At last! An astonishing and original new novel by the author of Life of Pi.A famous author receives a mysterious letter from a man who is a struggling writer but also turns out to be a taxidermist, an eccentric and fascinating character who does not kill animals but preserves them as they lived, with skill and dedication – among them a howler monkey named Virgil and a donkey named Beatrice…
Premio Nadal 1998Tres mujeres: Cat, lesbiana convencida, M?nica devorahombres compulsiva Y Beatriz, que considera que el amor no tiene g?nero. Tres momentos de la vida de una mujer y dos ciudades, Edimburgo y Madrid, para una novela ?nicasobre el amor a los amigos, a la familia y a los amantes.
Juego de falsas apariencias y medias verdades que terminan por desvelar una sola verdad ?ltima, Beatus Ille revel? a uno de los j?venes narradores m?s rigurosos y mejor dotados de nuestra llteratura actual.Minaya es un joven estudiante, implicado en las huelgas universitarias de los a?os 60, que se refugia en un cortijo a orillas del Guadalquivir para escribir una tesis doctoral sobre Jacinto Solana, poeta republicano, condenado a muerte al final de la guerra, indultado y muerto en 1947 en un tiroteo con la Guardia Civil. La investigaci?n biogr?fica permite a Minaya descubrir la ...
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love is a Pulitzer Prize-winning contemporary American classic, a book that still captivates and inspires readers twenty years after its first publication. Now, in Beautiful Maria of My Soul, Oscar Hijuelos returns to this indelible story, to tell it from the point of view of its beloved heroine, Maria.She's the great Cuban beauty who stole musician Nestor Castillo's heart and broke it, inspiring him to write the Mambo Kings' biggest hit, ''Beautiful Maria of My Soul.'' Now in her sixties and living in Miami with her pediatrician daughter, Teresa, Maria remains a beauty, still capable of turning heads. But she has never forgotten Nestor, and as she thinks back to her days-and nights-in Havana, an entirely new perspective on the Mambo Kings story unfolds.
A fictional portrait of Jiang Ching follows her life from her youth as the unwanted daughter of a concubine, to her search for fame as an actress in Shanghai, to her marriage to revolutionary Mao Zedong, to her role in the turbulent Communist rule of China.
Tessa has just months to live. Fighting back against hospital visits, endless tests, drugs with excruciating side-effects, Tessa compiles a list. It's her To Do Before I Die list. And number one is Sex. Released from the constraints of '-normal' life, Tessa tastes new experiences to make her feel alive while her failing body struggles to keep up. Tessa's feelings, her relationships with her father and brother, her estranged mother, her best friend, and her new boyfriend, all are painfully crystallised in the precious weeks before Tessa's time finally runs out.
For ten summers, the Seton family-all three generations-met at their country home in New England to spend a week together playing tennis, badminton, and golf, and savoring gin and tonics on the wraparound porch to celebrate the end of the season. In the eleventh summer, everything changed. A hunting rifle with a single cartridge left in the chamber wound up in exactly the wrong hands at exactly the wrong time, and led to a nightmarish accident that put to the test the values that unite the family-and the convictions that just may pull it apart.Before You Know Kindness is a family saga that is timely in its examination of some of the most important issues of our era, and timeless in its exploration of the strange and unexpected places where we find love.As he did with his earlier masterpiece, Midwives, Chris Bohjalian has written a novel that is rich with unforgettable characters-and absolutely riveting in its page-turning intensity.
Bettina Wolter, eine deutsche Stewarde?, geh?rt zu den ?berlebenden einer Flugzeugkatastrophe in Tiflis. Ihr Schicksal wird Ru?land — und Dimitri, der ihren Fluchtweg im zerkl?fteten Kaukasus kreuzt. Und was eigentlich das Ende ihres Leidensweges bedeuten sollte, war erst der Anfang…Der vorliegende Roman erschien bisher unter dem Autorenpseudonym Henry Pahlen in einer gek?rzten Fassung
Bella y oscura es el relato aleg?rico de lo que poseemos sin haber conquistado: la sabidur?a de la infancia. Es la evocaci?n de un tiempo pasado, solitario, fermento necesario de la libertad esperada. Es la belleza que la fantas?a extrae de la crueldad y de los inocentes olvidados de la ni?ez.
"DAZZLING… MAGICAL… AN EXTRAORDINARY WORK!" -New York Times"BRILLIANT… RESONATES FROM PAST TO PRESENT." – San Francisco Chronicle"A MAGNIFICENT HEROINE… A GLORIOUS BOOK!" – Baltimore Sun"BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN… POWERFUL…TONI MORRISON HAS BECOME ONE OF AMERICA 'S FINEST NOVELISTS." -Cleveland Plain Dealer"THERE IS SOMETHING GREAT IN BELOVED: A PLAY OF HUMAN VOICES, CONSCIOUSLY EXALTED, PERVERSELY STRESSED, YET HOLDING TRUE. IT GETS YOU." – The New Yorker"A STUNNING BOOK… A LASTING ACHIEVEMENT!" -Christian Science Monitor"Magical… rich, provocative, extremely satisfying!" – Milwaukee Journal"Superb… a profound and shattering story that carries the weight ...
