«Черный принц» вошел в золотой фонд мировой литературы (а также в шорт-лист Букеровской премии) и создал Айрис Мердок славу самой «английской» писательницы XX века. «Черны...
If Liverpool in 1944 was grim for Rita and her aunts Nellie and Margo, Rita knew that life in America was gay and rich - she'd seen it in the movies. So when a GI came to ...
Winner of the Booker Prize.
India, 1857—the year of the Great Mutiny, when Muslim soldiers turned in bloody rebellion on their British overlords. This time of convulsio...
Almost before he knows it, Herman Broder, refugee and survivor of World War II, has three wives: Yadwiga, the Polish peasant who hid him from the Nazis; Masha , his beauti...
The Classic Freewheeling Look at Race Relations Through the Ages
Mumbo Jumbo is Ishmael Reed's brilliantly satiric deconstruction of Western civilization, a racy and upr...
This National Book Award nominee takes us to a not-so-mythical Latin Americancountry where intrigue, violence, and military coups occur as often as takinga breath.
These are the friends of Eddie Jackie Brown, the gun leader; Dillon, part-time contract killer; Jimmy Scalisi, gang leader. All the hoods, gunmen, drivers, thieves and exe...
Geronimo Rex, Barry Hannah's brilliant first novel, which was nominated for the National Book Award, is full of the rare verve and flawless turns of phrase that have defin...
Androgyny is destiny. "Miss, you're also a boy!" a gynecologist
harrumphs in Hermaphrodeity, a grand comedy of gender
surprises. Boy or girl--choose one. Millie or Willi...
About a legendary but scandalous horror actor's last film. A novel that traces the making of a horror film in Hollywood and the selling of it in New York City. The story c...
Первый римский император Гай Октавиан Август, создатель самого мощного государства древнего мира; человек, титулов которого хватило бы на всех остальных правителей того вр...
Классический роман столпа американского постмодернизма, автора, стоявшего, наряду с К.Воннегутом, Дж.Хеллером и Т.Пинчоном, у истоков традиции "черного юмора". Именно за "...
<p>«Дочь оптимиста» - история Лорель МакКелва Хэнд, молодой женщины, которая, покинув Юг, спустя год возвращается в Новый Орлеан, где умирает ее отец. После его смерти вме...
A teacher oppressed by the futility of everyday life embarks on a dark affair in this extraordinary novel that won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and was shortlisted fo...
When Jimmie Blacksmith marries a white woman, the backlash from both Jimmie's tribe and white society initiates a series of dramatic events. As Jimmie tries to survive bet...
Susan Hill's 1972 novel examines the relationship between Bipolar Affective Disorder and creativity; the illness that both creates genius and destroys it. The text, which ...
Дж. – молодой авантюрист, в которого словно переселилась душа его соотечественника, великого соблазнителя Джакомо Казановы. Дж. участвует в бурных событиях начала ХХ века ...