"The winter of the year my father carried a gun for his own protection was the coldest on record in Chicago." So begins Ward Just's An Unfinished Season, the winter in que...
Ramchand, a tired shop assistant in Sevak Sari House in Amritsar, spends his days patiently showing yards of fabric to the women of "status families" and to the giggling g...
Jack and Cindy are immediately attracted to one another from the moment they meet at a friend's party, and in time this first infatuation develops into a passionate and en...
You can't keep a good man down . . . even when he's dead!
Nominated for the Orange Prize for Fiction, this is a light-hearted story of friendship defying the barrier of...
Set in a Macedonian refugee camp during the 1999 Kosovo crisis, The Internationals spans seventy-eight tense days from the commencement of NATO air strikes on Yugoslavia t...
Билл Коузи, бизнесмен и общественный деятель, сумел сделать невозможное – даже после смерти он продолжает влиять на судьбы близких людей. Отец, муж, любовник – он успел п...
Michael and Pauline seemed like the perfect couple - young, good-looking, made for each other. The moment she walked into his mother's grocery store in Baltimore, he was s...
Mara and Frankie are cousins and best friends, growing up in the stifling atmosphere of Swansea in the 1950s, amid a bickering yet close-knit extended family. But their pa...
President Bliss is handling a tricky situation with customary brio, but after months of ceaseless rain the city is sinking under the floods. The rich are safe on high grou...
Book DescriptionGilgamesh is a rich, spare, and evocative novel of encounters and escapes, of friendship and love, of loss and acceptance, a debut that marks the emergence...
Irina Davydovna is a cleaner. She has no time for politics or even for that matter, people: 'rules and rulers may come and go, but dirt never changes.' Boris Aleksandrovic...
Joseph and Harriet Blackstone emigrate from Norfolk to New Zealand in search of new beginnings and prosperity. But the harsh land near Christchurch threatens to destroy th...
Ашок Гангули выжил в железнодорожной катастрофе, потому что в момент крушения не спал, а читал любимую книгу томик Гоголя.
Спустя годы, эмигрировав с женой в США, он на...
Замечательный писатель Филип Рот, при жизни признанный классиком американской литературы, знаком российскому читателю прежде всего как автор скандального романа "Случай По...
In this award-winning, bestselling work of fiction that moves between Haiti in the 1960s and New York in the present day, we meet an unusual man who is harboring a vital, ...
На склоне лет священник Джон Эймс рассказывает историю рода, охватившую весь девятнадцатый и половину двадцатого века, своему семилетнему сыну – ребенку, который стоит у д...
Подземный Венисс. Проклятый, запретный Город Тьмы.
Город загадочной Королевы, обращающей людей в игрушки и чудовища.
Город, в который нет хода чужим.
Так было всегда....
In her skillful debut novel, Kij Johnson took the classic Japanese myth of the fox who dared to become a woman to win true love and created The Fox Woman, a luminous, lyri...
Fleeing the ghosts of their violent past, two former revolutionaries - the roguish, rakish Gwynn and the taciturn Raule - escape from the ruined and deserted Copper Countr...
Вы знаете эту историю. Родственники пытаются справиться со смертью отца семейства. Сын отправляется в суд, чтобы отстоять свое наследство. Другой мучается из-за того, что ...