Патрік подолав наркотичну залежність, одружився і зажив життям цілком нормальної людини. Він виховує двох синів і над усе прагне вберегти їх від жахіть власного дитинства....
Впервые на русском - новейший роман прославленного автора "Тонкой работы" и "Бархатных коготков", также вошедший в шорт-лист Букеровской премии. На этот раз викторианской ...
Libya, 1979. Nine-year-old Suleiman's days are circumscribed by the narrow rituals of childhood: outings to the ruins surrounding Tripoli, games with friends played under ...
«Тайная река» — роман о моральном выборе и его последствиях, мощнейшее произведение антиколониальной литературы, созданное на основе семейной истории писательницы.
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Замечательный роман, получивший широкое признание, — это история о радости и отчаянии. Герои стоят перед жизненным выбором - остаться в стране с колониальным наследием или...
What's left of a place when you take the ground away? Answer: The Zero. Brian Remy has no idea how he got here. It’s been only five days since his city was attacked, and R...
'Eat The Document' is a compelling story of activism, sacrifice and the cost of living a secret. It tells the story of two lovers, passionately committed 1970s anti-war pr...
Joyce and Marshall each think the other is killed on September 11—and must swallow their disappointment when the other arrives home. As their bitter divorce is further com...
They were with us before Romeo Juliet. And long after too. Because they're forever around. Or so both claim, carolling gleefully "always sixteen." Sam and Hailey, powered ...
On a winter night on a remote road in Nebraska, Mark Schluter's truck turns over in a near fatal accident. His sister, Karin, returns reluctantly to their home town to loo...
Book DescriptionOn an evening like any other, nine-year-old Katie Mackey, daughter of the most affluent family in a small town on the plains of Indiana, sets out on her bi...
A love story in a time of war.
1861, the first year of the American Civil War. March leaves his beloved wife and daughters to fight for the Northern forces. Alone in a c...
Trapped on the tiny prison island where her father works as a correctional officer, 13-year-old Rita Mae Jones longs to escape. Rita Mae cannot understand why her alarming...
Book DescriptionIn her long, distinguished career, Anita Desai has focused her capacious vision on questions of culture and identity. Her mesmerizing new novel, The Zigzag...
Tragic, funny and utterly unsentimental, Christine Dwyer Hickey's "Tatty" is a devastating, affecting journey into the mind of a child. With the brutal clarity and touchin...
It's the winter of 1860 when Richard Allen, a young curate, travels to a small hamlet outside Hereford to take up his first position. It's in this quiet place of wind and ...
Alongside his brilliant naval career, Lady Hamilton was Nelson's other great obsession, and this intimate portrait of their love affair illustrates how England's most cele...
In Michigan's Upper Peninsula, a dangerous rescue effort draws the ears and eyes of the entire country. A two-and-a-half-year-old girl has fallen down a mine shaft--"the o...
Written in a lyrical yet spare style, Black Dirt explores the guilty silences that bind family members together - and sometimes keep them apart. It is the tale of a father...
I was an unwilling nun, bundled into the convent by a family that had briefly lost its head . . .
The nuns caught me early by my sweet tooth, hanging sugared almonds, b...