El descubrimiento de un manuscrito perdido de Ir?ne N?mirovsky caus? una aut?ntica conmoci?n en el mundo editorial franc?s y europeo.Novela excepcional escrita en condiciones excepcionales, Suite francesa retrata con maestr?a una ?poca fundamental de la Europa del siglo XX. En oto?o de 2004 le fue concedido el premio Renaudot, otorgado por primera vez a un autor fallecido. Imbuida de un claro componente autobiogr?fico, Suite francesa se inicia en Par?s los d?as previos a la invasi?n alemana, en un clima de incertidumbre e incredulidad. Enseguida, tras las primeras ...
follows the hopes and fears of a cast of unforgettable characters brought together by the mysterious Miles Heller during the dark months of the 2008 economic collapse. An enigmatic young man employed as a trash-out worker in southern Florida obsessively photographing thousands of abandoned objects left behind by the evicted families. A group of young people in a squat in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. A Hospital for Broken Things, which specializes in repairing the artifacts of a vanished world. William Wyler's 1946 classic . A celebrated actress preparing to return to Broadway.An independent publisher desperately trying to save his business and his marriage.These are just some of the elements Auster magically weaves together in this immensely moving novel about contemporary America and its ghosts. is a surprising departure that confirms Paul Auster as one of our greatest living writers.
Super-Cannes – a Sunday Times bestseller in hardback – was the winner of the 2001 Commonwealth Writers Prize for the Eurasian region.'Sublime: an elegant, elaborate trap of a novel, which reads as a companion piece to Cocaine Nights but takes ideas from that novel and runs further. The first essential novel of the 21st century.'– Nicholas Royle, Independent'Possibly his greatest book. Super-Cannes is both a novel of ideas and a compelling thriller that will keep you turning the pages to the shocking denouement. Only Ballard could have produced it.'– Simon Hinde, Sunday Express...
The author of two critically acclaimed novels, The Russian Debutante's Handbook and Absurdistan, Gary Shteyngart has risen to the top of the fiction world. Now, in his hilarious and heartfelt new novel, he envisions a deliciously dark tale of America's dysfunctional coming years – and the timeless and tender feelings that just might bring us back from the brink.In a very near future – oh, let's say next Tuesday – a functionally illiterate America is about to collapse. But don't that tell that to poor Lenny Abramov, the thirty-nine-year-old son of an angry Russian immigrant janitor, proud author of what ...
Свое “совсем уж неизвестно что” написал по молодости лет Альдо Нове (р. в 1967). Нове – одна из самых заметных фигур в стане “юных людоедов”, новейшего течения гипернатурализма в итальянской литературе на рубеже веков...Сборник дебютных и теперь уже культовых страшилок А. Нове “Вубинда” (1996) во втором издании разросся до размеров обескураживающей энциклопедии современной жизни, девизом которой могло бы быть “ни дня без конца света”...“Супервубинда”
In bestselling author Christopher Buckley's hilarious novel, the President of the United States, ticked off at the Senate for rejecting his nominees, decides to get even by nominating America 's most popular TV judge to the Supreme Court.President Donald Vanderdamp is having a hell of a time getting his nominees onto the Supreme Court. After one nominee is rejected for insufficiently appreciating To Kill a Mockingbird, the president chooses someone so beloved by voters that the Senate won't have the nerve to reject her-Judge Pepper Cartwright, star of the nation's most popular reality show. Will Pepper, a ...
From preface: In naming this second part of The Forsyte Chronicles "A Modern Comedy" the word Comedy is stretched, perhaps as far as the word Saga was stretched to cover the first part. And yet, what but a comedic view can be taken, what but comedic significance gleaned, of so restive a period as that in which we have lived since the war? An Age which knows not what it wants, yet is intensely preoccupied with getting it, must evoke a smile, if rather a sad one.
This short story was tremendously interesting with such strong and mind gripping words that totally and utterly ensnared and encaptured from beginning to end.
This is the only short story wrote by Jin Yong. Because of its short length, you can't really see Jin Yong's full talent at story-telling. However, this translation can give you some idea of what a martial arts story is like. My clumsy translation can't really do the original justice, but I hope I have stirred your interest enough that you will go out there and find out more about Chinese culture, history and legend. The process of finding out will not be easy, but I assure you, what you will find will never be dull.
Nasz ?wiat jest zagadk?. Przedmioty, miejsca, z kt?rymi si? stykamy, mog? znaczy? wi?cej, ni? mo?na by si? spodziewa?. Olga Tokarczuk w trzech mistrzowsko skonstruowanych opowiadaniach podpatruje nas od strony najmniej oczywistej.
