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Действие романа "Мастер Джорджи" происходит в Англии середины прошлого столетия и завершается на полях Крымской войны 1853-1856 гг., куда ход событий заносит четырех англи...
Двое друзей - преуспевающий главный редактор популярной ежедневной газеты и знаменитый композитор, работающий над "Симфонией тысячелетия", - заключают соглашение об эвтана...
Роман Тома Вулфа "Мужчина в полный рост" - книга, в которой присутствует множество смысловых плоскостей, показано множество разных характеров. В "такую же эру, как наша", ...
Журналист Кристофер Лукас получает заказ на книгу о так называемом Иерусалимском синдроме — виде мании величия, при котором паломнику мнится, что он владеет божественными ...
Gayl Jones's special gift is to shape experience and make it seem unshaped. -John Alfred Avant, The New Republic
Gayl Jones's first novel, Corregidora, won her recognit...
In the summer of '76, the Shulmans and the Melishes migrate to Kaaterskill, the tiny town in upstate New York where Orthodox Jews and Yankee year-rounders live side by sid...
Alice McDermott tells the story of Billy Lynch within the complex matrix of a tightly knit Irish American community, in a voice that is resonant and full of deep feeling. ...
Эта волшебная, завораживающая и чувственная книга - история молодой женщины по имени Тило, хранительницы магии специй. Ей, рожденной в далекой стране, в далекие времена, с...
Alice Kessler is a fighter and when she is told that her husband only has a few months left to live, she refuses to accept it. Instead Alice searches relentlessly for a do...
In her first novel in twelve years, the legendary author of Play It As It Lays and Slouching Toward Bethlehem trains her eye on the far frontiers of the Monroe Doctrine, w...
The protagonist of Siri Hustvedt's astonishing second novel is a heroine of the old style: tough, beautiful, and brave. Standing at the threshold of adulthood, she enters ...
She would never have exposed Julia to danger. She had said so herself. But she would have to eat her words, when things started to spiral out of control. Like an arrow tho...
Anita and Me, which has been compared to To Kill a Mockingbird, tells the story of Meena, the daughter of the only Punjabi family in the British village of Tollington. Wit...
The highwire artist of the English novel redraws the romantic triangle for the post-Einsteinian universe, where gender is as elastic as matter, and any accurate Grand Unif...
George Mahoney suspects he is getting a little stale at redesigning refrigerators, after fourteen years in the same job. With the arrival of his new office mate, Niagara S...
Sybil Ross has been brought up by her Jewish furrier father and style-obsessed mother to be an empty-headed fashion plate. But on the worst night of Liverpool's blitz she ...
This title follows the lives of three very different black British women with sexuality recurring as the underlying theme. Jeanette enjoys sex on her own terms until she i...
Они молоды и хороши собой. У них с детства было все, о чем только можно мечтать. Они легкомысленно играют с любовью и изменой, сексом и наркотиками. Но вот кто-то из них в...
A fictitious account of Amelia Earhart's last flight, with flashbacks to her childhood and difficult marriage. Amelia and her raffish, drunken navigator, Noonan, crash-lan...
Роман Э.Энни Пру "Грехи аккордеона" - волшебная сага, охватывающая всю историю минувшего столетия и целого континента, бесспорный шедевр мистического реализма, подлинная э...
