The magical new novel from the author of the Number One be Beyond the main street of Les Laveuses runs the Loire, smooth and brown as a sunning snake – but hiding a deadly undertow beneath its moving surface. This is where Framboise, a secretive widow named after a raspberry liqueur, plies her culinary trade at the creperie – and lets memory play strange games. Into this world comes the threat of revelation as Framboise's nephew – a profiteering Parisian – attempts to exploit the growing success of the country recipes she has inherited from her mother, a woman remembered with contempt by the villagers of Les Laveuses. As the spilt blood of a tragic wartime childhood flows again, exposure beckons for Framboise, the widow with an invented past. Joanne Harris has looked behind the drawn shutters of occupied France to illuminate the pain, delight and loss of a life changed for ever by the uncertainties and betrayals of war.
After reverently lambasting the most cherished rites and credos of virtually every one of the world's major religions in his transcendently hilarious novel the one and only Christopher Moore returns with a wild look at interspecies communication, adventure on the high seas, and an eons-old mystery.Marine behavioral biologist Nate Quinn is in love — with the salt air and sun-drenched waters off Maui… and especially with the majestic ocean-dwelling behemoths that have been bleeping and hooting their haunting music for more than twenty million years. But just why do the humpback whales sing? That's the question that has ...
Флаттер (от англ. flutter) – жесткая вибрация самолета, чреватая полным его разрушением. Именно флаттер долгое время препятствовал преодолению сверхзвукового барьера – сильнейшая вибрация, перегрузки и страх заставляли испытателей раз за разом отступать. Тем не менее сверхзвуковой барьер был успешно преодолен смелым летчиком, нажавшим на газ в тот момент, когда его предшественники предпочитали сбросить скорость. И вот там, в сверхзвуке, наступила тишина, пришла радость победы и удовольствие от скольжения по воздуху. По небу. Жизнь иных людей так же наполнена мгновениями преодоления, ведь когда необходимо совершить прорыв в своей жизни, выйдя за рамки привычных представлений о возможном, наступает флаттер – жесткая вибрация души и тела. Некоторые не выдерживают – сбрасывают скорость. Лишь самые смелые нажимают на газ и попадают в сверхзвук. Именно они познают восторг победы и радость скольжения по жизни. И они парят. Пока не наступит новый флаттер. Новая возможность для прорыва. И так раз за разом… А что же тогда такое «высший пилотаж»?
In an act of breathtaking imagination, J. M. Coetzee radically reinvents the story of Robinson Crusoe.In the early eighteenth century, Susan Barton finds herself set adrift from a mutinous ship and cast ashore on a remote desert island. There she finds shelter with its only other inhabitants: a man named Cruso and his tongueless slave, Friday. In time, she builds a life for herself as Cruso’s companion and, eventually, his lover. At last they are rescued by a passing ship, but only she and Friday survive the journey back to London. Determined to have her story ...
Венецианское эссе Иосифа Бродского "Набережная Неисцелимых" (или "Watermark") написано автором по-английски.Джон Апдайк писал об эссе "Набережная Неисцелимых": "[Оно] восхищает тонким приемом возгонки, с помощью которого из жизненного опыта добывается драгоценный смысл. Эссе "Набережная неисцелимых" – это попытка превратить точку на глобусе в окно и мир универсальных переживаний, частный опыт хронического венецианского туриста – в кристалл, чьи грани отражали бы всю полноту жизни… Основным источником исходящего от этих граней света является чистая красота".
"This is a bawdy tale. Herein you will find gratuitous shagging, murder, spanking, maiming, treason, and heretofore unexplored heights of vulgarity and profanity, as well as nontraditional grammar, split infinitives, and the odd wank… If that's the sort of thing you think you might enjoy, then you have happened upon the perfect story!"Verily speaks Christopher Moore, much beloved scrivener and peerless literary jester, who hath writteneth much that is of grand wit and belly-busting mirth, including such laurelled bestsellers of the as , and (no offense). Now he takes on no less than the legendary Bard himself (with ...
