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Искусство — это не зеркало, а молоток. Возможно, тот молоток, которым много лет назад раскроил обезумевший художник черепа своей жене и младшему сынишке... Прошли годы — и...
Ray Shackleford lives in the ruins of the idealistic 1960s. Veteran of failed garage bands, he works as a repairman of stereo equipment, tending the dying embers of his ma...
Frankenstein meets Field of Dreams in this nostalgic, gracefully written but fundamentally flawed baseball novel. Set in a sleepy Georgia town during WW II, this coming-of...
God is dead, and Anthony Van Horne must tow the corpse to the Arctic (to preserve Him from sharks and decomposition). En route Van Horne must also contend with ecological ...
Роман "Дорога ветров" продолжает культовую эпопею Тэда Уильямса "Орден Манускрипта", имевшую грандиозный успех и вызвавшую массу подражаний. По признанию Джорджа Мартина, ...
Культовый роман Майкла Суэнвика впервые публикуется в полном виде. Мастер смешения стилей и непредсказуемых поворотов сюжета, соединяющий в странной смеси низкое и высокое...
Маги должны умирать в покое. Если же маг уходит в тоске и муках, он становится грига - атом, страшным огненным демоном, от которого нет ни спасения, ни защиты. Кто же хоче...
It is, perhaps, the fifteenth century and the ordered tranquillity of a Mediterranean island is about to be shattered by the appearance of two outsiders: one, a castaway, ...
Edward Manners - thirty three and disaffected - escapes to a Flemish city in search of a new life. Almost at once he falls in love with seventeen-year-old Luc, and is intr...
Действие романа разворачивается в колониальной Африке в то время, когда английские захватчики вытесняют туземцев с их земли, а немцы планируют строительство железной дорог...
The "incandescent" (New York Times Book Review) coming-of-age-story and debut novel by the acclaimed Booker Prize finalist Romesh Gunesekera
Triton loved living in Mist...
Thorfinn Ragnarson is the daydreaming son of a tenant farmer, avoiding both work and school despite the best efforts of family, friends and neighbours. Instead, the boy dr...
"До чего ж оно все запоздало" - самый известный роман классика современной шотландской литературы Джеймса Келмана (р. 1946), в 1994 году получивший Букеровскую премию. Кри...
Howard Norman's The Bird Artist, the first book of his Canadian trilogy, begins in 1911. Its narrator, Fabian Vas is a bird artist: He draws and paints the birds of Witles...
Michael Killigan, a Peace Corps Volunteer in West Africa, is missing. The search for him is launched separately by his father, Randall, a master-of-the-universe and warlor...
Few writers have been as enthusiastically hailed as was Ellen Currie when her short fiction first appeared in The New Yorker in the late 1950s. It was 25 years before her ...
A dazzling fourth novel by the author of The Recognitions, Carpenter's Gothic, and JR uses his considerable powers of observation and satirical sensibilities to take on th...
Made speechless by her eccentric father, the beautiful Etheria is traded for a piece of precious jade. Memory, her sister, tells her story, that of a childhood enlivened b...
Set in the apocalyptic atmosphere of 1900--a time when many Americans were looking for signs foretelling the end of the world--Feather Crowns is the story of a young woman...