La ambig?edad de la traici?n es el motor de una intriga polic?aca que constituye el tema aparente de Beltenebros. Sin embargo, lo que en realidad encubre es el desorientado transitar de los personajes por una fascinante galer?a de espejos en la que se reflejan el amor y el odio, el pasado y el presente, la realidad y la ficci?n, en un trepidante clarouscuro de corte premeditadamente cinematogr?fico que mantiene al lector bajo su hipnosis hasta el ?ltimo rengl?n del libro.Convocado por una organizaci?n comunista subversiva, Darman, antiguo capit?n ...
From an emerging master of short fiction and one of Canada's most distinctive voices, a collection of stories as heartbreaking as those of Lorrie Moore and as hilariously off-kilter as something out of McSweeney's.In Better Living through Plastic Explosives, Zsuzsi Gartner delivers a powerful second dose of the lacerating satire that marked her acclaimed debut, All the Anxious Girls on Earth, but with even greater depth and darker humour. Whether she casts her eye on evolution and modern manhood when an upscale cul-de-sac is thrown into chaos after a redneck moves into the neighbourhood, international adoption, war photography, real estate, the movie industry, motivational speakers, or terrorism, Gartner filets the righteous and the ridiculous with dexterity in equal, glorious measure. These stories ruthlessly expose our most secret desires, and allow us to snort with laughter at the grotesque world we'd live in if we all got what we wanted.
Djian's five novels have won acclaim in Europe, and the present one was a bestseller later adapted into an offbeat film. It's not likely, however, that this tedious and melodramatic on-the-road novel of the most formless kind will have much impact here. The story revolves around the love affair between a drifter with an unpublished novel to his credit and a beautiful girl with itchy feet who, for no discernible reason (Djian doesn't seem to believe in reasons), goes from such eccentricities as pouring paint over a car and torching a house to self-destructive madness. Her passion-driven lover follows ...
On India's south-western coast, between Goa and Calicut, lies Kittur – a small, nondescript every town. Aravind Adiga acts as our guide to the town, mapping overlapping lives of Kittur's residents. Here, an illiterate Muslim boy working at the train station finds himself tempted by an Islamic terrorist; a bookseller is arrested for selling a copy of "The Satanic Verses"; a rich, spoiled, half-caste student decides to explode a bomb in school; a sexologist has to find a cure for a young boy who may have AIDS. What emerges is the moral biography of an Indian town and a group portrait of ordinary Indians in a time of extraordinary transformation, over the seven-year period between the assassinations of Prime Minister Gandhi and her son Rajiv. Keenly observed and finely detailed, "Between the Assassinations" is a triumph of voice and imagination.
New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult and her teenage daughter present their first-ever novel for teens, filled with romance, adventure, and humor.What happens when happily ever after.isn't?Delilah is a bit of a loner who prefers spending her time in the school library with her head in a book – one book in particular. Between the Lines may be a fairy tale, but it feels real. Prince Oliver is brave, adventurous, and loving. He really speaks to Delilah.And then one day Oliver actually speaks to her. Turns out, Oliver is more than a ...
The school year is almost at an end, and the chocolate sale is past history. But no one at Trinity School can forget The Chocolate War.Devious Archie Costello, commander of the secret school organizationcalled the Virgils, stall has some torturous assignments to hand out before he graduates. In spite of this pleasure, Archie is troubled by his right-hand man, Obie, who has started to move away from the Virgils. Luckily Archie knows his stooges will fix that. But won't Archie be shocked when he discovers the surprise Obie has waiting for him?And there are surprises waiting for others. The time for revenge has come to those boys who secretly suffered the trials of Trinity. The fuse is set for the final explosion. Who will survive?
Anna zosta?a pocz?ta, by zosta? dawczyni? szpiku dla swej siostry, Kate. Nigdy nie kwestionowa?a tej roli, cho? musi ?y? tak, jakby by?a ci??ko chora.Ma dopiero trzyna?cie lat, a ju? przesz?a niezliczone zabiegi operacyjne, by jej starsza siostra mia?a szans? wyleczy? si? z bia?aczki. Jak wi?kszo?? nastolatk?w, Anna zastanawia si?, kim jest; inaczej jednak ni? przeci?tna nastolatka ma pouk?adane ?ycie: istnieje w?a?ciwie wy??cznie jako dope?nienie siostry. Dlatego podejmuje decyzj?, kt?ra zagrozi jej rodzinie i prawdopodobnie b?dzie mie? fatalne konsekwencje ...