AwardsPulitzer Prize for Fiction"There is no American writer I have read with more constant pleasure and sympathy… Foreign Affairs earns the same shelf as Henry James and Edith Wharton." – John FowlesWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEVirginia Miner, a fifty-something, unmarried tenured professor, is in London to work on her new book about children's folk rhymes. Despite carrying a U.S. passport, Vinnie feels essentially English and rather looks down on her fellow Americans. But in spite of that, she is drawn into a mortifying and oddly satisfying affair with an Oklahoman tourist ...
#1 BESTSELLER IN HEAVEN…AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME ON EARTH. "Think Alice Sebold (The Lovely Bones) meets John Grisham (The Firm) in the afterlife." Brek Cuttler, a young lawyer, new mother, and wife of a popular television news reporter, dies unexpectedly and, arriving in heaven, learns she has been chosen to join the elite lawyers who defend souls at the Final Judgment. Yet Brek longs for her lost life, and the cause of her death remains a mystery. Searching for answers, Brek attempts to re-create the world she once knew and visit her family in their dreams; but it ...
At 6'6" and 240lbs, Forrest Gump is difficult to ignore. This satire follows him from the football dynasties of Bear Bryant to Vietnam, and from encounters with Presidents Johnson and Nixon to pow-wows with Chairman Mao. It also takes in Harvard University, a Hollywood set, and a NASA mission.
From the National Book Award-winning author of The Corrections, a darkly comedic novel about familyPatty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paul – the gentrifiers, the hands-on parents, the avant-garde of the Whole Foods generation. Patty was the ideal sort of neighbor, who could tell you where to recycle your batteries and how to get the local cops to actually do their job. She was an enviably perfect mother and the wife of Walter's dreams. Together with Walter – environmental lawyer, commuter cyclist, total family man – she was doing her small part to build a ...
A single day in Paris changes the lives of three Americans as they each set off to explore the city with a French tutor, learning about language, love, and loss as their lives intersect in surprising ways.Josie, Riley, and Jeremy have come to the City of Light for different reasons: Josie, a young high school teacher, arrives in hopes of healing a broken heart. Riley, a spirited but lonely expat housewife, struggles to feel connected to her husband and her new country. And Jeremy, the reserved husband of a renowned actress, is accompanying his wife on a ...
Cinq s?quences d'une vie, cinq d?mons impossibles ? chasser. Tel est le programme de 'Frictions'. Beau gosse, fou de sa m?re, mari? ? un mannequin et ayant trouv? la solution ? ses soucis d'argent, le narrateur a tout pour s'en sortir, enfin en th?orie, car en pratique c'est beaucoup beaucoup plus compliqu?.
Ставший знаковым роман о поколении нулевых в новом издании.Герои молоды, свободны и порочны, для них жизнь — это бегство по порочному кругу. В их крови похоть, безнаказанность и немного любви. Их враг — любопытство. Их козырь — желание бороться до конца.«Каждый из нас бегал по порочному кругу… Или хотя бы тайно об этом мечтал…»
Wkr?tce potem opu?ci?em te okolice, po z?o?eniu ostatniej wizyty na w?asnym grobie. Nie wiem dok?adnie, dlaczego to zrobi?em; zapewne chcia?em w specyficzny spos?b z?o?y? sobie wyrazy uszanowania. By? to dla mnie koniec pewnego etapu, niewykluczone, ?e koniec ?ycia. Na grobie le?a?y ?wie?e kwiaty. Nie zapomniano o mnie.Wspomnienia ojca, m??a, przyjaciela zblak?y z czasem, zawsze jednak zajmowa?y istotne miejsce w moich my?lach. Od tego czasu moje ?ycie potoczy?o si? inaczej. Wspomnienia z przesz?o?ci nawiedza?y mnie jeszcze co jaki? czas, zmienia?y si? jednak towarzysz?ce im emocje. Szybko sta?y si? to uczucia psa, jak gdyby po zako?czeniu poszukiwa? psia natura wzi??a g?r? nad ludzk? dusz? – dusz?, kt?ra stanowi?a o moim cz?owiecze?stwie. Czu?em si? wolny jak ptak. Wolny, by ?y? jak pies.
