Polly, Dennis, Angela, Adrian and their peers were bound to lose their spiritual innocence as well as their virginities on the way from the 1950s to the '70s. On the one h...
The year is 1908, the place, a small Greek island in the declining days of the crumbling Ottoman Empire. For twenty years Basil Pascali has spied on the people of his smal...
Set in present-day Dublin, No Country for Young Men involves an Irish-American targeted for elimination by terrorists, an unsolved 1922 murder, a moving love affair, a mad...
Вот уже тридцать лет Элис Манро называют лучшим в мире автором коротких рассказов, но к российскому читателю ее книги приходят только теперь, после того, как писательница ...
Set in India's Old Delhi, CLEAR LIGHT OF DAY is Anita Desai's tender, warm, and compassionate novel about family scars, the ability to forgive and forget, and the trials a...
<p>Вопросы о соотношении власти земной и власти небесной, закономерного и случайного получили эпический размах в романе «Силы земные» («Earthly Powers», 1980). Главный гер...
This novel is one of the most ambitious and remarkable literary achievements of our time. It is a picaresque, psychological novel--a novel of the road, a journey or voyage...
Violet Clay had come to New York City from Charleston to take the art world by storm. But nine years, many affairs, and thousands of drinks later, the reality of her shado...
Один из наиболее знаменитых романов своего времени, «Анатомия любви» остается, пожалуй, самым сильным произведением о первой любви. Завораживающая, прекрасно написанная, п...
The stark grief of a brother mourning a brother opens this novel with a stunning, unforgettable experience. Here, in a monumental saga of love and rage, Baldwin goes back...
"Пташка" – знаменитая психологическая драма трагически погибшего писателя Уильяма Уортона, такого же "великого затворника", как Джером Д. Сэлинджер и Томас Пинчон. Роман-б...
This 1979 classic tells the darkly humorous story of I.C. Trumpelman, a man whose fancy determines the fate of others. Chosen as the head of a Judenrat, Trumpelman thrives...
In Sleepless Nights a woman looks back on her life—the parade of people, the shifting background of place—and assembles a scrapbook of memories, reflections, portraits, le...
Arguably the greatest book from America's most heroically ambitious writer, THE EXECUTIONER'S SONG follows the short, blighted life of Gary Gilmore who became famous after...
Жемчужина творческого наследия Уильяма Стайрона. Роман, который лег в основу сценария изумительного одноименного фильма с Мерил Стрип в главной роли, удостоенного премии "...
В романе “Призрак писателя” впервые появляется альтер эго Филипа Рота: Натан Цукерман — блестящий, сумасшедший, противоречивый и неподражаемый герой девяти великолепных ро...
In 1798, Irish patriots, committed to freeing their country from England, landed with a company of French troops in County Mayo, in westernmost Ireland. They were supposed...
Fiery lights are seen in the the small town of Oxrun Station. A series of strange murders, a group of odd, apparently possessed children terrorizing the adults of the town...