Had Jane Austen been in the Peace Corps in Africa in the 1980s, Mating is the book she might have written. Set in Botswana in the days before the end of apartheid, Norman ...
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Национальная книжная премия общества критиков США
Сергей Осипов202 книги
Сергей ОсиповНациональная книжная премия общества критиков США
A national bestseller, voted by Time as the #1 novel of 1991, selected as one of the "Best Books of 1991" by Publishers Weekly, and nominated for a National Book Critics C...
From the beloved author of Mona in the Promised Land and The Love Wife comes this comic masterpiece, an insightful novel of immigrants experiencing the triumphs and trials...
"Extraordinary...Rich in irony and regret...[the] people and settings are vividly realized and his prose [is] compelling in its simplicity."
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
As t...
This powerful twentieth-century reimagining of Shakespeare's King Lear centers on a wealthy Iowa farmer who decides to divide his farm between his three daughters. When th...
In a literary career spanning more than fifty years, Wallace Stegner created a remarkable record of the history and culture of twentieth-century America. Each of the thirt...
A classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene, The Things They Carried is a ground-breaking me...
A Masterful, Engrossing Novel About The Life Of A Large Family That Is Deeply Bounded By The Stranger In Their Midst -- An Autistic Child
The whole world could not have...
It is 1830. Rutherford Calhoun, a newly freed slave and irrepressible rogue, is desperate to escape unscrupulous bill collectors and an impending marriage to a priggish sc...
"Кролик успокоился" - четвертая книга из легендарной серии Д.Апдайка о Гарри Энгстроме по прозвищу Кролик.
Только с возрастом приходит истинная мудрость. Когда-то Гарри ...
A classic tale of a man, a boat, and a storm, Spartina is the lyrical and compassionate
story of Dick Pierce, a commercial fisherman along the shores of Rhode Island's
N...
"Smiley's stories lucidly explore the complexities of contemporary sexual and dometic life...the emotional and moral complexity that she uncovers in the characters of thes...
"A rich and sorrowful novel . . . that alternates crisp narrative with opulent musings--the language of everyday and the language of longing. You finish feeling . . . read...
"Клуб радости и удачи" - первый роман американской писательницы Эми Тан, родившейся в семье эмигрантов из Китая. Эта удивительная мистерия в стиле "дочки-матери" из шестна...
Роман "Билли Батгейт" - жемчужина современной американской прозы, в 1989 г. был удостоен престижной премии "ПЕН-Фолкнер" и экранизирован режиссером Робертом Бентономв 1991...
By the time of his early death in 1988, Raymond Carver had established himself as one of the great practitioners of the American short story, a writer who had not only fou...
Wheat That Springeth Green, J. F. Powers's beautifully realized final work, is a comic foray into the commercialized wilderness of modern American life. Its hero, Joe Hack...
A respected white citizen of Cotton Point, Georgia, Paris Trout is a shopkeeper, a money-lender, and a murderer of blacks. And his friends, family and foes do not realize ...
Эта книга - о том, как творится история. Не на полях сражений и не в тронных залах - а в трущобах и пыльных кабинетах, людьми с сомнительным прошлым и опасным настоящим. В...
Bharati Mukherjee's work illuminates a new world of people in migration that has transformed the meaning of "America." Now in a Grove paperback edition, The Middleman and ...