Life is fury. Fury—sexual, Oedipal, political, magical, brutal—drives us to our finest heights and coarsest depths. This is what we are, what we civilize ourselves to disguise—the terrifying human animal in us, the exalted, transcendent, self-destructive, untrammeled lord of creation. We raise each other to the heights of joy. We tear each other limb from bloody limb.
Zhang Jie trata en sus libros problemas de actualidad como la corrupci?n, la burocracia o los cambios econ?micos, con unos principios literarios que no est?n en realidad muy lejanos del realismo y el didactismo que imperaba en la China mao?sta. Una de sus novelas m?s representativas es Galera (Fang zhou), cr?nica de tres mujeres mayores 40 a?os en la China de finales del siglo XX las tres marcadas por el divorcio y por un entorno que a pesar de los cambios revolucionarios y de las reformas modernizadoras sigue siendo hostil a la mujer que escapa a los papeles tradicionales familiares. Lo que salva una literatura como la de Zhang Jie, que tiene todos los n?meros para convertirse en un aburrido excurso sociol?gico, es la gracia sutil de una escritura aferrada a las peque?as cosas y a la vida cotidiana. El feminismo de manual queda atemperado por la capacidad de dar vida al mundo que recrea.
Honest and entertaining, Columbia University professor Venkatesh vividly recounts his seven years following and befriending a Chicago crack-dealing gang in a fascinating look into the complex world of the Windy City 's urban poor. As introduced in Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner's bestseller, Freakonomics, Venkatesh became involved with the Black Kings-and their charismatic leader J.T.-as a first-year doctoral student at the University of Chicago. Sent to the projects with a multiple-choice test on poverty as his calling card, Venkatesh was, to his surprise, invited in to see how the drug dealers functioned in real life, ...
From the time she was a child, Mas Arai's daughter, Mari, was completely gasa-gasa – never sitting still, always on the go, getting into everything. And Mas, busy tending lawns, gambling, and struggling to put his Hiroshima past behind him, never had much time for the family he was trying to support. For years now, his resentful daughter has lived a continent away in New York City, and had a life he knew little about. But an anxious phone call from Mari asking for his help plunges the usually obstinate Mas into a series of startling situations from maneuvering in ...
El episodio de los reyes Magos s?lo mereci? unas l?neas por parte de uno de los cuatro Evangelios, pero ha impresionado vivamente la imaginaci?n d ela humanidad desde hace dos mil a?os. ?sta es una de las pocas novelas que existen sobre este assunto legendario. Uno de los reyes se supone que llega de la India, del reino de Mangalore.
Роман «Generation „П“», ставший культовым в молодежной среде, посвящен явлению, проникшему во все поры нашей повседневной жизни, – рекламе. Многие склонны просто отмахиваться от нее, как от назойливой мухи, считая чем-то несерьезным. Но разве в нашу речь уже не вошли рекламные слоганы? Разве «рваная стилистика» рекламных клипов не влияет на наше сознание?Герой романа Вавилен Татарский полагает, что ему известна подлинная цена рекламы – ведь он ее создает. Но ему и в страшном сне не может привидеться истинная сила джинна, выпущенного им из бутылки… На польском языке
When Chicagoan Russell Stone finds himself teaching a Creative Nonfiction class, he encounters a young Algerian woman with a disturbingly luminous presence. Thassadit Amzwar's blissful exuberance both entrances and puzzles the melancholic Russell. How can this refugee from perpetual terror be so happy? Won't someone so open and alive come to serious harm? Wondering how to protect her, Russell researches her war-torn country and skims through popular happiness manuals. Might her condition be hyperthymia? Hypomania? Russell's amateur inquiries lead him to college counselor Candace Weld, who also falls under Thassa's spell. Dubbed Miss Generosity by her classmates, Thassa's joyful ...
