Замечательный русский прозаик Александр Покровский не нуждается в специальных представлениях. Он автор многих книг, снискавших заслуженный успех.Название этого сборника дано по одноименной истории, повествующей об экстремальном существовании горстки моряков, «не теряющих отчаяния» в затопленной субмарине, в полной тьме, «у бездны на краю». Писатель будто предвидел будущие катастрофы.По этому напряженному драматическому сюжету был снят одноименный фильм.Широчайший спектр человеческих отношений — от комического абсурда до рокового предстояния гибели, определяет строй и поэтику уникального языка Александра Покровского.Ерничество, изысканный юмор, острая сатира, комедия положений, соленое слово моряка передаются автором с точностью и ответственностью картографа, предъявившего новый ландшафт нашей многострадальной, возлюбленной и непопираемой отчизны.
«Ночной маршрут».Книга, которую немецкая критика восхищенно назвала «развлекательной прозой для эстетов и интеллектуалов».Сборник изящных, озорных рассказов-«ужастиков», в которых классическая схема «ночных кошмаров, обращающихся в явь» сплошь и рядом доводится до логического абсурда, выворачивается наизнанку и приправляется изрядной долей чисто польской иронии…
«Un r?dacteur publicitaire, c'est un auteur d'aphorismes qui se vendent». Octave, riche concepteur-r?dacteur de 33 ans, se rebelle et s'insurge contre l'univers superf?tatoire de la publicit? qui brasse des millions d'euros en vendant des produits inutiles ? de pauvres m?nag?res. Le r?dacteur publicitaire d?tient le pouvoir absolu des mots et des formules lapidaires. Il suscite l'envie, influence votre inconscient et d?cide ? votre place ce qu'il vous semblera indispensable d'acheter. ? la recherche d'une puret? perdue, Octave ?crit son livre pour d?truire la publicit? et se faire licencier. Mise en ab?me de ...
Miles Ryan's life seemed to end the day his wife was killed in a hit-and-run accident two years ago. Missy had been his first love, and Miles fervently believes she will be his last. As a deputy sheriff in the North Carolina town of New Bern, he not only grieves for Missy, but longs to bring the unknown driver to justice.Then Miles meets Sarah Andrew. The second-grade teacher of his son, Jonah, Sarah had left Baltimore after a difficult divorce to start over in the gentler surroundings of New Bern. Perhaps it is her own emotional wounds ...
Ce roman r?unit au d?but tous les clich?s du polar. De nos jours, dans une grande ville plut?t glauque et violente, «malade de ses cracks boursiers, de ses d?localisations sauvages, des affrontements sociaux et ethniques qui la harc?lent, des gu?rilleras urbaines qui se multiplient?», un homme et une femme m?nent une enqu?te autour du meurtre de Jennifer Brennen.L'homme, Nathan (40 ans), est un flic ordinaire mari? ? Chris. Il est en pleine d?prime. Sa femme vient de le quitter pour rejoindre la maison communautaire de Wolf (professeur d'?conomie ...
In Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange, Burgess creates a gloomy future full of violence, rape and destruction. In this dystopian novel, Burgess does a fantastic job of constantly changing the readers’ allegiance toward the books narrator and main character, Alex. Writing in a foreign language, Burgess makes the reader feel like an outsider. As the novel begins, the reader has no emotional connection to Alex. This non-emotional state comes to a sudden halt when Alex and his droogs begin a series of merciless acts of violence. The reader rapidly begins to form what seems to be an irreversible ...
When a young Chinese woman, newly arrived in London, moves in with her English boyfriend, she decides it's time to write a Chinese-English dictionary for lovers. Xiaolu's first novel in English is an utterly original journey of self-discovery.***“By turns hilarious and poignant. Xiaolu Guo has given us a fresh and bittersweet addition to the literature of cultural displacement.” – The Oregonian“Funny and charming…more than a love story; its psychology is politically acute, and things noted lightly in it linger in the mind.” – The Guardian (London)“Xiaolu Guo has written an inventive, often humorous ...
A monument to sloth, rant and contempt, and suspicious of anything modern - this is Ignatius J. Reilly of New Orleans, crusader against dunces. In revolt against the 20th century, Ignatius propels his bulk among the flesh-pots of a fallen city, documenting life on his Big Chief tablets as he goes, until his mother decrees that Ignatius must work.
