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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 ...
Using small-town life as a springboard to explore the loftiest of ideas, Haven Kimmel’s irresistibly smart and generous first novel is at once a romance and a haunting med...
A terrifying new novel from the author of Wild Decembers follows Michen O'Kane, who was born with a killer instinct, as he unleashes his murderous rage along the countrysi...
Эта книга — историческое свидетельство, полное драматизма и зрелой мудрости. После начала Второй мировой войны привычная жизнь этнических японцев в Америке была разрушена....
Случайно наткнувшись на фотографии со "снаффом", мистер Рильке решает узнать правду об их происхождении. Над ним смеются, его бьют, забирают в полицию, ему рассказывают ис...
On Water Street, every person has at least two stories to tell. One story that the light of day shines on and the other that lives only in the pitch black of night, the ki...
Второй роман Донны Тартт, автора знаменитого “Щегла”, вышел в свет в 2002 году. Девятилетнего мальчика Робина находят повешенным во дворе родительского дома. Убийцу найти ...
Anne Marie's Da, a Glaswegian painter and decorator, has always been game for a laugh. So when he first takes up meditation at the Buddhist Centre, no one takes him seriou...
The book that dared to tell a different story: Property, winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction 2003, is being reissued with a new cover alongside other classic titles fro...
""Шестого декабря 1973 года, когда меня убили, мне было четырнадцать лет"", – так начинается самый поразительный роман начала XXI века. Главная героиня, Сюзи Сэлмон, после...
Рубен Давид Гонсалес Гальего, русский писатель, внук генерального секретаря Коммунистической партии Испании, на опыте своей жизни в советской России, большая часть которой...
The protagonist of Tobias Wolff’s shrewdly—and at times devastatingly—observed first novel is a boy at an elite prep school in 1960. He is an outsider who has learned to m...
