Школа во все времена была непростым местом, где сталкиваются зрелость и юность, где порой буйно расцветает махровое ханжество, пытаясь задушить первую любовь. Именно в так...
Герои - молодые врачи Фрэнк Элофф и Лоуренс Уотерс - отсиживают дежурства в маленькой больнице, где почти никогда не бывает пациентов. Фактически им некого спасать, кроме ...
"Брик-лейн" - дебютный роман Моники Али, английской писательницы бангладешского происхождения (родилась в Дакке).
Назнин, родившуюся в бангладешской деревне, выдают зам...
В маленьком провинциальном городке Техаса произошла трагедия: подросток расстрелял своих одноклассников. Случайного свидетеля массового убийства, Вернона Г. Литтла, полици...
This poetic novel, by the acclaimed author of John Dollar, describes America at the brink of the Atomic Age. In the years between the two world wars, the future held more...
After a shattering incident of violence in New York, Daniel has returned to the town where he grew up. There, along with Kate and her daughter, Ruby, he settles into the k...
The Known World is a 2003 historical novel by Edward P. Jones. It was his first novel and second book. Set in antebellum Virginia, it examines issues regarding the ownersh...
Star has travelled to Drop City - forty-seven sun-washed acres of commune in California - to be free from her home, from society's constraints, and to feel part of somethi...
The year is 1947. The great fire of the Second World War has convulsed Europe and Asia. In its wake, Aldred Leith, an acclaimed hero of the conflict, has spent two years i...
A True Story Based on Lies is a remarkable and original novel that addresses the universal issues of class discrimination, male oppression and female servitude through dua...
Spanning the waning years of vaudeville and the golden age of Hollywood, Niagara Falls All Over Again chronicles a flawed, passionate friendship over thirty years, weaving...
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Эффект, который она произвела по выходе, сравним с волной, буквально всколыхнувшей Америку, когда увидела свет знаменитая «Убить...
A young girl grows up an outsider, then becomes drawn into the life of a local family with some curious beliefs. They treat her as a daughter, and take her away with them ...
Hailed by The New York Times as a "formidable young writer ... one who unpacks her characters' emotions with a firm, graceful hand," Nani Power garnered impressive acclaim...
In a small, dusty town in India, Sripathi Rao struggles as a copywriter to keep his family afloat in their crumbling ancestral home. But his mother berates him for not bec...
The sprawling Weiss family--as recalled by Jemima, the middle child in Emma Richler’s amazing debut--live an almost idyllic existence. The feeling among the siblings is so...
During the heatwave of 1975, Maggie, thirteen, goes to live with her grandfather, Pop, in Sutton Coldfield. Pop's mission is to know everything: the annual Fox and Dogs pu...
Kate Byrne is having an affair with the father of her most gifted pupil, Lucien. Unnervingly, her lover's wife has just published Murder at Black Swan Point, a true crime ...
This is a book about feelings, family, sex, and Ireland—but don't tell Amelia that. She's the one growing up in the mad family, in the mad society, who doesn't want to kno...
Alfred White, a London park-keeper, rules his home with a mixture of ferocity and tenderness that has estranged his three children. But family ties are strong, and when Al...