From Publishers WeeklyMaqiao, a fictitious rural village lost in the vitals of Mao's Communist empire, is to Han's magical novel what Macondo is to One Hundred Years of Solitude-a place in which the various brutalities and advances of contemporary history are transformed within the "fossil seams" of popular myth. Han adopts the rules of the dictionary to the rules of fiction, distributing mini-sagas of rural bandits, Daoist madmen and mixed up Maoists across the definitions of terms with special meaning in Maqiao. Han, narrator as well as author, is sent to Maqiao as part of a cadre ...
Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy. A little hapless, somewhat neurotic, sort of a hypochondriac. He's what's known as a Beta Male: the kind of fellow who makes his way through life by being careful and constant — you know, the one who's always there to pick up the pieces when the girl gets dumped by the bigger/taller/stronger Alpha Male.But Charlie's been lucky. He owns a building in the heart of San Francisco, and runs a secondhand store with the help of a couple of loyal, if marginally insane, employees. He's married to a bright ...
Mildred L. Batchelder AwardTorn from their homeland, two Jewish sisters find refuge in Sweden.It's the summer of 1939. Two Jewish sisters from Vienna -12-year-old Stephie Steiner and 8-year-old Nellie-are sent to Sweden to escape the Nazis. They expect to stay there six months, until their parents can flee to Amsterdam; then all four will go to America. But as the world war intensifies, the girls remain, each with her own host family, on a rugged island off the western coast of Sweden.Nellie quickly settles in to her new surroundings. She’s happy with her foster family and soon favors the Swedish language over her native German. Not so for Stephie, who finds it hard to adapt; she feels stranded at the end of the world, with a foster mother who’s as cold and unforgiving as the island itself. Her main worry, though, is her parents-and whether she will ever see them again.
At the heart of this sprawling, dizzying debut from a quirky, assured Australian writer are two men: Jasper Dean, a judgmental but forgiving son, and Martin, his brilliant but dysfunctional father. Jasper, in an Australian prison in his early 20s, scribbles out the story of their picaresque adventures, noting cryptically early on that [m]y father's body will never be found. As he tells it, Jasper has been uneasily bonded to his father through thick and thin, which includes Martin's stint managing a squalid strip club during Jasper's adolescence; an Australian outback home literally hidden within impenetrable mazes; Martin's ...
From Publishers WeeklyHa Jin, who emigrated from China in the aftermath of Tiananmen Square, had only been writing in English for 12 years when he won the National Book Award for Waiting in 1999. His latest novel sheds light on an ?migr? writer's woodshedding period. It follows the fortunes of Nan Wu, who drops out of a U.S. grad school after the repression of the democracy movement in China, hoping to find his voice as a poet while supporting his wife, Pingping, and son, Taotao. After several years of spartan living, Nan and Pingping save enough to buy ...
Co mo?na zrobi? z siedz?c? w waszej szafie nieznajom? kobiet?? Poprosi?, ?eby sobie posz?a? Ale to nie takie proste, zw?aszcza dla przystojnego architekta, Arthura. Bo, po pierwsze, ta kobieta jest m?oda i czaruj?ca, po drugie, twierdzi, ?e jej cia?o znajduje si? zupe?nie gdzie indziej – le?y pogr??one w g??bokiej ?pi?czce w szpitalu. Lauren uwa?a, ?e tylko Arthur mo?e jej pom?c, jako jedyna osoba, kt?ra j? s?yszy i widzi w cielesnej postaci. Chocia? zaintrygowany m??czyzna ma mn?stwo podejrze? i w?tpliwo?ci, ostatecznie poddaje si? urokowi ?licznego "ducha" i przyjmuje wyzwanie. Tymczasem lekarze, zniech?ceni d?ug?, daremn? walk? o ?ycie pacjentki, planuj? eutanazj?. Przera?ony Arthur wykrada ze szpitala cia?o ukochanej. Nast?puje seria nieoczekiwanych zdarze?…
Bestselling author Nikki Grimes, author of Dark Sons, Barak Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope, and Voices of Christmas, presents the story of Mister, a teenage girl who honestly and poignantly tells her story of temptation and teenage pregnancy through free verse, and who finds support and forgiveness from God through a book of poetry presented from the virgin Mary's perspective.
