A rich, dark novel of buried secrets, new desires and a new land from the bestselling author of THE ACTRESSES A novel of 50s New Zealand, as haunting and evocative as HEAV...
When she is five years old, Lili, the narrator of this epic and magical tale, watches her mother, Roxanna the Angel, throw herself off the balcony of their house on the Av...
Alice McDermott tells the story of Billy Lynch within the complex matrix of a tightly knit Irish American community, in a voice that is resonant and full of deep feeling. ...
История одного портрета. История одного художника. История одной любви. История, которая могла произойти — а может быть, и произошла — в старом доме на одной из живописных...
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It is 1972: a group of teenagers are spending a month in a Donegal Gaeltacht, learning Irish language and culture from their teachers and the local community. Liberated fo...
The astonishing Orange Prize-shortlisted debut from the author of ‘Flying Leap’ and ‘Nice Big American Baby’.
This is a truly strange and striking tale that begi...
Элизабет Страут сравнивали с Джоном Чивером, Стейнбеком и Рэем Брэдбери, называли "Ричардом Йейтсом в юбке" и даже "американским Чеховым"; она публиковалась в "Нью-Йоркере...
"Белые зубы" Зэди Смит - один из самых ярких и успешных дебютных романов, появившихся за последние годы в британской литературе. Блестящее комическое повествование, в кото...
It is April 1946. Evelyn Sert, 20 years old, a hairdresser from Soho, sails for Palestine, where Jewish refugees and idealists are gathering from across Europe to start a ...
Действие романа "Мастер Джорджи" происходит в Англии середины прошлого столетия и завершается на полях Крымской войны 1853-1856 гг., куда ход событий заносит четырех англи...
Франция XIX века. Юный Собран, сын винодела, знакомится с ангелом, внешне похожим на Иисуса Христа. И все в жизни Собрана складывается удачно: он наследует отцовскую винод...
When Clifford Stilton dies, his son Gene crams his carefully kept diaries into a hall cupboard. But Clifford's words have too much life in them to be ignored, and start to...
Gert Hardcastle is thirty-something and unlucky in love. She is also estranged from her mother. As Crocodile Soup opens, she thinks she has found "the One" -- the enigmati...
Betony Falk, who was orphaned as a child, finds out that her father had been a German Jewish refugee baby. Her own sense of identity undermined, she sets out on a quest fo...
"Supremely humane.... Kay leaves us with a broad landscape of sweet tolerance and familial love". The New York Times Book Review
In her starkly beautiful and wholly une...
Told in the voice of a girl as she moves from childhood into adolescence, Buxton Spice is the story the town of Tamarind Grove: its eccentric families, its sweeping joys, ...
In "Marchlands", Karla Kuban's stunning first novel, she introduces a troubled, intrepid, ultimately triumphant young heroine whose path to womanhood is both original and ...
From the two-time Man Booker winner, the story of the 18th Century Irish giant, Charles O’Brien.
Charles O’Brien, bard and giant. The cynical are moved by his fl...
A naive teenage girl in south Texas falls in love with her prison pen pal. The object of her affection--a charming, dangerously handsome young felon who romances her throu...