Siedzia?em, patrzy?em na czerwonego mercedesa i duma?em o Cindy. I ?wierzbi?o mnie, ?eby wzi?? si? do dzia?ania. Pomy?la?em, ?e mo?e warto zakra?? si? do domu. Mo?e zdo?am pods?ucha?, jak Cindy rozmawia przez telefon? Mo?e wpadn? na jaki? trop? Pewnie, ?e by?o to niebezpieczne. Sam ?rodek dnia. A ja uwielbiam ryzyko. Sprawia, ?e uszy mi dzwoni?, a zwieracz w ty?ku mocniej si? ?ciska. ?yje si? raz, no nie? Chyba ?e jest si? ?azarzem. Biedny skurwiel, musia? zdycha? 2 razy. Ale ja jestem Nick Belane. Po jednej kolejce zsiadam z karuzeli. ?wiat nale?y do odwa?nych.
«sВОбоДА» — попытка символического осмысления жизни поколения «последних из могикан» Советского Союза. Искрометный взгляд на российскую жизнь из глубины ее часового механизма или, если использовать язык символов этого текста, — общественно-политической канализации…«Момент обретения рая всегда (как выключатель, одновременно одну лампочку включающий, а другую — выключающий) совпадает с моментом начала изгнания из рая…» — размышляет герой книги «sВОбоДА» Вергильев. Эта формула действует одинаково для кого угодно: от дворника до президента, даже если они об этом забывают. А потому роман Козлова сверхактуален для современной России.
Автор ничего не придумал. Он просто собрал истории сотен офисных служащих и набрался смелости сплести их в один сюжет. Когда-то все персонажи романа были успешными вице-президентами, промоутерами, креативными директорами и копирайторами. Но в один миг их мир сгорел дотла только потому, что все они желали большего, чем должны были иметь. Многие из них наложили на себя руки, кто-то сошел с ума, кто-то еще долго будет считаться пропавшим без вести, кто-то умер от спиртного, опустившись на самое дно московских трущоб.Но о них автор думает также мало, как и атеист об адовых мучениях и райских наслаждениях. Да и судьба самой книги его мало волнует. Как ни крути, у истины нет шанса стать бестселлером.
Toward the middle of the sixteenth century, as the Ashikaga shogunate crumbled, Japan came to resemble one huge battlefield. Rival warlords vied for dominance, but from among them three great figures emerged, like meteors streaking against the night sky. These three men, alike in their passion to control and unify Japan, were strikingly different in personality: Nobunaga, rash, decisive, brutal; Hideyoshi, unassuming, subtle, complex; Ieyasu, calm, patient, calculating. Their divergent philosophies have long been recalled by the Japanese in a verse known to every schoolchild:What if the bird will not sing?Nobunaga answers, "Kill it!"Hideyoshi answers, "Make it to sing."Ieyasu answers, "Wait."This book, (the title by which Hideyoshi is still known in Japan), is the story of the man who made the bird want to sing.
Ka?de miasto ma swoje sekretne miejsca. Wieki pe?ne mrocznych historii sprawi?y, ?e stolica Rosji ma takich miejsc wyj?tkowo du?o. Wsp??czesno?? przenika si? tu z przesz?o?ci? w spos?b subtelny i magiczny. Mieszka?cy Moskwy szukaj?c schronienia przed problemami wsp??czesnego ?ycia mog? czasem trafi? do niezwyk?ych miejsc. Wystarczy jeden nieostro?ny krok, ?eby znale?? si? w mrocznym, ba?niowym ?wiecie pe?nym magii, p?acz?cych drzew, gadaj?cych ptak?w, wygnanych wieki temu poga?skich b?stw i ba?niowych stworze?. Tu mo?na us?ysze? najdziwniejsze z ...
Marek Mezencjusz Manilianus, obywatel rzymski, przybywa do Aleksandrii, gdzie zaczyna bada? zawarte w ?wi?tych ksi?gach przepowiednie i proroctwa r??nych lud?w cesarstwa. Za najbardziej intryguj?c? uznaje ?ydowsk? zapowied? nadej?cia odkupiciela i zbudowania Kr?lestwa, zw?aszcza ?e wiele znak?w i wydarze? zdaje si? ?wiadczy?, i? czas ten w?a?nie nadszed?. Wyrusza w ko?cu do Jerozolimy i trafia na chwil?, gdy ukrzy?owany zostaje Jezus Nazarejski. Coraz bardziej zaciekawiony Marek rozpoczyna w?dr?wk? jego ?ladami…