From Publishers WeeklyMayle's breezy, uncomplicated fifth novel (Chasing Cezanne, etc.) and ninth book follows 30-something Max Skinner from a sabotaged financial career in London to his adoption of the Proven?al lifestyle on an inherited vineyard in France. Max spent holidays at his Uncle Henry's vineyard as a child, so when he inherits the place, the prospect of returning is tempting; a generous "bridging loan" from ex-brother-in-law Charlie seals the deal. The estate, Le Griffon, is in a dire state of disrepair and the wine cellar is filled with bottles of a dreadful-tasting swill, but it's nothing ...
Early works of an author who has hit the big-time are often reissued for reasons more venal than literary. None of the pre- and post- publications of Tracy Chevalier come anywhere near the standard of The Girl with the Pearl Earring, but that didn't stop them being rushed into instant print once best-sellerdom was declared and the film came out.Andrei Makine gained international recognition only when his fourth novel, Le Testament Francais, won two prestigious prizes. Famously, the refugee from the Soviet Union who wrote in French hadn't been able to get his first novel published until ...
From Michael Cunningham, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of , comes this widely praised novel of two boyhood friends: Jonathan, lonely, introspective, and unsure of himself; and Bobby, hip, dark, and inarticulate. In New York after college, Bobby moves in with Jonathan and his roommate, Clare, a veteran of the city's erotic wars. Bobby and Clare fall in love, scuttling the plans of Jonathan, who is gay, to father Clare's child. Then, when Clare and Bobby have a baby, the three move to a small house upstate to raise “their” child together and, with an odd friend, Alice, create a new kind of family. masterfully depicts the charged, fragile relationships of urban life today.
"Naipaul has constructed a marvelous prose epic that matches the best nineteenth-century novels for richness of comic insight and final, tragic power." – Newsweek – ReviewA gripping masterpiece, hailed as one of the 20th century's finest novelsA HOUSE FOR MR BISWAS is V.S. Naipaul's unforgettable third novel. Born the "wrong way" and thrust into a world that greeted him with little more than a bad omen, Mohun Biswas has spent his 46 years of life striving for independence. But his determined efforts have met only with calamity. Shuttled from one residence to another after the drowning of ...
Hija de un hacendado argentino y una cat?lica irlandesa, Sof?a jam?s pens? en que habr?a un momento que tendr?a que abandonar los campos de Santa Catalina. O quiz?s, simplemente, ante tanta ilusi?n y belleza, nunca pudo imaginar que su fuerte car?cter la llevar?a a cometer los errores m?s grandes de su vida y que esos errores la alejar?an para siempre de su tierra.Pero ahora Sof?a ha vuelto y, con su regreso, el pasado parece cobrar vida. Pero ?podr? ser hoy lo que no pudo ser tantos a?os atr?s? Quiz?s s?lo con ese viaje podr? Sof?a recuperar la paz y cerrar el c?rculo de su existencia.
In A Little Love Story, Roland Merullo – winner of the Massachusetts Book Award and the Maria Thomas Fiction Award – has created a sometimes poignant, sometimes hilarious tale of attraction and loyalty, jealousy and grief. It is a classic love story – with some modern twists.Janet Rossi is very smart and unusually attractive, an aide to the governor of Massachusetts, but she suffers from an illness that makes her, as she puts it, 'not exactly a good long-term investment.' Jake Entwhistle is a few years older, a carpenter and portrait painter, smart and good-looking too, but with a ...
New Year’s Eve at Toppers’ House, North London’s most popular suicide spot. And four strangers are about to discover that doing away with yourself isn’t quite the private act they’d each expected.Perma-tanned Martin Sharp’s a disgraced breakfast TV presenter who had it all—the family, the pad, the great career—and wasted it away. Killing himself is Martin’s logical response to an unlivable life.Maureen has to do it tonight, because of Matty being in the home. He was never able to do any of the normal things kids do—...
The heroes are eager to sail to Troy for war, but the wind is still. To fill their sails and set out, they must sacrifice Agamemnon's daughter Iphigenia-and how does a human girl become the wind? The starkness and psychological insight of Rachel Swirsky's Tor.com story earned it a place among the finalists for the 2010 Nebula Award. Rachel Swirsky's short fiction has appeared in Weird Tales, Fantasy Magazine, and Subterranean Magazine, among others, and has been collected in Year's Best anthologies edited by Rich Horton, Jonathan Strahan, and the VanderMeers. She is also the submissions editor of Podcastle, an audio fantasy magazine.
