevingt-Treize, ?crit ? Guernesey de d?cembre 1872 ? juin 1873, apr?s l'?chec de Hugo aux ?lections de janvier 1872, ach?ve la r?flexion de l'?crivain sur la R?volution ? la lumi?re de la Commune et tente de r?pondre ? ces questions: ? quelles conditions une r?volution peut-elle cr?er un nouvel ordre des choses? 1793 ?tait-il, est-il toujours n?cessaire? Le roman valut ? son auteur la haine des conservateurs.En mai 1793, le marquis de Lantenac, ?me de ...
Esta novela ha obtenido el Premio Planeta 1989.Unas fotos sacadas alrededor de una piscina de un hotel de Delhi, los viajes con gente desconocida, los amigos de toda la vida, los aficionados a la ?pera, los tel?fonos que no funcionan, el calor en medio de la noche, la necesidad de beber whisky, las aventuras con hombres casados, el afecto de los padres, los hijos desvalidos, las damas filantr?picas, las mujeres recluidas, las responsabilidades familiares, el deseo de tirarlo todo por la borda… Con estos elementos y algunos m?s se va configurando la trama que envuelve ...
In 1465 the Scottish Quentin Durward set of to France, because the Duke of Burgundy wants that countess Isabelle marries with Durward's uncle. Once there he himself falls in love with Isabelle, no much interested in the quarrel between the Duke and King Louis XI, what was the reason of the marriage proposal.
Premio Nadal 1997?Qui?n es el aut?ntico autor y protagonista de esta novela? ?Acaso el desdichado y jocoso Antonio L?pez, que se sienta todos los d?as delante de su "querido ordenador" con el fin de escribir un libro que le permita ganar un premio literario y en consecuencia abandonar "su doloroso anonimato"? ?Tal vez el viejo editor G.H.Gilabert, que todas las tardes se re?ne con su directora literaria para imaginar una novela interactiva en CD ROM sobre un fracasado profesor de literatura llamado tambi?n Antonio L?pez? ?O quiz?s el ...
Bajo el ardiente sol piurano, cuelga de un ?rbol el cad?ver cruelmente torturado de un joven avionero. El teniente Silva y el guardia Lituma emprenden la b?squeda del asesino. Con gran destreza, Mario Vargas Llosa crea una intensa novela policial cuyo atractivo no se agota en la soluci?n del crimen. Aunque las pistas pronto apuntan en una direcci?n precisa, el inter?s en la obra, en vez de disminuir, se acrecienta. Y es que una particular tensi?n recorre la historia, creando una atm?sfera irreal que deslumbra y atrapa al alector. Como en un ...
«Quinx, или Рассказ Потрошителя» (1985) — пятая, заключительная книга цикла «Авиньонский квинтет» признанного классика английской литературы XX столетия Лоренса Даррела, чье творчество нашло многочисленных почитателей и в России. Используя отдельные приемы и мотивы знаменитого «Александрийского квартета», автор завершает рассказ о судьбах своих героев. Вопреки всем разочарованиям и трагедиям, подчас окутанным мистическими тайнами, они стараются обрести душевное равновесие и утраченный смысл жизни. Ответы на многие вопросы скрыты в пророчествах цыганки, порой довольно причудливых.Так же как и прославленный «Александрийский квартет» это, по определению автора, «исследование любви в современном мире».Путешествуя со своими героями в пространстве и времени, Даррел создал поэтичные, увлекательные произведения.Сложные, переплетающиеся сюжеты завораживают читателя, заставляя его с волнением следить за развитием действия.
Quiz? Nos Lleve el Viento al Infinito: La historia del capit?n de nav?o a quien la OTAN encomienda una delicada misi?n, de Irina, una agente sovi?tica, y del cient?fico que, recluido en un sanatorio, se asemeja a un personaje literario, puede leerse como un apasionante relato policiaco, de espionaje y aventuras. Pero tambi?n encierra una met?fora de la d?bil l?nea que separa lo real de lo verdadero e imaginario, as? como una visi?n de las falsedades o inverosimilitudes de la Historia y de las servidumbres del progreso cient?fico y de otros mitos contempor?neos.
Rozgrywaj?ca si? na tle staro?ytnego Rzymu i jego barwnej obyczajowo?ci historia mi?o?ci pi?knej barbarzynki Ligii i patrycjusza Marka Winicjusza. Ich rodz?cym si? uczuciom staj? jednak na przeszkodzie spo?eczne podzia?y i dworskie intrygi, a tak?e r??ni?ca oboje m?odych ludzi religia…
«Quo Vadis» — захапляльны гістарычны раман выдатнага польскага пісьменніка, лаўрэата Нобелеўскай прэміі Генрыка Сянкевіча аб кароткім перыядзе прадчування развалу вялікай Рымскай імперыі, аб першых кроках нікім не прызнаваных тады, на пачатку новай эры, «нефармальных суполак» хрысціян, аб першых кроках хрысціянства па гэтай зямлі, аб перадумовах і абставінах змены ваяўнічай ментальнасці на гуманістычную мараль. Над беларускім перакладам рамана працаваў каталіцкі святар — прэлат Пётр Татарыновіч .Рамантычная гісторыя кахання на фоне гэтых падзеяў робіць твор цікавым для шырокага кола чытачоў.
Rabbit, now in his 50s and with a heart condition, is living in a condo in Florida. Nelson and his family come to stay and disaster unfolds. Rabbit has a serious heart attack after a boating accident with his granddaughter and Nelson has been embezzling the family firm to feed his cocaine habit.***Amazon.com ReviewIt's 1989, and Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom feels anything but restful. In fact he's frozen, incapacitated by his fear of death-and in the final year of the Reagan era, he's right to be afraid. His 55-year-old body, swollen with beer and munchies ...
The hero of John Updike's Rabbit, Run (1960), ten years after the hectic events described in Rabbit Redux (1971), has come to enjoy considerable prosperity as Chief Sales Representative of Springer Motors, a Toyota agency in Brewer, Pennsylvania. The time is 1979: Skylab is falling, gas lines are lengthening, the President collapses while running in a marathon, and double-digit inflation coincides with a deflation of national confidence. Nevertheless, Harry Angstrom feels in good shape, ready to enjoy life at last – until his son, Nelson, returns from the West, and the image of an old love pays a visit to his lot. New characters and old populate these scenes from Rabbit's middle age, as he continues to pursue, in his erratic fashion, the rainbow of happiness.
The assumptions and obsessions that control our daily lives are explored in tantalizing detail by master novelist John Updike in this wise, witty, sexy story. Harry Angstrom – known to all as Rabbit, one of America's most famous literary characters – finds his dreary life shattered by the infidelity of his wife, Janice. How he resolves – or further complicates – his problems, makes for a novel of the first order.Rabbit Redux is the second of five John Updike Rabbit novels, all of which focus on their central character Harry Angstrom. In Rabbit Redux, Harry Angstrom – known to all as Rabbit, one of America's most famous literary characters – finds his dreary life shattered by the infidelity of his wife, Janice. How he resolves or further complicates his problems makes for a novel of the first order. The assumptions and obsessions that control our daily lives are explored in tantalizing detail by master novelist John Updike in this wise, witty, and sexy story.
The stunning novella that concludes John Updike's acclaimed Rabbit series is now available on audio.Set 10 years after Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom's death, Rabbit Remembered returns listeners to the small Pennsylvania town where Harry's widow, Janice, and his son, Nelson, still reside. They are faced with a surprise when Annabelle, Harry's 39-year-old illegitimate daughter, arrives on the scene, bringing with her ghosts from the past.