Tw?rczo?? Jerzego Pilcha nie wymaga specjalnej rekomendacji. W swojej ksi??ce Pilch rejestruje r??norodno?? ?ycia spo?eczno-obyczajowego wsp??czesnej Polski, ??cz?c swe obserwacje z nostalgiczno-ironicznymi wspomnieniami z okresu dzieci?stwa i m?odo?ci. Oryginalno?? obserwacji, humor i sarkazm, b?yskotliwe paradoksy i groteska to dodatkowe atuty autobiograficznej prozy Pilcha. Jerzy Pilch wybitny prozaik, autor Monologu z lisiej jamy (1996), zbioru opowiada? pt. Wyznania tw?rcy pok?tnej literatury erotycznej (1988), powie?ci Spis cudzo?o?nic (1993), Tysi?c spokojnych miast (1998), felieton?w opublikowanych w zbiorach Rozpacz z powodu utraty furmanki (1994) oraz Tezy o g?upocie, piciu i umieraniu (1997), kt?re znalaz?y si? w si?demce najlepszych ksi??ek roku, nominowanych do Nagrody NIKE 98.
Akcja Bia?ej gardenii rozpoczyna si? pod koniec II wojny ?wiatowej w wiosce na granicy chi?sko-rosyjskiej. Ksi??ka opisuje histori? matki i c?rki, rozdzielonych wojenn? zawieruch?. W Harbinie, schronieniu dla rodzin, kt?re uciek?y z Rosji po upadku caratu, Alina Koz?owa musi podj?? rozdzieraj?c? serce decyzj?, dotycz?c? ?ycia lub ?mierci swojego jedynego dziecka, c?rki Ani. Bia?a gardenia to ksi??ka o zderzeniu kultur r??nych kontynent?w. Jej bohater?w spotkamy zar?wno w nocnych klubach Szanghaju, jak i w surowej Rosji radzieckiej lat sze??dziesi?tych XX wieku, w najtrudniejszym okresie zimnej wojny, na samotnej wyspie Pacyfiku i w powojennej Australii. Matka i c?rka musz? si? przygotowa? na wiele po?wi?ce?, ale czy cena przetrwania nie jest zbyt wysoka? I, przede wszystkim, czy jeszcze si? kiedy? odnajd?? Mnogo?? przyg?d przeplatanych licznymi faktami historycznymi owocuje znakomit? opowie?ci? o t?sknocie i wybaczaniu.
Відверта історія розкутого життя молодої кінорежисерки Тріші Торнберг, яка знімає провокативне кіно. У вільний час Тріша розважається в колі друзів, і розваги їхні з погляду пересічного громадянина досить нестандартні, навіть скандальні, її черговий фільм забороняє цензура, однак відбуваються підпільні покази, і картина Тріші здобуває премію престижного Венеційського кінофестивалю. Під час вручення кінопремії на неї чинить замах маніяк. Із жахом Тріша розуміє, що це – один з її колишніх коханців...
In this novel, adapted by the author for easier reading by German learners, a young girl struggles with young love, bulimia, and adolescent self-acceptance. The novel has been a success with adolescent and young adult readers. The accompanying "Suggestion for Lesson Plans" offers photocopiable worksheets and teaching tips for classroom use.
A non fiction bookElif Shafak is the most popular woman writer in Turkey today. In her lyrical and deeply-personal book, Black Milk, she writes of the struggle between art and motherhood.Shafak tells of an imaginary “harem of small finger women” or tiny “Thumbelinas” who live within her and vie for dominance. All of her “finger women” are manifestations of different aspects of Shafak’s own personality struggling for control, as she wrestles with her decision to become a mother.The book was written after the birth of Shafak’s first child and long bout of post-partum depression. In the book, Shafak examines her own feelings and career against those of Sylvia Plath, Zelda Fitzgerald, Virginia Woolf, Ayn Rand, Simone de Beauvoir, and other female writers of note. Black Milk is original, humorous, and insightful – a must-read for all women who have ever felt the pull of more than one path. На английском языке
‘A lively and original talent’ – Sunday Times‘Harris is at her best when detailing the sensual pleasures of taste and smell. As chocoholics stand advised to stock up on some of their favourite bars before biting into Chocolat, so boozers everywhere should get a couple of bottles in before opening Blackberry Wine’ – Helen Falconer, Guardian‘Joanne Harris has the gift of conveying her delight in the sensuous pleasures of food, wine, scent and plants… [Blackberry Wine] has all the appeal of a velvety scented glass of vintage wine’ – Lizzie Buchan, Daily Mail‘If Joanne Harris didn’...
