In this riveting novel of almost unbearable suspense, three fragile yet determined people become dangerously entangled in a relentlessly escalating crisis. Colonel Behrani...
The Mulvaneys, a family living in the small, rural town of Mt. Ephraim, New York, during the later part of the 20th century, are the perfect family: four kids, the owners ...
The Lamberts - Enid and Alfred and their three grown-up children -are a troubled family living in a troubled age. Alfred is slowly losing his mind-to Parkinson's disease. ...
A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry’s stunning internationally acclaimed bestseller, is set in mid-1970s India. It tells the story of four unlikely people whose lives come tog...
The Piper family is steeped in secrets, lies, and unspoken truths. At the eye of the storm is one secret that threatens to shake their lives -- even destroy them.
Set o...
Two girls who grow up to become women. Two friends who become something worse than enemies. In this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison tells the story of Nel Wright...
Cry, the Beloved Country is the deeply moving story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son, Absalom, set against the background of a land and a people riven by raci...
With the publication of her first novel, THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER, Carson McCullers, all of twenty-three, became a literary sensation. With its profound sense of moral...
Pearl S. Buck's epic Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of a China that was - now in a Contemporary Classics edition. Though more than sixty years have passed since this remarka...
В очередной том "Библиотеки литературы США" включены романы Уильяма Фолкнера "Когда я умирала" (1930) и "Свет в августе" (1932). Роман "Когда я умирала" на русском языке п...
Уильям Фолкнер - крупнейший американский писатель, получивший в 1949 году Нобелевскую премию "за значительный и с художественной точки зрения уникальный вклад в развитие с...
Американский Юг - во всей его болезненной, трагической и причудливой прелести. В романе "Свет в августе" кипят опасные и разрушительные страсти, хранятся мрачные семейные ...
"The most lacerating tale of drug addiction since William S. Burrough's Junky".
The Boston Globe
"Again and again, the book delivers recollections that leave the reader ...
In this memoir, Poitier, looks back on his celebrated life and career. He explores elements of character and personal values to take his own measure as a man, as a husband...
Кормак Маккарти - современный американский классик главного калибра, хорошо известный нашему читателю романом "Старикам тут не место" (фильм братьев Коэн по этой книге пол...
История жизни гермафродита, искренне и откровенно рассказанная от первого лица. Повествование ведется на фоне исторических, общественно-политических и социальных коллизий ...
