Longlisted for the 2004 Man Booker Prize. A raucous, exuberant novel about the outrageous circus surrounding David Blaine's 2003 starvation stunt at Tower Bridge, from Nic...
If Gabriel GarcAa MA?rquez had chosen to write about Pakistani immigrants in England, he might have produced a novel as beautiful and devastating as Maps for Lost Lovers....
Отец шестнадцатилетней Камбили, героини бестселлера нигерийской писательницы Чимаманды Адичи - богатый филантроп, борец с коррупцией и фанатичный католик. Однако его любов...
Colette Jones has had problems of her own with alcohol, but now it seems as though her whole family is in danger of turning to booze. Her oldest son, Janus, the family's g...
Впервые на русском — роман Колма Тойбина, автора «Волшебника» и «Дублина», книга — финалист Букеровской премии, лауреат Международной Дублинской премии IMPAC, «изысканное ...
"Облачный атлас" подобен зеркальному лабиринту, в котором перекликаются, наслаиваясь друг на друга, шесть голосов: нотариуса середины девятнадцатого века, возвращающегося ...
Book Description Cy Parks is the Electric Michelangelo , an artist of extraordinary gifts whose medium happens to be the pliant, shifting canvas of the human body. Fleeing...
Johannesburg, 1992. This is the story of Silas and Lydia, and especially of their son Mikey, a university student with a curious mind and a calculating will, as their re...
Ник Гест, молодой человек из небогатой семьи, по приглашению своего университетского приятеля поселяется в его роскошном лондонском доме, в семье члена британского парламе...
In this elegiac and luminous novel, which John Ashbery called "an amazing achievement" and Mary Gordon dubbed "a wholly original endeavor," Christine Schutt gives voice to...
When a girl falls into a deep and impenetrable sleep, the borders between her provincial French village and the peculiar, beguiling realm of her dreams begin to disappear:...
The year is l854. In Paris, Francisco Solano -- the future dictator of Paraguay -- begins his courtship of the young, beautiful Irish courtesan Ella Lynch with a poncho, a...
Susan Choi's first novel, The Foreign Student, was published to remarkable critical acclaim. The New Yorker called it "an auspicious debut," and the Los Angeles Times tout...
A group of schoolgirls go off with two teachers on a field trip to the English countryside. They soon discover that the nearby town offers alcohol, drugs, and sex, at once...
Каждое лето большая семья Лалы Рейес отправляется в долгожданное путешествие из Чикаго в Мехико – в дом Маленького Дедули и Ужасной Бабули. Лала с интересом наблюдает за о...
Sylvie is half French and half English. Since the death of her mother, she has written weekly letters to her father in London. When he too dies unexpectedly, she waits for...
It's your worst nightmare: instead of being dead, you're alive! Seen from above, Dot is just another dot, barely distinguishable from a bug, a berry, or gum on the pavemen...
Сири Хустведт - одна из самых заметных фигур в современной американской литературе: романистка, поэтесса, влиятельный эссеист и литературовед, а кроме того - на протяжении...
'You know what they say about GIs and English girls' knickers,' ran the wartime joke, 'One Yank and they're off.' When Gloria met Ron, he was an American pilot who thought...
Nora Okja Keller, the acclaimed author of Comfort Woman, tells the shocking story of a group of young people abandoned after the Korean War. At the center of the tale are ...