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In this ambitious novel of madness and release, shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Doris Lessing imagines the fantastical "inner-space" life of an amnesiac.
Charles Watk...
The Big Chapel was shortlisted for the 1971 Booker Prize and winner of 1971 the Guardian Fiction Prize. It is a novel about a man, a family and a town. Basing his work upo...
In a Free State is set in Africa, in a place like Uganda or Rwanda, and its two main characters are English. They had once found liberation in Africa. But now Africa is go...
Three generations of Granny Vaughn's descendants gather at her Mississippi home to celebrate her 90th birthday. Possessed of the true storyteller's gift, the members of th...
Henry Bech is a Jewish American writer in his early forties, struggling for fame, no Norman Mailer, or Philip Roth, or Saul Bellow, he. We see him on his travels to Russia...
A young Englishwoman working in Naples, Jenny comes to Italy fleeing a history that threatened to undo her. Alone in the fabulously ruined city, she idly follows up a lett...
<p>Четверо отправляются в путешествие в дикую и пустынную местность в Аппалачах. Они спускаются вниз по реке на двух лодках. В их намерения входит просто отдохнуть, развея...
"Планета мистера Сэммлера" - не просто роман, но жемчужина творчества Сола Беллоу. Роман, в котором присутствуют все его неподражаемые "авторские приметы" - сюжет и беспре...
Mrs Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel by William Trevor - a classic early novel by one of the world's greatest writers The probings of an outsider bring havoc to a crumbling Dubl...
Сам по себе человек — ничто. Только его любовь к кому-то имеет смысл. Эту простую истину предстоит понять Бруно и его близким. Через переживание бурных страстей, ревности ...
Eva Trout, Elizabeth Bowen’s last novel, epitomizes her bold exploration of the territory between the comedy of manners and cutting social commentary.
Orphaned at a you...
Marise Tomelty is a child-wife who dislikes sex and is terrified of open spaces. Ralph Shilling lives in the flat above the Tomeltys. One day, Marise's husband casually me...
Норман когда-то в прошлом — вундеркинд, родительский любимчик и блестящий адвокат… в сорок один год — наркоман, почти не выходящий из спальни, весь во власти паранойи и га...
Доброволец в рядах американской армии во время Второй мировой войны, попавший в плен к немцам, свидетель почти полного уничтожения Дрездена, Воннегут перенес этот опыт на ...
Leonard Michaels (January 2, 1933 - May 10, 2003) was an American writer of short stories, novels, and essays. He was born in New York City to Jewish parents; his father w...
Fat City is a novel about the indestructibility of of hope, the anguish and comedy of the human condition. It tells the story of two young boxers out of Stockton, Californ...
From the 1930s through the race riots of 1967, the members of the Wendall family, living in inner-city Detroit, struggle to understand the obscure forces constantly tearin...
Set in a small west of Scotland town in the 1950's, this novel by the author of "Straw Dogs" is the powerful and violent story of Duncan Logan, an adolescent growing up fa...
Annabel Christopher is every inch the star: a glamorous actress with a devoted, handsome husband. To keep the paparazzi and her adoring public under her spell, her perfect...
