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Пітер Кері (нар. 1943 р. в Австралії) - один з найталановитіших англомовних письменників сучасності, автор кількох книжок, двічі лауреат Букерівської премії (1988 і 2001)....
Lions, rabbits, monkeys, pheasants—all have shared the spotlight and tabloid headlines with famous men and women. Sharon Stone’s husband’s run-in with a Komodo dragon, Tho...
An old man lies dying. Confined to bed in his living room, he sees the walls around him begin to collapse, the windows come loose from their sashes, and the ceiling plaste...
Лауреат Нобелевской премии по литературе Тони Моррисон - автор девяти романов, самый знаменитый из которых - "Возлюбленная". В 1988 году он принес своей создательнице Пули...
Delia has made a living writing an acerbic advice column and a series of wildly successful modern household guides. As the book opens, she is barely 40 but has only a shor...
In 1940, every draft of every film script had to be approved by the Ministry of Information. Cast and crew were waiting to be called up at any moment, travel was restricte...
The most provocative debut novel of the year, "a dizzying satire" (The New Yorker) that "boldly turns history on its head" (Elle).
What if the history of the transatla...
Richly complex, Strange Music recreates the lives of three women — the poet Elizabeth Barrett in England, and in Jamaica on the Barrett estate, there is Kaydia, a maidserv...
In this globe-scattered Sri Lankan family, we speak of only two kinds of marriage. The first is the Arranged Marriage. The second is the Love Marriage. In reality, there i...
In a crumbling apartment building in post-Soviet Russia, there’s a ghost who won’t keep quiet.
Mircha fell from the roof and was never properly buried, so he sticks aro...
‘A magical, exuberant tragic-comic vision of post-colonial Malaysia reminiscent of Rushdie and Roy. In prose of acrobatic grace, Samarasan conjures a vibrant portrait, by ...
A kind, bookish only child born in the 1940s, Alice Lindgren has no idea that she will one day end up in the White House, married to the president. In her small Wisconsin ...
An award-winning novel with incredible heart, about life on the prairie as it's rarely been seen
When Rachel, hired help in a Chicago boardinghouse, falls in love with...
Alabama, 1931. A posse stops a freight train and arrests nine black youths. Their crime: fighting with white boys. Then two white girls emerge from another freight car, an...
It's Jake's birthday. He is sitting in a small plane, being flown over the landscape that has been the backdrop to his life - his childhood, his marriage, his work, his pa...
1943 год.
Изобретатель Никола Тесла ни с кем не общается и коротает дни в роскошном отеле "Нью-Йоркер".
Но знакомство с Луизой Дьюэлл неожиданно изм...
August 9th, 1945, Nagasaki. Hiroko Tanaka steps onto her veranda, wrapped in a kimono with three black cranes swooping across the back. She is twenty-one and on the verge ...
Dublin. Midsummer. While absent in New York, the celebrated actor Molly Fox has loaned her house to a playwright friend, who is struggling to write a new work. Over the co...
